2025's most-anticipated albums

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We highlight some of the most anticipated albums of the year, including upcoming ones from Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, serpentwithfeet and more.

Featured artists and songs:
1. Perfume Genius: "It's A Mirror," from Glory (March 28)
2. Florist: "Have Heaven," from Jellywish (April 4)
3. Lucy Dacus: "Ankles," from Forever Is A Feeling (March 28)
4. serpentwithfeet: "Writhing In The Wind," from GRIP Sequel (Feb. 28)
5. Squid: "Building 650," from Cowards (Feb. 7)
6. Jason Isbell: "Bury Me," from Foxes in the Snow (March 7)
7. Saya Gray: "Shell (Of A Man)," from SAYA (Feb. 21)
8. Marshall Allen: "African Sunset," from New Dawn (Feb. 14)
9. Samia: "Bovine Excision," from Bloodless (April 25)

See the complete list of 2025 releases we're tracking.

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0:00.0	Look at us in the studio.
0:01.7	Not being remotely bothered by citywide lockdown because of the inauguration.
0:08.3	Did you all have trouble getting in at all?
0:10.4	Not at all.
0:11.0	No, I know.
0:11.7	Yeah.
0:11.9	One thing about D.C. in general is any time there's any warning about anything,
0:17.9	everybody goes into, like, buying a hundred pound bags of flour. Right. Yeah.
0:25.1	Everybody gets into this, like, prepper mindset. And so I remember I had to come into work one day
0:32.5	when the Pope was in town. And for, like, weeks, it was like, it's the Popeocalypse.
0:37.8	Like the Pope is coming.
0:40.2	Every street will be a complete madhouse.
0:43.3	Whatever you do, do not even look out your window.
0:47.2	It will be so perilous.
0:49.1	And then I got called in.
0:50.7	All things considered was like, can you come in and do this two-way?
0:53.8	It was an emergency two-way about music. You do this two-way it was an emergency two-way
0:55.3	it was an emergency two-way it was an emergency two-way about Ryan adams's album covering Taylor
1:02.3	Swift's 1989 and it was like whoa breaking yeah breaking you know and so I'm like well I got to come
1:10.7	in I got to do this I'm going, well, I got to come in.
1:10.8	I got to do this.
1:11.7	I'm going to budget, you know, two hours to commute.
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