The 20 Most Anticipated Albums of Winter/Spring 2025


We recently published our list of our favorite albums of the decade so far, and now it’s time for our favorite beginning-of-the-year tradition: The albums we’re looking forward to hearing most in the coming months. Music-wise, 2025 is shaping up nicely, with a whole lot of new releases being announced in the still-young year—in fact, it’s getting hard to keep up. But we kept it (relatively) simple, by sticking to a solid 20 albums that are at the top of our list for the next four months. Mark your calendars and peruse our list of the 20 most anticipated albums of winter/spring 2025.
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The Weather Station – Humanhood
(January 17; Fat Possum)
Canadian singer/songwriter Tamara Lindeman returns with her seventh album as The Weather Station, following her previous two companion albums, 2021’s Ignorance and 2022’s How Is It That I Should Look At the Stars. Written in the aftermath of a personal mental health crisis, Humanhood is intended as a narrative-driven album, which creates an arc back toward connection. Its first single, “Neon Signs,” carries the sophisticated lushness of her previous two albums, rife with a krautrock-like pulse and a rich arrangement of piano, guitar and woodwinds. It’s a gorgeous introduction to an album that’s both personal and poignant.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)

FKA Twigs – EUSEXUA
Six years after the release of her last studio album MAGDALENE (and the more freeform mixtape Caprisongs from 2022), FKA Twigs is preparing to release her third LP, EUSEXUA. She preceded it with the title cut, a thumping dance number that’s much more immediate and urgent than some of her subtler, more sensual signature material. The album was produced by Twigs herself, along with Koreless and Eartheater, and based on just the first track alone (and the album’s strangely provocative teasers) it promises to be both thought- and body-provoking.

Mogwai – The Bad Fire
(January 24; Rock Action/Temporary Residence)
This year happens to be the 30th anniversary of Mogwai’s founding, and the Glasgow post-rock legends are commemorating it the best way they know how—with new music. The title of their eleventh album, The Bad Fire, is a Scottish colloquial term for hell, and it’s in reference to a series of trials and tribulations and personal struggles that took place with the group’s members in the aftermath of As the Love Continues. Still, there’s an uncanny beauty to its early singles such as “Fanzine Made of Flesh,” a dreamy pop song with vocodered vocals, or “God Gets You Back” with atmospheric, slowly evolving arpeggios and a hypnotic melody.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)

Pink Siifu – Black!Antique
(January 27; Dynamite Hill)
Pink Siifu’s one of the most unpredictable and enigmatic artists in hip-hop right now, having released everything from psychedelic trap to neo-soul and jazz rap with B. Cool Aid to a chaotic noise record. His latest promises only more unpredictable diversions. Its teaser is entertainingly puzzling, depicting mysterious figure with a cloak walking around a hearse. Its early singles, however, are both fantastic: While “WHOUWITHHO+” is a heavy and ominous trap song, “SCREW4LIFE! RIPJALEN!” is a ghostly, longer track that opens with an otherworldly atmosphere before easing into something even darker.

Ebo Taylor – Jazz Is Dead 022
(January 31; Jazz Is Dead)
Ghanaian Afrobeat legend Ebo Taylor just turned 89 years old at the beginning of the year, and he’s commemorating the occasion with a brand new set of music. Taylor embarked on his first US tour three years ago as part of the Jazz Is Dead concert series, and he’s following that up with a new entry in the Jazz Is Dead album series—number 22, to be specific. Produced by Adrian Younge (Ghostface Killah) and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest), the new album is a psychedelic Afrobeat odyssey whose undeniable groove goes deep.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)

FACS – Wish Defense
(February 7; Trouble in Mind)
The body of work of Chicago post-punk trio FACS is both consistent and consistently great, which means this album would have been on our most-anticipated list regardless. However Wish Defense takes on an added poignancy as the final album engineered by Steve Albini before his death in 2024. The early singles from the album, such as the title track, showcase the band as tight, rhythmic and hauntedly abstract as ever, further solidifying their status as one of the best post-punk bands of the 21st century.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)

Squid – Cowards
(February 7; Warp)
Shape-shifting UK post-punk/art-rock Squid continue their evolution with their third album Cowards, which follows 2023’s O Monolith. The album features a number of guest collaborators, including their Warp labelmate, singer/songwriter Clarissa Connelly, as well as chamber strings group Ruisi Quartet. The singles they’ve released thus far find them embracing a densely layered, krautrock-inspired psychedelia, and both sound great. Also: fantastic album art.

Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory – Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory
(February 7; Jagjaguwar)
Sharon Van Etten has shifted her approach many times over her career, first releasing stripped down songs as a solo singer/songwriter before embracing bigger rock songs and more synth-driven material. With her latest, she and her band crafted a fully collaborative record of songs that came to life through looser jam sessions, and as a result, it’s the first album credited to Sharon van Etten and the Attachment Theory. Early singles like the Essential Track “Afterlife” find Van Etten and company delving into a darker art-pop sound that’s rich in its arrangement and with a little more goth in its bloodstream.

Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On
(February 14; Matador)
Chicago trio Horsegirl released one of the best debut albums of 2022, Versions of Modern Performance, a stellar showcase of indie rock songwriting and taut post-punk rhythms. The group continue their evolution on sophomore album Phonetics On and On, which finds them exploring a broader palette of sounds. Where early single “Julie” has a dreamy spaciousness, there’s a sense of hypnotic repetition to “Switch Over” reminiscent of Yo La Tengo and earlier Stereolab. They’re off to an amazing start, but based on how much growth they’ve revealed in such a short time, it’s clear they’re just getting warmed up.

Bartees Strange – Horror
(February 14; 4AD)
We’ve been fans of Bartees Strange ever since the release of his early single “In A Cab,” which was later featured on his full-length debut, Live Forever. Now, with Horror, he follows his 2022 album Farm to Table with a set of songs about fear, feelings of doom, and growing up queer and Black in Oklahoma (and imagery that’s way more goth than we were expecting). Its standout first single “Sober” made our list of the best songs of 2024, while the harmonized guitar riffs of “Too Much” make it a comparably strong preview for what’s to come.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)

Cloakroom – Last Leg of the Human Table
(February 28; Closed Casket Activities)
Cloakroom have never been a conventional shoegaze band, whether leaning into dense, Jesu-like heaviness or taking influence from the spacious and haunted folk of Jason Molina. And the group’s latest, The Last Leg of the Human Table, proves that unconventional approach is also not a fixed point. The group’s latest is their shortest, but it’s also shaping up to be their most eclectic, with early singles “Unbelonging” and “Bad Larry” showcasing even more stylistic expansions into post-punk and dream pop, respectively.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)

Darkside – Nothing
(February 28; Matador)
Psychedelic electronic duo Darkside returned after an extended hiatus back in 2021 with the release of Spiral, and since then, Dave Harrington and Nicolas Jaar have not only remained active, but expanded the group to a trio. With the addition of drummer Tlacael Esparza, Darkside are prepping the release of their third album, Nothing, which suggests an even groovier new direction for the band. The first two singles released thus far, “Graucha Max” and “S.N.C” (both of which we named Essential Tracks) showcase more influence from the funkier end of Can’s pioneering krautrock as well as early ‘80s mutant disco.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)

Panda Bear – Sinister Grift
(February 28; Domino)
Panda Bear most recently teamed up with underground psych veteran Sonic Boom for the vintage melodies of Reset and its spacious counterpart Reset In Dub (as well as a mariachi version). With Sinister Grift, Noah Lennox enlisted his Animal Collective bandmate Josh Gibb (aka Deakin) as co-producer on a set of songs that lean into more of a rock aesthetic with a warm palette of sounds. Its first single, “Defense,” is a stellar first taste—a trippy, dubby rock ‘n’ roll strut featuring Cindy Lee that feels familiar, yet nonetheless reveals another new avenue for Panda Bear to explore.

