All The New Albums Coming Out In April 2021

Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in April. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.

Friday, April 2

  • Alex Little & The Suspicious Minds — Waiting To Get Paid (Light Organ Records)
  • Bambounou — Cascade EP (Bambe)
  • The Beat Farmers — Tales Of The New West (Deluxe) (Rhino)
  • Blacklist Royals — Doomsday Girl (Paper + Plastick)
  • Bryce Dessner And Australian String Quartet — Impermanence/Disintegration (37d03d)
  • Cha Wa — My People (Single Lock Records)
  • Chaz Knapp — Organ Drunes (figureight)
  • Cristina Vane — Nowhere Sounds Lovely (Blue Tip Records)
  • Demi Lovato — Dancing With The Devil… The Art Of Starting Over (Island Records)
  • Dopolarians — The Bond (Mahakala Music)
  • The Drums — Mommy Don’t Spank Me (Island/UMC)
  • Dry Cleaning — New Long Leg (4AD)
  • Du Blonde — Homecoming (Daemon T.V.)
  • Everson Poe — Grief (Trepanation Recordings)
  • Flock Of Dimes — Head Of Roses (Sub Pop Records)
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor — G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! (Constellation)
  • Haunted Shed — Faltering Light (Strolling Bones Records)
  • Helstar — Clad In Black (Massacre Records)
  • January Jane — Your Drug EP (BMG)
  • Keith Kenny — Lifetime Ago Motel (iNtuRecords)
  • Kishi Bashi — Emigrant EP (Joyful Noise)
  • Kolby Knickerbocker — Over And Over EP (self-released)
  • La Femme — Paradigmes (Disque Pointu)
  • Leslie Jordan — Company’s Comin’ (PLATOON)
  • Lil Tjay — Destined 2 Win (Columbia)
  • Major Murphy — Access (Off White Records)
  • Mark Bryan — Midlife Priceless (Slow Start Records)
  • Mo3 — Shottaz 4 Eva (H$M Music/EMPIRE)
  • Mountain Bird — Once We Were Present EP (Nettwerk)
  • Mythic Sunship — Wildfire (Tee Pee Records)
  • Nasty Cherry — The Movie EP (Vroom Vroom Recordings)
  • The Natvral — Tethers (Dirty Bingo)
  • Noah Preminger And Kim Cass — Thunda (self-released)
  • Odd Circus — Mantha EP (Good Idea Music)
  • Patrick Belaga — Blutt (PAN)
  • Paul Bergmann — The Other Side (self-released)
  • Quelly Woo — Tactical Pressure EP (Equity Distribution)
  • No-No Boy — 1975 (Smithsonian Folkways)
  • Rosie Darling — Coping EP (Nettwerk)
  • Ryley Walker — Course In Fable (Husky Pants)
  • Shakey Graves — Roll The Bones X (Dualtone Records)
  • Whitehall — Swordfish Catcher (Common Ground Collective)
  • YaSi — Coexist With Chaos EP (Royal Rhythm Records)
  • Zach Person — Zach Person (BlackDenim Records)

