As the blossoms of spring make way for summer’s full bloom, it is time to put on some shorts and see where all of that growth and renewal got us. Maybe, like Pulp and Lil Wayne, you are overdue a comeback, preparing a grand return after too long riding past glories. Or perhaps you are a Haim, Lorde, or Turnstile, not so long gone but ready to end a quiet spell and remind everyone why they missed you. Spare a thought, too, for the Ty Segalls, Little Simzes, the Armeds, and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizards of the world, always plugging away, keeping us company, never making us guess whether they have gone this time for good. Take a plunge into the new release pool below.
Addison Rae: Addison
Following a year of attaching herself to some of the biggest it-girls in music, like Charli XCX and Arca, Addison Rae is ready to formally introduce herself in the pop world with Addison, her debut album. The steady release of singles released over the past year—“Diet Pepsi,” “Aquamarine,” “High Fashion,” and “Headphones On,” each tied to their own viral video—helped clue listeners into what the defining traits of her breathy, electro-lite, aughts-primed pop will sound like—a direct contrast to her first EP, 2023’s AR.
–Nina Corcoran
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The Armed: The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
Experimental noise-punks the Armed are gearing up to release The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed—their first full-length since 2023’s Perfect Saviors. The Detroit collective drew upon the German term “Weltschmerz” for inspiration, defined by Merriam Webster as a “mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state.” The hard-hitting LP features 11 raw and percussion-heavy tracks that bristle against the more melodic tendencies of the Armed’s 2021 LP, Ultrapop.
–Madison Bloom
A$AP Rocky: Don’t Be Dumb
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Little is known right now about the future of A$AP Rocky’s long-teased Testing follow-up, Don’t Be Dumb. Especially since it’s been a while since he shared the singles “Highjack” and “Ruby Rosary.” For now, what we do know, is that Rocky and his partner, Rihanna, are expecting their third child soon.
–Matthew Strauss
Burna Boy: No Sign of Weakness
After months of teases (and a regal Met Gala appearance), Burna Boy will release his eighth studio album, No Sign of Weakness, this summer. The announcement came with “TaTaTa,” a Travis Scott collaboration produced by Chillz Chilleaux and with a music video by the appropriately alliterative director Benny Boom. No tracklist has been made public, but look out for Burna Boy’s trademark mix of globe- and genre-trotting influences, as showcased on recent singles “Sweet Love,” “Update,” and “Bundle by Bundle.”
–Jazz Monroe
Caroline: Caroline 2
In a genre known for near-monolithic displays of grandeur and despair, thank goodness Caroline don’t take themselves too seriously. The British post-rock octet will, for instance, invite Caroline Polachek to lend her vocals to a song, making for a bit of Caroline-squared action. Their forthcoming sophomore record, fittingly titled Caroline 2, juxtaposes moments of spellbinding beauty (lead single “Total Euphoria” offers exactly what it says on the tin) against track titles like “UR U R Only Aching” and “Coldplay Cover.” Forgoing the desolate landscapes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Sigur Rós’ glacial beauty, Caroline 2 is poised to be the rare album in its field that could reasonably be described as warm, approachable, even cozy.
–Walden Green
Clipse: Let God Sort Em Out
In 2020, 11 years after fourth album Til the Casket Drops and their subsequent hiatus, Pusha T and No Malice reformed as Clipse at their longtime co-producer Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water festival. Now, after a smattering of shows and murmurs of new music, the influential rap duo is set to return with a full album. Reportedly titled Let God Sort Em Out—per a since-deleted Pusha T Instagram post—that album is finished, entirely Williams-produced, and set for release via Def Jam Recordings.
–Jazz Monroe
Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You
We don’t yet know much about Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, Ethel Cain’s second album-length project—but first proper studio album—of 2025. Billed as a prequel to 2022’s Preacher’s Daughter, the record takes its name from Cain’s high school boyfriend, about whom she previously sang on “A House in Nebraska.” A release date and lead single have yet to be shared.
