2024 is a wrap (see our best-of lists if you haven’t already) and we’re looking right ahead to 2025. We’ve put together a list of 77 albums we’re excited and/or hoping to hear this year, many of which are confirmed and a few of which we’re crossing our fingers for. We didn’t list all the ones that have been up in the air for years, but here’s to hoping we get new albums from System Of A Down, Rihanna, Cardi B, Frank Ocean, Sky Ferreira, Michael Stipe, and King Diamond / Mercyful Fate this year too.
Read on for the list, in alphabetical order…
Anxious – Bambi
due 2/21 via Run For Cover
Connecticut’s Anxious took the worlds of emo and melodic hardcore by storm with their 2022 debut album Little Green House, and now they’re finally ready to release its followup. Two singles are out now, and both find the band in great form and taking a clear step forward.
Basement
Basement took a little time off around the pandemic, and then their 2012 song “Covet” had a surprise TikTok resurgence as the band slowly but surely began returning to the stage. In November, they said “now it’s time to finish writing our new record,” so hopefully we’ll learn more about that soon.
Blackbraid
Native American black metal artist Blackbraid’s first two albums (from 2022 and 2023) are some of the best black metal albums in recent memory, and he posted in January of 2024 that he began work on Blackbraid III. Will it see the light of day (or dark of night) in 2025?
Blondshell – If You Asked for a Picture
due 5/2 via Partisan
Blondshell worked again with producer Yves Rothman on the follow-up to her excellent 2023 self-titled LP, and cites Queens of the Stone Age’s Rated R and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication among her inspirations for it, saying, “It’s empowering for me to use sonic references that feel reserved for men.”
Bob Mould – Here We Go Crazy
due 3/7 via Granary Music / BMG
“On the surface, this is a group of straightforward guitar pop songs,” Bob Mould says of his 15th solo album and first in over four years. “I’m refining my primary sound and style through simplicity, brevity, and clarity. Under the hood, there’s a number of contrasting themes. Control and chaos, hypervigilance and helplessness, uncertainty and unconditional love.”
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – The Purple Bird
due 1/31 via No Quarter/Domino
Will Oldham is a great songwriter, performer and collaborator but The Purple Bird marks only the second record in his long career that was produced by someone else. In this case it’s Nashville vet David “Ferg” Ferguson, who’s worked with everyone from Charley Pride to U2. “When I listen to the record,” Will says, “oftentimes I can’t help but laugh in wonder that life allowed me to participate in such a thing.
The Callous Daoboys
Hey guys it’s carson. We go in to make a new album in a few weeks. It’s our best and longest one yet. I’m really excited to share it with all of you. Deleting Twitter again after this.
— The Callous Daoboys (@callousdaoboys) September 10, 2024
The Chameleons – Arctic Moon
It’s been nearly a quarter century since the last studio album by The Chameleons (2001’s underrated Why Call it Anything?) and since then, drummer John Lever died and irreconcilable differences between frontman Mark Burgess and guitarist Dave Fielding mean Arctic Moon will only be half the original group (guitarist Reg Smithies being the other founding member). But anyone who’s seen the current lineup of these post-punk legends live knows they’ve still got the spirit and Burgess presumably has two decades worth of song ideas to pull from. We’re counting on miracles and wonder.
Chappell Roan
Chappell Roan released her debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess in September 2023, but her meteoric rise really began after she released new single “Good Luck, Babe!” in April 2024. She spent much of last year playing massive festival sets, and her shows included another new song called “Subway,” and then she used a Saturday Night Live appearance to debut a new country song called “The Giver” that made just as much noise as a proper new single without being officially released. There’s no confirmation of a new album yet, but she’s clearly got some great new material up her sleeves so we’re very much anticipating the moment she does finally decide to announce one.
The Chills – Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs
due 2/28 via Fire
In the years before his untimely death in July, The Chills frontman Martin Phillipps talked of how he was going back through his archive of early unrecorded songs and finally putting them to tape for a new album. This years-in-the-making passion project, which was finished with the blessing of the band, his family and management, is coming out posthumously and offers up a whopping 20 never-before-recorded Chills songs, most of which got their start in the early-’80s. We wish Martin was still with us but this seems like it’s going to be wonderful farewell present from him.
