10 Albums That are Perfect for Autumn
Written by Mehmet Uğur Karaduman
Tags: Music, Lists
18.09.2026
This album, which merges Baroque, rock, folk and orchestral music, has an unbelievable autumn feels like autumn itself made it. Scott Walker wrote every song entirely by himself and released it with his real name "Scott Engel". Scott 4, contains several references to cinema, literature and politics. The album was deleted after a short while on its release day in the UK, November 7, 1969. But, although it got excellent reviews at the same time.
If you want something soft and emotional with such beautiful lyric writing, it's your album. Leonard Cohen's debut as a musician in 1967 was phenomenal, just like most artists who debuted in 1967. It peaked at 13th position in the UK charts and stayed in the charts for 62 weeks. All the songs on the album were written by Leonard Cohen as the name of the album, and produced by John Simon.
The King inhaled the scent of autumn and, infusing it with the Blues, left us this masterpiece. The King, named his eighteenth album by his hometown Indianola, Mississippi. Carole King, Joe Walsh and Leon Russell appeared as guest musicians on the album. It peaked at 7th position on the Jazz Album Chart. The King himself views the album as one of his greatest achievements.
Just before Fab Four got into psychedelic music, they gave us a album that carries autumn atmosphere. In this album you can see the change that The Beatles about to have, as it musically somewhere between their early pop rock era and psychedelic era after the album. As unsurprisingly album peaked 1st position in many charts and sold more than 15 million coppies. Lennon and McCartney get involved to 12 songs, Harrison involved to 2 songs and Starr involved to 1 song in the Album.
Pet Sounds will take you to a magical place with such beautiful trees with orange leaves under them. In 1965, when The Beach Boys were touring without Brian Wilson, because he wanted to concentrate on songwriting, Wilson wrote this beautiful album and recorded most of it with session musicians. The album is also stated as one of the early starters of progressive and psychedelic music. And also stated as one of the greatest albums ever on many lists.
Here's a live acoustic blues and rock album by Eric Clapton that will serve you a peaceful day in an autumn day. 3 years after releasing his latest album "Journeyman", Clapton made MTV Unplugged with his iconic performance and Clapton's Unplugged album became the most-selling live album of all time with around 26 million copies sold. Although Clapton himself couldn't see the achievement that he would get and asked not to release the album from Warner Bros., even though he bet 100 dollars it would not even be in the top 50.
Listening to jazz music on a gentle and party cloudy autumn day could be one of the best things to do in autumn. On this album, Frank Sinatra's baritone and powerful singing were stronger than his other albums. In the times of rock music dominating the charts, "That's Life" single from the album peaked at 4th place in the US charts and became a classic and one of the most popular Sinatra songs ever.
Dearest Angel will make your autumn warmer and give you energy. This album is Janis Joplin's first solo album. Janis Joplin was left her band "Big Brother and the Holding Company" and found a new band called "Kozmic Blues", people were excited and nervous to what to expect from Joplin's new album. Then, Janis Joplin came up with this beautiful rock blues album and Janis Joplin's vocals were even better. The album peaked at 5th place in the US charts.
An energetic, harsh and rock album that is a great partner for a day with clouds and cold weather. "Pendulum" was the album that took the longest time to record between CCR's albums. The band were trying to write songs while jamming but couldn't write any songs. So, John Fogerty started to write songs for the album after he went home from jams, and he wrote and arranged all the songs for the album. The album peaked at 5th place in the US charts and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" became a classic rock song.
This feast of music and poetry would be perfect for you if you want to put your mind away for 46 minutes in the cold and soft wind of autumn. This posthumous album by Jim Morrison was released in 1978. Jim Morrison recorded some of his poetry in solo sessions from 1969 to 1970. After Morrison's death on July 3, 1971, his later bandmates, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore, took his solo recordings and made it into an album by adding more music into the records and mixing it. It peaked at 54th place in the US charts.