Danny L Harle: Cerulean
February 13
On his first album in 5 years, Danny L Harle continues to plunder pure aural ecstasies of dancefloors previous and drag them kicking and screaming into the 2020s. In a collider of trance, progressive techno, and numerous rave tendrils, the British producer attracts visitors together with Caroline Polachek, PinkPantheress, Oklou, Dua Lipa, and Clairo right into a dance-pop maelstrom impressed, he says, by Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach, the online game sequence Darkish Souls, and late Renaissance composers like Claudio Monteverdi and Thomas Tallis. —Jazz Monroe
Daphni: Butterfly
February 6
Dan Snaith’s first Daphni album in 4 years presents a number of new personalities to dwell underneath his Caribou alter-ego. “Daphni music remains to be music that I’m making primarily for the aim of taking part in in my DJ units,” Snaith says of the Cherry follow-up in press supplies. “Nearly all of the tracks on this document I do play repeatedly in my units. However then there are a bunch—slower, weirder—that I don’t normally play… or wait… possibly the purpose is that I’d solely play them in the correct membership.” Butterfly, in a way, is an invite to that membership—a portal right into a carnival within the deepest recesses of his, and your individual, thoughts. —Jazz Monroe
Demise Grips
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“The Writing and recording of our subsequent album is underway,” Stefan “MC Experience” Burnett and Zach Hill wrote on Instagram this previous November, alongside footage of an empty recording studio. “We’re trying ahead to the brand new Demise Grips document.” For sure, so is each music nerd on the web contemplating the band’s most up-to-date album of experimental glitch rap, Year of the Snitch, got here out method again in 2018. —Nina Corcoran
Dry Cleansing: Secret Love
January 9
“Don’t surrender on being candy,” a line from the nearer of Dry Cleansing’s Secret Love, would ordinarily sound like a too-strong dose of indie-pop naivety. Paired with the droll paranoia and sinister, scrappy riffs of the south London band’s third album, it sounds extra just like the determined cry of a revolutionary on the gallows. Amid the document’s sly hooks and Cate Le Bon-produced adornments, Florence Shaw fills Secret Love with unimpressed assessments of capitalist bloodlust and manosphere encroachment, every noticed with a twist of deadpan wit and a gallows snort. —Jazz Monroe
GENA (Liv.e & Karriem Riggins): The Pleasure is Yours
February 27
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Karriem Riggins is one among music’s most versatile drummers, mixing components of jazz, hip-hop, and soul into heat, unshakeable grooves. Liv.e is a wiry, shapeshifting vocalist behind 2023’s acclaimed Girl in the Half Pearl. On The Pleasure is Yours, the duo’s first official album as GENA—the identify is each an acronym (“God Vitality, Naturally Wonderful”) and a reference to Gina, the character Tisha Campbell performed on ‘90s sitcom Martin)—the 2 artists’ kinds match collectively like jagged puzzle items. —Alex Suskind
Geologist: Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
January 30
Geologist aka Brian Weitz has spent a long time recording and performing with Animal Collective and releasing one-off tasks (like final 12 months’s collaborative album A Shaw Deal); now, he’s set to launch his first correct solo album. The document foregrounds the distinctive and underutilized instrument generally known as the hurdy-gurdy and guarantees a psych-y, eclectic, improvisational kaleidoscope of sound. (It’s additionally received an impeccable title, named after a phrase Weitz estimates he mentioned “as soon as a day for most likely 4 thousand days in a row” earlier than giving up the behavior.) Recorded at Asheville’s Drop of Solar Studio, it additionally options a variety of contributors—notably, Weitz’s Animal Collective bandmate Dave Portner (aka Avey Tare) and his son, Merrick Weitz. —Marissa Lorusso
Gorillaz: The Mountain
February 27
For his or her ninth studio album, Gorillaz as soon as once more flip to a slate of collaborators for inspiration and visitor verses, populating the fictional world of its cartoon characters with real-life depth and persona. The Mountain boasts everybody from Sparks on “The Joyful Dictator” to Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey on “Damascus,” together with appearances from Dennis Hopper, Johnny Marr, Idles, Kara Jackson, Bobby Womack, Black Thought, and Anoushka Shankar. As that various assortment of visitors suggests, the album ranges extensively in sound and phrase, with lyrics in Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Yoruba. Propped up on the height of the namesake mountain, Gorillaz look out on the world and attempt to decipher what’s developing the path. —Nina Corcoran
