There are always so many albums and EPs being announced that it can get overwhelming and there’s bound to be some you miss. Here we try to help ease that burden by bringing you teasers for 10 of the recently announced records we’re most excited for!
Red Vanilla – Days of Grey
Credit: Mark Sharp
Red Vanilla will release their debut EP Days of Grey on June 7.
“This band is the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning, and the last thing before I fall asleep at night,” says vocalist Anna Forsyth. “I’ve fantasised about life in a band ever since I was a kid, so releasing music like this with my best friends is a dream come true, and we’re just at the very beginning. I’m so proud of this EP, and equally as excited for everything yet to come.”
Kasabian – Happenings
Credit: Neil Bedford
Kasabian will release their new album Happenings on July 5 through Columbia Records.
Tracklist
1. Darkest Lullaby
2. Call
3. How Far Will You Go
4. Coming Back To Me Good
5. G.O.A.T.
6. Passengers
7. The Hell Of It
8. Italian Horror
9. Bird In A Cage
10. Algorithms
Grumpster – Grumpster
Grumpster will release their self-titled album on April 26 through Pure Noise Records.
“Grumpster is an album mostly about mental health. It’s about the ebbs and flows of mental health, depression, anxiety, love, physical health, etc. This collection of songs is all about lived experiences, feelings, emotions, and how it felt to exist in general over the past couple of years.”
Lowlives – Freaking Out
Credit: Will Foster
Lowlives will release debut album Freaking Out on May 31 through Spinefarm Records.
Tracklist:
1. Freaking Out
2. Liar
3. Getting High on Being Low
4. Swan Dive
5. Loser
6. You Don’t care
7. Out of Step
8. Closer Than You Know
9. Damien
10. Vertigo
Microwave – Lets Start Degeneracy
Microwave will release fourth album Lets Start Degeneracy on April 26 through Pure Noise Records.
Tracklist:
1. Portals
2. Ferrari
3. Circling The Drain
4. Bored of Being Sad
5. Straw Hat
6. LSD
7. Omni
8. Strangers
9. Concertito
10. Huperzine
Attendant – State of Disarray
Credit: Dave Parker
Attendant will release new album State of Disarray on June 21.
“State of Disarray is a rock soap opera set in a collapsing society. It begins with an invitation into the dysfunctional community and ends in nuclear Armageddon”, mentions Attendant vocalist Andy Walker.
“Each song is a subplot, featuring a cast of mostly unpleasant people. The lyrics lampoon these characters in protest at the societal ills they represent.”
Tracklist
1) State of Disarray
2) Patriot Parade
3) Chimera
4) I, Luddite
5) Blackball
6) Margarita and the Kiss of Death
7) Schadenfreude
8) Earworm
9) The Last Act
10) Mortal Coil
Linkin Park – Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023)
Linkin Park will release their Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) album on April 18 through Warner Records.
It is the first career-spanning greatest hits album from the band.
Alongside the greatest hits, the album also features a newly released song Friendly Fire taken from the recording sessions for One More Light.
Tracklist:
- Crawling
- Faint
- Numb/Encore
- Papercut
- Breaking The Habit
- In The End
- Bleed It Out
- Somewhere I Belong
- Waiting For The End
- Castle Of Glass
- One More Light
- Burn It Down
- What I’ve Done
- QWERTY
- One Step Closer
- New Divide
- Leave Out All The Rest
- Lost
- Numb
- Friendly Fire
Daytime TV – Island
Credit: Rory Barnes
Daytime TV will release EP Island on May 3 through Kartel Music Group.
“‘Island.’ is an EP centred around escapism and defiance. Moving against the things that slow us down and chip away at us. Releasing ourselves from ‘the way you’re meant to do things’ in 2024 and being free both in our minds and in our music.
The idea of just being a standard rock band is really boring to us. We want to bend genres and cross borders with these songs, not play it safe. We wanted to have some of those nostalgic 80s tones in there amongst some real ‘future’ sounding stuff that won’t be as familiar to people. That’s kind of been our ethos for this EP and it’s landed us exactly where we want to be”, comments vocalist and guitarist Will Irvine.
Tracklist:
1. So Sick
2. Lost in Tokyo
3. Fear
4. Waves
5. Block Out The Noise
Shrapnel – In Gravity
Credit: Andy Ford
Shrapnel will release album In Gravity on May 31 through Candlelight Records!
Guitarist Chris Martin comments: “We’ve channelled every bit of suffering, devastation, and emotion that we’ve experienced in recent years. We’ve never been so confident about our own material.”
Continuing, Chris adds: “As an album, In Gravity really has a focus on how we all deal with problems of varying extremities. We wanted to take a look at how some of the solutions to our problems become problems in of themselves, be that addiction or anything else.
2. Amber Screams
3. Guardian
4. Breaker
5. Judgement
6. Dark Age
7. Follow The Cold
8. As Above…
9. …So Below
10. Absolution
Take Offense – T.Otality
Credit: Becky DiGiglio
2 – S.W.O.
3 – T.O.tality
4 – If I’m Damned, So Be It
5 – Assassination
6 – Uncivilized Animals
7 – Now Or Never
8 – Deep Inside/House Of Shadows
9 – No Mans Land (Instrumental)
10 – Stolen Land
11 – Until Then
12 – Beyond Flesh And Bone
13 – Give’m Chaos
14 – The Prayer