–Walden Green
Gunna
Gunna has lately released a handful of singles—“Him All Along,” “Got Damn,” and “Classy Girl”—through Young Thug’s Young Stoner Life Records, but those could well mark the end of an era, not the beginning of a new one. Gunna, following his Alford plea in the YSL racketeering trial, seems to have had a bit of a falling out with Thug, but that hasn’t stopped him from teasing a new album. Little right now is known about the as-yet-untitled follow-up to One of Wun.
–Matthew Strauss
Haim: I Quit
It appears that the Haim sisters are sitting on a pivotal breakup album. I Quit, the follow-up to their 2020 LP, Women in Music Pt. III, already has three different flavors (all sour) of heartbreak to peddle: “Everybody’s Trying to Figure Me Out,” “Down to Be Wrong,” and “Relationships.” Don’t let the latter title fool you; as the refrain goes: “I think I’m in love but I can’t stand fuckin’ relationships.” Whether it’s a marketing ploy or not, the bittersweet tracks on I Quit, which includes production from Danielle Haim and Rostam Batmanglij, are some of Haim’s most intriguing to-date.
–Madison Bloom
Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko: Гільдеґарда
Few artists have had such an unlikely impact on contemporary music as Hildegard von Bingen, the medieval composer whose influence has trickled from stuffy concert halls to alternative musicians including Grimes, Devendra Banhart, and, in recent years, Helena Deland, Sarah Davachi, and Mary Lattimore. To that cadre add Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko, a duo of Ukrainian artists pairing von Bingen’s compositions with their native folk music. Гільдеґарда, performed to a rapturous reception at last year’s Unsound festival, is the final document of the project—an otherworldly union of modular synth, vocals, and mystical gravitas that forms a response to the war in Ukraine.
–Jazz Monroe
Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon
Once the de facto solo project of Will Anderson, Hotline TNT are now a full band, and Raspberry Moon makes the most of its expanded lineup. On the follow-up to 2023’s Cartwheel, everything is more: more hooks, more synths, more My Bloody Valentine worship, and, somehow, even more guitars. Lead single “Julia’s War” and its follow-up, “Candle,” encapsulate the album’s range—one a concise, murderously catchy power-pop singalong, the other a lovesick torrent of emo-gaze, both exuberantly cranked into the red.
–Walden Green
Indigo De Souza: Precipice
Asheville, North Carolina, musician Indigo De Souza recorded her new album, Precipice, in Los Angeles with musician and producer Elliott Kozel, who has worked with artists like Yves Tumor and Finneas. De Souza’s latest follows her 2023 LP, All of This Will End. She wrote the new album in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which swept through the Southeast, flooded her home, and destroyed many of her belongings. She announced her new album with the release of lead single “Heartthrob,” which landed with a playful music video directed by Neta Ben Ezra.
–Madison Bloom
Kesha: .
Kesha’s next album, . (pronounced “period”), is the first LP to arrive on her new label, Kesha Records. The follow-up to 2023’s Gag Order includes the oddball summer 2024 banger “Joyride.,” subsequent ballad “Delusional.,” and this year’s “Yippee-Ki-Yay.” Kesha co-wrote and co-produced the new album, with additional production and contributions from Zhone, Nova Wav, Pink Slip, and Madison Love. Though it does not appear on the tracklist, Kesha also released a version of “Yippee-Ki-Yay.” featuring T-Pain.
–Madison Bloom
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler: 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s
Cast your mind back to the early days of 2023, a time immortalized in the memory of underground dance music by the sudden yassification of Four Tet. No longer a workmanlike beatsmith condemned to get four-star reviews and one day be honored as a Meltdown festival curator, Kieran Hebden emerged as a Coachella-headlining superstar buoyed by A-list collaborators Fred Again.. and Skrillex. He responded to his newfound fame in typically lowkey fashion: First with the eight-minute chillout odyssey “Three Drums,” and then with a mystic collaboration with ambient Americana guitarist William Tyler. Their early songs “Darkness, Darkness” and “No Services” proved to be the springboard for their first full-length as a duo, 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s. “We discussed references for an album and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fennesz, and AM oldies radio stations came up,” Hebden said in press materials. “But the main influence was found when we discovered a shared deep connection to ’80s American country and folk music”—including Lyle Lovett, whose “If I Had a Boat” is covered on the new LP.