Friday, April 9

  • Andy Bell — The Indica Gallery EP (Sonic Cathedral)
  • Ari Herstand — Like Home (Ari’s Take)
  • Benny Sings — Music (Stones Throw Records)
  • Bill MacKay And Nathan Bowles — Keys (Drag City Records)
  • The Blips — The Blips (Cornelius Chapel Records)
  • Blue Lab Beats — We Will Rise EP (Blue Note Records)
  • Briston Maroney — Sunflower (Atlantic)
  • Brockhampton — Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine (Question Everything/RCA Records)
  • CFCF — Memoryland (BGM Solutions)
  • Charlotte Cardin — Phoenix (Cult Nation)
  • Charlotte Spiral — New Light EP (Higher Plain Music)
  • Cheap Trick — In Another World (BMG)
  • Chris Cain — Raisin’ Cain (Alligator Records)
  • Christine Ott — Time To Die (Gizeh Records)
  • CJ — Loyalty Over Royalty Deluxe (CJ Music Group/Warner)
  • Clafrica — Never Not Balling EP (DRWX)
  • Courting — Grand National EP (Nice Swan Recordings)
  • Daniel Santiago — Song For Tomorrow (Heartcore Records)
  • Elephant Micah — Vague Tidings (Western Vinyl)
  • Emily Kinney — The Supporting Character (Jullian Records)
  • Ex-Olympian — Afterlife Remixed EP (Dot Dash / Remote Control Records)
  • Fake Dad — Old Baby EP (Baby’s TV)
  • Flyte — This Is Really Going To Hurt (Island Records)
  • Franz Kirmann & Roberto Grosso — In Waves EP (Days Of Being)
  • The Fratellis — Half Drunk Under A Full Moon (Cooking Vinyl)
  • Gilligan Moss — Gilligan Moss (Foreign Family)
  • Grand Soleil — Human Error (Nowadays Records)
  • Heavy Feather — Mountain Of Sugar (The Sign Records)
  • Hot Breath — Rubbery Lips (The Sign Records)
  • Indubious — The Bridge (Easy Star Records)
  • Jean-Michel Jarre — Amazônia (Sony Music Entertainment)
  • Kevo Muney — Lucille’s Grandson (self-released)
  • Lapêche — Blood In The Water (New Granada)
  • The Lion’s Daughter — Skin Show (Season of Mist)
  • The Living Pins — Freaky Little Monster Children (self-released)
  • Lxst — Famous EP (Paper Route Empire)
  • Mako — Fable Remix (Ultra Music)
  • Mark Mallman — Happiness (Eagle’s Golden Tooth)
  • Max Richter — Voices 2 (Decca Records)
  • The Medea Project — Southern Echoes (self-released)
  • Merk — Infinite Youth (Humblebrag Records)
  • MF Tomlinson — Strange Time (self-released)
  • Miguel — Art Dealer Chic Vol. 4 EP (ByStorm/RCA Records)
  • Milly — Wish Goes On EP (Dangerbird Records)
  • Nelson Beer — Orlando EP (PIAS)
  • Nick Waterhouse — Promenade Blue (Innovative Leisure)
  • Onyx — Onyx 4 Life (Cleopatra Records)
  • Orions Belte — Villa Amorini (Terrorbird)
  • Overmono — Pieces Of 8/Echo Rush EP (XL Recordings)
  • Parker Millsap — Be Here Instead (Okrahoma Records)
  • Peggy Seeger — First Farewell (Red Grape Records)
  • The Pink Stones — Introducing…The Pink Stones (Normaltown Records)
  • Quiet Marauder — The Gift (Bubblewrap Collective)
  • Rachel Chinouriri — Four° In Winter EP (Atlas Artists Recordings)
  • Raf Rundell — O.M. Days (Heavenly)
  • The Reds, Pinks & Purples — Uncommon Weather (Slumberland Records)
  • Requin Chagrin — Bye Bye Baby (Sony Music)
  • Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band — Dance Songs for Hard Times (Thirty Tigers)
  • Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi — They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
  • Ross Gay — Dilate Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
  • The Routes — Mesmerised (Action Weekend Records)
  • Samantha Crain — I Guess We Live Here Now EP (Real Kind Records)
  • Sarah Cicero — Cold Immaculate Opposite EP (Orchard)
  • Sharkula x Mukqs — Take Caution On The Beach (Hausu Mountain)
  • Silver Synthetic — Silver Synthetic (Third Man Records)
  • Skullcrusher — Storm In Summer EP (Secretly Canadian)
  • Slow Dance — Moth & The Dove EP (Slow Dance Records)
  • Small Black — Cheap Dreams (100% Electronica)
  • Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz — jooj two (Mint Records)
  • Spirit Of The Beehive — Entertainment, Death (Saddle Creek)
  • Steiger — The New Lady Llama (SDBAN ULTRA)
  • Storm Gordon — The Lie I Love The Best (Wonderlust)
  • Sweet Oblivion — Relentless (Frontiers Music)
  • Wheel — Preserved In Time (Cruz Del Sur Music)
  • Yaya Bey — The Things I Can’t Take With Me EP (Big Dada)