Clipse – Let God Sort Em Out
Clipse, the hip hop duo of Pusha T and No Malice, began playing reunion shows in 2023 and last year Pusha T said they finished Let God Sort Em Out, their first album since 2009’s Casket Drops. It was reportedly entirely produced by Pharrell, and it’s coming out on Def Jam.
Cloakroom – Last Leg of the Human Table
due 2/28 via Closed Casket Activities
After years of making sludgy, slow-paced shoegaze, Cloakroom appear to be changing it up for their next album. First single “Unbelonging” is an upbeat song described by the band themselves as “Cloakroom meets Psychedelic Furs,” and Cloakroom brought a hazy alt-country vibe to second single “Big Larry.” In both cases, they still sound unmistakably like Cloakroom.
The Cure
Robert Smith shocked the world last fall by A) finally releasing the new album he’d been promising for many years, and B) it being as great as it was. He’d also hinted that it was only the start and there was another album that was nearly finished (and possibly a third). Given the number of songs The Cure played live in 2023 that didn’t make Songs of a Lost World, it certainly seems plausible and Smith says he really wants the new one out this summer before the start of The Cure’s fall 2025 tour. We’re not holding you to it, Bob, but what a nice surprise it would be.
D’Angelo
D’Angelo made a huge comeback with 2014’s Black Messiah, but then quieted down once again and hasn’t released any music in the 10 years since. Fortunately, it sounds like that’s about to change. His longtime collaborator Raphael Saadiq spoke about a new D’Angelo album on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast in September.
The Darkness – Dreams on Toast
due 3/28 via Cooking Vinyl
After 20 years of trying to live up to / rebel against the glory of their debut album Permission to Land, The Darkness seem to have found the spark again. Singles “The Longest Kiss” and “I Hate Myself” both have all the pop smarts, glammy razzle dazzle, twin leads, excellent solos, falsetto-forward harmonies and fun you associate with “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” and “Love on the Rocks With No Ice.” If they lack in triple entendres, well there’s another eight songs to satisfy those urges.
Deafheaven
We haven’t gotten a new Deafheaven album since 2021’s Infinite Granite, but in February of last year, they posted a teaser video captioned “The next chapter with Roadrunner Records,” marking their signing to the storied rock and metal label.
Deftones
Deftones are more influential than ever and perhaps bigger than ever too–they’re gearing up for an arena tour this year (with support from The Mars Volta and Fleshwater)–and we’re hoping the tour coincides with some concrete news about the band’s long-discussed followup to 2020’s excellent Ohms.
Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie
due 3/28 via Merge
Dan Bejar’s 14th album as Destroyer promises to span the breadth of Destroyer’s styles across the last 25 years, from widescreen pop to the more stripped-down stylings of his early records. First single “Bologna” is more toward the lush Kaputt era but a Bejar smorgasbord sounds pretty enticing. If you want to hear more, Dan will be out with the full Destroyer band on tour this winter with Father John Misty.
DJ Koze – Music Can Hear Us
due 4/4 via Pampa Record
It’s been seven year’s since DJ Koze’s last album, Knock Knock — though he did produce Roisin Murphy’s 2023 album Hit Parade — so hopefully the master German crate-digger has amassed some amazing, out-there samples for Music Can Hear Us. And hopefully lined up some killer collaborators. The full tracklist hasn’t been revealed but first single “Pure Love” features Damon Albarn.
Doechii
Doechii released her strongest project yet with 2024’s Alligator Bites Never Heal (one of our favorite releases of last year), which she presented as a “mixtape” rather than her “debut album” due to the pressures that tend to surround the latter, but she told Variety that the official debut studio album is coming in 2025. Considering how great the mixtape is, we’re very excited to hear how she approaches the official album.
