Release
# Release

Release may refer to:

* Art release, the public distribution of an artistic production, such as a film, album, or song
* Legal release, a legal instrument
* News release, a communication directed at the news media
* Release (ISUP), a code to identify and debug events in ISUP signaling
* Release (phonetics), the opening of the closure of a stop consonant
* Release from imprisonment
* Release, in medical classification, a root operation in the ICD-10 Procedure Coding System
* Software release, a distribution of a computer software in the software release life cycle

## Film and television

* Release (film), a 2010 British film starring Daniel Brocklebank
* "Release" (Angel), a television episode
* "Release" (Law & Order), a television episode
* "Release" (The X-Files), a television episode
* "The Release" (Animorphs), a television episode
* "The Release" (Entourage), a television episode

## Music

* Release, part of the A(ttack)D(ecay)S(sustain)R(release) envelope of a musical note
* Release, a bridge in thirty-two-bar form
* Release Entertainment, a subsidiary label of Relapse Records

### Albums

* Release (Cop Shoot Cop album), 1994
* Release (Damon Johnson album) or the title song, 2010
* Release (David Knopfler album), 1983
* Release (Pet Shop Boys album), 2002
* Release (Sister Hazel album) or the title song, 2009

### Songs

* "Release" (The Tea Party song), 1998
* "Release" (Timbaland song), 2008
* "Release (The Tension)", by Patti LaBelle, 1980
* "Release", by Afro Celt Sound System from Volume 2: Release, 1999
* "Release", by George from Polyserena, 2002
* "Release", by Imagine Dragons from Smoke + Mirrors, 2015
* "Release", by Paul McCartney from Standing Stone, 1997
* "Release", by Pearl Jam from Ten, 1991
* "Release, Release", by Yes from Tormato, 1978

## Organizations

* Release (agency), a UK agency that provides legal services for young people charged with drug possession
* Release International, an organization for monitoring persecution of Christians
* Release Magazine, a Swedish alternative music online magazine