Friday, April 16

  • Alex Henry Foster — Standing Under Bright Lights (Hopeful Tragedy)
  • Amigo The Devil — Born Against (Liars Club)
  • Andy Stott — Never The Right Time (Modern Love)
  • Apparat — Soundtracks (It’s Complicated Records)
  • The Armed — Ultrapop (Sargent House)
  • Arthur King — Changing Landscapes (Isle Of Eigg) (AKP Recordings)
  • August Burns Red — Guardians Sessions EP (Fearless Records)
  • Autogramm — No Rules (Nevado Records)
  • Babygirl — Losers Weepers EP (Sandlot Records)
  • Benedikt — Balcony Dream (Koke Plate)
  • Benjamin Belinska — Lost Illusions (1879550 Records DK2)
  • Bewitcher — Cursed Be Thy Kingdom (Century Media Records)
  • Big Scarr — Big Grim Reaper (Atlantic)
  • Bill Kwan — No Ordinary Love: The Music Of Sade (Ikeda Music)
  • Bob Mould — Distortion: 2008-2019 (DMON)
  • The Brother Brothers — Calla Lily (Compass Records)
  • Bushido Code — The Ronin (Upstate Records)
  • Cale Sexton — Sustain (Heavy Machinery Records)
  • Cannibal Corpse — Violence Unimagined (Metal Blade Records)
  • Caroline Kingsbury — Heaven’s Just A Flight (Fortune Tellers)
  • Caroline Polachek — Standing At The Gate: Remix Collection (self-released)
  • Childe — Childe EP (Prolifica Inc.)
  • Clicks — G.O.T.H. (Dependent Records)
  • Crown — The End Of All Things (Pelagic Records)
  • Deine Lakaien — Dual (Prophecy Productions)
  • Drongo — 1 (eBird)
  • Elise Davis — Anxious. Happy. Chill. (Tone Tree)
  • Eric Church — Heart (UMG Nashville)
  • Francesca Ter-Berg — In Eynem (Phantom Limb)
  • Garage A Trois — Calm Down Cologne (Royal Potato Family)
  • Greta Van Fleet — The Battle At Garden’s Gate (Lava/Republic)
  • Holding Absence — The Greatest Mistake Of My Life (SharpTone Records)
  • Holly Macve — Not The Girl (Modern Sky)
  • Imelda May — 11 Past The Hour (Decca)
  • Jaguar Jonze — Antihero EP (Nettwerk)
  • Jakob Mind — The One Who Got Away (Lovely Records)
  • James Holvay — Sweet Soul Song EP (MOB Town)
  • Jeffery Silverstein — Torii Gates (Arrowhawk)
  • jess joy — Patreeachry (Joyful Noise Recordings)
  • Jo Below — No Control EP (Inverse Records)
  • John Pizzarelli — Better Days Ahead (Ghostlight Deluxe)
  • John Moods — So Sweet EP (Arbutus Records)
  • Josh Radnor — One More Than I’ll Let You Go EP (Flower Moon Records)
  • Julia Stone — Sixty Summers (BMG)
  • Kenny Mason — Angelic Hoodrat: Supercut (Alamo/Geffen)
  • Lea Bertucci — A Visible Length Of Light (Cibachrome Editions)
  • Low Island — If You Could Have It All Again (Emotional Interference)
  • Lyke — Stay With Me EP (Armada Electronic Elements)
  • Miles Gannett — Meridian (self-released)
  • NEEDTOBREATHE — Live From The Woods Vol. 2 (Elektra Records)
  • Nick Hakim And Roy Nathanson — Small Things (NYXO)
  • Norah Jones — ‘Till We Meet Again (Capitol Records)
  • The Offspring — Let The Bad Times Roll (Concord)
  • Paul McCartney — McCartney III Imagined (Capitol Records)
  • Robin Trower, Maxi Priest, And Livingstone Brown — United State Of Mind (Manhaton Records)
  • Saint Raymond — We Forgot We Were Dreaming (Cooking Vinyl)
  • Sam Eagle — She’s So Nice EP (Cooking Vinyl)
  • Sasha And The Valentines — So You Think You Found Love? (Oof Records)
  • Shaed — No Other Way (Photo Finish Records)
  • SKAAR — Waiting (WM Norway)
  • Son Lux — Tomorrows III (City Slang)
  • Steve Bug & Cle — Gentle Push EP (Poker Flat)
  • Syna So Pro — Chill/Hype (FPE Records)
  • T Bear — Fresh Bear Tracks (Quarto Valley Records)
  • Talib Kweli & Diamond D — Gotham (Dymond Mine Records)
  • Triston Marez — Triston Marez (Torrez Music Group)
  • Two Feet — Max Maco Is Dead Right? (AWAL)
  • The Vintage Caravan — Monuments (Napalm Records)
  • Vision Video — Inked In Red (Kool Rock)
  • Vladislav Delay — Rakka II (Cosmo Rhythmatic)
  • Waxflower — We Might Be Alright EP (Rude Records)
  • The Workday Release — Like The Light Of Stars (Enci Records)

