55 Albums We’re Anticipating for Spring 2024

When the year began we posted about 86 albums we were anticipating in 2024, a bunch of which have since come out (and been reviewed in Notable Releases and Indie Basement, along with tons of others), and since then, we’ve learned about even more albums coming out this spring that we’re excited for. Now that the first quarter of 2024 is a wrap and spring is here, we’ve put together a list of 55 albums that we’re looking forward to that are coming out between April and June. Some of these also appeared on the list we made back in January, but most didn’t. And we kept things to albums with official release dates, but we’re still crossing our fingers that we learn more about long-teased stuff like Joanna Newsom, My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Rihanna, Cardi B, Frank Ocean, Sky Ferreira, King Diamond / Mercyful Fate, etc sooner than later too.

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

A Certain Ratio – It All Comes Down to This
due 4/19 via Mute

For their 13th album, the Manchester post-punk legends had the good luck of enlisting in-demand producer Dan Carey (Fontaines DC, Wet Leg, Black Midi, Slowthai), who helped Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson strip down ACR to its bones. It All Comes Down to This‘ title track is one of the group’s most immediate singles ever, so we’re hoping the rest of the album follows suit.

Alcest – Les Chants De L’Aurore
due 6/21 via Nuclear Blast

The atmospheric, post-rock and shoegaze-infused offshoot of black metal that’s sometimes known as “blackgaze” pretty much wouldn’t exist as we know it without Alcest, and they continue to find new ways to fuse together their various elements of beauty and fury. Judging by lead single “L’Envol,” new album Les Chants De L’Aurore will have plenty more of their usual greatness.

Amen Dunes – Death Jokes
due 5/10 via Sub Pop

It’s a lot of pressure to follow up a record as highly lauded as Amen Dunes’ Freedom, but six years later he’s ready to share Death Jokes with the world. While the singles released so far don’t stray too far from Freedom’s laptop Americana vibes, McMahon has incorporated into his songs samples culled from the far corners of YouTube – including “an interview with J Dilla, recordings from Type O Negative and Coil,” and “a lyre performance of the oldest written song in human history” – which could make for a very 2024 album.

Arab Strap – I’m totally fine with it don’t give a fuck anymore
due May 10 via Rock Action

Cantankerous Scottish duo Arab Strap may have already won Album Title of 2024 with I’m totally fine with it don’t give a fuck anymore , which is a sentiment many of us are struggling not to cave into these days. If there’s anyone who can make an album that lives up to that title it’s Aidan Moffat and Middleton, whose 2021 comeback album As Days Get Dark was one of our favorites of that year.

Bat For Lashes – The Dream of Delphi
due 5/31 via Mercury KX

Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan calls The Dream of Dephi a concept album about motherhood via “devotional love songs about the spirituality, ancestry and folklore,” and the swirling ambient art pop of the title track has us very intrigued to hear more.

Bernard Butler – Good Grief
due 5/31 via 355 Recordings

Former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler has stayed busy over the last two decades as a producer and collaborator (David McAlmont, The Libertines, Ben Watt, Jessie Buckley, more) but hasn’t released a solo album since 1999’s Friends and Lovers. Twenty-five years on, and we’ll get Good Grief, but don’t expect glam — first single “Camber Sands” is closer to Scott Walker than Bowie.

Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
due 5/17 via Domino

Portishead’s Beth Gibbons signed a solo deal with Domino in 2013, and 11 years later she’s delivering her first album for the label, made with producer James Ford. Clearly anyone who spends a decade trying to figure out what a record is going to sound like probably isn’t going to deliver by-the-numbers trip hop. “I wanted to draw away from breakbeats and snares,” Beth says, “focusing on the woody fabric of timbres away from the sugary addiction of high frequencies that satisfy like sugar and salt.”

Camera Obscura – Look to the East, Look to the West
due 5/3 via Merge

It’s about time! Scottish indiepop royalty Camera Obscura are finally back with a new album, a mere 11 years since their last. Look to the East, Look to the West also finds them back on Merge Records, who released all their best albums, and they’ve worked once again with producer Jari Haapalainen, who worked on Let’s Get Out of This Country. First single “Big Love” is the kind of comeback you hope for, a terrific, twangy number that pays tribute to Waylon Jennings, Sandy Denny and prog band Scope all at the same time.