Bob Mould – Here We Go Crazy
(March 7; Granary/BMG)
More than four decades into his career, punk and alternative legend Bob Mould continues to deliver albums that roar with punk energy but maintain the high quality of songwriting that’s been a constant throughout his career. His last album, 2020’s Blue Hearts, was evidence enough of that, while his next album, Here We Go Crazy, explores themes of contrast—in his words, “control and chaos, hypervigilance and helplessness, uncertainly and unconditional love.” The title track is the first single, and it’s a slow, hazy and somber anthem that nonetheless soars.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)

clipping. – Dead Channel Sky
(March 14; Sub Pop)
Five years after the release of 2020’s Visions of Bodies Being Burned, clipping. returns with another ambitious, conceptual album. Self-described as the group’s “cyberpunk and hip-hop project,” Dead Channel Sky features guests such as Aesop Rock, Nels Cline and Cartel Madras, and juxtaposes glimpses of possible worlds with a reckoning with the present. And thus far, the early singles are characteristically intense; the furious, breakbeat driven “Change the Channel” is reminiscent of an even more chaotic version of The Prodigy’s chanting big beat, while “Run It” is a more minimal electro-rap pulse. Either way, sign us up.

Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
(March 21; Dead Oceans)
Michelle Zauner has had a whirlwind few years, having released the best selling memoir Crying In H Mart as well as her acclaimed 2021 Japanese Breakfast album, Jubilee, which earned her two Grammy nominations. Her latest, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), finds Zauner scaling back, examining the “perils of desire” on a more understated set of songs produced by Blake Mills. Its first single, “Orlando In Love,” is gorgeously orchestrated, a more ornate kind of chamber pop than the brighter new wave of a song like “Be Sweet.”

Young Widows – Power Sucker
(March 21; Temporary Residence)
Louisville bruisers Young Widows haven’t released new music in more than a decade, having taken an extended hiatus following 2014’s Easy Pain. Since then, frontman Evan Patterson has focused on his other group, Jaye Jayle (who are also releasing new music this year) but Young Widows are also back up and running, having recently toured as well as prepping their first set of new music in 11 years. Power Sucker‘s first single, “Call Bullshit,” is a driving, hard-hitting slice of post-hardcore that finds them picking up where they left off.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)

Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie
Destroyer’s Dan Bejar has made a habit of changing course with just about every album, whether embracing the smooth sounds of sophisti-pop on Kaputt or going post-punk on ken. Dan’s Boogie is a bit more conceptual, made under the premise of writing songs in which Bejar is a character in his own songs rather than the narrator, and its first single, “Bologna,” driven by a trip-hop groove, is an early showcase for this new perspective. But let’s be real: No matter what the first single sounded like, we’d still have this album on the list.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)

Spellling – Portrait of My Heart
(March 28; Sacred Bones)
After reworking some of her older material on 2023’s Spellling and the Mystery School, Chrystia Cabral returns with the proper full-length follow-up to her outstanding 2021 album The Turning Wheel. Portrait of My Heart continues Spellling’s evolution from Cabral’s solo project to a proper band, which can be heard on the maximalist alt-rock of the title track, which to these ears evokes some of the best moments on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The album also features a My Bloody Valentine cover and guest appearances from Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bear and Turnstile’s Pat McCrory.

Florist – Jellywish
(April 4; Double Double Whammy)
Three years after their excellent self-titled album, one of our favorite records of the decade so far, New York indie folk quartet Florist are preparing the release of Jellywish. The group describes it as a “gentle delivery of something chaotic,” with songs that deal with the bigger existential concerns as well as elements of fantasy intertwined. Their sense of delicate beauty remains intact on the album’s first single, “Have Heaven,” another wonderful example of their intricate songwriting sensibility.
Buy: Rough Trade (vinyl)
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Jeff Terich is the founder and editor of Treble. He's been writing about music for 20 years and has been published at American Songwriter, Bandcamp Daily, Reverb, Spin, Stereogum, uDiscoverMusic, VinylMePlease and some others that he's forgetting right now. He's still not tired of it.