Summer Music Preview: 37 Key Albums

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – May 25, 2017

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.

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Gone Now

by Bleachers

June 2 (RCA)

It is shaping up to be a busy 2017 for fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff. First, his solo project, Bleachers, will release a follow-up to the 2014 debut Strange Desire. June will also bring Lorde's second album, which Antonoff co-produced in his home studio, while he also contributed to St. Vincent's new album (due later this year). Lorde, in turn, has a songwriting credit on Gone Now, while Carly Rae Jepsen contributes vocals. Antonoff's current tour finds him accompanied by his actual childhood bedroom.

LISTEN:	"Everybody Lost Somebody"
LISTEN:	"Hate That You Know Me" (feat. Carly Rae Jepsen)
LISTEN:	"I Miss Those Days"
WATCH:	"Don't Take the Money" (directed by Lena Dunham)

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