2024's new album releases promise an eclectic mix of albums across genres - from established acts exploring new creative dimensions to rising stars pushing the boundaries of music, the next 12 months looks set to deliver an array of treats.
Here's what's definitely on the album release schedule for the rest of 2024 - and who we think could be dropping an album at some point in the next twelve months...
Liam Gallagher and John Squire: release date 1st March 2024
The former Oasis singer and Stone Roses guitarist have already released two tracks: Just Another Rainbow and Mars To Liverpool.
The duo will head out on tour in March, including two dates at Manchester's O2 Apollo.
The British shoegaze pioneers are back with their third album since they reunited in 2015.
It's the follow-up to 2019's This Is Not A Safe Place.
The first single is Peace Sign.
RIDE - Peace Sign (Official Visualiser)
Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell: Release date 29th March 2024.
The Canadian pop punk outfit fronted by Deryck Whibley are set to issue their final album.
They're due to play their very last show in Toronto on 30th January 2025.
Singles include Landmines and Rise Up.
Sum 41 – Rise Up (Official Music Video)
The Libertines All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade: release date 5th April 2024
The band's fourth studio album is their first since 2015's Anthems For Doomed Youth
The new material was started in Jamaica and finished in February and March 2023 at their own Albion Rooms in Margate
Lead single Run Run Run is a former Radio X Record Of The Week
Run Run Run
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us: release date 5th April 2024
The band - fronted by Ezra Koenig - have announced that they will issue two new songs, Capricorn and Gen-X Cops, on Friday 16th February.
The follow-up to Father Of The Bride, the new album was written by Koenig between 2019 and 2020 and the lyrical content reportedly concerns "20th Century New York".
The Black Keys - Ohio Players: Release date: 5th April 2024
The twelfth album from Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney is the follow-up to 2022's Dropout Boogie.
Lead single Beautiful People (Stay High) has been a Radio X Record Of The Week.
The Black Keys - Beautiful People (Stay High) (Official Lyric Video)
Feeder - Black/Red: Release date 5th April 2024.
A double album from Grant Nicholas and Taka Hirose is due in 2024
The band's twelfth album Torpedo was released in 2022
The band released two singles on the same day in October: ELF and Playing With Fire.
Feeder - Playing With Fire
James - Yummy: Release date 12th April 2024
The veteran Manchester band issue their 18th studio album.
Last year, the band released the orchestral record Be Opened By The Wonderful to mark their 40th anniversary.
The first single Is This Love is out now.
James - Is This Love (Official Audio)
The Zutons - The Big Decider: release date 26th April 2024
The Liverpool trio - comprised of frontman and guitarist Dave McCabe, drummer Sean Payne and saxophonist and Abi Harding - are set to release their fourth studio album The Big Decider.
Take a listen to the recent Radio X Record Of The Week, Creeping On The Dancefloor.
The Zutons - Creeping On The Dancefloor (Official Video)
Kings Of Leon - Can We Please Have Fun: release 10th May 2024
The Followills return with their ninth studio album.
It's the band's first new material since their 2021 album When You See Yourself, which included the singles The Bandit and 100,000 People.
The lead single is Mustang - take a listen below.
Kings Of Leon - Mustang (Official Music Video)
Paul Weller - 66: release date 24th May 2024
The Modfather's seventeenth album is the follow-up to 2021's Fat Pop (Volume 1)
Take a listen to the new single Soul Wandering.
Paul Weller :: Soul Wandering [Official Lyric Video]
The Mysterines - Afraid Of Tomorrows: release date 7th June 2024
The second album from the Liverpool band.
It's the follow-up to 2022's All These Things.
Listen to the first single Stray below.
The band have announced a UK tour for October in support of the album:
19th October - Ulster Sports Club, Belfast
20th October - Saint Luke's, Glasgow
22nd October - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
23rd October - Thekla, Bristol
24th October - O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
26th October - Olympia, Liverpool
The Mysterines - Stray
Sea Girls - Midnight Butterflies: Releaase date 14th June 2024
The third album from the London indie band, fronted by Henry Camamile.
It's the follow-up to 2022's Homesick and features the new single I Want You To Know Me.
Sea Girls - I Want You To Know Me - (Official Music Video)
Kasabian - Happenings: release date 5th July 2024
The band's eighth studio album will be released the day before their Summer Solstice II show takes place in Leicester.
The latest single is the massive Call - take a listen below.
Sergio Pizzorno told Radio X: "This album was made during sort of touring, which we’ve never really done before and that’s kind of fed into this joyous, huge, big tune album and from it we’re gonna do our own happenings, so it made sense that’s what the album is gonna be called.”
Call
Catfish & The Bottlemen - TBC
Van McCann has returned with a new tune, Showtime.
It's the first new material since 2019's album The Balance and details of their fourth album are expected any day.
The band will headline Reading and Leeds festivals in August and have announced dates for Cardiff and Edinburgh this summer.
Catfish and the Bottlemen - Showtime
Blossoms - TBC
To Do List (After The Break Up) is the first new material from the Stockportsiders since their 2022 album Ribbon Around The Bomb.
Charlie's dad has been ranking all their new songs!
The band play an enormous show at Manchester's Wythenshawe Park on Sunday 25th August 2024.
Blossoms - To Do List (After The Breakup) ft. Findlay
The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World: release date TBC
It's now over a year since Robert Smith and co began premiering new tracks from The Cure's long, long-awaited fourteenth album and the band have been playing them on their North and South American live dates this year. Could 2024 be finally the year we get a new Cure record?
The Cure - ENDSONG - Shows Of A Lost World - Live Mix 2022 #4 [Multi Lyrics - MultiCam]
Brandon Flowers - TBC
The Killers frontman told NME: “I’m making a solo record right now! I almost had it wrapped up. I feel like it embodies a little bit of my first two solo records, but obviously there’s so much more living that I’ve done in the seven years since my last effort. I’ve got a lot more insight and things that I’ve absorbed. I’m really loving how it’s turning out.”
This would be the follow-up to 2010's Flamingo and 2015's The Desired Effect.
Meanwhile, The Killers dropped a preview of a new track on Christmas Day 2023, but it's not known yet if this is part of a full album, or another stand-alone release like Your Side Of Town. Some Killers commentators have noted that this may be a song Flowers has referred to called We Did It In The Name Of Love.