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 Lucy Dacus, Blondshell, Benjamin Booker, Panda Bear, FKA twigs, Destroyer, the Horrors, Mdou Moctar, Sasami, Mereba, Japanese Breakfast, DJ Koze, Perfume Genius, Richard Dawson, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Saya Gray, Throwing Muses, Edith Frost, Baths, Youth Lagoon, and plenty more artists. This guide features streaming and digital release dates and will be updated regularly.
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January 24
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko [Nyege Nyege Tapes]
Benjamin 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.]
Sam Amidon: Salt River [River Lea]
Studio: West Coast [Ghostly International]
January 27
Pink Siifu: Black’!Antique [Dynamite Hill]
January 31
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: The Purple Bird [No Quarter]
Eddie Chacon: Lay Low [Stones Throw]
FearDorian: Leaving Home [self-released]
Freckle: Freckle [God?]
Geologist & D.S.: A Shaw Deal [Drag City]
Joe McPhee: I’m Just Say’n [Smalltown Supersound]
Julia Hülsmann: Under the Surface [ECM]
Lilly Hiatt: Forever [New West]
Max Richter: Richter: The Blue Notebooks (20 Year Edition) [Deutsche Grammophon]
MIKE: Showbiz! [10k]
The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow [XO/Republic]
February 7
The Bird Calls: Melody Trail [Ruination]
James Brandon Lewis: Apple Cores [Anti-]
Oklou: Choke Enough [True Panther]
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]
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]
Mathias Eick, Kristjan Randalu, Ole Morten Vågan & Hans Hulbækmo: Lullaby [ECM]
Mereba: The Breeze Grew a Fire [Secretly Canadian]
Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside [Reprise]
Richard Dawson: End of the Middle [Weird World]
Rusty Williams: Grand Man [Congrats]
Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 EP [Because Music]
Venturing: Ghostholding [DeadAir]
Yuval Cohen Quartet: Winter Poems [ECM]
February 21
Baths: Gut [Basement’s Basement]
Kelora: Sleepers [True Panther]
Nao: Jupiter [RCA]
Porridge Radio: The Machine Starts to Sing EP [Secretly Canadian]
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]
Youth Lagoon: Rarely Do I Dream [Fat Possum]
February 28
The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs [Fire]
Darkside: Nothing [Matador]
Domestic Drafts: Only the Singer [Glamour Gowns]
Edith Frost: In Space [Drag City]
Everything Is Recorded: Temporary [XL]
Ichiko Aoba: Luminescent Creatures [Hermine/Psychic Hotline]
Kilbourne: If Not to Give a Fantasy [Hammerhead]
Marie Davidson: City of Clowns [Deewee]
The Men: Buyer Beware [Fuzz Club]
Miya Folick: Erotica Veronica [Nettwerk]
Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice [Matador]
Panda Bear: Sinister Grift [Domino]
March 7
Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy [Granary Music]
Hamilton Leithauser: This Side of the Island [Glassnote]
Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow [Southeastern]
Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen [Domino]
March 14
Throwing Muses: Moonlight Concessions [Fire]
March 20
Hiroshi Yoshimura: Flora [Temporal Drift]
March 21
The Horrors: Night Life [Fiction]
Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) [Dead Oceans]
My Morning Jacket: Is [ATO]
Young Widows: Power Sucker [Temporary Residence Ltd.]
March 28
Dean Wareham: That’s the Price of Loving Me [Carpark]
Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie [Merge]
Great Grandpa: Patience, Moonbeam [Run for Cover]
Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling [Geffen]
Perfume Genius: Glory [Matador]
Spellling: Portrait of My Heart [Sacred Bones]
Yukimi: For You [Ninja Tune]
April 4
David Longstreth, Dirty Projectors & Stargaze: Song of the Earth [Nonesuch/New Amsterdam]
DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us [Pampa]
Florist: Jellywish [Double Double Whammy]
Penelope Trappes: A Requiem [One Little Independent]
The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper [Sun]
May 2
Blondshell: If You Asked for a Picture [Partisan]
