What to Expect When Expecting New Music

New Album Releases for 2025

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Well, 2024 has come and gone and we saw some amazing music come out of the last 365 days. Now it is on to 2025 and whole new list of tasty tunes is being splattered before our ears. Last year we saw a huge wave of new and established artists releasing a mass of incredible tracks. Will this year be able to hold up to the onslaught of fantastic art we were given in the previous time slot? I am compiling a list of albums that will hit wax, streaming services and the airwaves this next year. This will be an ongoing process- full of constant edits and adds and updates. Here is what I have gathered so far about what to expect when expecting new music in 2025.

January 1 

Duwap Kaine: Nobody Is Coming to Save You [TAF] 

Zach Phillips: True Music [self-released] 

January 3 

Boldy James & RichGains: Murder During Drug Traffic [self-released] 

January 5 

Bad Bunny: Debí Tirar Más Fotos [Rimas] 

January 8 

Ethel Cain: Perverts [Daughters of Cain] 

BSS (BooSeokSoon) , TELEPARTY 

January 10 

Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear [Domino] 

Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out [City Slang] 

Ringo Starr: Look Up [Lost Highway] 

January 17 

Blue Lake: Weft [Tonal Union] 

Ela Minus: Dia [Domino] 

Frank Black: Teenager of the Year (30th Anniversary Edition) [4AD] 

Mac Miller: Balloonerism [Warner] 

Television Personalities: Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – Radio Sessions 1980-1993 [Fire] 

The Weather Station: Humanhood [Fat Possum] 

January 24 

Benjamin Booker: Lower [Fire Next Time] 

Boilermaker: Not Enough Time to Get Anything Halfway Done [Numero Group] 

Central Cee: Can’t Rush Greatness [Columbia] 

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart: Looking For The Thread [Thirty Tigers] 
Larkin Poe: Bloom [Tricki-Woo Records] 
Drew & Ellie Holcomb: [Memory Bank/Magnolia Music] 

FKA twigs: Eusexua [Young] 

Kathryn Mohr: Waiting Room [The Flenser] 

Kane Brown, The High Road 

Mogwai: The Bad Fire [Temporary Residence Ltd.] 

Studio: West Coast [Ghostly International] 

The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow [XO/Republic] 

January 27 

Pink Siifu: Black’!Antique [Dynamite Hill] 

January 31 

Sierra Ferrell: Trail of Flowers [(Deluxe)/Rounder Records] 
Neon Union: Good Years [Red Street Records] 
Nefesh: Mountain [Beacons] 

All That Remains: Antifragile

Bonnie “Prince” Billy: The Purple Bird [No Quarter] 

Eddie Chacon: Lay Low [Stones Throw] 

Freckle: Freckle [God?] 

Geologist & D.S.: A Shaw Deal [Drag City] 

MIKE: Showbiz! [10k] 

February 7 

James Brandon Lewis: Apple Cores [Anti-] 

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010 [Slumberland] 

Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory: Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory [Jagjaguwar] 

Squid: Cowards [Warp] 

Traxman: Da Mind of Traxman Vol.3 [Planet Mu] 

Wilder Woods:Curioso [Dualtone Records] 

Wilco: A Ghost Is Born (Expanded Edition) [Nonesuch] 

February 14 

Alessia Cara: Love & Hyperbole [Def Jam] 

Bartees Strange: Horror [4AD] 

John Glacier: Like a Ribbon [Young] 

Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On [Matador] 

Mallrat: Light Hit My Face Like a Straight Right [Nettwerk] 

Mereba: The Breeze Grew a Fire [Secretly Canadian] 

Richard Dawson: End of the Middle [Weird World] 

Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 EP [Because Music] 

Venturing: Ghostholding [DeadAir] 

The War And Treaty: Plus One [Mercury Nashville]
Sidewalk Prophets: Looking Up [Curb Records]

February 21 

Baths: Gut [Basement’s Basement] 

Nao: Jupiter

Q Lazzarus: Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture) [Sacred Bones] 

Roddy Ricch: The Navy Album [Atlantic] 

Sam Fender: People Watching [Capitol] 

Saya Gray: Saya [Dirty Hit] 

Tate McRae: So Close to What [RCA] 

February 28 

The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs [Fire] 

Edith Frost: In Space [Drag City] 

Everything Is Recorded: Temporary [XL] 

Ichiko Aoba: Luminescent Creatures [Hermine/Psychic Hotline] 

The Men: Buyer Beware [Fuzz Club] 

Miya Folick: Erotica Veronica [Nettwerk] 

Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice [Matador] 

Panda Bear: Sinister Grift [Domino] 

LISA, Alter Ego (LLOUD Co./RCA Records) 

No exact date yet (but February-probably): 

• Lady Gaga, LG7 

March 7 

Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen [Domino] 

March 21 

The Horrors: Night Life [Fiction] 

April 4 

DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us [Pampa] 

Penelope Trappes: A Requiem [One Little Independent] 

May 21 

Lana Del Rey, The Right Person Will Stay 

April 11

Garrett Bradford: Honkiest of Tonkers (Part 1) [H.O.T. Records]

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These albums have been teased, but do not yet have an exact release date: 

• Bruce Springsteen 
• Paul McCartney 
• Lil Nas X: Dreamboy
• Elton John 
• J Cole: The Fall Off 
• Madonna 
• Spinal Tap: Spinal Tap II 
• Burna Boy, No Sign of Weakness (Spaceship, Bad Habit and Atlantic Records) 
• Cardi B
• A$AP Rocky: Don’t Be Dumb (Maybe August)
• Kanye West: Bully
• Young Thug
• Nikki Minaj: TBA
• Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI
• Joe Jonas, Music for People Who Believe In Love (Republic Records) 
• Megan Thee Stallion, Megan: Act III 
• Travis Scott — TBA
• Drake — TBA
• Nicki Minaj — TBA
• Kesha- TBA [Kesha Records]
• Lil Baby — WHAM (Who Hard As Me) + Dominique
• Lil Durk — Deep Thoughts
• Isaiah Rashad — TBA
• Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Montana
• JID & Metro Boomin — TBA
• Chance The Rapper — Star Line
• The Roots — End Game
• The Game — The Documentary 3
• Griselda — WWCD 2
• Central Cee — Can’t Rush Greatness
• Blackpink: TBA
• Jay Rock — TBA
• Big Sean & The Alchemist — TBA
• T.I. — Kill the King / Kiss the King\
• Busta Rhymes — Dragon Season
• Saba & No ID — From the Private Collection of Saba & No ID

• Playboi Carti, I Am Music 
• Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful
• Summer Walker, Finally Over It 
• The Cure (Title Unknown)