It would be nice to see a lot more releases around August/September/October which would give everyone more time to decide who gets which album for the holiday gift swapping plus spread out the music to give it a much more fair chance to be successful. Good bands like The Bees are invisible in a saturated release market like November has been. Not to mention excellent albums like Between Two Lungs by Florence & The Machine are forgotten because all the promotion for the latest stuff that's dropped each week this month. Another issue I've come across is that little to no promotion for artists who are a little outside the mainstream pop market. Laurent Wolf, Elin Lanto & Ben Folds who all have current releases but have had to survive with very little effort into their albums.
As always with music though the best stuff gets hosed in favor of the ones who sell millions upon millions of singles and albums. You won't see much promotion or support for the brilliant new Doobie Brothers album or the excellent Bleeker Ridge record which will be long forgotten come December buying takes hold. But in the last month and over the previous ten some awesome stuff from all genre's has been released.
Here is my list of albums not to pass by, you can gift these to those music lovers in your shopping list. Now some of the selections will be those high profile releases because they deserve to be here for being good albums. There will be a few you won't recognize but a quick search online should get you enough listening samples to allow a definition of style and genre.
Halford - Made Of Metal
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys
Black Eyed Peas - The Beginning (Deluxe Edition)
Eliza Doolittle - Eliza Doolittle
Weezer - Death To False Metal
Hardcore Superstar - Split Your Lip
Keith Urban - Get Closer
Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
Ratt - Infestation
Christina Aguilera - Burlesque OST
Kid Rock - Born Free
Shinedown - The Sound Of Madness (Deluxe Edition)
Norah Jones - ...Featuring Norah Jones
Doobie Brothers - World Gone Crazy
Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You
Elvis Presley - Viva Elvis The Album
Good Charlotte - Cardiology
Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy
Bleeker Ridge - Small Town Dead (Special Edition)
Helloween - 7 Sinners
James Blunt - Some Kind Of Trouble
Ben Folds & Nick Hornby - Lonely Avenue
Accept - Blood Of The Nations
Zac Brown Band - You Get What You Give
Weezer - Hurley (Deluxe Edition)
Steven Page - Page One
Finger Eleven - Life Turns Electric
Ash Koley - Inventions
Steve Miller Band - Bingo!
Rehab - Welcome Home
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Robert Plant - Band Of Joy
Kaci Battaglia - Bring It On
Colt Ford - Chicken & Biscuits
Alter Bridge - AB III
Saving Abel - Miss America
Billy Currington - Enjoy Yourself
Maroon 5 - Hands All Over
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
Sheryl Crow - 100 Miles From Memphis
My Darkest Days - My Darkest Days
Vince Neil - Tattoos & Tequila
Robyn - Body Talk
Black Label Society - Order Of The Black
Disturbed - Asylum (Limited Edition)
Never Shout Never - Harmony
Hellyeah - Stampede
Travie McCoy - Lazarus
Kevin Rudolf - To The Sky
Christina Aguilera - Bionic
Elin Lanto - Love Made Me Do It
Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite
Jason Castro - Jason Castro
Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots (Deluxe Edition)
Danko Jones - Below The Belt
Laura Bell Bundy - Achin & Shakin
Drowning Pool - Drowning Pool
Bullet For My Valentine - Fever
Easton Corbin - Easton Corbin
H.I.M. - Screamworks Love In Theory And Practice
Wig Wam - Non Stop Rock & Roll
Godsmack - Oracle
Stereos - Stereos
Kids In Glass Houses - Dirt
Overkill - Ironbound
Gretchen Wilson - I Got Your Country Right Here
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