New & Upcoming Canadian Album Releases: Mustafa, Nelly Furtado, Jeremie Albino Announce Anticipated Releases

A new offering from acclaimed singer/songwriter Donovan Woods leads the Canadian releases out this week, while some major stars are previewing anticipated records coming later this year.

New albums are also out now from punk/folk veterans Roots Roundup, progressive soul/roots band The Imagine If and adventurous composer/musician Colin Fisher. Meanwhile, it's been an eventful week for release announcements.

Toronto artist/poet Mustafa will deliver a new full-length, Dunya, on Sept. 27. Collaborators include Aaron Dessner, (The National), Rosalía, Clairo, Nicolas Jaar, Simon Hessmann and Ramy Yousef. “I’m trying to preserve and celebrate the ordinary life in the hood,” Mustafa notes of his inspiration. The socially-conscious artist recently hosted a star-studded second edition of his Artists for Aid benefit concerts, this one in London. Mustafa's debut, When Smoke Rises, won the 2022 Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year.

The comeback of international star and recent Juno host Nelly Furtado is well under way, and she delivers a new album, 7, on Sept. 20. Furtado reportedly wrote 400 songs and collaborated with artists, songwriters, musicians, and producers from around the globe for the four years it took to create the album. “I came to the studio lost and searching for my artistic identity, and I found my voice again," she states.

Pop-rock hitmakers Valley announced a new album, Water The Flowers, Pray For A Garden, arriving Nov. 1, the same date as a new offering from hotly-tipped roots singer-songwriter Jeremie Albino. His fourth studio album, Our Time in the Sun, is produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, who also signed Albino to his label, Easy Eye Sound.

Veteran indie rockers Sunset Rubdown's new release, Always Happy to Explode, arrives on Sept. 20, alongside a new album from Montreal prog rock auteur Alex Henry Foster.

Here is our full schedule of releases.

July

5: Future Star, It’s About Time! (Mint Records)

5: Truck Violence, Violence (Mothland)

5: Olivia Penalva, Spiderwebs (Deluxe)

5: The Imagine If, Great Expectations

5: Amanda Martinez, Recuerdo

5: Roots Roundup, Up Rooted (Sudden Death Records)

11: Sojiii, Alive

12: Donovan Woods, Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now (End Times Music)

12: Colin Fisher, Suns Of The Heart (We Are Busy Bodies)

12: Debra-Jean Creelman, Ego Death

17: Begonia, Open Swim (Birthday Cake Records)

19: Oleyada, Late Night Jam

19: Boy Golden, For Eden (Six Shooter)

19: Russ Brannon, Sojourn

26: Electric Religious, The Taste (Red Music Rising)

26: Doug Wilde, The Sixth Dimension.

26: Wild Rivers, Never Better (Nettwerk Music Group)

August

2: Orville Peck, Stampede

9: Fucked Up, Another Day

9: Adonis Boss, Wait Till Summer EP (Moonshine Music)

16: KROY, Militia

16: Dee Holt, loving in the dark

16: Lexxicon, Pink Fraternity

23: The Secret Beach, We Were Born Here, What's Your Excuse? (Victory Pool)

23 Colin James, Chasing The Sun (Stony Plain)

23: Michael Cloud Duguay, Succeeder (Watch That Ends The Night)

28: Ghostkeeper, Cîpayak

30: The Sound of Eddy, Ladders (Ensoul Records)

September

6 : Hansom Ēli, Sip (The Vault)

6: Cuff The Duke, Breaking Dawn (Cardinal Records)

6: Michael Scott Dawson, The Tinnitus Chorus (We Are Busy Bodies)

6: Thélonius García, Marche Nocturne (night walk)

6: SUUNS, The Breaks (Secret City)

6: Mo Kenney, From Nowhere

13: Colin Stetson, The love it took to leave you (Envision Records)

13: The Fretless, Glasswing (Birthday Cake)

13: The Devil's Sons, Now and at the Hour of Death

13: Joel Plaskett, One Real Reveal

13: Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Red Future

20: Golden Feather, Release

20: Sunset Rubdown, Always Happy to Explode

20: Alex Henry Foster, A Measure of Shape and Sounds (Hopeful Tragedy)

20: Goldie Boutilier, The Actress

20: Nelly Furtado, 7

27: Leif Vollebekk, Revelation (Secret City Records)

27: Julian Taylor Pathways (Howling Turtle, Inc.)

27: Andy Colonico, Daytime Broker

27: Mustafa, Dunya (Arts & Crafts).

October

4: Mia Kelly, To Be Clear

4: Devarrow, Heart Shaped Rock (Paper Bag Records)

4: Christo Graham, Music For Horses (We Are Busy Bodies)

11: Klô Pelgag, Abracadabra (Secret City Records)

11: Jadea Kelly, Weather Girl

18: Twin Flames, Hugging the Cactus

November

1: Jeremie Albino, Our Time in the Sun ( Good People Record Co./Easy Eye Sound)

8: The Tragically Hip, Up To Here (box set)

December

5: Carmen Braden, A Hard Light