2024-01-09 14:41:22
There is intrigue regarding the successor to ‘Future nostalgia’ (2022), which could follow the disco-pop path suggested in the single ‘Houdini’, although the announced complicities of Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) and Danny L. Harle (Caroline) are misleading. Polachek, Charli XCX). We will clear up doubts in spring.
2. Billie Eilish
The third work of the author of ‘Bad guy’ is not scheduled, but is expected for this year, especially after she declared that it is “almost finished.” For now, she livens up the wait for her song for the ‘Barbie’ soundtrack.
3. Coldplay
Chris Martin and company have taken advantage of the breaks in their gigantic tour to record ‘Moon music’, an album that they present as the second part of ‘Music of the spheres’ (2021). The ‘funky’ guru Nile Rodgers (Chic, Bowie, Madonna), among the accomplices. For May.
4. Pearl Jam
Those from Seattle announce an album with a hard and direct sound for spring, ready for their new tour. They debut a fashionable producer, Andrew Watt, an expert in rock legends after signing the latest albums by Iggy Pop and Rolling Stones.
5. Mark Knopfler
In 2019 he said he was retiring from touring (we’ll see), but he continues to create songs discreetly and is preparing an album that will be his first in six years. Last August she assured on his website that it would see the light of day this year.
6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Australian has been working on an album for a year that, as he has said, will not be as electronic-minimalist as ‘Ghosteen’, nor will it be a classic rock work. Possible collaboration with Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead).
7. The Cure
‘Songs of a lost world’ is the never-ending story: their first album since 2008, from which up to six songs were recorded on the last tour (and which, hesitating to the point of desperation, Robert Smith wanted to record again to retouch vocal nuances). A gloomy-looking album, not very pop, with a still imprecise release date.
8. Michael Stipe
REM, that exemplary band, disbanded in 2011 and Michael Stipe has been postponing his solo debut. He seemed ready last year, but he takes it easy. It will be an album with many collaborators and, as he has said, a variety of musical styles.
9. Green Day
On the 30th anniversary of the celebrated ‘Dookie’, the Californian trio returns with ‘Saviours’ (January 19). Preview songs like ‘The American dream is killing me’ predict that their pop-punk method preserves the gift for fresh and foul-mouthed choruses.
10. Liam Gallagher y John Squire
The surprise of recent weeks has been the tandem created by the former members of Oasis and The Stone Roses, released in a first single, ‘Just another rainbow’, with echoes of Brit-pop and psychedelic rock. An album is supposedly on the way.
11. Courtney Love
In (almost) silence since 2010, the former leader of Hole announced in the fall that she had her second solo album ready and that she was going to release it at Christmas. She has posted some short snippets on TikTok.
12. Vampire Weekend
The band that took indie-pop to new challenges with ‘Afro’ accents plans to release its fifth album at the end of this year. Before, this month, ‘Frog on the bass drum vol. 2’, vinyl recorded live in 2019.
13. The Smile
After the good reception, in 2022, of the debut of this side project by Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead), a second album, ‘Wall of eyes’, is ready (January 26). With him, a new twist to his lyrical and adventurous art-rock.
14. Morrissey
Fans of The Smiths are longing for the announced ‘Bonfire of teenagers’, an album recorded in 2020 and 2021 with accomplices such as Iggy Pop, Miley Cyrus and members of Red Hot Chili Peppers, stopped after their breakup with Capitol. But Morrissey already has another album ready, ‘Without music the world dies’, and is looking for a label.
15. The Libertines
An anxious and tragic single, ‘Run run run’, released in October, paves the way for the return of Pete Doherty’s wayward troupe. ‘All quiet on the Eastern esplanade’, his first album in nine years, is due out on March 8.
16. Sheryl Crow
In 2018 he announced that he would not record more albums, but he has backtracked: ‘Evolution’ (March 20) has the appearance of a work with slow and interior ‘tempos’. Mike Elizondo (Fiona Apple, Nelly Furtado, Eminem) produces.
17. Shakira
On a promotional streak for a year, the Colombian plans to return in the first half of 2024 with an album, seven years after ‘El Dorado’, which will go beyond the collection of her latest ‘singles’ and offer new material.
18. Nathy Peluso
It will have been four years since ‘Calambre’, and the Argentine (based in Barcelona) has been paving the way with ‘singles’ towards a second work which is speculated to be titled ‘Blessings’.
19. J Balvin
To the announced ‘Smile you’re on camera’, which should have been released this fall, we must add the one that Balvin said he recorded with Ed Sheeran, with “about twenty songs” (two of which have already seen the light).
20. Chanel
Almost two years after her third Eurovision position, Chanel Terrero finally has her first album on the release. To the (salsero) cry of ‘Water!’, the album comes out this Friday, January 12, containing collaborations from the Italian Rocco Hunt, the Argentine Zé Felipe and the Argentine FMK.
21. Bad Gyal
Also this month, on the 26th, Alba Farerlo will release her first album with all the lyrics (after her succession of epés and ‘mixtapes’). Launched on a global scale, ‘La joia’ will contain her well-known duets with Tokischa, Myke Towers or Quevedo, and others with Ñengo Flow and Tommy Lee Sparta.
22. Love of Lesbian
The authors of ‘John Boy’s Fan Club’ are currently mixing their new work, which will not be released until autumn, although they plan to release one or two ‘singles’ first. An album that points more towards pop immediacy than epicness.
23. Guillem Gisbert
Manel is on hiatus and his singer and main composer will release his solo debut in March. The two-track epé that he released in November suggests an evolution of the ‘Manelesque’ style, with more keyboards than guitars and lyrical turns with crumb and suspense.
24. Fat Geese
The Catalan-singing group that will dominate 2024 will be Oques Grasses. It will be seen how far they take their transformation of the festival canon through electronics and Afro-Latin inflections. It will come out in spring.
25. Bast
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, the Muñozes deliver new material with a strong rumba influence. ‘Estopía’ will be released in March with a dozen songs, including its debut in Catalan with its own authorship, ‘La rumba del Pescaílla’.
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