–Jazz Monroe
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Phantom Island
Prolific Australian rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are adding another feather to their cap: an orchestral album. Phantom Island, which the group has been teasing since last autumn, includes the title track and subsequent single “Deadstick.” King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard wrote the new maximalist record during sessions for their lone 2024 studio LP, Flight B741. The band will be joined by conductor Sarah Hicks on its U.S. tour following the release of Phantom Island, playing the album with a city-specific orchestra at each stop.
–Madison Bloom
Lana Del Rey
Though its title is still up in the air—The Right Person Will Stay and Lasso have both been name-checked at various points by the pop star—Lana Del Rey’s upcoming country album appears to be on the horizon. Pinned up by the poetic storytelling of singles “Henry, Come On” and “Bluebird,” the follow-up to 2023’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd comes on the heels of a Stagecoach performance where she debuted three new songs, covered John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” and Tammy Wynette’s “Stand by Your Man,” and duetted with contemporary country musician George Birge.
–Nina Corcoran
LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem returned last October with a song called “X-Ray Eyes,” prompting speculation about an American Dream follow-up that was compounded when Primavera festival said, in an email announcing its 2025 lineup, that the band would be coming with a new album in tow. Though that statement was retracted, James Murphy conceded shortly afterward that “X-Ray Eyes” was “the first single of what’s shaping up to be a new album.” But, he warned, “don’t ask me when that is, because we’re still working on it.”
–Jazz Monroe
Leikeli47: Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only
Last year, famously masked rapper Leikeli47 revealed her face for the first time in the music video for “450.” That was just a taste of her upcoming album—and her new, unmasked era. Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only includes “450,” as well as the artist’s more recent track “Soft Serve.” Leikeli47 executive-produced the Shape Up follow-up with Harold Lilly, also enlisting mixing engineer Neal Pogue, and mastering engineer Mike Bozzi to hone the LP’s 11 songs. Speaking in press materials, the rapper referred to the new album as “personal and playful. Harmonic and melodic. Raw and heartfelt. Edgy and elevated.”
–Madison Bloom
Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn
Lifeguard’s debut album bristles with the energy of a teenage band whose sprawling taste has zeroed in on a single, explosive nexus. The Chicago teen trio pings straight through the middle of a universe of influences ranging from garage-rock and dub to the 1970s avant-garde. The unifying principle, however, is power-pop, and thus singles like “It Will Get Worse” are not only fast and combustible, but also totally moreish and irresistible—the stuff obsessions are made from. No Age’s Randy Randall produces.
–Jazz Monroe
Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI
At long last: Tha Carter VI is imminent. Roughly six and a half years after its predecessor, Tha Carter V, hit the shelves, and after several unrelated releases, Lil Wayne is returning with his new entry to the long-running series. Though few details are known about Tha Carter VI, Lil Wayne will celebrate its arrival with a bang: For the first time ever, he will headline Madison Square Garden, debuting music from the new album, in New York, on the same day he shares it with the world.
–Madison Bloom
Little Simz: Lotus
Long established as one of the eminent British MCs of her generation, Little Simz follows No Thank You and last year’s Drop 7 EP with a new full-length symbolizing renewal and growth. The guest list is accordingly expansive: Moses Sumney, Michael Kiwanuka, Yussef Dayes, Sampha, Jungle’s Lydia Kitto, and Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano, among them—plus, as heard on the menacing minimalism of lead single “Flood,” Obongjayar and Moonchild Sanelly.
–Jazz Monroe
Lorde: Virgin
Lorde Season is upon us. The New Zealand superstar teased her long-awaited fourth album, Virgin, way back in April, when she surprised fans with a snippet of new music. After debuting the track among countless fans at New York’s Washington Square Park, she released the full version of lead single “What Was That.” An accompanying music video included footage from her park appearance, as well as shots of Lorde ambling around the city, goofing off on a bicycle, and even emerging from a manhole. Lorde produced Virgin with Jim-E Stack and enlisted additional contributions from Daniel Nigro, Fabiana Palladino, Inc. No World’s Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, and Blood Orange’s Devonté Hynes. Upon announcing the LP, Lorde revealed her attempt to make something that reflected her femininity: “Raw, primal, innocent, elegant, openhearted, spiritual, masc.” The album artwork, a sharp departure from the whimsical nudity on Solar Power, features a pelvic X-ray, with a little IUD floating in the background.
