Spring 2017 Music Preview: 40 Noteworthy Albums

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – March 14, 2017

The next few months will bring the first albums in over a decade from The Jesus and Mary Chain, Roger Waters, and At the Drive-In plus new releases from Drake, Spoon, Beck, Father John Misty, Feist, Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Aimee Mann, The New Pornographers, and more. Below, browse 40 of the most notable releases due between now and mid-May.

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by At the Drive-In

May 5 (Rise Records) Amazon iTunes

A few months after releasing Relationship of Command in 2000, Texas punk rockers At the Drive-In broke up, with Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López forming The Mars Volta while the other three members launched the band Sparta. After reuniting for a few live performances in 2012 and 2016, most of ATDI's original members (with Sparta's Keeley Davis subbing in for guitarist Jim Ward) headed to the studio to record this 11-song comeback.

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