Friday, April 23

  • Ade — Midnight Pizza (Trickwork)
  • Alan Vega — Mutator (Sacred Bones Records)
  • Art d’Ecco — In Standard Definition (Paper Bag Records)
  • Ben Cosgrove — The Trouble With Wilderness (self-released)
  • Birthday Ass — Head Of The Household (Ramp Local)
  • Black Orchid Empire — Live In The Studio EP (Long Branch Records)
  • Black Wail — Born On Fire EP (Rhyme & Reason)
  • Carla Geneve — Learn To Like It (Dot Dash)
  • Chapel — Room Service EP (Rise Records)
  • Charlie Houston — I Hate Spring EP (Arts & Crafts)
  • Chicane — Everything We Had To Leave Behind (Modena Records)
  • The Cush — Riders In The Stardust Gold (Mad Bunny Records)
  • Danny Golden — Changes EP (Carry On Music)
  • Dans Dans — Zink (Unday Records)
  • Dan Wilson — Vessels Of Wood And Earth (Mack Avenue Records)
  • Dinosaur Jr. — Sweep It Into Space (Jagjaguwar)
  • Dirty Honey — Dirty Honey (self-released)
  • Dumpstaphunk — Where Do We Go From Here (Mascot Label Group/The Funk Garage)
  • Eli West — Tapered Point Of Stone (Tender And Mild)
  • Eric Church — Soul (UMG Nashville)
  • E.R. Jurken — I Stand Corrected (Country Thyme)
  • Ethel Cain — Inbred EP (Daughters of Cain)
  • Field Music — Flat White Moon (Memphis Industries)
  • Fog Lake — Tragedy Reel (Orchid Tapes)
  • Gilby Clarke — The Gospel Truth (Golden Robot Records)
  • Glimmers — Worlds Apart EP (Common Ground Collective)
  • Graywave — Planetary Shift EP (False Peak Records)
  • Hannah Jadagu — What Is Going On? EP (Sub Pop Records)
  • The Jeff Carlson Band — Yesterday’s Gone (RFL Records)
  • John Splithoff — All In (self-released)
  • Jupiter & Okwess — Na Kazonga (Everloving Records)
  • Justin Moore — Straight Outta The Country (Virgin)
  • Ki Oni — Stay Indoors And Swim (Sound As Language)
  • Lucid Den — Ice Storm X (Lucid Trax)
  • The March Divide — cinq (Slow Start Records)
  • The Mars Volta — La Realidad De Los Sueños (Clouds Hill)
  • The Mars Volta — Landscape Tantrums (Clouds Hill)
  • Moon Vs Sun — I’m Going To Break Your Heart (Wea)
  • The Pale White — Infinite Pleasure (Illegal Cinema Records)
  • The Peter Frampton Band — Frampton Forgets The Words (UMe)
  • PJ Harding And Noah Cyrus — People Don’t Change EP (RCA Records)
  • Polly Paulusma — Invisible Music (Wild Sound)
  • Porter Robinson — Nurture (Mom + Pop Music)
  • Rag’n’Bone Man — Life By Misadventure (High Focus Records)
  • Remember Sports — Like A Stone (Father/Daughter Records)
  • Satomimagae — Hanazono (RVNG Intl.)
  • Sindy — Horror Head (PNKSLM Recordings)
  • Sir Sly — The Rise & Fall Of Loverboy (Interscope)
  • Sonic Boom — Almost Nothing Is Nearly Enough (Carpark Records)
  • Sour Widows — Crossing Over EP (Exploding In Sound Records)
  • Steve Cropper — Fire It Up (Provogue Records)
  • Summer Sleeves — In The Throes Of Woes (Jigsaw Records)
  • Tashaki Miyaki — Castaway (Metropolis Records)
  • Tilian — Factory Reset (Rise Records)
  • Tom Jones — Surrounded By Time (S-Curve Records)
  • Trace Kotik — Everything Has Been Done By Now, So Now, Everything Is Possible… (IMU Records)
  • Tristan Kasten-Krause — Potential Landscapes (Whatever’s Clever)
  • WarCall — Dead End Pt. 1 EP (Plan B Music)
  • WheelUp — Good Love (Tru Thoughts)

