iStock
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)
