Last year was another massive success for independent musicians across genres. This year is gearing up to be the same. Many recording artists are returning from their hiatus; some groups are reuniting (or sadly disbanding), and many collaborations are coming.
Below is a list of the albums, EPs, and projects from independent artists set to be released in 2025. Please note that this rolling list will not include reissues or anniversary releases. However, remixes will be added, and the remix artist will be given an attribution.
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January 1, 2025
Duwap Kaine – Nobody Is Coming to Save You (via TAF)
Lua Trilogy! & Supercollider – Sunbelt Princess (via The Gleamfish Emporium)
Zach Phillips – True Music (self-released)
January 3, 2025
Boldy James & RichGains – Murder During Drug Traffic (via self-released)
Inner Realmz – Mass Collide (via Inner Realmz)
January 5, 2025
Bad Bunny – Debí Tirar Más Fotos (via Rimas)
January 8, 2025
Ethel Cain – Perverts (via Daughters of Cain)
Ahya Simone – Neptunian Blue (via Ahya Simone Music)
January 9, 2025
Brigid Mae Power – Songs For You (via BMP)
Venturing – Dead Forever (via Dead Air)
January 10, 2025
Franz Ferdinand – The Human Fear (via Domino)
Jansport J – The Weight Of The World (via All Attraction, No Chasin’ Co)
Lambrini Girls – Who Let the Dogs Out (via City Slang)
January 14, 2025
Nate Curry – Left Field (via Cássio Sound)
January 17, 2025
Benjamin Lackner – Spindrift (via ECM)
Blue Lake – Weft (via Tonal Union)
Ela Minus – Día (via Domino)
Jasmine.4.T – You Are The Morning (via Saddest Factory)
Kele – The Singing Winds Pt. 3 (via Kola)
Niambi – Taboo (via Easier Said)
The Weather Station – Humanhood (via Fat Possum)
Yola – My Way EP (via S-Curve)
January 24, 2025
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta – Mapambazuko (via Nyege Nyege Tapes)
Benjamin Booker – Lower (via Fire Next Time)
Boilermaker – Not Enough Time To Get Anything Halfway Done (via Numero Group)
Eric Cannata – Holding Onto The Holy (via Industry Houseplant)
François Couturier & Dominique Pifarely – Preludes & Songs (via ECM)
Ghais Guevara – Goyard Ibn Said (via Fat Possum)
JoJo – NGL (via Clover Music)
Kathryn Mohr – Waiting Room (via The Flenser)
Mogwai – The Bad Fire (via Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Sam Amidon – Salt River (via River Lea)
January 27, 2025
Pink Siifu – Black’!Antique (via Dynamite Hill)
January 31, 2025
Charlie Houston – Big After I Die (via Arts & Crafts)
Eddie Chacon – Lay Low (via Stones Throw)
Freckle – Freckle (via God?)
Geologist & D.S. – A Shaw Deal (via Drag City)
Julia Hülsmann – Under the Surface (via ECM)
Lilly Hiatt – Forever (via New West)
MIKE – Showbiz! (via 10k)
Radamiz & Fortes – LIGHTMAN (Big Enough Home)
Sierra Ferrell – Trail Of Flowers Deluxe (via Rounder Records)
February 7, 2025
The Bird Calls – Melody Trail (via Ruination)
James Brandon Lewis – Apple Cores (via Anti-)
Jordan Simone – Remember When (via Boom.Records)
Oklou – Choke Enough (via True Panther)
Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory – Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory (via Jagjaguwar)
Squid – Cowards (via Warp)
Traxman – Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 3 (via Planet Mu)
Wilco – A Ghost Is Born (Expanded Edition) [via Nonesuch]
February 14, 2025
Bartees Strange – Horror (via 4AD)
John Glacier – Like a Ribbon (via Young)
Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On (via Matador)
Mallrat – Light Hit My Face Like a Straight Right (via Nettwerk)
Mathias Eick, Kristjan Randalu, Ole Morten Vågan & Hans Hulbækmo – Lullaby (via ECM)
Mereba – The Breeze Grew a Fire (via Secretly Canadian)
Richard Dawson – End of the Middle (via Weird World)
Shygirl – Club Shy Room 2 EP (via Because Music)
Venturing – Ghostholding (via DeadAir)
Yuval Cohen Quartet – Winter Poems [ECM]
February 18, 2025
Durand Bernarr – Bloom (via Create Music Group)
February 21, 2025
Baths – Gut (via Basement’s Basement)
Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture) [via Sacred Bones]
Saya Gray – Saya (via Dirty Hit)
Sunny War – Armageddon In A Summer Dress (via New West Records)
Youth Lagoon – Rarely Do I Dream (via Fat Possum)
February 28, 2025
Darkside – Nothing (via Matador)
Domestic Drafts – Only the Singer (via Glamour Gowns)
Edith Frost – In Space (via Drag City)
Everything Is Recorded – Temporary (via XL Recordings)
Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures (via Hermine/Psychic Hotline)
Kilbourne – If Not to Give a Fantasy (via Hammerhead)
The Men – Buyer Beware (via Fuzz Club)
Miya Folick – Erotica Veronica (via Nettwerk)
Mdou Moctar – Tears of Injustice (via Matador)
Panda Bear – Sinister Grift (via Domino)
March 4, 2025
KenTheMan – Kinda Famous (self-released)
March 7, 2025
Bob Mould – Here We Go Crazy (via Granary Music)
Chase Petra – Lullabies For Dogs (via Wax Bodega)
Hamilton Leithauser – This Side of the Island (via Glassnote)
Jason Isbell – Foxеs In The Snow (via Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers)
Mackenzie Carpenter – Hey Country Queen (via Big Machine Records)
Sasami – Blood On The Silver Screen (via Domino)
March 14, 2025
Bambara – Birthmarks (via Wharf Cat)
Circuit des Yeux – Halo on the Inside (via Matador)
St. Lucia – Fata Morgana: Dawn (via Nettwerk)
Stela Cole – I Die Where You Begin (via Stelavision LLC/Amuseio AB)
Throwing Muses – Moonlight Concessions (via Fire)
Tyler Watts – Youngin’ (via FYB Records LLC/Beatroot LLC)
Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather II (via Ghostly International)
March 21, 2025
Bathe – Inside Voice(s) (via MNRK)
Dutch Interior – Moneyball (via Fat Possum)
The Horrors – Night Life (via Fiction)
Izzy Reign – Izzy Reign (via FiXT)
Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) [via Dead Oceans]
Kinlaw – Gut Ccheck (via Bayonet)
Lonnie Holley – Tonky (via Jagjaguwar)
Lucy Liyou – Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name (via Orange Milk)
My Morning Jacket – Is (via ATO)
Tamino – Every Dawn’s A Mountain (via Communion Records)
Young Widows – Power Sucker (via Temporary Residence Ltd.)
March 28, 2025
Dean Wareham – That’s the Price of Loving Me (via Carpark)
Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie (via Merge)
DJ Python – I Was Put on This Earth EP (via XL)
Ellise – Pretty Evil (via Hell Bent Pretty Evil)
Great Grandpa – Patience, Moonbeam (via Run for Cover)
OHYUNG – You Are Always On My Mind (via NNA/Phantom Limb)
Perfume Genius – Glory (Matador)
Spellling – Portrait of My Heart (via Sacred Bones)
Yukimi & Little Dragon – For You (via Ninja Tune)
April 4, 2025
Black Country, New Road – Forever Howlong (via Ninja Tune)
Djo – The Crux (via AWAL)
Florist – Jellywish (via Double Double Whammy)
L.A. Witch – Doggod (via Suicide Squeeze)
The Ophelias – Spring Grove (via Get Better)
Panchiko – Ginkgo (via Nettwerk)
Scowl – Are We All Angels (via Dead Oceans)
Sister Ray – Believer (via Royal Mountain)
Sleigh Bells – Bunky Becky Birthday Boy (via Mom + Pop)
April 11, 2025
Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE (via Jagjaguwar)
Valerie June – Owls, Omens, and Oracles (via Concord)
April 18, 2025
Beirut – A Study of Losses (via Pompeii)
Blackwater Holylight – If You Only Knew EP (via Suicide Squeeze)
Hieroglyphic Being – Dance Music 4 Bad People (via Smalltown Supersound)
Julien Baker & Torres – Send a Prayer My Way (via Matador)
Quickly, Quickly – I Heard That Noise (via Ghostly International)
Tunde Adebimpe – Thee Black Boltz (via Sub Pop)
April 25, 2025
Broncho – Natural Pleasure (via Broncho Worldwide)
Djrum – Under Tangled Silence (via Houndstooth)
Nazar – Demilitarize (via Hyperdub)
Sumac & Moor Mother – The Film (via Thrill Jockey)
William Tyler – Time Indefinite (via Psychic Hotline)
May 2, 2025
Blondshell – If You Asked for a Picture (via Partisan)
Car Seat Headrest – The Scholars (via Matador)
Eli Winter – A Trick of the Light (via Three Lobed)
James Krivchenia – Performing Belief (via Planet Mu)
Jenny Hval – Iris Silver Mist (via 4AD)
Model/Actriz – Pirouette (via True Panther)
PUP – Who Will Look After the Dogs? (via Little Dipper/Rise)
Sextile – Yes, Please. (via Sacred Bones)
May 6, 2025
Shunkan – Kamikaze Girl (via Rite Field Records)
May 9, 2025
Deradoorian – Ready for Heaven (via Fire)
Little Simz – Lotus (via AWAL)
Spacey Jane – If That Makes Sense (via AWAL)
May 16, 2025
Pelican – Flickering Resonance (via Run for Cover)
Rico Nasty – Lethal (via Fueled by Ramen)
Spill Tab – Angie (via Because Music)
Tune-Yards – Better Dreaming (via 4AD)
Your Grandparents – The Dial (via Drink Sum Wtr)
May 23, 2025
Sparks – Mad! (via Transgressive)
May 30, 2025
Ben Kweller – Cover The Mirrors (via The Noise Company)
Yeule – Evangelic Girl Is a Gun (via Ninja Tune)
June 6, 2025
McKinley Dixon – Magic, Alive! (via City Slang)
