17 albums still to come in 2017

It might not be long until attentions turn to albums of the year lists, but there's still a host of great records on the way in the final months of 2017.

Here's our selection of albums to look forward to before the year is out… and a few to expect in 2018.

Title: Low In High School

His first album since 2014, Morrissey returns to music having explored the literary world with a memoir and novel. Recorded in France and Italy with Strokes and White Stripes producer Joe Chiccarelli, lead single – and ode to duvet days – Spent The Day in Bed hinted at a politically-charged record with an attack on fake news, so song titles The Girl From Tel-Aviv Who Wouldn’t Kneel and Who Will Protect Us From The Police seem to confirm that Moz will be wading into some weighty issues. Although with All The Young People Must Fall In Love also among the songs on the tracklist, it seems his romantic side remains strong.

Out: 17 November

• Watch highlights from Morrissey's set at 6 Music Live 2017

Title: MASSEDUCTION

Expect a unique blend of 1980s pop hooks and the catholic church’s more extravagant aesthetics, as Annie Clark merges a selection of Robert Fripp-inspired guitar riffs and emotionally saturated vocals. She promises to “pull no punches” on what looks set to be a daring yet intimately accessible album.

Out: 13 October

Title: Carry Fire

Backed by his Space Shifters band – which now includes Mercury Nominee Seth Lakeman (who plays on three tracks, check out his performance at Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park) – expect a psychedelic mix of old and new, tapping both into the former Led Zeppelin frontman's personal history and his desire to journey forward. This blends see guest spots for both Albian cellist Redi Hasa and Chrissie Hynde (duetting on Bluebirds Over The Mountain).

Out: 13 October

Robert Plant will be performing tracks from this album, alongside some classics, for 6 Music Live on Friday 6 October. You'll be able to watch his performance, plus a chat with Lauren Laverne, on the 6 Music website from 11:30am, with highlights to follow from 7pm.

• Discover more about 6 Music Live 2017

Title: Utopia

Reacting to various global politician and environmental events over the last year, Björk says she is exploring new Utopian ways of running the world on her ninth studio album. Although details are still scant, the record will see the singer returning to the Icelandic flute, an instrument she learnt to play aged 1, while synths and other more familiar sounds (including birdsong) are also in the mix. The first taste of Utopia, single The Gate, can currently be heard on the 6 Music Playlist.

Out: November

Title: The Saga Continues

Fresh from his collaboration with Interpol’s Paul Banks, RZA has got the Clan back together with Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Inspektah Deck and Raekwon all contributing to the band’s 18 track, seventh studio album. Also featuring on the record – in name only – is pharmaceutical business man Martin Shkreli who bought the sole copy of the band’s last album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, for $2m (although it has since been claimed it is not an 'official' full Wu release). He gets dissed on Lesson Learn’d, The Guardian reports, for his drug pricing policies.

Out: 13 October

Title: Who Built The Moon?

The long-promised dance-leaning High Flying Birds album? DJ, producer and soundtrack supremo David Holmes has collaborated on the record that the former Oasis guitarist says comes from a series of loop-based experiments. His old band this ain't. "We couldn't have made this record in Oasis - there would have been Bedlam," Noel tells 6 Music's Matt Everitt in the interview you can hear below.

Out: 24 November

Title: Fatherland

Inspired by a host of intimate singer-songwriters, including Elliott Smith, and by becoming a father. The Bloc Party frontman says his latest solo effort boasts a new sonic palette and a more organic approach than his previous work.

Out: 6 October

Title: Colors

We've been expecting a "funk party album" from Beck since 2014. However, despite the odd track dropping online the release date for a full record has never quite materialised, until now. Called Colors (English purists this side of the Atlantic are no doubt fuming), Beck says he’s concentrated on writing “classic songs”, and the results so far – singles Up All Night and Dear Life – have been irresistibly poppy.

Out: 13 October

Title: Prince Of Tears

A frank and raw study of a break-up, Dury’s fifth album opens with the cinematic groove of Miami, before traversing the emotions the accompany a life-debilitating, relationship collapse. With strings enhancing his trademark natty sound, plus guest spots from Sleaford Mods' Jason Williamson and Rose Elinor Dougall, while Dury (son of Blockheads leader Ian) has expanded his scopehis emotional insights remain spot on.

Out: 27 October

Title: Lotta Sea Lice

After gigging together the songwriters recorded a joint album in eight days… spread over 15 months! Tracks for the album include recent single Over Everything, Fear Is Like A Forrest and Continental Breakfast. Tuck in.

Out: 13 October

Title: All American Made

The signee to Jack White's Third Man Records, follows-up her debut album with 12 songs that touch on “long nights and hard days, wild women and cocaine cowboys, politics and sexism”. All American Made see her moving away from the autobiographical nature of her first record and embracing a more expansive, lyrical world.

Out: 20 October

Title: If All I Was Was Black

The singer has again teamed up with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, who has helped to write and produced this album. The pair have stated that the record is a direct reaction to current world politics with Staples promising NPR that “these songs are going to change the world.”

Out: 17 November

Title: Rest

Having previously steered clear of lyric-writing because of the shadow cast by her father Serge’s legacy, Gainsbourg has opted to write a very personal record, partly in reaction to the recent death of her sister, the photographer Kate Berry. Musically the album sees Gainsbourg collaborating with a spectrum of artists, including Paul McCartney, Owen Pallett, Connan Mockasin and Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

Out: 17 November

Title: Wide Open

The four piece have said they are trying to pick out the universal themes of their life experience for their second album, much in the way Bruce Springsteen did when he first emerged chronicling his own blue collar existence. So expected big songs and understanding anthems… that sound nothing like Springsteen, as the recently band suggested to Pitchfork.

Out: 6 October

Title: The OOZ

Following a guest spot on Mount Kimbie's recent album, Archy Marshall returns with his first album as King Krule in four years. It's a heady mix of acute observations, edgy atmospheres and intoxicating wordplay.

Out: 13 October

Title: Queens of the Breakers

The brothers have worked on the outer limits of folk and Americana to fashion their own raw, evocative niche. Illuminated by Sarah Page’s harp, this new record promises to be Brad and Andrew's most affecting collection of songs so far.

Out: 13 October

Title: As You Were

It's a first solo album from the former Oasis frontman, which Greg Kurstin (Foo Fighters/ Adele Beck) and Dan Grech-Marguerat (Mumford & Sons/ Circa Waves) have produced. He previewed a host of new material, including single Wall Of Glass, with a series of showcase gigs including a return to the Glastonbury Festival in June.

Out: 6 October

• Watch highlights of Liam Gallagher's Glastonbury set
• Watch BBC Music's Backstage Pass with Liam Gallagher

AND IF THAT'S NOT ENOUGH HERE ARE 7 ACTS WE'RE EXPECTING ALBUMS FROM IN 2018...

Arctic Monkeys

Interpol

Cat Power

Vampire Weekend

The Strokes

The Libertines

Paul McCartney

All release dates and titles are subject to change

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