A new slew of fall albums will raise the inevitable question: which ones do you actually need? While the trade-off may be eating ramen for a week, here are four albums arriving soon that are certainly worth the purchase:

Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright In The End (9/30)

Weezer left us with nothing to listen to for a four-year recording hiatus. The band top-loaded 2010 with two albums (including one named after a Lost character) and has just released its ninth studio album. Everything Will Be Alright In The End will attempt to return to the band’s classic sound that launched its career twenty years ago with the Blue Album. Frontman Rivers Cuomo apologizes to fans for making mistakes in order to find himself. As usual, his personal thoughts are transparent and to the point. On “Back to the Shack,” he declares: “I’m letting all of these feelings out even if it means I fail / ‘Cause this is what I was meant to do and you can’t put that on sale.” Expect a much more polished album than the most recent few, and hopefully a return to the signature sound that once made ratty sweaters and looking like Buddy Holly fashionable.

Foo Fighters Sonic Highways (11/10)

An eight-city trek across Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington D.C. led Foo Fighters through a national journey that helped create the new album. Enlisting the help of famed musicians and/or producers in each city, Foo Fighters have created an HBO miniseries  of the same name to accompany each track on the album. The experience of each city has informed each song, which showcases the unique musical style of each locale. Sonic Highways is a celebration of the band’s twentieth anniversary and eighth studio. The album will be released Nov. 10 and the HBO series will air on Oct. 17.

Various Artists – The New Basement Tapes: Lost on the River (11/11)

Newly released Bob Dylan recordings on the famed Basement Tapes  with The Band have been unearthed. Dylan wrote these songs 47 years ago while recovering from a near-fatal motorcycle crash in upstate New York. Produced by T. Bone Burnett, this double-album features original takes on previously unreleased material from various artists including Elvis Costello, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Marcus Mumford of Mumford and Sons, Rhiannon Giddens of Carolina Chocolate Drops and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes. The songs take on a new life with some of today’s best honoring Dylan with their interpretations of these songs.