Faces
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Fifty-three years is a long-ass time to attend between albums however ‘70s rock staples Faces—who initially disbanded in 1975 and have carried out sporadically through the years—promise they nonetheless have the juice. Remaining members Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wooden, and Kenney Jones have been writing collectively on and off since 2020, with Stewart telling the Telegraph in 2021 that the band had recorded some “extraordinarily worthy songs” (“We’ll get it completed, I promise” he mentioned, a few new document. “No different band appears like us.”) Jones adopted Stewart’s pledge with a 2025 affirmation that Faces had recorded 11 new tracks, most of which can seem on the subsequent album. —Alex Suskind
Flea
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Flea looks like the form of man who would have already got a half-dozen solo releases underneath his belt. However the forthcoming album from the Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers’ bassist is definitely his first. Lead single “A Plea” blends Flea’s slap-heavy bass riffs and peppy trumpet part with lyrics about America’s sordid affairs: “Is the ugly coming, and the weapons? (Civil Struggle, Civil Struggle) / Is the military coming, blotting out the solar? (Civil Struggle, Civil Struggle).” Nonetheless, Flea maintains he has little interest in “the act of politics.” “I believe there’s a far more transcendent place above it,” he mentioned in an announcement, “the place there’s discourse available that may really assist humanity, and really assist us all to dwell harmoniously and productively in a method that is wholesome for the world.” —Alex Suskind
Heavenly: Freeway to Heavenly
February 27
Some three a long time after their final LP, Heavenly are again with an album to show their sporadic reunion tours are good for greater than a nostalgia kick. In accordance with the twee-pop rulebook written of their previous life as C86 darlings Talulah Gosh, Freeway to Heavenly summons a whirlwind of romantic glee and righteous rage to fight a brand new wave of macho orthodoxy. “Scene Stealing” laments manosphere influencers; “Press Return” derides triumphalist technocrats; and the album at giant makes the case that, whereas the heroes and villains have completely different names, the passions that fueled the band’s golden period nonetheless blaze as vibrant as ever. —Jazz Monroe
Jessie Ware
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Jessie Ware’s fittingly titled That! Feels Good! was stacked with sufficient disco grooves and triumphant hooks to gas a Studio 54 reboot. Right here’s what we all know in regards to the follow-up: It options Barney Lister and Karma Child; Ware’s buddy Coleman Domingo has heard some of it, and observe quantity 12 sounds like “Minnie Riperton determined to stroll in one other Backyard of Eden” and “Gollum [but] barely extra engaging.” I don’t know what Ware means by that so we’ll simply have to attend and see if she returns to her dancefloor consolation zone or pivots elsewhere. —Alex Suskind
Jill Scott: To Whom This Might Concern
February 13
Earlier than she took a decade-long break from music, Jill Scott was releasing a few of the century’s most assured R&B, ushering in a brand new period for the style and paving the best way for everybody from SZA to Summer season Walker. On “Lovely Individuals,” the primary style of Scott’s long-awaited new album, the Philly native dips again into her early-era spoken-word supply to explain a form of love that conquers all (“Our love is greater than time or race / Our love canceled mountains”). —Alex Suskind
Joyce Manor: I Used to Go to This Bar
January 30
Pop-punk is the style of youth—till, ultimately, it isn’t. As Joyce Manor stare down the tip of their 30s, they’re savoring each final drop of rambunctiousness and flippancy by an more and more opaque lens of nostalgia. Although I Used to Go to This Bar is despondent in title, the trio’s seventh full-length album is playfully irreverent and chipper, persevering with the feel-good riffs which have steadily outlined their practically 20-year-long run. Produced by Unhealthy Faith’s Brett Gurewitz and following 2022’s 40 oz. to Fresno, Joyce Manor’s newest effort suggests youth doesn’t should be wasted on the younger. —Nina Corcoran