Doves – Constellations For The Lonely
due 2/14 via EMI North
Manchester greats Doves came out of a decade-long hibernation in 2020 with The Universal Want, the kind of return that makes you remember how great they were and still are. They immediately began working on a new album which, like a lot of things around that time, got waylaid by Covid. Five years later, Doves are back with what looks to be another collection of happy-sad indie epics.
Down
NOLA sludge supergroup (members of Crowbar, Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, and more) Down are hitting the road for a tour with Danzig this year, and Kirk Windstein recently said that a new album–their first since 2007–is set to arrive in 2025.
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Dream Unending
Dream Unending, the dreamy death-doom duo of Derrick Vella (Tomb Mold, Outer Heaven) and Justin DeTore (Innumerable Forms, Sumerlands, The Rival Mob, Boston Strangler, Mental, Righteous Jams, etc), last released a great split with Worm in 2023 (following their excellent 2022 album Song of Salvation), and in December they posted a photo from the studio and wrote, “To say we’re back would imply we were ever here to begin with.” Two days later, their label 20 Buck Spin clarified, “Dream Unending is putting the finishing touches on the writing for LP 3.”
Drop Nineteens – 1991
due 2/7 via Wharf Cat
Shoegaze OGs Drop Nineteens surprised fans by releasing their first album since the ’90s, the very good Hard Light, in 2023 and now they’re gearing up to finally put out what could’ve been their debut album. “These songs were written and recorded in 1991 on an 8-track reel to reel largely in our dorm rooms,” says Drop Nineteens’ Greg Ackell. “We called them demos at the time, but now they’re just unreleased Drop Nineteens songs that never benefited from the fidelity of a recording studio. We remastered them, some 33 years later for this release, but they still evoke our infancy as a band.”
Ela Minus – DIA
out 1/17 via Domino
In the five years since her debut album was released, Ela Minus has toured the world (including runs opening for Caribou) and become a sharper performer and songwriter. Ela produced DIA and it was recorded in Colombia, Los Angeles, Seattle, NYC and London and promises to show an even wider-reaching range of her talents.
Erykah Badu
In a recent interview with The Breakfast Club, Erykah Badu said she has a new album (“a collab album,” to be specific) on the way. When asked if it would be out in 2025, she replied, “We’ll see.” It’ll be her first project since 2015’s But You Caint Use My Phone.
Ex-Vöid – In Love Again
due 1/17 via Tapete
Joanna Gruesome broke up right when things were starting to cook for them, at least publicly, but principal songwriters/singers Lan McArdle and Owen Williams formed Ex-Vöid which felt more like a fresh start than a reunion, though their harmonies and melodies will be instantly recognizable to any JG fan. In Love Again follows their excellent 2022 debut.
FACS – Wish Defense
due 2/7 via Trouble In Mind
FACS’ fifth album was the final record Steve Albini worked on before he died last year, but don’t let this factoid overshadow that this Chicago post-everything trio had already been firing on all cylinders. Each record has gotten better and better, but Wish Defense may be their first album to really capture their live intensity on tape.
FKA twigs – Eusexua
due 1/24 via Young
After touting 2022’s Caprisongs as a mixtape, FKA twigs is set to release her first “official album” since 2019’s Magdalene. Judging by the rollout, Eusexua already looks poised to be as towering and conceptual as twigs’ last proper LP. She told fans on Discord last year that “the album isn’t techno but the spirit is there fr,” and the singles so far have arrived club-ready.
Franz Ferdinand – The Human Fear
due 1/10 via Domino
At times it’s felt like Franz Ferdinand have been chasing the success of “Take Me Out” and their debut album, not daring to stray too far from the formula that made them sensations in the mid-’00s. That’s why the singles from The Human Fear work so well; they’re trying new things and clearly finding (darts of) pleasure in doing so. It looks to at least be their best since Nick McCarthy left the band in 2016.
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Montana
Two of Freddie Gibbs’ best albums are the ones produced by Madlib (2014’s Piñata and 2019’s Bandana), and Madlib said on stage at the pair’s NYC show last May that they have a third coming called Montana.
