Don’t Miss New Albums From De La Soul, Oneohtrix Point Never, Tobias Jesso Jr. & More

De La Soul return with their first new album in nine years, Cabin In The Sky, out now via Mass Appeal. Cabin In The Sky is De La Soul’s 10th studio album and first since the death of founding member David “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur in 2023. The new LP follows De La Soul’s Grammy-nominated 2016 album, The Anonymous Nobody. The group’s Kelvin “Posdnuos” Mercer and Vincent “Maseo” Mason enlisted Nas, Q-Tip, Slick Rick, Common, Black Thought, Killer Mike, Bilal, Little Dragon’s Yukimi and others as guests on Cabin In The Sky. Production on the record was provided by DJ Premier, Pete Rock and Supa Dave West.

“It obviously gives homage and reference to our brother Dave,” Posdnuos told Apple Music.

“He’s there, he’s with us,” Maseo added. “For me, that’s how it’s been to get through it and to run these rhymes and ideas. It’s been, like, just joyful and therapeutic.”

Producer Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lopatin) released a new album, Tranquilizer, through Warp Records.Tranquilizer follows OPN’s 2023 album, Again. Lopatin drew inspiration for the new record from two main sources “a routine visit to the dentist, lying beneath a fluorescent panel of blue skies and palm trees,” and, discovering “that a vast archive of 90s sample CDs had vanished from the Internet Archive, a moment that left Lopatin creatively charged.”

“It’s a record shaped by commercial audio construction kits from a bygone era — an index of cliches turned inside out,” Lopatin revealed. “It is a return to a process-oriented form of music making for me that I felt best evoked a certain kind of madness and ennui in the heart of culture today.”

In the decade since releasing his acclaimed 2015 debut album Goon, singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr. has collaborated with numerous well-known musicians including Adele, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles and — in 2025 alone — Bon Iver, Dijon, HAIM, Justin Bieber, Maren Morris, Miley Cyrus and Olivia Dean. Jesso did not issue a follow-up album during that time frame. That drought ends today with the arrival of his highly-anticipated second album, s h i n e. The long-awaited sophomore effort was produced by Jesso and mixed by Shawn Everett. A description accompanying the album stated:

“The eight songs are about himself, his mom, his son, a breakup and his life at this moment in time, with some help from Danielle Haim, Eli Teplin, Julian Bunetta, Justin Vernon, Rosie Hamilton, Tommy King and a psychic. They were written during a six-week sabbatical he took earlier this year, but are the culmination of everything he has built towards for the past decade. 10 years is awhile, but it is the amount of time it can sometimes take in order to fully embrace yourself, your mistakes and your imperfections. Tobias Jesso Jr. will have more to share soon.”

Old Crow Medicine Show shared their first holiday album, OCMS XMAS, through Hartland Records. The 13-track OCMS XMAS includes three covers, Yoko Ono and John Lennon‘s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” the Appalachian traditional “Breakin’ Up Xmas” and holiday classic “Holly Jolly Christmas” featuring Tennessee State University’s Brassville. The rest of the record contains originals OCMS wrote for the season. Longtime member Morgan Jahnig makes his songwriting debut with “December 26,” alongside the Zydeco-infused “All About A Baby” and an ode to New England winters titled “North By Northeast.”

Earlier this year, Goose made their headlining debut at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The milestone marathon concert was officially digitally released today, with a 7-LP vinyl box set edition arriving next month. Live At Madison Square Garden was recorded on June 28 when Goose topped the marquee at MSG for the first time. The curfew-busting, four-hour how was loaded with diverse improvisation and multiple appearances from a three-piece horn section.

Human Dream is the new STS9 studio album, released today through 1320 records. The group’s first studio album in 10 years is a “19-song journey born in our Santa Cruz studio that explores the beauty, mystery, and resilience of the human experience.”

Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover are both Portland-based singer-songwriters, though 3,000 miles apart with Heynderickx residing in Portland, Oregon and García Conover living in Portland, Maine. What Of Our Nature is the pair’s second collaborative effort, released today by Fat Possum Records. The songs were cultivated over the course of a year during which they both examined the life and works of Woody Guthrie. The 10-song follow-up to their 2018 EP, Among Horses III, was recorded direct to tape over five days in barn in Vermont. The Guthrie-inspired straight-through approach saw songs built out of guitars, vocals and minimal found percussion.

Somni is the second collaborative album from Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest, recorded live over three nights in Utrecht, the Netherlands in January 2025. The follow-up to 2015’s Grammy-winning Sylva, sees the current four-drummer Snarky Puppy lineup reunited with the +50-member Metropole Orkest. The all-instrumental Somni, whose title comes from the Catalan word for “dream,” was inspired by Snarky Puppy bassist/bandleader Michael League’s time in Barcelona.

“Instrumental music lends itself to exploring abstract concepts, because a lack of lyrics allows for a lot of imagination on the part of the listener,” League explained. “It’s by far the most ambitious project we’ve ever done … and it was one of the smoothest records we’ve ever made.”