New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2023

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New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2023

A regularly updated guide to the new albums, EPs, mixtapes, and projects getting released in the coming weeks and months

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 Feist, Arlo Parks, the National, Thomas Bangalter, Everything But the Girl, Squid, Metallica, Kara Jackson, Wednesday, Christine and the Queens, Yaeji, and plenty more artists. This guide features streaming and digital release dates and will be updated regularly.

As always, see some of our favorite albums and songs in the Best New Music section. Plus, catch up every Saturday with 10 of our best reviewed albums of the week. Sign up for the 10 to Hear newsletter here.


April 7

Blondshell: Blondshell [Partisan]

Braid: Frame & Canvas (25th Anniversary Edition) [Polyvinyl]

Calvin Johnson: Gallows Wine [K]

Daughter: Stereo Mind Game [Glassnote]

Desire Marea: On the Romance of Being [Mute]

Hatchie: Giving the World Away (Deluxe) [Secretly Canadian]

Jana Horn: The Window Is the Dream [No Quarter]

Linkin Park: Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition [Warner]

Niontay: Dontay’s Inferno [10k]

Thomas Bangalter: Mythologies [Erato/Warner Classics]

Tim Hecker: No Highs [Kranky]

Wednesday: Rat Saw God [Dead Oceans]

Yaeji: With a Hammer [XL]

April 14

Angel Olsen: Forever Means EP [Jagjaguwar]

Brian Dunne: Loser on the Ropes [Kill Rock Stars]

Chat Pile & Nerver: Brothers in Christ EP [Reptilian/The Ghost Is Clear]

The Ducks: High Flyin’ (Live) [Shakey Pictures/Reprise]

El Michels Affair & Black Thought: Glorious Game [Big Crown]

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou: Jerusalem [Mississippi]

Feist: Multitudes [Interscope]

Fenne Lily: Big Picture [Dead Oceans]

Fruit Bats: A River Running to Your Heart [Merge]

The Hidden Cameras: The Smell of Our Own (20th Anniversary Edition) [Rough Trade]

Kara Jackson: Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? [September]

MC Yallah: Yallah Beibe [Hakuna Kulala]

Neil Young & The Santa Monica Flyers: Tonight’s the Night (Live) [Shakey Pictures/Reprise]

Metallica: 72 Seasons [Blackened]

Ozmotic & Fennesz: Senzatempo [Touch]

Petite Noir: MotherFather [Roya]

Proc Fiskal: RT Hon EP [Hyperdub]

Shannon Lay: Covers Vol. 1 [Sub Pop]

Shygirl: Nymph_o [Because Music]

The Tallest Man on Earth: Henry St. [Anti-]

Terry: Call Me Terry [Upset the Rhythm]

New music releases for Friday, April 14, 2023, include: Metallica: 72 Seasons [Blackened]

April 21

Dreamer Isioma: Princess Forever [AWAL]

Esther Rose: Safe to Run [New West]

Everything But the Girl: Fuse [Buzzin’ Fly]

Silver Moth: Black Bay [Bella Union]

April 28

Avalon Emerson & the Charm: Avalon Emerson & the Charm [Another Dove]

Baby Rose: Through and Through [Secretly Canadian]

Bill Orcutt: Jump on It [Palilalia]

Braids: Euphoric Recall [Secret City]

Country Westerns: Forgive the City [Fat Possum]

Indigo De Souza: All of This Will End [Saddle Creek]

Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good! [PMR/Interscope]

JFDR: Museum [Houndstooth]

Martyna Basta: Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering [Warm Winters Ltd.]

The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein [4AD]

Neil Gaiman & FourPlay String Quartet: Signs of Life [Instrumental]

Ron Morelli: Heart Stopper [L.I.E.S.]