Ghais Guevara – Goyard Ibn Said
due 1/24 via Fat Possum
Philly rapper Ghais Guevara had a slow-burning breakthrough in 2022, a year that saw him appearing on Backxwash’s His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering and also releasing his own great album There Will Be No Super-Slave, an album that Soul Glo vocalist Pierce Jordan named one of his 10 favorite of that year. Ghais since signed to Fat Possum, and he’ll kick off 2025 with his Fat Possum debut, Goyard Ibn Said. The album features his labelmate ELUCID (of Armand Hammer), McKinley Dixon, and others.
Great Grandpa – Patience, Moonbeam
due 3/28 via Run For Cover
Great Grandpa are gearing up to release their first album since 2019’s Four of Arrows and first for Run For Cover, and judging by the singles, they’re taking a big, art rock-oriented leap.
Guided by Voices – Universe Room
due 2/7 via GBV Inc
Universe Room is Guided by Voices’ 41st album! If you stopped counting, or lost count, years ago that can be forgiven. At 67, Robert Pollard is still insanely prolific and with the current lineup of the band that’s been in place for nearly a decade (one of their best ever), GBV have been on a real hot streak, recalling their mid-’90s glory in quality if not fidelity. (They can be shiny now, but never slick.) May we get another 41 (but hopefully not all this year).
Heartworms – Glutton for Punishment
due 2/7 via Speedy Wunderground
Having previously released an EP and a few singles, London group Heartworms are finally putting out their debut album, which like everything else they’ve made so far, was produced by Dan Carey who runs their label, Speedy Wunderground. First single “Warplane” sounds like a million bucks, danceable modern post-punk with a Wagnerian sense of drama that also highlights bandleader Jojo Orme’s interest in military history. Let’s hope the rest follows suit.
Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On
due 2/14 via Matador
Chicago trio Horsegirl’s 2023 debut album, made while they were still in high school, put a fresh spin on classic post-punk indie. They’ve since graduated and relocated to NYC and someone had the genius idea to have Cate Le Bon produce their new album and, fingers crossed, guide them through Sophomore Slump territory unscathed.
Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
due 3/21 via Dead Oceans
Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album looks to be a change in direction from 2021’s exuberant, extroverted Jubilee, and the beautifully lush “Orlando in Love” is a promising first taste.
Joanna Newsom
It’s been almost two years since Joanna Newsom debuted five new songs during a surprise opening set at a Fleet Foxes show and revealed she had 11 new ones written. Still no update on an album, but fingers crossed that 2025 is the year.
Julien Baker & Torres
Julien Baker and Torres had long been rumored to have made a country album together, and they finally confirmed their collaborative project back in the fall with a twangy debut single, “Sugar in the Tank.” It’s one of multiple new songs they played at their first-ever show together, and while the album hasn’t been formally announced yet, it seems like it’s coming sooner rather than later.
Kate Bush
Kate Bush has had a big presence these past couple years, between the resurgence of “Running Up That Hill,” her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, and more, but something she hasn’t done since 2011 is release new music. In a new interview with the BBC’s Today Podcast, she said that’s changing soon. “I’m very keen to start working on a new album,” she said. “I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space.”
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
The wildly prolific Aussie band King Gizzard held it to only one album in 2024 but before the end of the year had a surprise for fans. “Our last album was 10 songs. Except we recorded 20 in that session,” announcing their next record. “It’s even more maxxed out than the last one. There’s a whole fuckin’ orchestra on there. Hahahahahah! But for real, what a joy to be alive.” While they haven’t announced details of the record, they’ll be touring with a whole fuckin’ orchestra, too.
Lamp of Murmuur
After wrapping up a tour with the aforementioned Blackbraid, fellow modern-day black metal torch-carriers Lamp of Murmuur broke the news that they too are working on a new album, the followup to 2023’s excellent Saturnian Bloodstorm.
Lana Del Rey – The right person will stay
due 5/21
Lana Del Rey has been talking about “going country” on her next album for a while now, and in November she revealed a few details, including that she worked on the 13-track album with regular collaborators Jack Antonoff and Drew Erickson and country songwriter Luke Laird, among others. The first single, “Henry,” is set to arrive sometime before Lana’s Stagecoach set in April.
