All The New Albums Coming Out In April 2025

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in April. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, April 4

• Anika — Abyss (Sacred Bones)
• Ant — Collection of Sounds: Volume 4 (Rhymesayers)
• Babe Rainbow — Slipper imp and shakaerator (P(doom) Records)
• Black Country, New Road — Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune)
• Bnny — One Million and Three Love Songs (Fire Talk)
• Buffet Lunch — Perfect Hit! (Upset The Rhythm)
• Cameron Knowler — CRK (Cameron Knowler)
• Coffin Prick — Loose Enchantment (Temporal Drift)
• Craig Finn — Always Been (Tamarac Recordings/Thirty Tigers)
• Daniel Kleederman — Another Life (Many Hats Distribution)
• Dirty Projectors and Stargaze — Songs of the Earth (Nonesuch/New Amsterdam)
• DJ Koze — Music Can Hear Us (Pampa Records)
• Djo — The Crux (AWAL)
• duendita — a strong desire to survive (10k)
• Elton John and Brandi Carlile — Who Believes In Angels? (Island EMI Records)
• Fugue State — In the Lurch (Strange Mono)
• Glare — Sunset Funeral (Deathwish Inc./Sunday Drive Records)
• Grace VanderWaal — Childstar (Pulse Records)
• Heaven — Dream Aloud (Telepathic Love Records)
• Hiromi — OUT THERE (Concord)
• Hyldon and Adrian Younge — HYLDON JID023 (Jazz is Dead)
• Jessy J — Terranova (Changi Records)
• L.A. Guns — Leopard Skin (Cleopatra Records)
• L.A. WITCH — DOGGOD (Suicide Squeeze)
• Lawrence Hart — Come In Out of the Rain (Domino)
• Lily Seabird — Trash Mountain (Lame-O Records)
• Linying — Swim, Swim (Nettwerk)
• Malcom Todd — Malcolm Todd (Columbia)
• Maz — NPC EP (Winspear)
• Mekons — Horror (Fire Records)
• Melanie Fiona — Say Yes EP (Public Records/COLTURE/Title 9)
• Miki Berenyi Trio — Tripla (Bella Union)
• Momma — Welcome to the My Blue Sky (Lucky Number)
• Panchiko — Ginkgo (Nettwerk)
• Penelope Trappes — A Requiem (One Little Independent Records)
• Perennial — Perennial ’65 EP (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
• Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs — Death Hilarious (Missing Piece Records)
• Roomer — Leaving It All To Chance (Squama)
• Sarah Mary Chadwick — Take Me To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? (Kill Rock Stars)
• Scowl — Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans)
• Simona — Astuta (Pack Records/Create Music Group)
• Sister Ray — Believer (Royal Mountain Records)
• Sleigh Bells — Bunky Becky Birthday Boy (Mom + Pop)
• SYML — Nobody Lives Here (Nettwerk)
• The Waterboys — Life, Death And Dennis Hopper (Sun Label Group)
• Wet — Two Lives (30SF)
• Will Johnson — Diamond City (Keeled Scales)
• Yann Tiersen — Rathlin from a Distance | The Liquid Hour (Mute)
• young friend — motorcycle sound effects (Nettwerk)

Friday, April 11

• Abbey Cone — Greener (Abbey Cone)
• The Album Leaf — Rotations (Nettwerk)
• Bedridden — Moths Strapped To Each Other’s Backs (Julia’s War Recordings)
• Bjørn Riis — Fimbulvinter (Karisma Records)
• Bon Iver — SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)
• Bootsy Collins — Album of the Year #1 Funkateer (Bootzilla Records)
• Clutter — Loves You EP (PNKSLM Recordings)
• Daughter of Swords — Alex (Psychic Hotline)
• The Driver Era — Obsession (Kartel Music Group)
• Fancy Hagood — American Spirit: The Last Drag (Fancy Hagood Enterprises)
• fantasy of a broken heart — Chaos Practitioner EP (Dots Per Inch)
• Galactic and Irma Thomas — Audience with the Queen (Tchoup-Zilla Records)
• Gerald Clayton — Ones & Twos (Blue Note)
• Jon Pardi — Honytonk Hollywood (UMG)
• Joni — Things I Left Behind (Hand In Hive)
• Leatherman — Turn You On (This Charming Man Records)
• Lullahush — Ithaca (Future Classic)
• Magnolia Park — VAMP (Epitaph)
• Maria Usbeck — Naturaleza (Cascine)
• The Mars Volta — Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio (Clouds Hill)
• Nell Smith — Anxious (Bella Union)
• Nellie McKay — Hey Guys, Watch This (Omnivore)
• OK Go — And the Adjacent Possible (Paracadute)
• Ribbon Skirt — Bite Down (Mint Records)
• Röyksopp — True Electric (Dog Triumph)
• set dressing — i can’t be alone tonight EP (Fire Talk)
• Sons of Ra — Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound)
• Spin Doctors — Face Full of Cake (UMG)
• Tapeworms — Grand Voyage (P-VINE)
• Teen Mortgage — Devil Ultrasonic Dream (Roadrunner)
• Trousdale — Growing Pains (Zula Records)
• Valerie June — Owls, Omens, and Oracles (Concord)

Saturday, April 12 (Record Store Day 2025)

Find the full list of Record Store Day 2025 releases here.

