New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2024

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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 Ravyn Lenae, Yaya Bey, Cassandra Jenkins, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Shellac, Mabe Fratti, Fontaines D.C., Billie Eilish, Beth Gibbons, Crumb, Body Meat, Peggy Gou, Charly Bliss, and plenty more artists. This guide features streaming and digital release dates and will be updated regularly.

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May 10

A. G. Cook: Britpop [New Alias]

Amen Dunes: Death Jokes [Sub Pop]

Arab Strap: I’m Totally Fine With It 👍 Don’t Give a Fuck Anymore 👍 [Rock Action]

Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 [43B]

Dehd: Poetry [Fat Possum]

How to Dress Well: I Am Toward You [Sargent House]

I. Jordan: I Am Jordan [Ninja Tune]

Jordan Rakei: The Loop [Verve Forecast]

Kings of Leon: Can We Please Have Fun [Capitol]

Knocked Loose: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To [Pure Noise]

Les Savy Fav: Oui, LSF [Frenchkiss/The Orchard]

Orville Peck: Stampede: Vol. 1 [Warner]

Tom Skinner: Voices of Bishara Live at “Mu” [International Anthem]

V/A: I Saw the TV Glow (Original Soundtrack) [A24 Music]

Yaya Bey: Ten Fold [Big Dada]

YhapoJJ: P.S. Fuck You [Simple Stupid]

Youbet: Way to Be [Hardly Art]

May 16

Alex G: I Saw the TV Glow (Original Motion Picture Score) [A24 Music]

May 17

Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown [Domino]

Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft [Darkroom/Interscope]

Crumb: Amama [Crumb]

Lip Critic: Hex Dealer [Partisan]

Of Montreal: Lady on the Cusp [Polyvinyl]

Rapsody: Please Don’t Cry [We Each Other/Jamla Records/Roc Nation]

Shellac: To All Trains [Touch and Go]

V/A: Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense [A24 Music]

May 22

Káryyn: Calm Kaoss! EP [Mute]

May 24

Andrew Bird, Alan Hampton & Ted Poor: Sunday Morning Put-On [Loma Vista]

Diiv: Frog in Boiling Water [Fantasy]

Finom: Not God [Joyful Noise]

Gastr del Sol: We Have Dozens of Titles [Drag City]

James Devane: Searching [Umeboshi]

Mui Zyu: Nothing or Something to Die For [Father/Daughter]

Say Anything: …Is Committed [Dine Alone]

May 31

Alan Vega: Insurrection [In the Red]

Arooj Aftab: Night Reign [Verve]

Bat for Lashes: The Dream of Delphi [Mercury KX]

The Bird Calls: Old Faithful [Ruination]

Maya Hawke: Chaos Angel [Mom+Pop]

Willie Nelson: The Border [Legacy]

June 7

Beings: There Is a Garden [No Quarter]

Candy: It’s Inside You [Relapse]

Casey MQ: Later That Day, the Day Before, or the Day Before That [Ghostly International]

Charli XCX: Brat [Atlantic]

Fine: Rocky Top Ballads [Escho]

Good Looks: Lived Here for a While [Keeled Scales]

Nat Harvie: New Virginity [Boiled]

NxWorries, Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge: Why Lawd? [Stones Throw]

Pedro the Lion: Santa Cruz [Polyvinyl]

Peggy Gou: I Hear You [XL]

June 14

Channel Tres: Head Rush [RCA]

The Decemberists: As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again [Yabb]

Diamanda Galás: Diamanda Galás in Concert [Intravenal Sound Operations]

John Cale: Poptical Illusion [Double Six/Domino]

John Grant: The Art of the Lie [PIAS]

Kneecap: Fine Art [Heavenly]

KRM & KMRU: Disconnect [Phantom Limb]

Normani: Dopamine [RCA]

Pride Month Barbie: All the Girls in the Room Say ‘Sorry’ [Get Better]

This Is Lorelei: Box for Buddy, Box for Star [Double Double Whammy]

Zsela: Big for You [Mexican Summer]

June 21

Been Stellar: Scream From New York, NY [Dirty Hit]

Daniel Davies: Ghost of the Heart [Sacred Bones]

Joni Mitchell: The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) [Rhino]

The Joy: The Joy [Transgressive]

O.: WeirdOs [Speedy Wunderground]

Red Hot Org & Kronos Quartet: Outer Spaceways Incorporated - Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra [Red Hot Organization]

V/A: Noise for Now: Vol. 2 [Noise for Now]

Wild Up & Christopher Rountree: Julius Eastman, Vol. 4: The Holy Presence [New Amsterdam]

June 28

Dirty Three: Love Changes Everything [Drag City]

Hiatus Kaiyote: Love Heart Cheat Code [Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune]

Johnny Cash: Songwriter [Mercury Nashville/UMe]

Loma: How Will I Live Without a Body? [Sub Pop]

Mabe Fratti: Sentir Que No Sabes [Unheard of Hope]

Previous Industries: Service Merchandise [Merge]

Washed Out: Notes From a Quiet Life [Sub Pop]

July 5

Kokoko!: Butu [Transgressive]

July 12

Cassandra Jenkins: My Light, My Destroyer [Dead Oceans]

Joe Goddard: Harmonics [Domino]

Remi Wolf: Big Ideas [Island]

July 19

Beachwood Sparks: Across the River of Stars [Curation]

August 2

Polo G: Hood Poet [Columbia]

August 9

Ravyn Lenae: Bird’s Eye [Atlantic]

August 16

Charly Bliss: Forever [Lucky Number]

August 23

Body Meat: Starchris [Partisan]

Fontaines D.C.: Romance [XL]

August 30

Jon Hopkins: Ritual [Domino]

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Wild God [Bad Seed Ltd.]

September 28

Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 [Warp]

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