LCD Soundsystem
It’s been eight years since LCD Soundsystem’s last album, American Dream, and that’s a year longer than it took them to follow up the previous one (2010’s This Is Happening), a gap which also included them breaking up. But the wait looks to be over…soon? Primavera Sound’s lineup announcement said there was a new album, a statement the festival immediately backpedaled on, but then James Murphy jumped in saying yes they were finally making a new record, it’s just not done yet. 2024 single “X-Ray Eyes” was good and as great as their current live show is, it could use the injection of more new LCD tunes. Ready when you are, James.
L.S. Dunes – Violet
due 1/31 via Fantasy
As post-hardcore supergroup L.S. Dunes (vocalist Anthony Green of Circa Survive + members of Thursday, My Chemical Romance, and Coheed & Cambria) took off, they started to feel less like a dream-come-true supergroup and more like a regular band–in the best way. They’re gearing up to release their sophomore album Violet, and the singles sound less like five established musicians bringing their recognizable styles together and more like one band with a ton of chemistry reconvening for LP2.
Lorde
Lorde has been teasing the follow-up to 2021’s Solar Power for a while now; she played a couple of new songs at a 2023 set at UK’s Boardmasters Festivals, and posted cryptic images and a brief snippet of a song to Instagram last year. A more straightforward clue came from producer Jim E-Stack, who posted a picture of her in the studio back in August. No concrete word yet, but here’s hoping 2025 is the year.
Lucy Dacus
After keeping busy as part of boygenius in 2023, we didn’t hear much from Lucy Dacus last year, but in December she announced that she’d be playing “mostly new songs” at a few intimate shows. She teased one of them in a TikTok casting call for a video for “Best Guest.”
Massive Attack
Massive Attack played their first live shows in five years in 2019, and it’s been even longer since we’ve gotten a new album from the Bristol legends. But as the band plot out this year, they say that drought may end. Robert Del Naja, aka 3D, told NME last year ”We do have some new music which we’ve been sitting on for four years… dispute at the label – that’s a different article altogether. Hopefully we’re going to be able to release it next year and do some gigs.” Hopefully that will include North American shows that won’t get canceled.
Mastodon
It’s been over three years since Mastodon released Hushed and Grim, and they’ve been talking a lot about its followup lately. In September, they signed to Loma Vista and released a collaborative song with Lamb of God.
Mclusky – The World Is Still Here And So Are We
Caustic Welsh punks Mclusky broke up 2005, reunited for shows in 2014 and finally came back to North America for a tour in 2022 and 2023. This past summer, they confirmed that a new album is coming in 2025 via Ipecac.
Mekons – Horror
due 4/4 via Fire
A group that has survived punk, post-punk, new wave, new romantics, grunge, Britpop, etc etc etc UK indie icons Mekons have always done in their way with heart and vigor. Horror is their first album for Fire Records and recorded in Spain on borrowed gear. But Jon Langford and Sally Timms are old pros and their current eight-piece lineup, which includes Lu Edmonds (The Damned/PiL), are mighty. And both singles released so far are great.
MIKE – Showbiz
due 1/31 via 10k
MIKE remains a prolific, consistently great leader of underground NYC rap, and his next project drops this month.
Mogwai – The Bad Fire
due 1/24 via Temporary Residence Ltd / Rock Action
“After the high of putting out As The Love Continues, the following years were personally hard for us,” Mogwai wrote announcing their new album, which is their first in four years. “We’ve dealt with a lot of loss and in Barry’s case a serious family illness with one of his daughters. Getting back together to write and record this record felt like a refuge and with John Congleton we feel that we’ve made something special. We often hear from people that our music has helped them get through hard times in their lives and for once I think it applies to us as well.”
My Bloody Valentine
Maybe it’s The Cure, maybe it’s the incredible renaissance shoegaze has had in the last two years, but the new My Bloody Valentine album Kevin Shields has been promising basically since the last one seems like it could actually happen. They’ve announced their first shows in seven years and the time just feels right. It would definitely be fun to see them break the internet again.
