Alan Parsons releases the digital single All Our Yesterdays, with an instrumental B-side, “Alpha Centauri”; the two songs come from the sessions carried out for his recent instructional DVD release, The Art And Science Of Sound Recording. 
Alan Parsons releases the digital single All Our Yesterdays, with an instrumental B-side, “Alpha Centauri”; the two songs come from the sessions carried out for his recent instructional DVD release, The Art And Science Of Sound Recording.
Salvo releases the career-spanning Art Of Noise compilation album Influence: Best Of The Art Of Noise.
Nonesuch Records releases Ben Folds’ fourth solo album Songs For Silverman, featuring lyrics written by author Nick Hornby.
EMI Records releases He Will Have His Way: The Songs Of Tim and Neil Finn, an all-star collection of covers of songs written by the Finn Brothers, including their solo work, Split Enz, and Crowded House.
Yep Roc Records releases Liam Finn‘s second solo album, FOMO, featuring the singles “The Struggle” and “Cold Feet”.
Eleven Records releases the Gotye album Making Mirrors, featuring the single “Somebody That I Used To Know”.
ABC Records releases the album The View Is Worth The Climb by Tim Finn, featuring the signle “Going Going Gone”.
RealWorld Records releases the Peter Gabriel album New Blood, featuring orchestral versions of songs from Gabriel’s previously released material.
8-Bit Weapon releases the album Bits With Byte via Bandcamp.
Fueled By Ramen releases the second album by fun., Some Nights.
British supergroup Producers (whose full-time members have all racked up music production credits with their own acts and other artists) release their debut album, Made In Basing Street.
Frontier Records releases the Jeff Lynne solo album Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra, an album of new recordings of ELO hits, plus one new song, performed entirely by Lynne.
Basta Records releases Raymond Scott Rewired, an album of remixes and mash-ups of the music of bandleader and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott (1908-1994), ffeaturing remixes by the Bran Flakes, Evolution Control Committee, and Go Home Productions.
Sony Legacy Records releases, as part of a career-spanning box set of the Alan Parsons Project discography, the previously-unreleased, all-instrumental 1979 album of demos titled The Sicilian Defence, named after a chess strategem. The album was originally submitted to Arista Records in the late ’70s in attempt to fulfill a contractual clause that would allow the band to seek another label. (The album will later be released on its own after the box set goes out of print.)
Warner Music Norway releases the album The Inevitable End by Röyksopp, featuring collaborations with Susanne Sundfør and Jamie Irrepressible.
Test Card Recordings release the album The Race For Space by Public Service Broadcasting, a largely instrumental collection of songs themed around the early space race.
Warner Music Canada releases the album Space Sessions: Songs From A Tin Can by Canadian astronaut and musician Chris Hadfield, including material recorded by Hadfield during his stay aboard the International Space Station.
Sony / Legacy releases an expanded 2-CD edition of the Alan Parsons Project‘s 1980 album, The Turn Of A Friendly Card, for the 35th anniversary of the original album’s release, including work-in-progress versions of such familiar songs as “Games People Play” and “Time” and numerous other outtakes.
Columbia Records releases the album Alone In The Universe by Jeff Lynne’s ELO (effectively a Jeff Lynne solo record branded as the revived Electric Light Orchestra to much fanfare), featuring the single “When I Was A Boy”. Unusually, the often studio-bound Lynne launches a major tour to support the album.
Via their own Room 13 label on Bandcamp, The Radiophonic Workshop – a recording and touring group made up of former members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – releases the album Burials In Several Earths, a collection of instrumentals recorded with vintage technology and techniques, both analog and digital.
Rob Dougan releases Misc. Sessions, recorded with a full orchestra after a crowdfunding campaign.
Capitol Records releases an expanded deluxe edition of the third Crowded House album, Woodface, originally released in 1991. Demos, outtakes, alternates, and other unreleased material from the album’s infamously long gestation are added.
Capitol Records releases a 2-disc deluxe edition of Crowded House‘s 1999 collection of B-sides and unreleased tracks, Afterglow, with the second disc doubling the amount of new material. Also included are the three new songs that were previously released on the band’s 1996 greatest hits album.
8-Bit Weapon releases the album Class Apples, renditions of classical music played entirely on vintage Apple II computers.
The one-woman band Sarcastalites release the debut album Space For Strangers via Bandcamp. The disco-themed project is the brainchild of musician G.T. Thomas.
Frontiers Records releases the Alan Parsons solo album The Secret, featuring performances by Steve Hackett (Genesis) and Lou Gramm (Foreigner). The album revolves around the central themes of mortality and magic.
Modern Harmonic releases The Jingle Workshop – Midcentury Musical Miniatures 1951–1965, an album of classic radio advertising jingles written and performed by Raymond Scott (frequently with vocals by his wife, Dorothy Collins). The album includes jingles played by both traditional instruments and entirely electronic pieces, both with and without vocals, and features a book of extensive liner notes.
The album The Get Gos Action Hour! by Paul Melançon and the New Insecurities is released on Bandcamp.com.
Rob Dougan releases 
Chiptune group