Candy – It’s Inside You
due 6/7 via Relapse

Candy are gearing up to return with their third LP, and first single “eXistenZ” is an 81-second fusion of metalcore, noise, and industrial that finds Candy sounding as brutally futuristic as ever. It’s a guest-filled album that features members of Angel Du$t, Fleshwater, Integrity, Trash Talk, and more.

Charli XCX – Brat
due 6/7 via Atlantic

Charli XCX has called her sixth LP “the album i’ve always wanted to make,” saying, “i was born to make dance music.. i came from the clubs.” The dancefloor-ready tracks she’s shared from it so far make a good case for that indeed.

Corridor – Mimi
due 4/26 via Sub Pop

For their first album in four years, Montreal’s Corridor are mixing things up. Working with co-producer Joojoo Ashworth during the pandemic, they’ve added more synthesizers this time to compliment the band’s signature swirling guitar interplay, and slowed the tempos down from breakneck to a merry clip. “For a long time, we identified as a guitar-oriented band, and the goal of making this whole record was trying to get away from that,” says vocalist/bassist Dominic Berthiaume. “We had to figure out how to make new songs without having the chance to play together.”

The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
due 6/14 via YABB Records

Over 20 years into their career, still nobody does it like The Decemberists, and they’re still insanely ambitious. Look no further than 19-minute single “Joan in the Garden” for proof of that.

DIIV – Frog in Boiling Water
due May 24 via Fantasy

It’s been a hard four years since DIIV’s last album, and working on Frog in Boiling Water “nearly broke the band.” The hard work seems to have paid off, though, as the singles from the record so far have been terrific, especially “Brown Paper Bag” a slow, sludgy, but soaring number that recalls the early ’90s where shoegaze and grunge rubbed elbows.

Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
due 6/28 via Drag City

Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White are back as Dirty Three for their first album in 12 years. They recorded it in five days but spent a year with edits, resequencing, overdubs and mixing, to shape it into the finished product.

Dua Lipa – Radical Optmism
due 5/3 via Warner

Dua Lipa’s long-awaited followup to 2020’s world-conquering, endlessly-addictive Future Nostalgia arrives in May. Dua says she was inspired by the “history of psychedelia, trip hop, and Britpop” while making this one.

English Teacher – This Could Be Texas
due 4/12 via Island

For a band whose name and song titles — “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab” and “Albert Road” are two — scream BRITISH, they’ve chosen a very American title for their debut album. The music on This Could Be Texas aims to similarly defy expectation, mixing big pop and rock sounds alongside the sort of shouty post-punk their name all but promises.

Fat White Family – Forgiveness is Yours
due 4/26 via Domino

Fat White Family frontman Lias Saoudi says his band’s fourth album — and first in five years — is “about life as eternal contingency…about no longer suspecting, but knowing that this shit will never get any easier…in fact, it’s about to get a whole lot worse.” Luckily all this mopey subject matter comes wrapped in some decidedly upbeat, if weird, dance grooves.

Finom – Not God
due 5/24 via Joyful Noise

Finom, the Chicago duo of Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart who used to go by the name OHMME, made their latest avant-pop creation with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy at his The Loft Studio. He may have pushed them into slightly poppier directions this time, but these square pegs are still making wonderfully weird music that doesn’t sound quite like anyone else.

Foreign Hands – What’s Left Unsaid
due 6/21 via SharpTone

Foreign Hands are one of the most promising bands within the current 2000s-style metalcore revival, and both singles from their upcoming Will Putney-produced LP find them not just doing justice to that sound, but breathing new life into it.

Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss
due 4/26 via Closed Casket Activities

Full of Hell said they started to “recognize that there was value in pop music” while making their recent collaborative albums with Nothing and The Body, and they bring that energy to Coagulated Bliss. From what we’ve heard so far, “pop” structure only makes this band’s grindy, metallic fury sound even heavier.

Gatecreeper – Dark Superstition
due 5/17 via Nuclear Blast

Phoenix death metal band Gatecreeper seem to be dipping their toes into ’90s Swedish melodeath with this new album, but still making it their own, and everything we’ve heard thus far is extremely promising.