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
January 16
Tragic Magic is a piece of “musical telepathy,” says Julianna Barwick of her newest collaboration with the harpist Mary Lattimore. Recording in Paris after leaving Los Angeles through the devastating 2025 wildfires, the duo amassed analog synths and harps from the Musée de la Musique assortment, composing songs that by turns harness the epic scale of classical and choral music, the tingling textural play of ambient, and, within the Vocoder-spangled rush of spotlight “Stardust,” one thing akin to analog house pop. Additionally among the many seven songs are a response to the wildfires, “Melted Moon”; a vaguely medieval set piece composed by Roger Eno (“Temple of the Winds”); and a disarmingly earthy cowl of Vangelis’ “Rachel’s Track.” —Jazz Monroe
KMRU: Kin
Prolific sound artist Joseph Kamaru despatched the demo for Peel—his 2020 assortment of nervy, cavernous discipline recordings—to a few document labels. Just one, Editions Mego, replied. This 12 months, Kamaru makes his official return to the modern imprint with Kin, a six-track launch he started recording in 2021, in his native Kenya. The thought behind Kamaru’s second Mego drop initially got here from conversations with the label’s founder Peter Rehberg about what a Peel sequel may sound like. However Kin guarantees a flip towards one thing knottier, like its first providing, “With Bushes The place We Can See,” an enveloping hug of drone fuzz. —Alex Suskind
Ladytron: Kingdom Undersea
March 20
Electroclash is again. Nicely, kind of. The brand new album from Y2K stalwarts Ladytron—greatest identified for the immutable 2002 single “Seventeen”—has way more in frequent with Pet Shop Boys or their namesake Roxy Music than it does the likes of Fischerspooner. Paradises’ grand, new romantic pop accomplishes one thing way more spectacular than straightforward nostalgia-baiting: significant creative development for a bunch who, over twenty years into their lifespan, may’ve coasted into one-hit surprise standing a number of instances over. —Walden Inexperienced
Lana Del Rey: Range
Not each Lana Del Rey album announcement is a severe proposition; right here’s you, Rock Sweet Candy and White Sizzling Ceaselessly. Now we’ve Range, beforehand generally known as Lasso after which The Right Person Will Stay. Hopefully, there shall be a minimum of one track impressed by Del Rey’s alligator tour information husband. –Walden Inexperienced
Lucinda Williams: World’s Gone Fallacious
January 23
Lucinda Williams, who as soon as took six years between albums within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, is at the moment within the midst of an unprecedented late-career streak. World’s Gone Fallacious forgoes the rollicking E Road shuffles and precise Springsteen options of 2023’s Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart in favor of roots rock, blues, and dirt-caked street songs. That Williams continues to go toe-to-toe together with her idols—for instance, duetting with Mavis Staples on a canopy of Bob Marley’s “So A lot Hassle within the World”—is solely the most recent proof that she deserves to be counted amongst them. —Walden Inexperienced
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Madonna: Confessions on a Dance Ground Half 2
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Confessions on a Dancefloor stands because the final nice Madonna album, so a potential sequel will carry with it the hopes and goals of anybody who’s spent the final 20 years burning prayer candles together with her face on them. To her credit score, Madge has retraced her personal steps by reuniting with Stuart Value, who produced the unique Confessions. If and when Confessions on a Dancefloor 2 materializes, solely then will we all know for positive whether or not it’s a fifth-decade profession coup or simply one other Hard Candy. —Walden Inexperienced
Makthaverskan: Glass and Bones
April 3
Makthaverskan have plugged their guitars proper again into their hearts for the follow-up to 2021’s För Allting. Nonetheless overspilling with ferocious melancholy, vocalist Maja Milner hoists the beloved Gothenburg alt-rockers out of post-punk lows and into raptures of jangle-pop pleasure, as on lead single “Pity Celebration,” a few love so risky it threatens to immolate your id. As is the band’s customized, the lyrics may evoke despair, however the furnace of hooks and harmonies suggests whole emotional overload is its personal form of salvation. —Jazz Monroe
