The weekend has arrived with a fresh stack of new albums to stream.
Allison Krauss & Union Station have finally made their long-awaited return with their first LP in over a decade, while Ariana Grande has upgraded her 2024 effort eternal sunshine with a handful of new songs. Additionally, it’s a big week for indie music, as Lucy Dacus, Destroyer, and Perfume Genius have all dropped full-length projects this week.
Scroll on to check out our picks for the best new albums to stream this New Music Friday.
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Alison Krauss & Union Station — Arcadia
Blending the sounds of bluegrass, country, and roots music, Alison Krauss & Union Station have revealed Arcadia, their first album since 2011’s acclaimed Paper Airplane. The group, featuring Krauss (fiddle, vocals), Jerry Douglas (Dobro, lap steel), Ron Block (banjo, guitar), and Barry Bales (bass), now welcomes tenor vocalist Russell Moore into the fold. Across 10 tracks, Arcadia explores beautiful and tragic themes, reaffirming why this legendary band remains one of the most widely celebrated acts in bluegrass and roots music today.
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Ariana Grande — eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead
After officially wrapping awards season celebrating worldwide hit Wicked, Ariana Grande has turned her attention back to her 2024 album, eternal sunshine. She’s unveiled the deluxe version of the LP, titled brighter days ahead, which features six new tracks and an accompanying short film 26 minutes in length. Revisit our original review of eternal sunshine.
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Bloodywood — Nu Delhi
Bloodywood have come a long way from posting parody covers on YouTube. In the years since they began generating a buzz online, the group has become far more serious about their output as a heavy metal outfit and are now one of India’s most popular acts to enjoy overseas success. Their third album, Nu Delhi, is also their first with Fearless Records, and it even features a guest appearance by BABYMETAL. With their latest offering, they are inching closer and closer to the big leagues.
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Deafheaven — Lonely People with Power
Four years after the left turn of Infinite Granite, Deafheaven are back with Lonely People with Power. The record serves both as a return to their black metal roots and as a continuation of their previous album’s dream pop-inspired ideas. Boasting the longest tracklist of their career, Lonely People with Power once again proves that even when returning to old sounds, Deafheaven is always pushing onwards.
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Destroyer — Dan’s Boogie
30 years and 14 albums in, Canadian musician and singer Dan Bejar is still reinventing Destroyer with Dan’s Boogie, his first album since 2022’s Labyrinthitis. Preceded by lead singles “Bologna” (featuring Fiver’s Simone Schmidt, with a video capturing fleeting moments of daily life), the sprawling eight-minute “Cataract Time”, and the pulsing “Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World,” Dan’s Boogie broadens Bejar’s explorations while staying unmistakably Destroyer.
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Hannah Cohen — Earthstar Mountain
Earthstar Mountain, Hannah Cohen’s latest effort, is a love letter to the Catskill Mountains, where she lives, writes, and records with partner and collaborator Sam Evian. The album features contributions from Evian as well as fellow songwriters Sufjan Stevens and Clairo, and in her forthcoming Track by Track breakdown of the LP, Cohen also pairs each of the album’s songs with a local mushroom. The fungi theme is a fitting companion to Earthstar Mountain‘s fixation on natural wonders and Cohen’s spellbinding vocals.
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Lucy Dacus — Forever Is a Feeling
Lucy Dacus refines her sound with Forever is a Feeling, her fourth album and follow-up to 2021’s Home Video. With songs written mostly between 2022 and 2024, the record embraces lush, richer textures while merging influences from art and mythology, from the Renaissance-inspired album cover art (a portrait by Will St. John) to the ancient Greek muse invoked in opener “Calliope Prelude.” Dacus enlists an impressive lineup of collaborators, including her boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker, as well as Hozier (featured on “Bullseye”) and Bartees Strange.
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Mumford & Sons — Rushmere
Though it’s been over six years since their last album, the excitement surrounding Mumford & Sons only increased during their absence from the studio. The English folk rockers are now back with 10 new songs packaged as Rushmere, which is also their first as a three-piece following the departure of longtime banjoist and lead guitarist Winston Marshall. The essence of the group, however, has remained intact even with one less member, and the new record is evidence of that.
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Perfume Genius — Glory
After almost a three-year break, during which he received a Grammy nomination for a guest appearance on Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Spitting off the Edge of the World,” Perfume Genius is back with his seventh studio album. Produced by longtime collaborator Blake Mills and co-written with his partner Alan Wyffels, Glory also features a cameo by Aldous Harding. The album comprises 11 tracks in total and will preface a spring tour across the United States scheduled to begin in May (get tickets here).
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Yukimi — For You
After seven albums with her band Little Dragon, singer and songwriter Yukimi Nagano is stepping out for her debut LP, For You. She’s not totally alone, though; the album features contributions from Little Dragon member Erik Bodin, plus Lianne La Havas, De La Soul, and her father, Yusuke Nagano.
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