50 Albums We’re Anticipating for Spring 2025

We kicked 2025 off with a list of albums we’re anticipating, some of which are out now, some of which are still TBA, and some of which we’ll get to hear this spring. There are also tons of new albums coming out this spring that we didn’t know about four months ago, so we’ve now put together a new list of albums we’re looking forward to that are coming out between April and June. We stuck to albums with official release dates, but we’re always keeping our fingers crossed for Joanna Newsom, My Bloody Valentine, Frank Ocean, Sky Ferreira, Rihanna, Cardi B, King Diamond / Mercyful Fate, LCD Soundsystem, D’Angelo, Deftones, Erykah Badu, Kate Bush, Pulp, Thursday, and other long-teased albums.

Read on for the list, in alphabetical order, and let us know which albums you’re looking forward to this spring…

Adult Mom – Natural Causes
due 5/9 via Epitaph

Stevie Knipe is about to return with the first Adult Mom album in four years, written amidst being diagnosed with and treated for cancer. “Thematically, I got more comfortable with getting darker,” they say.

Alan Sparhawk – Alan Sparhawk With Tramped by Turtles
due 5/30 via Sub Pop

Alan Sparhawk has known bluegrass/folk group Trampled by Turtles since their days as a bar band in Duluth when he and the late Mimi Parker served as early mentees for them. The band invited Alan to come in during some extra time they had at a recording session, which turned into an album. For it Sparhawk included a few songs he had written during the Low years which never quite worked out in that context.

Arm’s Length – There’s A Whole World Out There
due 5/16 via Pure Noise

If you miss Home, Like Noplace Is There-era Hotelier and haven’t checked out Arm’s Length, fix that now. They’ve risen to the forefront of the current emo scene, and their sophomore album and Pure Noise debut There’s A Whole World Out There is shaping up to be their best yet.

Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE
due 4/11 via Jagjaguwar

After making a return to form on last year’s SABLE EP, Justin Vernon is set to release the first Bon Iver album in six years, featuring all three of the SABLE songs, other new singles that suggest this album isn’t just a return to form, and more.

Pre-order the Bon Iver album on black & salmon vinyl (or cassette).

Billy Nomates – Metalhorse
due 5/16 via Invada

For her third album as Billy Nomates, Tor Marie once again worked with James Trevascus (Dirty Three / Nick Cave) but for the first time she made it with a full band. The difference is apparent in first single “The Test” which still has that Billy Nomates signature blend of ’80s new wave and country, but there notable gravitas this time.

billy woods – GOLLIWOG
due 5/9 via Backwoodz Studioz

Between his solo project and Armand Hammer, billy woods is one of the most prolific underground rappers around and also one of the best. Of his upcoming album GOLLIWOG, he says, “When I was nine years old I wrote a story about an evil golliwog. My mother read it and told me it was overly derivative and needed some work. Here we are.”

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.”

Pre-order the Blondshell album on coke bottle clear vinyl.

The Bug Club – Very Human Features
due 6/13 via Sub Pop

Welsh DIY punks The Bug Club are known for very catchy, shout-along choruses and bash-it-out performances, but there’s a little more nuance and “proper singing” on “Jealous Boy,” the first single from their second album for Sub Pop. Don’t worry, things still get loud and shambolic in the chorus.

The Callous Daoboys – I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven
due 5/16 via MRNK Heavy

With a love of mathcore, pop music, and just about everything in between, nobody does it like The Callous Daoboys, and the singles from their third album find them continuing to push themselves in every direction at once.

Charmer – Downpour
due 5/23 via Counter Intuitive

The first single from Michigan emo band Charmer’s first album five years finds them embracing some early 2000s Victory Records-style emo but with a totally fresh perspective that nobody really had back then. It’s one of their best songs yet, and a little birdie tells us Downpour has more where that came from.

CIVIC – Chrome Dipped
due 5/30 via ATO

The third album from Australian punks CIVIC is a bit of a breakout from the bare-bones sound they had on their first two records, and to help with that they enlisted the talents of maximalist Melbourne neighbor Kirin J. Callinan to produce. “We’ve always done our records DIY,” says vocalist Jim McCullough. “This time we wanted to step up and make it sound as big as we could.”

Club Night – Joy Coming Down
due 5/2 via Tiny Engines

It might’ve seemed like Club Night went on hiatus at the end of the 2010s, but they were actually quietly writing their second album and first in six years, Joy Coming Down. The lead singles show off a mix of emo, noise pop, and art rock that sits nicely next to stuff like Japandroids and Los Campesinos!.