Friday, April 30

  • Adrian Crowley — The Watchful Eye Of The Stars (Chemikal Underground)
  • Ali Barter — Chocolate Cake EP ([PIAS])
  • Amy Shark — Cry Forever (Sony)
  • Amy Speace with The Orphan Brigade — There Used To Be Horses Here (Wind Bone Records)
  • Arts Fishing Club — The Show EP (Arts Fishing Club)
  • Ashley Monroe — Rosegold (Warner Music Nashville)
  • Ben Seretan — Cicada Waves (NNA Tapes)
  • Birdy — Young Heart (Atlantic)
  • Cadence Weapon — Parallel World (eOne Music)
  • Dawn Richard — Second Line: An Electro Revival (Merge Records)
  • Del Amitri — Fatal Mistakes (Cooking Vinyl)
  • Dree Leer — Throw Hands (Bettamax Records)
  • Dropkick Murphys — Turn Up That Dial (PIAS Cooperative)
  • Elsa Hewitt — Lupa (ERH)
  • Enumclaw — Jimbo Demos EP (Youth Riot Records)
  • Far Lands — There Be Monsters (Get Loud Recordings)
  • Girl In Red — If I Could Make It Go Quiet (World in Red)
  • Glüme — The Internet (Italians Do It Better)
  • Gojira — Fortitude (Travelling the Groove Records)
  • Guided By Voices — Earth Man Blues (Rockathon Records)
  • Hadda Be — Another Life (Last Night From Glasgow)
  • Joe Kaplow — Sending Money And Stems (Fluff & Gravy Records)
  • Joseph Shabason — The Fellowship (Western Vinyl)
  • Juan Wauters — Real Life Situations (Captured Tracks)
  • Kohsuke Mine — First (Barely Breaking Even)
  • Laufey — Typical Of Me EP (Transgressive Records)
  • Leon Vynehall — Rare, Forever (Ninja Tune)
  • Manchester Orchestra — The Million Masks Of God (Loma Vista Recordings)
  • Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis — She Walks In Beauty (BMG)
  • Moderate Rebels — If You See Something That Doesn’t Look Right (Moshi Moshi)
  • Myd — Born A Loser (Ed Banger Records)
  • Paper Beat Scissors — La Mitad (Seayou Records)
  • Paul Jacobs — Pink Dogs On The Green Grass (Blow the Fuse)
  • Rochelle Jordan — Play With The Changes (Young Art)
  • Rosie Tucker — Sucker Supreme (Epitaph Records)
  • Royal Blood — Typhoons (Warner)
  • Rural Tapes — Rural Tapes (Smuggler Music)
  • Sarah Louise — Earth Bow (self-released)
  • The Shootouts — Bullseye (Soundly Music)
  • Teenage Fanclub — Endless Arcade (Merge)
  • Telex — This Is Telex (Mute)
  • Tetrarch — Unstable (Napalm Records)
  • Thomas Rhett — Country Again: Side A (Virgin)
  • Tobias Meinhart — The Painter (Sunnyside Records)
  • Tony Allen — There Is No End (Blue Note Records)
  • Tōth — You And Me And Everything (Northern Spy Records)
  • Vacation Manor — Vacation Manor (Nettwerk)
  • Vincent Herring — Preaching To The Choir (Smoke Sessions Records)
  • Vreid — Wild North West (Season of Mist)
  • Will Graefe — Marine Life (11A Records)
  • Zhu — Dreamland 2021 (Astralwerks)

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. .