Girl and Girl – Call a Doctor
due 5/24 via Sub Pop

Queensland, Australia’s Girl and Girl are blessed with a unique story that makes for an easy hook by music writers (frontman Kai James’ aunt is the band’s drummer) and a live show that backs up the hype. Having already taken their homeland by storm, Girl and Girl were a hit at this year’s SXSW with their update on mid-’00s guitar indie that’s loaded with big hooks, all making for a nice lead-up to their debut album.

Goat Girl – Below the Waste
due 6/7 via Rough Trade

After two records made with Dan Carey, London trio Goat Girl co–produced Below the Waste with John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum, black midi). This album looks to be pretty different from those first two albums, too — first single “Ride Around” is a winning mix of pop and sludge. “I was listening to lots of Phillip Glass and Deerhoof,” says singer Lottie Pendlebury. That’s what we thought!

Hana Vu – Romanticism
due 5/3 via Ghostly International

Los Angeles artist Hana Vu says that with her second album, she’s trying “to succinctly crystallize how it feels to be young, but also to be deeply sad.” The first two singles, “Care” and “Hammer,” are striking, boldly realized indie rock and have us eager to hear the rest.

The Hope Conspiracy – Tools of Oppression / Rule by Deception
due 5/31 via Deathwish

Longevity and aging gracefully within hardcore is no easy task, but boundary-pushing hardcore vets The Hope Conspiracy know exactly how to pull it off. Their first album in 18 years is coming, and all the singles have found them sounding as fired-up as ever.

Ibibio Sound Machine – Pull the Rope
due 5/3 via Merge

After working with Hot Chip on 2022’s Electricity, London collective Ibibio Sound Machine turned to Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, M.I.A.) who co-produced Pull the Rope with bandleader Max Grunhard. The band say this album shifts “venues from the sunny buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat-soaked, all-night dance club.”

Inter Arma – New Heaven
due 4/26 via Relapse

Following lineup changes and other delays, the wait for a new Inter Arma album will finally end this April. Their version of metal sounds as insane and impossible-to-pigeonhole as ever on the material they’ve released so far.

Iron & Wine – Light Verse
due 4/26 via Sub Pop

Sam Beam’s return for his first Iron & Wine album in seven years is looking extremely promising; so far we’ve heard the gorgeously ornamented folk of “You Never Know,” the Fiona Apple-featuring bluesy piano ballad “All in Good Time,” and the percussive “Anyone’s Game,” all of which have our hopes high.

Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
due 5/3 via Mexican Summer

Jessica Pratt’s first album in five years is shaping up to a very special one. Lead single “Life Is” dips its toes into fleshed-out, ’60s-style pop balladry, while second single “World on a String” offers up more of the somber, bare-bones folk that Jessica is best known for. Both are great.

John Cale – POPtical Illusion
out 6/14 via DoubleSix/Domino

Unlike John Cale’s 2023 collab-heavy MERCY, the Velvet Underground co-founder made POPtical Illusion almost entirely by himself, with some help from longtime collaborator Nita Scott. First single “How We See the Light” finds him at 82 doing just fine on his own.

John Grant – The Art of the Lie
due 6/14 via Bella Union / [PIAS]

“This album is in part about the lies people espouse and the brokenness it breeds and how we are warped and deformed by these lies,” John Grant says of his sixth long-player. As usual he attacks such heavy subjects with cutting dark humor and some stately grooves, this time working with producer Ivor Guest, who has collaborated with everyone from Grace Jones and Bridget Fontaine to Beyoncé and Lana Del Rey.

Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
due 5/3 via Young

Jazz trailblazer Kamasi Washington’s new album features André 3000 on flute; vocals from George Clinton, BJ the Chicago Kid, D-Smoke, and Taj & Ras Austin of Coast Contra; and Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Patrice Quinn, Brandon Coleman, DJ Battlecat, and more. The eight-and-a-half minute single “Prologue” is as epic as you’d hope.

King Hannah – Big Swimmer
due 5/31 via City Slang

UK duo King Hannah made one of our favorite albums of 2022 with their debut LP, and for their follow-up Hannah Merrick and Craig Whittle have taken their signature ’90s-inspired sound (PJ Harvey, Mazzy Star, a dash of Portishead and Neil Young) and shined it up just a little. Or a lot, in the case of the album’s title track, which features backing vocals by Sharon Van Etten.

Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
due 5/10 via Pure Noise

“On this album, we go the fastest we’ve ever gone; we go the scariest we’ve ever gone. We also go the catchiest and the most melodic that we’ve ever gone, and that’s the point,” guitarist/backing vocalist Isaac Hale says. “Instead of branching off into a specific direction, we want to encompass ALL directions.”

Kneecap – Fine Art
due 6/14 via Heavenly

Northern Irish rappers Kneecap have already conquered their home country with their mix of Irish and English rhymes, fiery politics, ’90s hip hop beats and a mile-wide hedonistic streak. Now they’re setting their sights on the rest of the world. That may first come via their Kneecap film, a highly enjoyable origin story where the band play themselves; the film won the Audience Award at Sundance this year. The other half of the one-two punch is their debut album, which features contributions from Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten, Lankum’s Radie Peat, and more.

La Luz – News of the Universe
due 5/24 via Sub Pop

After four album on Hardly Art, Seattle surf-rock combo La Luz have moved up to parent label Sub Pop for News of The Universe, an album made with a new lineup and a bit of a new sound where keyboards get as much spotlight as twangy guitars. Shana Cleveland’s songwriting and La Luz’s harmonies remain at the center, however. The album was produced by Maryam Qudus (Spacemoth), who ended up joining the band full-time.

Les Savy Fav – OUI, LSF
due 5/14 via Frenchkiss / The Orchard

Who had “New Les Savy Fav Album” on their 2024 Bingo Card? “When we finished our last record [2010’s Root For Ruin], there was a sense that if we were going to do more, we wanted to do something more ambitious,” says frontman Tim Harrington. “I think it took us a while to even get in a space where that was possible.” The band, who are still mostly based in NYC, made it in Harrington’s Brooklyn attic, or as he describes it, a “freaky barn.” He adds, “The record grew organically — literally and figuratively.” We’re happy to report the band have not mellowed much.

Lip Critic – Hex Dealer
due 5/17 via Partisan

With elements of synthpunk, hip hop, and more, Lip Critic’s music and live shows are full of energy, and they’ve got some undeniable hooks in the mix too. They’ve been on the rise for good reason.

Marina Allen – Eight Pointed Star
due 6/7 via Fire

Singer-songwriter Marina Allen has drawn comparisons to a litany of ’70s folk and pop artists but Eight Pointed Star promises a more modern sound. She made it with producer Chris Cohen and it features contributions from Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, Kacey Johansing and more. First single “Red Cloud” sounds like it only could’ve been made now, while still retaining Allen’s verdant, bucolic folk sound.

Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice
due 5/3 via Matador

“This album is really different for me,” says Mdou Moctar, who is the band’s namesake, singer, and guitarist of their new album Funeral for Justice. “Now the problems of terrorist violence are more serious in Africa. When the US and Europe came here, they said they’re going to help us, but what we see is really different. They never help us to find a solution.” Judging by the singles released so far, the music is as incendiary as the message.

Pallbearer – Mind Burns Alive
due 5/17 via Nuclear Blast

Pallbearer have always had a little prog in their doom metal, but they’ve never been as full-on progressive rock as they are on recent single “Where the Light Fades.” “I’m of the belief that true heaviness comes from emotional weight, and sometimes sheer bludgeoning isn’t the right approach to getting a feeling across,” says vocalist/guitarist Brett Campbell.

METZ – Up on Gravity Hill
due 4/12 via Sub Pop

While known for making a serious racket, Toronto noisemakers METZ are allowing more melody and nuance into their fifth album, which features contributions from Amber Webber of Black Mountain and composer/string arranger Owen Pallett. Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of guitar squall to counterbalance the catchy tunes.

NxWorries – Why Lawd?
due 6/7 via Stones Throw

Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge are finally ready to release the long-awaited followup to their great 2016 debut album Yes Lawd!, and their retro-meets-futuristic hybrid of soul, funk, and rap is in fine form on the recent singles.

Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless
due 4/26 via Parlophone Records

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s 15th Pet Shop Boys album was made with producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode), who challenged them to scale some of the arrangements back, while also adding strings. “Some of the record is quite heart-breaking, but we hope a lot of it is also uplifting,” Pet Shop Boys say. “It’s a record we’re very proud of.”

