The most anticipated new albums for 2025

17 February 2025, 15:33

Radio X looks at the artists that will be coming back with new material in the next twelve months - featuring Sam Fender, The Lathums, Stereophonics and more...

2025's new album releases promise an eclectic mix of albums across genres.

From veteran bands well into their double figures, to bands on the cusp of releasing their second or third effort, next year is sure to deliver an array of treats from across genre.

Here's what's definitely on the album release schedule for the rest of 2025 - and who we also think could be dropping an album at some point in the next twelve months...

1. Sam Fender - People watching, release date 21st February 2025

   

   • The third album to come from Geordie singer-songwriter and all-round northern powerhouse follows 2021's Seventeen Going Under and his 2019 debut Hypersonic Missiles.
   • So far, Fender has previewed from the album Nostalgia's Lie, Wild Long Lie and lead single and the album's title track People Watching.
   

   Sam Fender - People Watching (Official Lyric Video)

2. The Lathums, Matter Does Not Define, release date: 28th February 2025

   • The Wigan four-piece's forthcoming album will be their third studio effort, following How Beautiful Life Can Be (2021) and From Nothing to a Little Bit More (2023).
   • It will see the band attempt to score their third consecutive UK No.1.
   • So far from the record, the band have released their blistering single No Direction, as well as Stellar Cast, which they performed in the Radio X single, and new heartbreakingly raw single Long Shadows.
   

   The Lathums - Stellar Cast (acoustic) | Radio X

3. Doves - Constellations For The Lonely: release date 28th February 2025

   • The sixth studio album from the trio is the follow-up 2020's comeback The Universal Want.
   • Singer Jimi Goodwin has been sitting out live shows to "focus on his wellbeing".
   • Cold Dreaming was a recent addition to the Radio X playlist.
   

   Doves - Cold Dreaming

4. The Darkness - Dreams on Toast, release date: 28th March 2025

   

   • Dreams on Toast is the eighth studio album to come from the glam rockers, following 2021's Motorheart.
   • The first single to be released from the record, The Longest Kiss, can be seen here:
   

   The Darkness - The Longest Kiss (Official Visualiser)

5. Mumford & Sons - RUSHMERE: release date 28th March 2025

   • The band's fifth studio album is their first in seven years.
   • It's the follow-up to 2018's Delta and sees the band reconfigure as the trio of Marcus Mumford, Ted Dwane and Ben Lovett.
   • The title track was released as a preview back in January and was made Radio X Record Of The Week:
   

   Mumford & Sons - Rushmere

6. OK Go - And The Adjacent Possible: release date 11th April 2025

   • The first album from the US band in over a decade, it's the follow-up to 2014's Hungry Ghosts.
   • The band have made a typically extravagant video for the new song A Storn Only Rolls Downhill, with 64 different clips shot on 64 different phones.
   

   OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)

7. Stereophonics - Make 'Em Laugh, Make 'Em Cry, Make 'Em Wait: release date 25th April 2025

   • Kelly Jones and co's 13th studio album has been previewed by the Radio X Record Of The Week, There's Always Gonna Be Something.
   • The Welsh band will will embark on stadium dates this year too, including headline shows at Belfast Belsonic, Glasgow's Bellahouston Park and London's Finsbury Park and a homecoming date at Cardiff Principality Stadium.
   

   There’s Always Gonna Be Something

8. Self Esteem - A Complicated Woman: release date 25th April 2025

   • The follow-up to Rebecca Lucy Taylor's acclaimed 2021 album Prioritise Pleasure.
   • Check out first single Focus Is Power:
   

   Self Esteem - Focus Is Power (Official Video)

9. The Farm - Let The Music Take Control: release date 2nd May 2025

   • The Liverpool indie veterans will issue their first new album in 31 years
   • It's the belated follow-up to 1994's Hullabaloo and is only their fourth full-length outing since they formed in 1983.
   • First single Forever And Ever is available to listen to right here:
   

   Forever and Ever

10. The Amazons - 21st Century Fiction: release date 9th May 2025

    • The Reading band's fourth album is the follow-up to 2022's How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?
    • Take a listen to the new track Love Is A Dog From Hell:
    

    The Amazons - Love Is A Dog From Hell [Official Lyric Video]

11. The Kooks - Never/Know: release date 9th May 2025

    • The seventh outing from the Brighton band arrives in
    • It's their first album since 2022's 10 Tracks To Echo In The Dark
    • Check out the title track here:
    

    The Kooks - Never Know (Official)

12. Peter Doherty - Felt Better Alive: release date 16th May 2025

    • While The Libertines continue through 2025 as an active unit, Pete has a new solo album lined up for May.
    • It's the follow-up to 2022's The Fantasy Life Of Poetry And Crime.
    • Listen to the title track here:
    

    Peter Doherty - Felt Better Alive (Official Video)

13. Lana Del Rey - The Right Person Will Stay, release date: 21st May 2025

    

    • The release will mark album number 10 for Lana Del Rey, following 2023's Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
    • So far Del Rey has released the album's title track, a collaboration with Post Malone.
    

    Lana Del Rey ft. Post Malone - The Right Person Will Stay (Music Video)

14. The Cure - TBC

    

    • Though nothing has been confirmed yet, The Cure frontman told Radio X that a "companion piece" to 2024's Songs Of A Lost World could be out by "next summer".
    

    Robert Smith on The Cure's next album

15. Coldplay - TBC

    

    • Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has teased the band will release their final album this year, saying: "Well I know I can tell you, our last proper record will come out in 2025 and after that I think we will only tour".
    • The Yellow singer added: "Maybe we’ll do some collaborative things, but the Coldplay catalogue, as it were, finishes then."

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