Colin Miller –Losin’ due 5/25 via Mtn Laurel Recording Co

Asheville, NC musician Colin Miller plays in MJ Lenderman‘s live backing band The Wind and has also contributed to his studio records, and his own upcoming album Losin’ features Lenderman on drums and guitar, as well as Wednesday/The Wind members. If you like that whole group’s unique take on alt-country, you’ll probably like this too.

Esther Rose – Want
due 5/2 via New West Records

The new singles from country singer Esther Rose’s upcoming album Want have been some of her most powerful, propulsive songs yet. We can’t wait to hear more.

Florry – Sounds Like…
due 5/23 via Dear Life

For the followup to 2023’s great The Holey Bible, Northeast indie-country band Florry decamped to Asheville’s Drop of Sun Studios (where Wednesday and MJ Lenderman record), and bandleader Francie Medosch co-produced it with MJ Lenderman’s bandmate Colin Miller. On first single “Hey Baby,” Florry sound as endearingly raw and shambolic as ever.

Friendship – Caveman Wakes Up
due 5/16 via Merge

Philly indie band Friendship’s 2022 album Love the Stranger was one of our 50 favorites of that year, so needless to say, its followup is now one of our most anticipated of this year. Both songs released from the album thus far have been gorgeous, understated, climactic slow-burners.

Garbage – Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
due 5/30 via BMG

We haven’t heard any songs from Garbage’s new album yet, but Shirley Manson had this to say about the album’s overarching theme: “when things feel dark, it’s best to try to seek out that which is light, that which feels loving and good.”

Pre-order the Garbage album on orange vinyl.

The Gotobeds – Masterclass
due 5/16 via Sub Pop

After three albums for Sub Pop, Pittsburgh’s The Gotobeds return with their first new record in six years which is on 12XU (who put out their great 2014 album Poor People Are Revolting. Their caustic, melodic brand of punk has not dulled on first single “Goes Away.”

Jenny Hval – Iris Silver Mist
due 5/2 via 4AD

Jenny Hval seems to shift shapes with each release, and her new album was inspired by a pandemic-era resurgence in her interest in perfume. The first two singles, “To be a rose” and “The artist is absent,” are among her most vibrant and immediate work.

Jensen McRae – I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!
due 4/25 via Dead Oceans

Having launched her career following a viral Phoebe Bridgers parody, Jensen McRae has since signed to Phoebe’s label at the time, Dead Oceans, for her sophomore LP. The songs we’ve heard from it so far are alternately sharp and poignant, and all very likable.

John Galm – River of Blood
due 5/16 via Count Your Lucky Stars

Snowing are bringing their messy emo revival back out on the road this year, and meanwhile, singer John Galm is embracing something closer to Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, and Elliott Smith on his new solo album. It’s some of his best music yet.

Julien Baker & Torres – Send A Prayer My Way
due 4/18 via Matador

Everyone’s going country, including two of our favorite indie musicians, Julien Baker and Torres, who are teaming up for a twangy collaborative album. They’ve both always had a little country in their DNA (Julien grew up in Memphis and Torres moved to Nashville after graduating high school), so it’s no surprise that they’ve got an album like this one in them.

Pre-order Send A Prayer My Way on blue vinyl.

Lana Del Rey – The Right Person Will Stay
due 5/21 via Interscope/Polydor

Speaking of everyone going country, Lana Del Rey is supposedly doing that on this album (which was originally expected to be titled Lasso). We haven’t heard a note of it yet though, so we’ll just have to wait and see!

Little Simz – Lotus
due 6/6 via AWAL

Genre-blurring UK rapper Little Simz is no longer working with her longtime producer Inflo (and it’s not amicable), so that might be part of why the singles from Lotus find her making a pretty drastic musical departure. But one thing has stayed the same: her ability to make grand, gripping music.

Marc Ribot – Map of a Blue City
due 5/23 via New West

Marc Ribot is a renowned guitarist who over the last 40+ years has brought his unique style to records by Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull, The Lounge Lizards, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, and more. One thing he’s never done though, until now, is make vocal album with mostly acoustic backing. A longtime labor of love, Map of a Blue City was produced and mixed by Ben Greenberg (Uniform) and features original studio sessions recorded by the late Hal Willner.

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke – Tall Tales
due 5/9 via Warp

Fresh off releasing two rock albums with The Smile last year, Thom Yorke is staying prolific and embracing his electronic side by teaming up with synth wiz Mark Pritchard for a collaborative album. Kid A / The Eraser fans, this one’s for you.

