Upcoming Album Releases

It can be tough to keep track of all the upcoming albums due out in 2025. Impossible, really. But we can certainly try to cover the new music that stands out. We’ll continue to update this list of upcoming album releases on our radar every week throughout the year. In the meantime, follow along with our Best New Albums and Best New Songs roundups.

March 2025

March 7
Annie DiRusso: Super Pedestrian
Arny Margaret: I Miss You, I Do
Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy
Frog Eyes: The Open Up
Fust: Big Ugly
HotWax: Hot Shock
Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow
LAKE: Bucolic Gone
Lady Gaga: Mayhem
SASAMI: On the Silver Screen
Spiritbox: Tsunami Sea
The Lathums: Matter Does Not Define
The Tubs: Cotton Crown
Vundabar: Surgery and Pleasure
Will Stratton: Points of Origin

March 14
Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter
Circuit des Yeux: Halo on the Inside
clipping.: Dead Channel Sky
Coheed and Cambria: The Father of Make Believe
Courting: Lust for Life, Or: How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story
Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet
Ozzy Osbourne: See You on the Other Side V2.0
Rose Cousins: Conditions of Love – Vol 1
Throwing Muses: Moonlight Concessions
Twin Shadow: Georgie

Weaving: Webs

March 19
Weatherday: Hornet Disaster

March 20
Brian D’Addario: Till the Morning

March 21
Cross Record: Crush Me
Dutch Interior: Moneyball
Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
Jeffrey Lewis: The EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis
Lonnie Holley: Tonky
Lucy Liyou: Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name
more eaze & claire rousay: no floor
My Morning Jacket: is
Ora the Molecule: Dance Therapy
Phil Cook: Appalachia Borealis
Phoebe Green: The Container EP
Tamino: Every Dawn’s a Mountain
The Horrors: Night Life
The Lilacs: The 395 (To Forever) EP
YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds

March 28
Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia
Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk
Cat Ridgeway: Sprinter
Clothing: La Muerte en Realidad no Existe
Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power
Dean Wareham: That’s the Price of Loving Me
Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie
Free Range: Lost & Found 
girlpuppy: Sweetness
Great Grandpa: Patience, Moonbeam
Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain
Lucy Dacus: Forever is a Feeling
Mumford and Sons: Rushmere
OHYUNG: You Are Always on My Mind
Perfume Genius: Glory
Palmyra: Restless
SACRED PAWS: Jump Into Life
Spellling: Portrait of My Heart
The Walters: Good Company
Unknown Mortal Orchestra: IC-02 Bogota

April 2025

April 4
Anika: Abyss
Babe Rainbow: Slipper imp and shakaerator
Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong
Craig Finn: Always Been
Dirty Projectors & s t a r g a z e: Songs of the Earth
DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us
Djo: The Crux
Elton John & Brandi Carlile: Who Believes In Angels?
Florist: Jellywish
Lily Seabird: Trash Mountain
Maz: NPC EP
Momma: Welcome to My Blue Sky
Panchiko: Ginkgo
Penelope Trappes: A Requiem
Sarah Mary Chadwick: Take Me to a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?
Scowl: Are We All Angels
Sister Ray: Believer
Sleigh Bells: Bunky Becky Birthday Boy
Σtella: Adagio
The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper
Will Johnson: Diamond City
young friend: motorcycle sound effects

April 11
Bootsy Collins: Album of the Year #1 Funkateer
Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE
Daughter of Swords: Alex
Hotgirl: Blast Off EP
Mamalarky: Hex Key
Nell Smith: Anxious
Tapeworms: Grand Voyage
Teen Mortgage: Devil Ultrasonic Dream
The Driver Era: Obsession
Valerie June: Owls, Omens, and Oracles

April 18
Beirut: A Study of Losses
Domino Kirke: The Most Familiar Star
Julien Baker & TORRES: Send a Prayer My Way
Mayday Parade: Sweet
MIEN: MIIEN
Neil Young: Coastal: The Soundtrack
quickly, quickly: I Heard That Noise
Superheaven: Superheaven
The Convenience: Like Cartoon Vampires
Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz

April 25
Beach Bunny: Tunnel Vision
Bells Larsen: Blurring Time
BIG|BRAVE: OST
Billy Idol: Dream Into It
Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo
Femi Kuti: Journey Through Life
Fly Anakin: (The) Forever Dream
Ghost: SKELETA
Maria Somerville: Luster
Rodeo Boys: Junior
Samia: Bloodless
Smokey Robinson: What the World Needs Now
SUMAC & Moor Mother: The Film
Sunflower Bean: Mortal Primetime
Tennis: Face Down in the Garden
The Ophelias: Spring Grove
Um, Jennifer?: Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark
Uwade: Florilegium
Viagra Boys: viagr aboys
William Tyler: Time Indefinite
Wishy: Planet Popstar EP

May 2025

May 2
Blondshell: If You Asked For a Picture
Carriers: Every Time I Feel Afraid
Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars
Eli Winter: A Trick of the Light
Esther Rose: Want
Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist
Lael Neale: Altogether Stranger
Lucius: Lucius
Mei Semones: Animaru
Model/Actriz: Pirouette
PUP: Who Will Look After the Dogs?
Pyramids: Pythagoras
Sally Potter: ANATOMY
Samantha Crain: Gumshoe
Sextile: yes, please.
Suzanne Vega: Flying With Angels
Yung Lean: Jonatan

May 9
Alien Boy: You Wanna Fade?
Counting Crows: Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!
Dope Lemon: Golden Wolf
Jack Van Cleaf: JVC
Maia Friedman: Goodbye Long Winter Shadow
No Windows: The Great Traitor EP
Spacey Jane: If That Makes Sense
The Kooks: Never/Know
The Wonder Years: Burst & Decay Vol. III

May 16
Arm’s Length: There’s a Whole World Out There
EKKSTACY: Forever
Ezra Furman: Goodbye Small Head
Friendship: Caveman Wakes Up
Ken Pomeroy: Cruel Joke
Miso Extra: Earcandy
Pelican: Flickering Resonance
Rico Nasty: Lethal
Spill Tab: Angie
Tune-Yards: Better Dreaming

May 21
Lana Del Rey: The Right Person Will Stay

May 23
Sedona: Getting Into Heaven
Sparks: MAD!
Sports Team: Carousel of 21st Century Sins
Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’: Room on the Porch

May 30
Amy Millan: I Went to Find You
Ben Kweller: Cover The Mirrors
Gordi: Like Plasticine
Mt. Joy: Hope We Have Fun
Swans: Birthing
yeule: Evangelic Girl is a Gun

June 2025

June 6
Finn Wolfhard: Happy Birthday
Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI
McKinley Dixon: Magic, Alive!
Phoebe Rings: Aseurai
The Doobie Brothers: Walk This Road
The Ting Tings: Home

June 13
Van Morrison: Remembering Now