–Madison Bloom
Lyra Pramuk: Hymnal
Five years after debuting with the ambient monsoons and otherworldly vocal play of Fountain, composer and vocalist Lyra Pramuk returns with an album steeped in pre-industrial folk traditions and a philosophy she’s described as “interplanetary consciousness.” As she put it in press materials, “Being trans has led me to question everything about society to keep the good bits, and imagine a better, more holistic reality.” The resulting work of anti-capitalist art draws on poems contributed by the artist Nadia Marcus and reworked music made with the Sonar Quartett string ensemble, propounding Pramuk’s belief that music is “not just a product; it’s a medicine and a collective, common good that we all have a right to.”
–Jazz Monroe
Mac DeMarco
In early April, Mac DeMarco assured us that, come August, he would drop a new album. Not much else is known about the LP, which will mark the follow-up to his pair of 2023 projects, Five Easy Hot Dogs and the 199-track compilation One Wayne G. Since releasing those records, DeMarco has largely shared collaborations—with Eyedress, Alan Palomo, and “Dolce Vita” singer Ryan Paris, with whom DeMarco has dreamed of working for years.
–Madison Bloom
Matt Berninger: Get Sunk
Get Sunk is the sophomore solo album from the National’s frontman, Matt Berninger. Berninger cut the LP with co-producer and co-writer Sean O’Brien, and he enlisted contributions from the likes of Booker T. Jones, members of the Walkmen, and Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, the latter of whom appears on the single “Breaking Into Acting.” Get Sunk follows Berninger’s 2020 solo debut, Serpentine Prison.
–Madison Bloom
Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful
Earlier this year, Miley Cyrus made a dramatic return following her 2023 album, Endless Summer Vacation, home to the Grammy-winning hit single “Flowers.” A sharp departure from the breezy Top 40 pop of that record, Cyrus announced her new LP, Something Beautiful, with a dose of the theatrical; wearing archival Thierry Mugler couture on the album cover and subsequently releasing the jazz-inflected, distortion-heavy songs “Prelude” and “Something Beautiful.” In another twist, we learned that Cyrus had teamed up with some unexpected collaborators for the new project, including Model/Actriz’s Cole Haden, Shawn Everett, Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, and Alvvays’ Molly Rankin and Alec O’Hanley.
–Madison Bloom
No Joy: Bugland
It’s been five years since we’ve been graced by a new No Joy record. The project of Montreal-based songwriter Jasamine White-Gluz has reemerged with a follow-up to 2020’s Motherhood. White-Gluz wrote Bugland after moving to a remote and rustic area, where nature is teeming and the artist spends her time writing, swimming, and birdwatching. In a slight contrast with the album’s inspiration, White-Gluz enlisted experimental vaporwave trickster Fire-Toolz to lend her detailed electronic palette to White-Gluz’s sprawling and askew shoegaze epics across Bugland.
–Madison Bloom
Playboi Carti
Atlanta rap superstar Playboi Carti released his long-awaited, record-breaking third album, Music, in March. Yet, it didn’t take long for whispers of an imminent follow-up to make the rounds: Carti’s producer F1lthy mentioned its existence on X (“Album already finished watch this”), while Atlanta-based DJ Swamp Izzo has also dropped hints in interviews about a full LP titled Baby Boi. There’s no guessing when exactly music will come, but, as with most things related to the unpredictable Playboi Carti, it’s bound to be another blockbuster event.
–Eric Torres
Pulp: More
Pulp are back for more. “You deserve more—and we’ve got More,” as Jarvis Cocker put it. “More than you could imagine…” More, in this case, being the title and guiding principle of the first album in 24 years from the enduring darlings of Britpop and indie-pop at large. Working with producer James Ford, Pulp composed according to their timeworn formula of heady synthpop, rousing riffs, and acerbic, hopelessly romantic lyrics. “This is the shortest amount of time a Pulp album has ever taken to record,” Cocker added in a statement. “It was obviously ready to happen.”
