Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and 50 more albums coming out this spring
Beyoncé and Taylor Swift loom so large these days that it's easy to overlook the overwhelming amount of good music headed our way over the next three months. So we enlisted a big, round number to do the heavy lifting: 50 new albums out during Spring 2024 that have us almost as excited as act ii and The Tortured Poets Department.
If you're more of a podcast person, you can listen to All Songs Considered's Robin Hilton discuss a dozen or so of these releases on his latest podcast episode. (You won't go wrong by following the show on Apple and Spotify.)
Jlin
Akoma
Planet Mu
March 22
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated electronic musician returns with an thorny album featuring some living legend collaborators: Björk, Kronos Quartet and Philip Glass. The rarefied air hasn't changed her, though — the Gary, Ind., native names the penultimate track here after her grannie's cherry pie. —Otis Hart
Julia Holter
Something in the Room She Moves
Domino
March 22
Fluidity is the key force within this album from perhaps our most ambitious art-pop experimentalist. Julia Holter sought to create something akin to "the body's internal sound world," discovering a space that is just as mutable. —Sheldon Pearce
SiR
Heavy
TDE
March 22
The world has gotten undoubtedly heavier since TDE's SiR dropped his last full-length album in 2019. In the five years of politics, pandemics, culture shifts and over-stimulation on all fronts, one of Inglewood's most reliable serves up an antidote to apathy. With features from Anderson .Paak, Isaiah Rashad and more, Heavy hold recipes for logging off, lucking out and loving deep. —Sidney Madden
Tyla
TYLA
Epic
March 22
Fresh off winning her first Grammy in the inaugural category of best Africa music performance for the viral hit "Water," Tyla is South Africa's popiano phenom ready
