Happy New Music Friday! April kicks off with an absolutely stacked lineup of releases for April 3 that’ll keep your playlists fresh all month long. From indie darlings to bass virtuosos, there’s something here for every mood and moment.
This Week’s Featured Highlights
Arlo Parks returns with “Ambiguous Desire,” delivering her signature blend of poetic introspection and soul-stirring melodies that cement her place as one of indie’s most essential voices.
Joe Pernice offers up Sunny, “I Was Wrong,” a collection that showcases his decades-perfected craft of wrapping heartbreak in the warmest melodies imaginable.
Thundercat’s “Distracted” promises the funk-fusion bassist’s typical genre-defying brilliance, mixing cosmic grooves with his unmistakable humor and virtuosity.
Country troubadour Charley Crockett channels vintage sounds into something entirely his own on “Age of the Ram,” proving once again why he’s one of Americana’s most compelling storytellers.
Bruce Hornsby’s “Indigo Park,” out today, is a reflective 10-song concept album about childhood and memory featuring collaborations with Bonnie Raitt, Ezra Koenig, and the late Bob Weir and Robert Hunter of The Grateful Dead.
As always, the entire list of new albums released today, Friday, April 3, 2026 is below in no particular order. My most anticipated albums are in bold.
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New Album Releases – Friday, April 3, 2026
41 – AREA 41
A Place to Bury Strangers – Rare And Deadly
Angine de Poitrine – Vol. II
Arlo Parks – Ambiguous Desire
Beatrice Deer – Inuit Legend
Ber – Good, Like It Should Be
Bon Iver – VOLUMES: ONE
Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers – Indigo Park
Charles Joseph Smith – Collected Works and War of the Martian Ghosts
Charley Crockett – Age of the Ram
Codefendants – Lifers
Commitment (feat. members of Soul Glo) – Fear Of
Common Holly – Good, Like It Should Be EP
concealer. – This Room Could Be Heaven.
Corrosion of Conformity – Good God / Baad Man
deary – Birding
Dermot Kennedy – The Weight of the Woods
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE and SURF GANG – POMPEII // UTILITY
Elizabeth and The Catapult – Responsible Friend
Good Kid – Can We Hang Out Sometime?
Grade 2 – Talk About It
Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis
Hiding Places – The Secret to Good Living
IRENE – Biggest Fan
Joe Pernice – Sunny, I Was Wrong
Jon Hopkins and Biggi Hilmars – Wilding (Original Soundtrack)
Joseph Arthur – You’re Not a Ghost Anymore: Faith
Katie Alice Greer – Perfect Woman Sound Machine, Vol. 1
Kronos Quartet – Glorious Mahalia
Lantlôs – Nowhere in Between Forever
Los Retros – Odisea
Los Thuthanaka (Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton) – Waq’a
Luke Grimes – Redbird
many tiny boxes – Moon Touches Earth
Maria Taylor – Story’s End
Michael Sweet – The Master Plan
Nervosa – Slave Machine
Omah Lay – Clarity of Mind
Population II – Gimmicks
Stickerbush – Leaper
Sunn O))) – Sunn O)))
The Bevis Frond – Horrorful Heights
Thundercat – Distracted
Tiffany Day – HALO
U2 – Easter Lily EP
Wax Head – GNAT
Zachary Baker – Dark Horse
