title: Release
text: # 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
  