IN terms of 2024’s other big albums ,TheSmile are first Iou out of the traps with their second album Wall Of Eyes on January 26. Brittany Howard and JMascis’s latest solo efforts both follow on Feb 2, with Hurray For The Riff Raff’s The Past Is Still Alive landing on Feb 23. The Libertines’ All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade is scheduled for March 8.
Paul Weller is readying anew album for the spring, as is Arooj Aftab, who told us last month that “it’s in the vein of my [previous] solo stuff, but with some new energy and some new direction”. Joan Shelley is halfway through recording anew album; in the meantime, her husband Nathan Salsburg will release his duo album with James Elkington before summer arrives. Elkington is also producing anew album for Jake Xerxes Fussell.