Mandy, Indiana: Urgh
February 6
The Manchester and Berlin-based musicians behind Mandy, Indiana know the attract of a French accent may make nearly anybody succumb to immense stress, ache, or pleasure. Above distorted, wailing guitars and thundering digital beats, they used their 2023 debut I’ve Seen a Way to disclose it feels good, really, to fall underneath that spell of the pursuer. On Urgh, the quartet amp up that post-punk paranoia and flick on the strobe lights, turning the cramped house right into a cacophonous lair the place even vocalist Valentine Caulfield’s hollering will spike your pores and skin with goosebumps. “For those who disguise/You received’t escape me,” she sings in French on lead single “Journal.” Let the hunt start. —Nina Corcoran
Large Assault
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Regardless of not placing out any new music since 2020, Large Assault have seen their star rise all through this decade. Chalk it up partially to the Gen-Z trip-hop revival, and partially to the band’s willingness to place their cash the place their mouth is politically. Final 12 months, they joined the exodus of artists leaving Spotify in protest of its CEO’s investments in army AI tech, in addition to the continuing No Music for Genocide cultural boycott of Israel. “From subsequent 12 months we are going to launch a cache of labor created within the current previous,” Large Assault wrote on social media in November. Additional particulars stay scant, however should you’re planning to stream the album, a change to Apple Music could also be so as. —Walden Inexperienced
Megadeth: Megadeth
January 23
Megadeath’s origin story is thrash-metal folklore: After getting fired from Metallica, singer and guitarist Dave Mustaine based his personal pioneering rock outfit. Forty years later, the flying V-wielding frontman has determined to interrupt the band up after one ultimate album and tour. “We now have accomplished one thing collectively that’s actually great and can most likely by no means occur once more,” he mentioned in an announcement. Megadeath’s final launch, the self-titled Megadeath, consists of some gnarly cowl artwork starring mascot Vic Rattlehead; the fittingly shred-heavy “Let There Be Shred”; and a full-circle cowl of Metallica’s “Experience the Lightning,” the 1984 single Mustaine has a co-writing credit score on. —Alex Suskind
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Morrissey
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Go away it to Moz to make information with out new music. Since his most up-to-date album, 2020’s I Am Not a Canine on a Chain, the singer-songwriter was dumped by BMG, claimed he was promoting the rights to the Smiths, and cancelled exhibits as a consequence of on-line loss of life threats and his personal medical points. He additionally needed to shelve two accomplished albums—Bonfire of Youngsters and You are Proper, It is Time—although a minimum of one seems to lastly be on the verge of launch. After signing with Sire Records in December, Morrissey shared a tracklist to an untitled undertaking with out additional remark. Whether or not the songs are from one of many already-announced LPs or a distinct one stays to be seen. —Alex Suskind
The New Pornographers
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Final spring, the New Pornographers had been nearing completion of their tenth album when their current drummer, Joe Seiders, was arrested for and pled responsible to felony possession of kid pornography. The Canadian indie rock supergroup instantly kicked Seiders out of the band and reached out to revered session musician Charley Drayton to remake Seiders’ beforehand recorded drum components. Bandleader A.C. Newman describes the follow-up to 2023’s Continue as a Guest as a “narrative-driven” story that offers with accepting loss, starting from a buddy’s loss of life to American democracy. Newman by no means undermined Seiders’ horrific fees, however he did understand how the album’s themes beat him to the leap of that reckoning. As Newman put it to Rolling Stone, “It was darkish, bizarre, and complicated… So when this occurred, there was part of me that went, ‘In fact this shit is going on. Why would one thing good occur?’” —Nina Corcoran
Nothing: A Quick Historical past of Decay
February 27