Panchiko – Ginkgo
due 4/4 via Nettwerk
Panchiko went from being an obscure, short-lived ’90s band to an internet sensation to a consistently active reunited band that’s much bigger than they ever were during their initial run. Their second album since reuniting, Ginkgo, comes out this year.
Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
due 2/28 via Domino
After spending the last few years with his Portugal neighbor and collaborator Sonic Boom, releasing and reworking their wonderful album Reset, Panda Bear is putting out his first album solely under his own name in six years. He made it with his Animal Collective bandmate Deakin and it features contributions from Cindy Lee’s Patrick Flegel and Spirit of the Beehive’s Rivka Revede. Deakin says, “Sinister Grift feels like the songwriter I’ve known for over 30 years but also feels like some sort of new chapter for Noah. Couldn’t be more proud of the result.”
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Poison The Well
Metalcore pioneers Poison The Well haven’t released a new album in over 15 years, but they confirmed this past summer that they’re finally working on a new one.
Pulp
Pulp have reformed in the past, but when their 2023 rolled into 2024, they began adding new songs to the setlist, especially when they hit North America. It was almost a new song every other show. At their final LA show, Jarvis said goodnight to the crowd, adding, “This is only the beginning.” There’s been no official word yet on a new album — which would be their first since 2001’s Scott Walker-produced We Love Life — but they announced in December they’d signed to Rough Trade and it seems Pulp are finally ready for their encore.
Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives Of Q Lazzarus
due 2/21 via Sacred Bones
Q Lazzarus only released one single, “Crazy Horses,” but that song has had a long shadow. Filmmaker Jonathan Demme liked it so much he used it twice, including one of the most memorable scenes in Silence of the Lambs. For decades, Q Lazzarus was an enigma, with fans hoping to one day learn and hear more. Turns out her real name was Diane Luckey and she spent years as a Staten Island bus driver after her brief glimpse of the spotlight. (She died in 2022 at age 61.) A new documentary looks to shed some light on the mystery, and even more excitingly, the soundtrack will offer fans the debut album she was never able to deliver while she was alive.
Rosalía
In an interview with Highsnobiety, Rosalía confirmed that her fourth album is coming. “It’s been a process. I’ve changed a lot, but at the same time, I’m still wrapping my head around the same things,” she said. “It’s like I still have the same questions and the same desire to answer them. I still have the same love for the past and the same curiosity for the future.”
Rose City Band – Sol Y Sombre
due 1/24 via Thrill Jockey
Ripley Johnson is a distinctive guitarist whose buttery leads are recognizable whether it’s with his groups Moon Duo or Wooden Shjips. But his tone sounds most at home with Rose City Band where he really gets to let his choogle loose. Sol Y Sombre pairs Ripley nicely with pedal steel player Barry Walker. “With Rose City Band, I’m generally trying to make uplifting music, good time music,” says Johnson of the album, whose title translates to “Sun and Shadow.” “This time I couldn’t avoid the shadow being more of a presence. There’s no getting away from it. The shadow is always there. So, I left it in.”
Saba & No ID – From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID
Chicago rapper Saba and legendary Chicago rap producer No ID have been talking about a collaborative album and releasing singles from it for a while, and they’ve said it’ll finally drop in 2025.
Samia
Back in August, Samia revealed she’d “finished the album” that would follow 2023’s Honey, and promised “songs soon.” This week she started teasing one of those, “Bovine Excision,” and hopefully an album announcement will come with it.
Scowl
Scowl have been rapidly rising within and outside of the hardcore scene for the past few years, and last year they inked a deal with the indie rock-oriented label Dead Oceans (home of Phoebe Bridgers, Mitski, Japanese Breakfast, etc). They made their Dead Oceans debut with the alt-rock post-hardcore hybrid “Special,” which presumably serves as the first taste of their next album.
