It's time to look ahead to the new year and some potentially major releases in the Alternative world. Here's who we are expecting new albums from in 2025, as well as what's been hinted at.
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Mumford & Sons
We're going on seven years since Mumford & Sons' most recent studio album, Delta, and while 2024 offered the collaboration "Good People," with Pharrell Williams, a long-awaited studio record could very well be on its way in 2025.
Incubus
Incubus spent 2024 giving us a re-recorded version of their classic album Morning View as well as a tour celebrating that record. Back in May 2024, the band mentioned that working on the re-recordings reinvigorated them as they also started work on new music, telling Billboard that half of a new record had been written as of last spring.
Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey confirmed that her 10th studio album, The Right Person Will Stay, is due out on May 21, 2025. The new album will reunite her with producer Jack Antonoff and is expected to be Country-inspired.
The Lumineers
The Lumineers have announced a European tour and US festival dates for 2025, and the expectation is that they'll be supporting a follow-up to 2022's BRIGHTSIDE.
Lorde
Since 2013, Lorde has given us an album every four years. Besides that, the New Zealand songstress teased a clip of new music this past summer. Fingers crossed her fourth album arrives in the new year.
Jimmy Eat World
2024 saw Jimmy Eat World celebrating anniversaries of albums like Clarity, Futures, and their most recent studio album, Surviving. As we head into 2025, the band is set to play major festivals like Coachella and Welcome To Rockville, and have said that their non-performance time in 2024 would be dedicated to working on a new record.
Tame Impala
Kevin Parker most recently gave us a new Tame Impala record just before the world shut down with 2020's The Slow Rush. This past summer he confirmed that he's been working on the follow-up, saying he thinks "it'll be there soon."
Franz Ferdinand
Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand will release their sixth studio album, The Human Fear, their first new album in seven years on January 10, 2025.
CAKE
Ahead of the band's concert in San Antonio, TX, this past September, indie rock legends CAKE stopped by Texas Public Radio KSTX to record a song for their Live From the Freight Elevator sessions, offering up "Billionaire in Space" from their forthcoming seventh studio album set to be released next year. It will mark the band's first album since 2011.
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Sam Fender
UK rocker Sam Fender is readying his third album 'People Watching' for a February 21, 2025 release as well as a North American tour, which includes a stop at Coachella in April.