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New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2025

Written by on March 1, 2025

New albums are getting announced and released constantly. It’s tough to stay on top of it all. So that’s where we come in. Pitchfork is tracking notable new music releases with our guide to upcoming albums. In the coming months, there will be big new releases from Bon Iver, Lady Gaga, Lucy Dacus, Rico Nasty, Blondshell, Model/Actriz, Destroyer, Charley Crockett, the Horrors, Black Country, New Road, My Morning Jacket, Sasami, Djrum, Japanese Breakfast, DJ Koze, Perfume Genius, Deafheaven, Throwing Muses, Yung Lean, Beirut, Garbage, William Tyler, Tunde Adebimpe, Lil Wayne, and plenty more artists. This guide features streaming and digital release dates and will be updated regularly.

As always, see some of our favorite albums and songs in the Best New Music section. Plus, catch up every Saturday with 10 of our best reviewed albums of the week. Sign up for the 10 to Hear newsletter here.


March 7

Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole [International Anthem]

Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy [Granary Music]

Hamilton Leithauser: This Side of the Island [Glassnote]

Harto Falión & Evilgiane: The Hurtless [Surf Gang]

Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow [Southeastern]

Lady Gaga: Mayhem [Interscope]

Marina Zispin, Bianca Scout & Martyn Reid: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t [Scenic Route]

Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside [Reprise]

Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen [Domino]

Star 99: Gaman [Lauren]

Tobacco City: Horses [Scissor Tail]

The Tubs: Cotton Crown [Trouble in Mind]

Vundabar: Surgery and Pleasure [Loma Vista]

New music releases for Friday, March 7, 2025, include: Lady Gaga: Mayhem [Interscope]

March 14

Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter [Island]

Circuit des Yeux: Halo on the Inside [Matador]

Of Montreal: The Sunlandic Twins (20th Anniversary Edition) [Polyvinyl]

Throwing Muses: Moonlight Concessions [Fire]

Whatever the Weather: Whatever the Weather II [Ghostly International]

March 20

Hiroshi Yoshimura: Flora [Temporal Drift]

March 21

The Horrors: Night Life [Fiction]

Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) [Dead Oceans]

Lonnie Holley: Tonky [Jagjaguwar]

Lucy Liyou: Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name [Orange Milk]

My Morning Jacket: Is [ATO]

Phil Cook: Appalachia Borealis [Psychic Hotline]

Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco: I Said I Love You First [Interscope]

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life [ECM]

YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds [AD 93]

Young Widows: Power Sucker [Temporary Residence Ltd.]

New music releases for Friday, March 21, 2025, include: Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) [Dead Oceans]

March 28

Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia [Down the Road]

Aya: Hexed! [Hyperdub]

Backxwash: Only Dust Remains [Ugly Hag]

Bryan Ferry: Loose Talk [Dene Jesmond]

Cactus Lee: Cactus Lee [Western Vinyl]

Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power [Roadrunner]

Dean Wareham: That’s the Price of Loving Me [Carpark]

Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie [Merge]

DJ Python: I Was Put on This Earth EP [XL]

Great Grandpa: Patience, Moonbeam [Run for Cover]

Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling [Geffen]

Perfume Genius: Glory [Matador]

Sandwell District: End Beginnings [The Point of Departure]

Spellling: Portrait of My Heart [Sacred Bones]

Unrest: Perfect Teeth (30th Anniversary Edition) [4AD]

Yukimi: For You [Ninja Tune]

April 4

Barker: Stochastic Drift [Smalltown Supersound]

Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong [Ninja Tune]

Craig Finn: Always Been [Tamarac]

David Longstreth, Dirty Projectors & Stargaze: Song of the Earth [Nonesuch/New Amsterdam]

DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us [Pampa]

Djo: The Crux [AWAL]

Elton John & Brandi Carlile: Who Believes in Angels? [Interscope]

Florist: Jellywish [Double Double Whammy]

L.A. Witch: Doggod [Suicide Squeeze]

Marlon Williams: Te Whare Tīwekaweka [self-released]

Penelope Trappes: A Requiem [One Little Independent]

Scowl: Are We All Angels [Dead Oceans]

Sleigh Bells: Bunky Becky Birthday Boy [Mom + Pop]

The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper [Sun]

New music releases for Friday, April 4, 2025, include: DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us [Pampa]

April 11

Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE [Jagjaguwar]

Kali Malone: The Sacrificial Code [Ideologic Organ]

Ken Carson: More Chaos [Opium/Interscope]

Röyksopp: True Electric [Dog Triumph]

April 12

Jeff Bridges: Slow Magic, 1977-1978 [Light in the Attic]

April 18

Beirut: A Study of Losses [Pompeii]

Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way [Matador]

Quickly, Quickly: I Heard That Noise [Ghostly International]

Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz [Sub Pop]

New music releases for Friday, April 18, 2025, include: Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz [Sub Pop]

April 25

Broncho: Natural Pleasure [Broncho Worldwide]

Djrum: Under Tangled Silence [Houndstooth]

Nazar: Demilitarize [Hyperdub]

Sumac & Moor Mother: The Film [Thrill Jockey]

William Tyler: Time Indefinite [Psychic Hotline]

May 2

Blondshell: If You Asked for a Picture [Partisan]

James Krivchenia: Performing Belief [Planet Mu]

Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist [4AD]

Model/Actriz: Pirouette [True Panther]

PUP: Who Will Look After the Dogs? [Little Dipper/Rise]

Sextile: Yes, Please. [Sacred Bones]

Yung Lean: Jonatan [World Affairs]

New music releases for Friday, May 2, 2025, include: Model/Actriz: Pirouette [True Panther]

May 9

Deradoorian: Ready for Heaven [Fire]

Little Simz: Lotus [AWAL]

Mclusky: The World Is Still Here and So Are We [Ipecac]

May 16

Pelican: Flickering Resonance [Run for Cover]

Rico Nasty: Lethal [Fueled by Ramen]

Spill Tab: Angie [Because Music]

May 23

Sparks: Mad! [Transgressive]

May 30

Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light [Stun Volume]

June 6

Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI [Young Money/Republic]

Nadah El Shazly: Laini Tani [One Little Independent]

New music releases for Friday, June 6, 2025, include: Nadah El Shazly: Laini Tani [One Little Independent]

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