–Jazz Monroe
Purelink: Faith
Purelink are not the sort of group to make a splash, but the trio sent quiet ripples into the electronic underground with revelatory debut album Signs. Recorded in the Chicago group’s new hometown of New York, follow-up Faith revives the debut’s oceanic ambient dub with a new palate of acoustic and electric timbres. It feels like a step onto dry land, soaked in atmosphere but speckled with Tortoise-like post-rock flourishes that ground and steer the ethereal compositions, as on the Loraine James–assisted single “Rookie.”
–Jazz Monroe
Rosalía
Rosalía began teasing her Motomami follow-up last Halloween, posting a carousel of gory photos featuring a bloodied CD, lodged in her forehead, marked “R4.” She made it semi-official on New Year’s Day, sharing a list of 2024 achievements and 2025 hopes that ended with the Spanish phrase “sacar nuevo disco”—that is, “release new album.” ¡Estamos listos!
–Jazz Monroe
Turnstile: Never Enough
Never Enough is the upcoming LP from Baltimore band Turnstile—their first since 2021’s Glow On. The group recorded the LP in Los Angeles and Baltimore, and Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates helmed production on the new release, which includes the singles “Never Enough,” “Seein’ Stars,” “Birds,” and “Look Out for Me.” Turnstile also announced a companion film, directed by Yates and Pat McCrory, that will debut at Tribeca Festival 2025.
–Madison Bloom
Ty Segall: Possession
The reinvention of Ty Segall continues on Possession, an orchestral spin on his freewheeling singer-songwriter mode that jangles with pastoral splendor. Veering off-road from his garage-rock roots, Segall weaves through a diorama of oddball characters and country yarns with harmonic swells and melodies that evoke a riff-rocking XTC as much as Bob Dylan and Cheap Trick. Segall handles most instrumental duties, with contributors including Mikal Cronin on saxophone, Jordan Katz on brass, and a four-piece string section.
–Jazz Monroe
Wet Leg: Moisturizer
After the runaway success of their 2022 self-titled debut, UK rock group Wet Leg are readying their sophomore effort, Moisturizer. Wet Leg producer Dan Carey returned for the new 12-song LP, which is led by the single “Catch These Fists.” Wet Leg’s current lineup includes founding members Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, as well as bassist Ellis Durand, drummer Henry Holmes, and guitarist and synthesizer player Joshua Mobaraki.
–Madison Bloom
Wolf Alice: The Clearing
Wolf Alice expand their pop-rock empire with The Clearing, the British band’s four-years-coming follow-up to Blue Weekend. Lead single “Bloom Baby Bloom” served as a statement of intent, said singer Ellie Rowsell. “I wanted a rock song, to focus on the performance element of a rock song and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman. I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past, playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the ‘girl singer in band’ trope, but I wanted to focus on my voice as a rock instrument.”
–Jazz Monroe
Yaya Bey: Do It Afraid
Yaya Bey channels bliss, struggle, hope, dejection, and smooth soul catharsis into Do It Afraid, her latest album to lounge in the snug chillout zones of rap, jazz, and R&B. As she put it in press materials, “In this life, pain and loss are promised to us; it takes real courage to dance in the face of the inevitable. To savor the now and make it beautiful. I come from a people who are masters at this. Onlookers like to make a spectacle of us. Rob of us of our nuance. But the truth is we are brave, resilient and joyful. I made this album for us.”
–Jazz Monroe
Young Thug: UY Scuti
Young Thug released one album, Business Is Business, while awaiting trial on racketeering conspiracy charges in Georgia. Now that he’s free, after accepting a plea deal in the autumn of 2024, he’s getting ready to release the new album UY Scuti, named after a red supergiant star, one of the largest known stars in the universe. He’s teased the album, so far, with the Future collaboration “Money on Money.”
–Matthew Strauss