Y La Bamba: Lucha [Tender Loving Empire]

Yunè Pinku: Babylon IX EP [Platoon]

New music releases for Friday, April 28, 2023, include: The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein [4AD]

May 5

billy woods & Kenny Segal: Maps [Backwoodz Studioz]

Cian Nugent: She Brings Me Back to the Land of the Living [No Quarter]

Ed Sheeran: [Atlantic]

Greg Mendez: Greg Mendez [Forged Artifacts/Devil Town Tapes]

The Lemon Twigs: Everything Harmony [Captured Tracks]

Olivia Jean: Raving Ghost [Third Man]

Rodney Crowell: The Chicago Sessions [New West]

Sbtrkt: The Rat Road [Save Yourself]

The Smashing Pumpkins: Atum [Martha’s Music]

Sqürl: Silver Haze [Sacred Bones]

Waldemar: Ruthless [self-released]

Westerman: An Inbuilt Fault [Partisan/PIAS]

May 12

Alison Goldfrapp: The Love Invention [Skint/BMG]

Animal Collective: Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished (Remastered 2023) [Domino]

Cattle Decapitation: Terrasite [Metal Blade]

Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition) [Columbia]

Eluvium: (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality [Temporary Residence Ltd.]

Island of Love: Island of Love [Third Man Records London]

Madison McFerrin: I Hope You Can Forgive Me [MadMcFerrin Music]

Overmono: Good Lies [XL]

New music releases for Friday, May 12, 2023, include: Overmono: Good Lies [XL]

May 19

Alex Lahey: The Answer Is Always Yes [Liberation]

Dave Matthews Band: Walk Around the Moon [RCA]

Graham Nash: Now [BMG]

Lewis Capaldi: Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent [Capitol]

Mandy, Indiana: I’ve Seen a Way [Fire Talk]

Mega Bog: End of Everything [Mexican Summer]

Moor Mother: Jazz Codes (Deluxe Edition) [Anti-]

Tanlines: The Big Mess [Merge]

Temps: Party Gator Purgatory [Bella Union]

Tinariwen: Amatssou [Wedge]

May 26

Arlo Parks: My Soft Machine [Transgressive]

Clark: Sus Dog [Throttle]

The Exploding Hearts: Guitar Romantic (Expanded & Remastered) [Third Man]

Kassa Overall: Animals [Warp]

Matthew Herbert & London Contemporary Orchestra: The Horse [Modern/BMG]

Miya Folick: Roach [Nettwerk]

Sparks: The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte [Island]

Water From Your Eyes: Everyone’s Crushed [Matador]

June 1

Jam City: Jam City Presents EFM [Earthly]

June 2

Beach Fossils: Bunny [Bayonet]

Bully: Lucky for You [Sub Pop]

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Council Skies [Sour Mash]

Protomartyr: Formal Growth in the Desert [Domino]

June 9

Christine and the Queens: Paranoïa, Angels, True Love [Because Music]

Decisive Pink: Ticket to Fame [Fire]

Feeble Little Horse: Girl With Fish [Saddle Creek]

Godflesh: Purge [Avalanche]

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Weathervanes [Southeastern/Thirty Tigers]

Jayda G: Guy [Ninja Tune]

Jenny Lewis: Joy’all [Blue Note/Capitol]

Jess Williamson: Time Ain’t Accidental [Mexican Summer]

Squid: O Monolith [Warp]

Youth Lagoon: Heaven Is a Junkyard [Fat Possum]

New music releases for Friday, June 9, 2023, include: Squid: O Monolith [Warp]

June 16

Bonny Doon: Let There Be Music [Anti-]

Hand Habits: Sugar the Bruise EP [Fat Possum]

Meshell Ndegeocello: The Omnichord Real Book [Blue Note]

June 23

Ani DiFranco: Little Plastic Castle (25th Anniversary Edition) [Righteous Babe]

Cory Hanson: Western Cum [Drag City]

Jason Mraz: Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride [BMG]

June 30

Brigid Mae Power: Dream From the Deep Well [Fire]

Joanna Sternberg: I’ve Got Me [Fat Possum]

July 7

V/A: The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake [Chrysalis]

New music releases for Friday, July 7, 2023, include: V/A: The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake [Chrysalis]

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