Phosphorescent – Revelator
due 4/5 via Verve

Phosphorescent (aka Matthew Houck) is finally ready to follow 2018’s great C’est La Vie with a new album, and his ethereal Americana sounds as great as ever on these lead singles.

Rapsody – Please Don’t Cry
due 5/17 via We Each Other/Jamla/Roc Nation

One of the most consistently great (and consistently underrated) rappers around is back. Rapsody’s upcoming 22-song album Please Don’t Cry features Erykah Badu, Lil Wayne, Baby Tate, Alex Isley, Phylicia Rashad, Keznamdi, and more, and some very strong singles.

SeeYouSpaceCowboy – Coup De Grâce
due 4/19 via Pure Noise

SeeYouSpaceCowboy are in their Panic! at the Disco era, but still within the context of being a heavy, chaotic post-hardcore band. The theatrical sass is off the charts.

We’ve got an exclusive neon pink vinyl variant of this one, limited to 250.

Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty
due 4/12 via Impulse!

Between the aforementioned Kamasi Washington album and this Shabaka (Hutchings) album, it’s gonna be a good spring for mind-melting jazz. André 3000 is on this one too, as are Moses Sumney, Esperanza Spalding, Floating Points, ELUCID (of Armand Hammer), Brandee Younger, Laraaji, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Saul Williams, and more.

Shellac – To All Trains
due 5/17 via Touch and Go

Steve Albini, Bob Weston and Todd Trainer made their sixth Shellac album over multiple long weekends from 2017 – 2022, and it sounds like business as usual for these three: “this record will have no formal promotion. There will be no advertisements, no press or radio promotion, no e-promotion, no promotional or review copies, no promotional gimmick items, and otherwise no free lunch.” We would expect nothing less.

St. Vincent – All Born Screaming
due 4/26 via Virgin Music Group

St. Vincent seems to be getting back to the alien art pop vibes on All Born Screaming. In an interview with Mojo, she called the album “post-plague pop,” and said it “sounds urgent and psychotic, in equal parts the most caustic sound and also, I think, the most sonically blooming.”

The Story So Far – I Want To Disappear
due 6/21 via Pure Noise

Pop punk devotees The Story So Far began incorporating some atmospheric indie rock vibes on 2018’s Proper Dose, and the first two singles from I Want To Disappear find them continuing down their usual pop punk path and their more genre-defying one. Both are great.

We’ve got an exclusive orange crush & black butterfly vinyl variant of this one, limited to 500.

Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department
due 4/19 via Republic Records

We haven’t heard any music from Taylor Swift’s eleventh LP yet, but we know it’s sixteen tracks long plus a few bonus tracks, and features Post Malone (on “Fortnight”) and Florence + The Machine (on “Florida!!!”). Taylor announced it as she won her 13th Grammy in February, for Best Pop Vocal Album, and if the Midnights rollout in 2022 is anything to go by, its release will be an event.

Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
due 6/14 via Debemur Morti Productions

Ulcerate’s experimental approach to death metal is not easy to describe, but it’s very easy to love. On recent single “The Dawn Is Hollow,” they sound as masterful as ever.

Umbra Vitae – Light of Death
due 6/7 via Deathwish

In addition to fronting Converge, Jacob Bannon has a few other projects, and one of them is the death metal band Umbra Vitae, which also includes current and former members of The Red Chord, Twitching Tongues, Hatebreed, Uncle Acid, Job For A Cowboy, and more. Their 2020 debut LP Shadow of Life was a monster, and new single “Belief Is Obsolete” suggests this new LP will be one too.

Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us
due 4/5 via Columbia

After 2019’s summery Father of the Bride, Vampire Weekend seem to be getting back to something a little darker and more chaotic on Only God Was Above Us, and their hooks on singles like “Gen-X Cops” remain as sticky as ever.

Yaya Bey – Ten Fold
due 5/10 via Big Dada

Yaya Bey has been at the forefront of neo-soul these past few years, and the singles leading up to Ten Fold suggest she’s still at the top of her game, maybe getting even better.

Young Miko – Att.
due 4/5 via The Wave/Sony Latin

Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko has had one of the fastest rises in Latin pop in recent memory, and it’s easy to see why. She’s got a distinct voice, a ton of charisma, and her songs are purely infectious.