When somebody writes the e book on shoegaze and dream-pop, A Quick Historical past of Decay can be a fantastic title. On their fifth album, Philadelphia’s Nothing packs within the tremolo, breakbeats, and swooning, My Bloody Valentine-shaped melodies. Nonetheless, it’s frontman Domenic Palermo’s gore-laden lyrics that lower by the haze, a tether to each his personal struggles with substance abuse and to the emo and hardcore scenes of his house metropolis. —Walden Inexperienced
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Olivia Rodrigo
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Olivia Rodrigo could not have introduced, formally teased, or actually instructed us something in any respect about her Guts follow-up, however you’d higher imagine it’s coming. The barest of hints—like her onstage giveaway of her G-U-T-S rings at her tour’s ultimate live performance, signaling the period was nicely and actually over—had already despatched the stan hive thoughts into overdrive, even earlier than she instructed Nylon, in a current interview, that she was “having lots of enjoyable dreaming issues up” for a “busy 12 months” in 2026. Plentiful different allusions recommend the wait will not be too painful; the lengthy breadcrumb path, sprinkled all through 2025, gives the look OR3 is simply ready to burst out of her. —Jazz Monroe
Paula Kelley: Blinking because the Starlight Burns Out
March 27
A founding member of Drop Nineteens, Paula Kelley rejoined the Boston shoegaze band in 2023, after they parlayed TikTok virality right into a comeback and a new album—their first in 30 years. Kelley’s first solo LP since 2003 is, likewise, of one other time; she described the document’s lead single, “Celebration Line,” as “Spiritualized with Telescopes doing the vocals.” Blinking because the Starlight Burns Out may go for a long-lost twee pop LP dug out of a milk crate: just a little dusty, however not in the slightest degree dated. —Walden Inexperienced
Peaches: No Lube So Impolite
February 20
“I’m a sexy little fucker,” Peaches declares on “Fuck Your Face,” the lead single from her first album in over a decade. Speak about an understatement. Different observe titles on No Lube So Impolite, her Kill Rock Stars debut, embody “Hanging Titties,” “Fuck How You Wanna Fuck,” and the much less express but someway extra vulgar “Panna Cotta Delight.” Peaches’ return to music coincides with a cultural second that’s determined for a shock to the system, and she or he’s simply the service prime for the job. —Walden Inexperienced
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Peaer: doppelgänger
January 16
After practically seven years, New York-based songwriter Peter Katz and his band return with doppelgänger. The group—which additionally consists of bassist Thom Lombardi and drummer Jeremy Kinney—broke by with its third album, 2019’s A Healthy Earth: a intelligent, math-y indie-rock meditation on quotidian indignities. 2020 lockdowns prompted an unintended hiatus, however Katz ultimately discovered himself returning to and refining his songwriting. The ensuing document accommodates concepts from the band’s earliest days that sit alongside current compositions: “It actually seems like a distinct particular person wrote the primary track versus the final track,” Katz has mentioned. “In some methods that’s what [doppelgänger] is about: Actually altering over time, then trying again to see how completely different you had been.” —Marissa Lorusso
Peter Gabriel: o/i
December
Peter Gabriel continues his inquiry into numerous future fascinations on OI, the mirror picture of his 2023 document, I/O. Like its predecessor, the brand new album is being launched one track at a time, every with a “Darkish-Aspect” and “Vibrant-Aspect” model, on the total moon and new moon of every month, lining up a full album for the tip of the 12 months. Thematically, the Genesis alum says in press supplies, they reckon with “a interval of transition like no different, most definitely triggered in three waves: AI, quantum computing, and the mind pc interface.” However the soul of the music stays Gabriel’s unfettered celebration of the mushy bits of human life. —Jazz Monroe
Ratboys: Singin’ to an Empty Chair
February 6
Not solely do Chicago stalwarts Ratboys proceed to fine-tune their method to the style with every document, in addition they sound more and more impressed. Possibly the remedy train behind Singin’ to an Empty Chair’s title is to thank for the way revitalized Ratboys sound on their sixth LP. Julia Steiner pushes herself from power-pop harmonies on “Anyplace” to frantic, pent-up yells on “Gentle Evening Mountains All That” that land like somebody preventing to regain management of their life once more. Ratboys could also be humble Midwesterners with good intentions, however don’t underestimate how calloused their fists are or their willingness to struggle for an enduring earworm. —Nina Corcoran
