He told the NME last year it needed to be every bit as good as famous third albums OK Computer by Radiohead or The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths. Music for Cars will be the Manchester band's third album, and frontman Matty Healey is clearly feeling the pressure. Impatient fans of the multi-talented artist received an early Christmas gift, however, when she replied to one on Twitter, saying "Just played label new music they rly dig it so hopefully smthn soon." Wooo! "Venus Fly" was one of the most out-there songs of 2017, but so far an album, Grimes's first since 2015's Art Angels, hasn't materialized. (Singer Janelle Monae arrives at the BET Awards 2016.
There's a new single due in February, with a full album expected later in the year to finally follow up 2013's The Electric Lady. In recent years we've been captivated by her roles in Moonlight and Hidden Figures, but 2018 is the year Janelle returns to her musical roots. He's reportedly worked with super producer Greg Kurstin, who's twice won the Grammy for Producer of the Year thanks to his work with artists like Sia, Beck and Adele. It'll be his first studio album of new music since 2013's New, and the seventeenth in a solo career that stretches back to 1970. Sir Paul set his fans buzzing when he announced in a pre-Christmas Q&A he was "putting the finishing touches” to a new album due out in 2018. We haven't heard a peep from the "Do I Wanna Know?" rockers from Sheffield, England since they wrapped a tour three and a half years ago. Bassist Nick O'Malley recently revealed that the band had gone back into the studio in September, saying that their long-awaited sixth studio album would be out in 2018, because "if it isn't, we've got problems." We'll say. He recently let slip that he's been making more music under his stage moniker, saying "London has been very inspirational." An odd and somewhat chaotic clip released in December promised "servings and portions" from the new album, and confirmed Jack has lost none of his glorious weirdness.Ītlanta's Donald Glover's recent stint in England while he films Solo, the Star Wars spin-off in which he plays Lando Calrissian, has clearly paid off. The former White Stripes frontman's last release was the critically acclaimed Lazaretto in 2014, and he revealed last summer he was working on a follow-up called Boarding House Reach. The ex-NSYNC frontman surprised fans last week (January 2) with a introductory video to Man of the Woods, his fifth studio album and first since 2013's two-album effort The 20/20 Experience that will see him collaborate once again with The Neptunes and Timbaland, not to mention Alicia Keys and country star Chris Stapleton. New song "Filthy" quickly followed (January 5), with the full album due February 2. And while there's a lot of crossing of fingers (is that joint Beyoncé/Jay-Z album really about to happen?), and some very wishful thinking (will Missy Elliott finally make a comeback this year?), below are 10 of the albums we know are due. It's fair to say 2017 was a year of huge albums, from record-breakers like Ed Sheeran's Divide and Taylor Swift's reputation to hotly anticipated follow-ups like Kendrick Lamar's DAMN and Lorde's Melodrama.Ģ018 is already shaping up to be another great year.