New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 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 Bad Bunny, Benjamin Booker, Panda Bear, FKA twigs, the Horrors, Mdou Moctar, Sasami, Mereba, DJ Koze, Richard Dawson, the Weather Station, Ethel Cain, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Saya Gray, Edith Frost, Baths, and plenty more artists. This guide features streaming and digital release dates and will be updated regularly.

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January 3Boldy James & RichGains: Murder During Drug Traffic [self-released]

Lil Baby: Wham [Quality Control/Motown]

January 5Bad Bunny: Debí Tirar Más Fotos [Rimas]

January 8Ethel Cain: Perverts [Daughters of Cain]

January 10Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear [Domino]

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

Ringo Starr: Look Up [Lost Highway]

January 17Benjamin Lackner: Spindrift [ECM]

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 24Benjamin Booker: Lower [Fire Next Time]

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

Central Cee: Can’t Rush Greatness [Columbia]

FKA twigs: Eusexua [Young]

François Couturier & Dominique Pifarely: Preludes & Songs [ECM]

Kathryn Mohr: Waiting Room [The Flenser]

Mogwai: The Bad Fire [Temporary Residence Ltd.]

Studio: West Coast [Ghostly International]

The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow [XO/Republic]

New music releases for Friday, January 24, 2025, include: FKA twigs: Eusexua [Young]

January 27Pink Siifu: Black’!Antique [Dynamite Hill]

January 31Bonnie “Prince” Billy: The Purple Bird [No Quarter]

Eddie Chacon: Lay Low [Stones Throw]

Freckle: Freckle [God?]

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

Julia Hülsmann: Under the Surface [ECM]

MIKE: Showbiz! [10k]

February 7James 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]

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

New music releases for Friday, February 7, 2025, include: Squid: Cowards [Warp]

February 14Alessia 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]

Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside [Reprise]

Richard Dawson: End of the Middle [Weird World]

Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 EP [Because Music]

Venturing: Ghostholding [DeadAir]

February 21Baths: Gut [Basement’s Basement]

Nao: Jupiter [RCA]

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 28The 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]

March 7Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen [Domino]

March 21The Horrors: Night Life [Fiction]

April 4DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us [Pampa]

Penelope Trappes: A Requiem [One Little Independent]

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