Robyn
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Robyn albums take time: the Swedish pop-star’s scintillating floor-fillers are dense with the stuff of life, to not point out seemingly infinite nights spent out on the dancefloor. Because the launch of 2018’s Honey, she grew to become a mom and remained a prolific collaborator, all whereas giving her new document, supposedly titled Sexistential, loads of time to gestate. Recorded together with her longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund, the 2025 single “Dopamine” harkened again to the chrome-plated bangers of Body Talk—in addition to the woefully underrated Do It Again EP. Based mostly on the brand new songs Robyn debuted at a New 12 months’s Eve live performance, she will nonetheless seize the identical excessive. —Walden Inexperienced
Rostam
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Rostam Batmanglij made his manufacturing bones recording evocative, ethereal pop-rock as a member of Vampire Weekend and later for a coterie of acclaimed artists (current credit embody Carly Rae Jepsen, Samia, and Haim). However the multi-instrumentalist is a gifted solo artist in his personal proper, with two profitable albums underneath his belt: 2017’s dreamy Half-Light and 2021’s jazz-inflected Changephobia. We don’t know a lot about Batmanglij’s just-announced third album, arriving this 12 months, solely a title (American Tales) and a touch of what’s to come back (more slide guitar). —Alex Suskind
Sleaford Mods: The Demise of Planet X
January 16
Sleaford Mods survey their kingdom of the Midlands on The Demise of Planet X, asserting their triumph on the frontline of the decade-plus increase of Quietus-core UK shouter-songwriters. Lining up alongside a number of fellow different nationwide treasures, the duo solicits a music video from Andrea Arnold and vocals from Life With out Buildings’ Sue Tompkins on the Arab Strap-via-Neneh Cherry confection “No Touch,” and—why not?—a verse of maniacal bars from Gwendolyn Christie on the hear-it-to-believe-it lead single “The Good Life.” —Jazz Monroe
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The Mushy Pink Fact: Can Such Pleasant Occasions Go on Ceaselessly?
January 30
The title, in fact, is a slice of black humor: You’ll be able to rely on Drew Daniel—the Mushy Pink Fact foremost mind and one half of the digital trickster duo Matmos—to take a sober view of the wretched state of world affairs. However, like its title, Can Such Pleasant Occasions Go on Ceaselessly? injects a observe of upside-down humor and lavish indulgence into the dialog. Offered as a queer refuge from an authoritarian and genocidal timeline, the album doubles as a showcase for a multinational array of string gamers, whose sighs, swells, and quivers—organized by Daniel in a mode harking back to the composer John Adams—lend movie-soundtrack scale to his flurrying compositions. —Jazz Monroe
Steve Lacy: Oh Yeah?
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It seems like mild years since Steve Lacy’s “Unhealthy Behavior” dominated the summer time. Now the guitarist and singer is readying his third album. The undertaking remains to be principally shrouded in thriller however in a current Rolling Stone cover story, Lacy teased the title, Oh Yeah? (“the query mark is essential,” he mentioned) and its first single, the jungle-inspired “Good Sneakers.” He additionally mentioned he wouldn’t drop one other undertaking “till yall go appreciate” his final one, Gemini Rights, so go forward and rack up these streams now. —Alex Suskind
Chic: Until the Solar Explodes
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It appears like a advertising exec’s nostalgia-induced fever dream: Jakob Nowell, son of late Chic frontman Bradley Nowell, fronts his dad’s band at Coachella 2024. Fortunately, all of it labored out, with Jakob sounding each bit his father’s son. Now the youthful Nowell will keep it up the Chic legacy with a brand new album, their first launch in three a long time. Lead single “Ensenada” checks all of the containers: a reggae-and-ska-infused rhythm, lyrics about Southern California and strippers, the phrase “stoked.” As Jakob just lately instructed People, “There is not any worse feeling than listening to a brand new document from a band that hasn’t launched something in 100 years, and it’s simply so completely different.” —Alex Suskind
