We’re living in a golden age of chaos — where albums appear overnight, tracklists leak via Notes app screenshots, and the line between a teaser and a therapy session gets blurrier by the day. But beneath the noise, there’s a rhythm. A pulse. A season of releases that—taken together—feel like a collective mood board for where music’s headed. From legacy acts like Kesha, Swans, and Arcade Fire reasserting their weirdness to emerging voices distorting guitars and genre boundaries alike, here’s your holistic guide to the albums that might just define your spring and summer.
April 11
🌾 Trousdale – Growing Pains
Genre: Indie Folk, Pop
The LA trio behind TikTok-beloved harmonies and soft-focus storytelling returns with a full-length that promises catharsis for anyone who’s ever cried in a car park.
👑 Galactic & Irma Thomas – Audience With The Queen
Genre: Funk, Rhythm and Blues
The New Orleans funk institution teams up with the Soul Queen of the same city for a project that’s less collaboration and more coronation. Tchoup-Zilla Records, take a bow.
April 18
🔥 Ally Venable – Money & Power
Genre: Blues, American Roots Rock
A shred-first Texan blues rock record that’s as much fire as finesse. Bring sunglasses. And maybe earplugs.
April 25
💋 Tennis – Face Down in the Garden
Genre: Indie Pop
With each release, Tennis sinks deeper into breezy melancholia — yacht rock for landlocked romantics. This one’s looking floral but fatal.
🌀 Goose – Everything Must Go
Genre: Jam Band
They’re not reinventing the jam wheel — they’re making it shinier and just weird enough. Expect 11-minute tracks, but you won’t mind.
May 2
🎭 Lucius – Lucius
Genre: Indie Pop, Art Pop
The harmonizing duo step into the mirror with a self-titled project that feels like both a reintroduction and a reckoning. Big hooks, bigger feelings, and the kind of production that makes your heart do choreo.
May 6
🌸 Shunkan – Kamikaze Girl
Genre: Alt-Rock, Shoegaze
Rite Field Records presents a punchy, ethereal record that might make you believe in ghosts (or at least guitar pedals again).
May 7
💔 Harrison Lipton – Between Us There Runs a Tether
Genre: Indie R&B / Soul
A smoky vocal palette and introspective beats — the kind of record you throw on when you’re spiraling, but tastefully.
May 9
🗽 Sam MacPherson – American Dream Trajectory
Genre: Alt-Pop
TikTok’s favorite emotional philosopher comes with an album full of big feelings and bigger choruses. Cue the montage of your quarter-life crisis.
🎉 Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It
Genre: Jamgrass / Americana
The Colorado legends return with a record for people who still know how to two-step and shotgun a PBR — sometimes at the same time.
🌿 Boyfriend – In the Garden
Genre: Feminist Pop-Rap-Cabaret (yes, all three)
Camp, couture, and cabaret vocals wrapped in feminist manifesto. Don’t sleep on this one — Boyfriend never just “releases” a record, she stages it.
May 9
🐘 Arcade Fire – Pink Elephant
Genre: Indie Rock, Art Pop
The Canadian arena-indie juggernauts return after three years with a record that’s part existential spiral, part concept circus. “Year of the Snake” suggests they’re still chasing meaning with grandiosity and synths — just how we like it.
May 15
🍀 Theo Bleak – Bad Luck Is Two Yellow Flowers
Genre: Indie Folk / Experimental
A poet with a guitar and a notebook full of riddles. Strange, lovely, and cryptically comforting.
May 16
💔 Lana Del Rey – The Right Person Will Stay
Genre: Sadcore, Americana
Lana continues her journey into soft, sun-drenched devastation. Expect gauzy piano ballads, cryptic one-liners, and references to men with trucks and emotional unavailability.
🧨 Rico Nasty – Lethal
Genre: Rap, Punk, Hyperpop Chaos
Rico’s never been one to whisper. Lethal looks set to detonate across genres, with her signature scream-singing and beat-flipping bravado leading the charge.
🌅 Cautious Clay – The Hours: Mornings
Genre: R&B, Alternative Soul
If golden-hour melancholy had a soundtrack, it’d sound like this. Smooth, thoughtful, and filled with jazzy detours that make you want to text your therapist and your crush.
May 23
🔬 Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Genre: Avant-Pop, Krautrock
Their first album in 15 years and it already sounds like it’s from the future-past. “Aerial Troubles” hints at hypnotic grooves and science-lab synths — classic Stereolab, refreshed for 2025.
🎤 Hein Cooper – My Own Album
Genre: Indie Folk / Alt-Pop
Title says “DIY confession,” but the sound is anything but lo-fi. Expect layered vocals, open-hearted songwriting, and production that flirts with both stadiums and solitude.
May 30
🌈 Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful
Genre: Concept Pop, Glam Psych-Rock
A visual album inspired by The Wall? Miley’s in her art-rock era now. The soundtrack to your healing and your breakdown.
🧱 Swans – Birthing
Genre: Experimental Rock, Apocalyptic Minimalism
Michael Gira and company drop another colossal meditation on existence. Featuring a 19-minute lead single and a vibe somewhere between spiritual awakening and sonic punishment.
🌱 Tash Sultana – Return to the Roots
Genre: Psychedelic Rock / Alt-Reggae Fusion
They’re dialing it back — or maybe dialing it in. This album promises to reconnect with the looping, trippy magic that made their bedroom sessions legendary. No skips, just grooves.
June 6
🧹 Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Trash Classic
Genre: Psych Rock / Garage
Every album is an exorcism. This one’s just a little louder.
👨🌾 The Inspector Cluzo – Less is More
Genre: Farm Rock (yes, seriously)
Recorded in between tending actual farmland, this French duo brings sustainability to shredding.
June 20
👻 Mo Lowda and the Humble – Tailing The Ghost
Genre: Indie Rock / Jam Rock
Part driving music, part existential soundtrack. Moody with muscle.
July 4
✨ Kesha – Period
Genre: Pop? TBD
She said “dot,” and somehow it feels like a whole sentence. Expect genre-blurring, truth-telling, and “unapologetic c*ntiness”.
🥛 Merpire – Milk Pool
Genre: Dream Pop / Indie Rock
The Melbourne songsmith pours heartache into a carton and drinks it slow. Tender, self-deprecating, and a little loopy — in the best way.
August 8
👁️ The Thing – The Thing
Genre: Art Rock / Experimental
Mysterious, indie, and most likely strange as hell. Just how we like it.
And On And On
With May stacked and summer creeping in, this season’s shaping up to be a wild ride for new music. Expect surprises, comebacks, and at least one album that’ll completely hijack your personality. Stay tuned — the best drops might not even be announced yet.
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