Pre-order Tall Tales on vinyl.

The Mars Volta – Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacio
due 4/11 via Clouds Hill

The Mars Volta are on tour with the Deftones as we speak, and they’ve seemingly been performing their new album in its entirety at every show. Cedric & Omar & co always take us on some kind of unexpected journey, and judging by recent live footage, this time will be no different.

Pre-order the new Mars Volta album on vinyl.

Matt Berninger – Get Sunk
due 5/30 via Book/Concord

Few indie singer/songwriters have been as consistent as The National’s Matt Berninger, who brings a unique charm to just about everything he releases. Get Sunk will be his second solo album, following 2020’s Serpentine Prison, and lead single “Bonnet of Pins” finds him in great form.

Pre-order Matt’s album on vinyl.

McKinley Dixon – Magic, Alive!
due 6/6 via City Slang

Chicago-via-Richmond rapper McKinley Dixon’s upcoming album has live-band boom bap, gospel-soul harmonies, soaring jazz trumpets, and more, and a handful of exciting guest vocalists, including Quelle Chris, Anjimile, Pink Siifu, ICECOLDBISHOP, Blu, Shamir, and Ghais Guevara.

Mclusky – The World Is Still Here and So Are We
due 5/9 via Ipecac

Mclusky appeared in the late ’90s/early 2000s as one of the best makers of sneering, sarcastic, noisy post-hardcore this side of The Jesus Lizard, and their classics have stood the test of time. Now, they’re gearing up to release their first album in 21 years and the singles sound them sounding as Mclusky-esque as ever.

Pre-order the Mclusky album on blue vinyl.

Model/Actriz – Pirouette
due 5/2 via True Panther/Dirty Hit

Model/Actriz are introducing some rave-pop into their usual industrial/noise/punk on their upcoming sophomore album Pirouette, and so far the results have been great.

Pre-order Pirouette on vinyl.

The Moonlandingz – No Rocket Required
due 4/25 via Transgressive

UK electro-sleaze trio The Moonlangingz — Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family), Adrian Flanagan (Acid Klaus, Eccentronic Research Council) and Dean Honer (Add N to X, All Seeing I) — are back after eight years with their second long-player. This time they’ve brought a few guests to the party, including Iggy Pop, Nadine Shah, Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting‘s Spud).

Peter Murphy – Silver Shade
due May 9 via Metropolis Entertainment

For his 11th solo album, Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy turned to his friends. Fellow post-punk vet Youth of Killing Joke produced Silver Shade and it features collaborations with Trent Reznor, Tool’s Justin Chancellor and, believe it or not, Boy George. Murphy says it’s “as powerful as any of my work to date.”

PUP – Who Will Look After the Dogs?
due 5/2 via Little Dipper/Rise

After making their most ambitious album yet with 2022’s THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND, it sounds like PUP have taken a more back-to-basics approach for this one-–just four people rocking out in a room–-thanks in part to the influence of producer John Congleton (Cloud Nothings, Mannequin Pussy, St. Vincent, etc).

Pre-order the new PUP album on splatter vinyl.

Propgandhi – At Peace
due 5/2 via Epitaph

Considering *gestures at everything*, it’s a pretty great time for a new album from political punk heroes Propagandhi.

Pyramids – Pythagoras
due 5/2 via The Flenser

Pyramids, the experimental band who share members with The Sound of Animals Fighting and RX Bandits, are releasing their first album in 10 years. For this album, they brought in Buenos Aires singer Emy Smith, who has a background in neoperreo and reggaeton, and they worked to fuse the influence of that music with the more usual Pyramids fare like black metal, drone, and shoegaze.

Rico Nasty – Lethal
due 5/16 via Fueled by Ramen

Maryland rapper Rico Nasty has signed to the historically pop punk label Fueled by Ramen for her new album, Lethal. She says, “This album is about being confident and saying fuck everybody else. It’s about getting doors slammed in your face and people telling you to try it their way again and again, and you stay true to yourself and it works. That’s what this project is. It’s an ode to yourself.”

Robert Forster – Strawberries
due 5/23 via Tapete

“The last album was very personal,” former Go-Betweens singer/guitarist Robert Forster says, referencing 2023’s The Candle & The Flame. “I didn’t write anything for about a year…and then I just started to write songs that were something a little bit else.” He made it with Peter Morén of Peter Bjorn and John and an all-Swedish band, and his wife Karin sings on the album’s title track.