Friday, April 18

• A Bigger Mouth — Band Stand (Practise Music)
• Adrian Younge — Something About April III (Linear Labs)
• Beirut — A Study of Losses (Pompeii Recording Co)
• The Convenience — Like Cartoon Vampires (Winspear)
• Cumulus — We’ve Got It All (Share It Music)
• Divide and Dissolve — Insatiable (Bella Union)
• Domino Kirke — The Most Familiar Star (Many Hats Distribution)
• Iron Lung — Adapting // Crawling (Iron Lung Records)
• JP Saxe — Articulate Excuses (Arista Records)
• Julien Baker & Torres — Send a Prayer My Way (Matador)
• Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto — Electric War (Easy Eye Sound)
• Lostboycrow — The Sound of God Laughing (Nettwerk)
• Mayday Parade — Sweet (Many Hats)
• Melvins 1983 — Thunderball (Ipecac Recordings)
• MIEN — MIIEN (Fuzz Club)
• Neil Young — Coastal: The Soundtrack (Reprise)
• Pigeons Playing Ping Pong — Live at The Capitol Theatre (No Coincidence Records)
• Quade — The Foel Tower (AD 93)
• quickly, quickly — I Heard That Noise (Ghostly International)
• Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson — What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch)
• Rocket — Versions of You EP (Transgressive)
• Scrounge — Almost Like You Could (Ba Da Bing!)
• Soft Play — Heavier Jelly (Heavy Jelly)
• Superheaven — Superheaven (Blue Grape Music)
• Tunde Adebimpe — Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop)
• Taylor Rae — The Void (Missing Piece Records)

Friday, April 25

• Beach Bunny — Tunnel Vision (AWAL)
• Bells Larsen — Blurring Time (Royal Mountain Records)
• Big Wett — Risk It (Play It Again Sam)
• Billy Idol — Dream Into It (Dark Horse Records/BMG)
• Cloth — Pink Silence (Rock Action)
• Coco Jones — Why Not More? (Def Jam)
• Cosmic Cathedral — Deep Water (InsideOutMusic)
• d4vd — Withered (Darkroom/Interscope)
• DeathbyRomy– Hollywood Forever (DeathbyRomy)
• Deerhoof — Noble and Godlike in Ruin (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Eliana Glass — E (Shelter Press)
• Emma-Jean Thackray — Weirdo (Brownswood Recordings)
• Femi Kuti — Journey Through Life (Partisan Records)
• Fib — Heavy Lifting (Julia’s War Recordings)
• Fly Anakin — (The) Forever Dream (Lex Records)
• Ghost — Skeletá (Loma Vista)
• The Golden Dregs — Godspeed (End Of The Road)
• Hannah Rose Platt — Fragile Creatures (Xtra Mile Recordings)
• H.E.A.T — Welcome to the Future (earMUSIC)
• JakoJako — Tết 41 (Mute)
• Jawdropped — Just Fantasy EP (Fire Talk)
• Jeff Goldblum And The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra — Still Blooming (Decca)
• Jensen McRae — I Don’t Know How But They Found Me! (Dead Oceans)
• Joan Osborne — Dylanology Live (Megaforce)
• Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen — The Bywater Sessions (FHQ Records)
• Ledisi — The Crown (Listen Back Entertainment)
• Luke Titus — From What Was Will Grow A Flower (Sooper Records)
• Lyn Lapid — Buzzkill (Mercury Records)
• Luke Spiller — Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes and Wine (Big Machine)
• Maria Somerville — Luster (4AD)
• Monk — Dark Side of the Mind EP (Dine Alone Music)
• The Moonlandingz — No Rocket Required (Transgressive)
• The Opheilas — Spring Grove (Get Better Records)
• Patrick Wolf — Crying the Neck (Apport)
• Prima Queen — The Prize (Submarine Cat Records)
• Rodeo Boys — Junior (Don Giovanni Records)
• Roi Turbo — Bazooka EP (Maison Records)
• Salami Rose Joe Louis — Lorings (Brainfeeder)
• Samantha Fish — Paper Doll (Rounder Records)
• Samia — Bloodless (Grand Jury Music)
• Self Esteem — A Complicated Woman (Universal)
• Slow Leaves — In Solitude, For Company (Birthday Cake Records)
• Soft Loft — Modern Roses EP ([PIAS])
• Smokey Robinson — What The World Needs Now (Gaither Music Group)
• Stereophonics — ‘Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cry, Make ’em Wait’ (The Stereophonics Limited)
• Sumac and Moor Mother — The Film (Thrill Jockey Records)
• Sunflower Bean — Mortal Primetime (Lucky Number)
• Tennis — Face Down in the Garden (Mutually Detrimental)
• Tucker Wetmore — What Not To (Back Blocks Music)
• Um, Jennifer? — Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark (Final Girl Records)
• Uwade — Florilegium (Ehiose Records)
• Vendredi sur Mer — Malabar Princess (A+LSO)
• Viagra Boys — Viagr Aboys (Shrimptech Enterprises)
• William Tyler — Time Indefinite (Psychic Hotline)
• Willie Nelson — Oh What A Beautiful World (Legacy)
• Wishy — Planet Popstar EP (Winspear)