Summer Music Preview: 37 Key Albums
While there's still no official word on whether the summer will bring long-in-the-works new albums from Arcade Fire, Beck, LCD Soundsystem, or Queens of the Stone Age, the coming months will definitely see new releases from Lorde, Broken Social Scene, Katy Perry, Big Boi, Lana Del Rey, Phoenix, Ride, and more.
Browse our collection of the summer's most notable new albums—as well as several noteworthy re-releases and compilations—below, where you can also listen to songs from each release.
The critically acclaimed indie-folk band's third album (and first since 2011's Helplessness Blues) is an ambitious and experimental set (mixed by Phil Ek) that arrives next month on the band's new label, Nonesuch. It's the Foxes' first LP without drummer Josh Tillman, who has since gone on to a successful solo career as Father John Misty. An expanded version of the band is touring this summer (for the first time in six years), and frontman Robin Pecknold is also working on a solo album, with a fourth FF album to follow.
| WATCH: | "Fool's Errand" |
| WATCH: | "Third of May / Ōdaigahara" |
| WATCH: | Album trailer |