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
due 2/7 via Jagjaguwar
“For the first time in my life I asked the band if we could just jam,” says Sharon Van Etten of her first album with current band The Attachment Theory. “Words that have never come out of my mouth – ever! But I loved all the sounds we were getting. I was curious – what would happen?” That band — Jorge Balbi (drums, machines), Devra Hoff (bass, vocals), and former TEEN frontperson Teeny Lieberson (synth, piano, guitar, vocals) — led Sharon into new, synthier directions like you’ve never heard her before.
Sunny War – Armageddon in a Summer Dress
due 2/21 via New West
Sunny War is an Americana singer/songwriter with a punk edge, and her upcoming album features two punk legends, Steve Ignorant of Crass and John Doe of X. The album also features appearances by Valerie June, Tré Burt, Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs, Kyshona Armstrong, John James Tourville of The Deslondes, and more. The songs with Steve Ignorant and Tré Burt are out now, and both are great.
Superheaven
After making a gradual return to the stage following a hiatus and experiencing a TikTok-assisted resurgence, grungegaze trailblazers Superheaven are now in the midst of a full-fledged comeback. They recently released a killer two-song single (“Long Gone” / “Numb To What Is Real”) and said on stage during their tour with The Story So Far that a new album is coming this year.
Thursday
Since reuniting in 2016, Thursday have always said they’d only release new music if it truly added to the catalog, the way bands like Portishead and My Bloody Valentine operate. In 2024, they finally returned with three new songs that very much lived up to the high expectations they set, and they promised to keep writing more new material in 2025. Here’s to hoping we get a full album!
The Tubs – Cotton Crown
due 3/7 via Trouble In Mind
In addition to Ex-Vöid (see above on this list), former Joanna Gruesome singer/guitarist Owen Williams also now leads The Tubs, who make very catchy guitar pop not unlike Bob Mould. Never one to shy away from personal topics, Owen on the new album writes about the 2014 suicide of his mother, folk singer and writer Charlotte Greig, while still wrapping it all in earworm choruses.
Tunde Adebimpe
2024 was maybe not the best year for Planet Earth but it was a good one for Tunde Adebimpe, who saw his band TV on the Radio reunite for some triumphant show and who had a major roles in one of the year’s biggest blockbusters (Twisters) and Star Wars series Skeleton Crew. He also signed to Sub Pop who released his solo single “Magnetic” which bristled with “Wolf Like Me” energy. It’s the first taste of his debut solo album that’s due at some point this year. When he squeezes in some time, of course.
Turnstile
Turnstile’s 2021 album Glow On changed the modern hardcore scene as we knew it, and word on the street is that 2025 is the year we finally get a followup. There are so many different directions that they could go in, and we have no idea what to expect, but our hopes are high.
The Weather Station – Humanhood
due 1/17 via Fat Possum
On The Weather Stations’s great 2021 album Ignorance, Tamara Lindeman looked at the climate crisis through a personal lens via sweeping, orchestral pop. New album Humanhood looks even more inwardly as Lindeman wades through a very difficult period of her life as she struggled with a mental health crisis, this time with added musical help from Sam Amidon, guitarist James Elkington, and saxophonist Joseph Shabason.
Wednesday
2024 was MJ Lenderman’s year, and now Wednesday (which Lenderman plays guitar in) seem to have their sights set on 2025. Around the time MJ’s Manning Fireworks came out, Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman posted, “Goodnight to Rat Saw God era. U literally changed my life. Next album is recorded and better IMO.”
The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow
due 1/24 via XO/Republic
The Weeknd works well with trilogies. His initial mixtape trilogy helped define the 2010s alt-R&B era, and his latest trilogy (which began with 2020’s After Hours and continued with 2022’s Dawn FM) is quite possibly his best material yet. The trilogy concludes this January with Hurry Up Tomorrow.
Wet Leg
Wet Leg took the world by storm in 2021 with their inescapable debut single “Chaise Longue,” and kept the momentum going through the next year with their terrific debut album. After that whirlwind entrance, Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers wisely didn’t jump back into the album cycle and have been mostly quiet ever since. But Wet Leg are back, having announced a few festival appearances for the summer, including Primavera Sound. Surely Album #2 is on its way.