–Jazz Monroe
These New Puritans: Crooked Wing
May 23
The sibling duo of Jack and George Barnett has kept a relatively low profile since leaving its imprint on experimental rock with two of the great British albums of the 2010s, Hidden and Field of Reeds. The Barnetts’ fourth album as These New Puritans, 2019’s Inside the Rose, followed a six-year pause in studio recordings, and, now, after another six, they return with Crooked Wing. On a pair of singles, “Industrial Love Song” and “Bells,” Jack Barnett conjures his trademark mix of fear and wonder amid symphonic largesse, the former featuring Caroline Polachek in a darkly balletic duet.
–Jazz Monroe
Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz
April 17
Somehow it took Tunde Adebimpe, lead singer of venerated Brooklynites TV on the Radio, two decades to release his proper solo debut. After signing to Sub Pop and sharing “Magnetic,” in late 2024, Adebimpe waited until January to reveal his album’s title and release date, alongside the single “Drop.” Produced with Wilder Zoby and featuring contributions from bandmates Jaleel Bunton and Jahphet Landis, Thee Black Boltz should be worth the wait, with plenty of the doo-wop melodies, buzzing synthesizers, and urgently mesmerizing vocals that made devotees of TV on the Radio fans 20 years ago.
–Walden Green
Ty Segall: Possession
May 30
After winding through North America on a solo acoustic tour, Ty Segall once again summons the classic-rock gods for Possession, blending noir storytelling, knees-up hoedowns, and sophistipop harmony in pursuit of an American epic. Segall invited longtime collaborator Matt Yoka to co-write lyrics for the album, with Mikal Cronin joining to arrange strings and horns on the freewheeling single “Fantastic Tomb.”
–Jazz Monroe
The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper
April 4
Back in 2020, the Waterboys released a psych-frazzled, highway-cruising rock song named after the great Dennis Hopper. Now, they’ve made an album of it. Life, Death and Dennis Hopper is the British rock veterans’ tribute to the late actor, a record that frontperson Mike Scott described as a song cycle about “a five-movies-a-year character actor” who never lost “the sparkle in his eye or the sense of danger or unpredictability that always gathered around him.” He has assembled an illustrious guest list to tell the story: Fiona Apple, Bruce Springsteen, and Steve Earle all feature.
–Jazz Monroe
William Tyler: Time Indefinite
April 25
William Tyler has spent the past a decade and a half mapping his very own universe of cosmic country. Time Indefinite, his first album in six years, expands the Nashville native’s reliquary of acoustic guitar–led instrumentals to cover sprawling themes—in this case, addiction, middle age, loneliness, and neurosis—on a broad canvas where the ambient and ornate converge.
