With the last week of September comes a huge boatload of new releases. sees a I've included info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.
Analog Players Society, Hurricane Season In Brooklyn (Studio Brooklyn)
As I Lay Dying, Awakened (Metal Blade)
The Bad Plus, Made Possible (eOne Music)
Blackburner, Planet Earth Attack(Cleopatra)
The Casualties, Resistance (Season Of Mist)
Chris Cohen, Overgrown Path (Captured Tracks)
Jason Collett, Reckon (Arts & Crafts)
Crime & The City Solution, An Introduction To… Crime & the City Solution / A History Of Crime – Berlin 1987-1991 (Mute)
Crystal Fighters, Star of Love Remixes (Atlantic Records)
Deadmau5, >Album Title Goes Here< (Ultra)
Mike Dillon, Urn (Royal Potato Family Records)
Django Django, Django Django (Ribbon Music)
Scottish neo-psych pop four-piece Django Django — drummer/producer David Maclean, singer/guitarist Vincent Neff, bassist Jimmy Dixon and synth operator Tommy Grace — enjoy their U.S. with 2012 self-titled first album. Video for "Hail Bop" below.
Dragonette, Bodyparts (self-release)
Dying Machines, Nicht Sprechen (Mush)
Efterklang, Piramida (4AD)
Frightened Rabbit, State Hospital EP (Canvasback/Atlantic)
Another Scottish indie band issues a U.S. release of their latest recording, this one the well-regarded rockers of Frightened Rabbit. Check out a stream preview of the album after the jump along with the rest of this week's new releases…
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.