October 2023 Albums You Need to Know About

Fall has officially arrived, and a new batch of music is ready to roll in along with the season’s cooler temperatures. Music fans can look forward to many highly anticipated new records from hitmakers within rock and roll, pop, country music, and beyond.

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This month, fans will get to spin new records from Sufjan Stevens, Blink-182, Reba McEntire, James Blunt, and Taking Back Sunday, among many others. Along with a slew of anniversary reissues and archival collections, pop fans will finally hear he long-awaited rerecording of Taylor Swift‘s record-breaking album 1989.

From Margo Price to Duran Duran, here are the October 2023 albums we can’t wait to hear:

October 2023 Album Release Calendar:

October 6

Colbie Caillat, Along the Way
Darius Rucker, Carolyn’s Boy
Dogstar, Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees
Heatmiser, The Music of Heatmiser
Jason Hawk Harris, Thin Places
Joni Mitchell, Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)
Lily & Madeleine, Nite Swim
Of Mice & Men, Tether
Old Dominion, Memory Lane
Reba McEntire, Not That Fancy
Sufjan Stevens, Javelin
The Steel Woods, On Your Time
Tré Burt, Traffic Fiction
Truth Club, Running from the Chase

October 13

CHVRCHES, The Bones of What You Believe (10th Anniversary Edition)
Holly Humberstone, Paint My Bedroom Black
Metric, Formentera II
Margo Price, Strays II
Ringo Starr, Rewind Forward (EP)
Riley Green, Ain’t My Last Rodeo

October 20

Barbaro, About the Winter
Blink-182, One More Time…
Bombay Bicycle Club, My Big Day
Chris Shifflett, Lost at Sea
Duff McKagan, Lighthouse
Israel Nash, Ozarker
Jake Scott, Lavender
Luke Grimes, Pain Pills or Pews (EP)
Nathan Graham, Saint of Second Chances
Restless Road, Last Rodeo
Rival Sons, Lightbringer
Sun June, Bad Dream Jaguar
The Streets, The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light

October 27

Angie McMahon, Light, Dark, Light Again
Black Pumas, Chronicles of a Diamond
Duran Duran, Danse Macabre
Ed Motta, Behind the Tea Chronicles
James Blunt, Who We Used to Be
Jessi Colter, Edge of Forever
José González, Veneer (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Lydia Luce, Florida Girl
Robert Finley, Black Bayou
Taking Back Sunday, 152
Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
The Gaslight Anthem, History Books
The Mountain Goats, Jenny from Thebes
Various Artists, A Tribute to the Judds
Wild Nothing, Hold

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