Samia – Bloodless
due 4/25 via Grand Jury

Samia worked on the follow-up to 2023’s Honey with some of her regular collaborators, including co-producers Caleb Wright and Jake Luppen and songwriting partners Christian Lee Hutson and Raffaela, and the songs we’ve heard from it so far are among her best yet.

Pre-order the Samia album on vinyl.

Self Esteem – A Complicated Woman
due 4/25 via Universal

Self Esteem, the solo project of Slow Club’s Rebecca Lucy Taylor, is back with her first album since her great, Mercury Prize-nominated 2021 debut, Prioritize Pleasure. It features contributions Nadine Shah, Moonchild Sanelly, Sue Tompkins, and more.

Smerz – Big city life
due 5/23 via Escho

Norwegian duo Smerz have a cryptic but intriguing description for their new album, saying “Some of the songs are pieces of advice to ourselves. Some are doorways into dreams. Some songs are secret wishes. Some are written for someone who is not here. And some are predictions.” They sound lush and hypnotic on the latest single, “A Thousand Lies.”

Sparks – MAD!
due 5/23 via Transgressive

True iconoclasts, Ron and Russel Mael have been doing it their own way for over 50 years as Sparks and that goes double for their 28th album. In fact, the first single is actually called “Do Things My Own Way” and they note the title has been “Our mantra since 1972, amplified in 2025.”

SUMAC & Moor Mother – The Film
due 4/25 via Thrill Jockey

If you heard the Moor Mother remix of SUMAC‘s “World of Light” last year and wanted more where that came from, you’re in luck. They’ve got a whole collaborative album coming, and the pre-release material marries Moor Mother’s stream-of-consciousness spoken word to a backdrop of noise from SUMAC’s supergroup-worthy lineup of Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer, etc), Brian Cook (Russian Circles, Botch, These Arms Are Snakes) and Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists, ex-The Armed).

Speedway – A Life’s Refrain
due 4/11 via Revelation

One of the best melodic hardcore bands in the world right now is Sweden’s Speedway, who are set to follow some promising EPs with their first full-length album, A Life’s Refrain. It’s coming via the legendary Revelation Records, it was produced by Ned & Ben Russin of Title Fight (and then mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk), and Ned is one of the LP’s three guest vocalists. The other two guest vocalists are Sebastian Murphy of Viagra Boys and Chris Wilson of Ekulu.

Superheaven – Superheaven
due 4/18 via Blue Grape

It’s been 10 years since Superheaven last released an album, and in that time, they’ve grown in popularity and the influence of their unique blend of grunge, shoegaze, and post-hardcore has spread far and wide. Now they’re finally coming back with a new album, and every track we’ve heard so far finds them really meeting this big moment.

Tunde Adebimpe – Thee Black Boltz
due 4/18 via Sub Pop

TV On The Radio have been putting on some awesome reunion shows lately, and while we haven’t gotten new music from them, the debut solo album from singer Tunde Adebimpe should very much scratch that itch, with many of his bandmates playing on the record and co-writing songs.

Tropical Fuck Storm – Fairyland Codex
due 6/20 via Fire Records

Australian phantasmagoric punks Tropical Fuck Storm came into being in 2017, just as the world started getting extra weird, and have bee dancing at the edge of the apocalypse since. Fairyland Codex is their first since 2021 and we can’t wait to hear what the last four years sound like filtered through their post-everything style.

Turnstile – TBA
due 6/6?

It’s not 100% confirmed yet, but a new billboard suggests we’re finally getting the followup to Glow On on June 6. Stay tuned to find out!

Ty Segall – Possession
due 5/30 via Drag City

Ty Segall is very prolific and you’d be forgiven for not always keeping up with his solo albums and various other bands and collaborative projects. But Possession, his 18th album under his own name, feels like it’s going to be a little special, with Ty embracing strings and horns which were arranged by his old pal/bandmate Mikal Cronin. He also had another friend, filmmaker Matt Yoka, join him to co-write the lyrics. First single “Fantastic Tomb” is indeed fantastic.

Pre-order the album on vinyl

Viagra Boys – viagr aboys
due 4/25 via Shrimptech Industries

Sebastian Murphy, the heavily tattooed frontman of Viagra Boys, says their first album for their own just-launched label Shrimptech Industries is all about “juxtaposing real life with high art.” As usual they’re doing it via killer danceable punk rock, they make that juxtaposition clear in the video for ripping first single “Man Made Out of Meat.”

Pre-order the album on blue and white marble vinyl.