9 New Albums Out Today: Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby, Thundercat & More

Days after its announcement, Trey Anastasio shared a new live album entitled Trey Anastasio – Live and Acoustic through on his Rubber Jungle Records imprint. The Vance Powell-produced 22-track collection documents the Phish guitarist’s 2025 Spring Acoustic Tour with keyboardist Jeff Tanski. Classic songs included on the live LP include “Stash,” “Divided Sky,” “Lifeboy” and “Strange Design.” Trey’s more recent output is represented by “Evolve,” “Oblivion,” “Hey Stranger” and “Mercy,” each of which Phish recorded for their latest studio album, 2024’s Evolve.

Bruce Hornsby released a new album, Indigo Park, via Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers. Hornsby is joined on the album by Bonnie Raitt, Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig and late Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir. Among the record’s 10 songs are two Hornsby co-wrote with the late Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. The follow-up to 2024’s Deep Sea Vents was co-produced by Hornsby, Tony Berg and Will Maclellan. The album sees Hornsby backed by his longtime band The Noisemakers, along with guitarist Blake Mills, bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Chris Dave.

“It’s just an old bastard, looking back,” Hornsby said. “To be honest, I’ve found a way, a path to grow old gracefully, with help from some newborn friends of mine.”

Thundercat (Stephen Bruner) returns with his first album in six years, Distracted. The follow up to 2020’s It Is What It Is, sees guests spots from Lil Yachty, A$AP Rocky, WILLOW, Tame Impala, Channel Tres and a previously unreleased collaboration with the late Mac Miller. Thundercat teamed with superstar producer Greg Kurstin on Distracted, with additional production from Flying Lotus, Kenny Beats and The Lemon Twigs.

“Sometimes you need to be distracted to focus in a different way,” Thundercat stated. “Just enjoy it and have fun and just know that the struggle is real and changes shape, but just to keep pushing forward.”

Arlo Parks released her new album, Ambiguous Desire, through Transgressive Records. The London-born singer-songwriter recorded Ambiguous Desire, the 12-song follow-up to her 2023 sophomore full length My Soft Machine, with producer Baird. Additional production came from Parks’ longtime collaborator Paul Epworth, as well as Buddy Ross and Andrew Sarlo.

“My writing is instinctual and music has always been the place I go to when I need to work things out with myself,” Park explained. “It’s scary to be true to yourself as an artist but every time I get braver and it’s made every track on this album essential.”

Prolific singer-songwriter Charley Crockett released his third album in a calendar year, Age Of The Ram, which completed The Sagebrush Trilogy, joining Lonesome Drifter and Dollar A Day. Working again with co-producer Shooter Jennings, Crockett recorded 20 tracks for the triptych-completing record.

“Age Of The Ram is the story of Billy McLane,” Crockett revealed. “A small-time cattle rustler who finds himself in the crosshairs of the Santa Fe ring, pursued by bounty killers working for the shadow syndicate, Billy Mclane escapes into the crazy mountains where the outlaw will become a legend.”

Bon Iver launched a new archival series, Volumes, with a 10-song live collection, Volumes: One “Selections From Music Concerts 2019-2023 Bon Iver 6 Piece Band”, out now through Jagjaguwar. Bon Iver principal member Justin Vernon began work on Volumes in 2020, taking inspiration from Neil Young’s Archives and Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series. As the title of the first installment suggests, its 11 tracks were recorded live at concerts held between 2019 and 2023, with Vernon joined by bandmates Sean Carey, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Michael Lewis, Matthew McCaughan and Jenn Wasner.

“This particular set of 10 songs is like, ‘Here, if you’ve never heard Bon Iver, or you have and you didn’t like it, this might be for you,’” Vernon stated. “This is what we became. This is really us at our best. This is it.”

Anonymous “Microtonal cardboard duo” Angine de Poitrine released their sophomore album, Vol. II. The mysterious Canadian pair consisting of supposed brothers – microtonal guitarist Khn de Poitrine and drummer Klek de Poitrine – recorded the six-song collection with co-producer Fabien Peterson and engineer Glegg de Poitrine at Studio Gramofaune.

Sunn O))) shared their self-titled 10th album, which is their first on Sub Pop Records. The new collection is also the veteran drone band’s first full-length release since 2019’s Pyroclasts. Sunn O))) – Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson – recorded the new six-song LP at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington.

“On this album for the first time all of the instrumentation was performed by Greg and I,” O’Malley said. “All of the records have our leadership and direction, of course, but this time around, it was almost like this crucible of ideas that was really at the core of what we’ve been doing.”

Upcoming tourmates, Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE and SURF GANG, teamed up for a collaborative double album, POMPEII // UTILITY. The first half, POMPEII features MIKE and UTILITY features Earl Sweatshirt, with both sides supported by SURF GANG’s production. MIKE appears on one of the UTILITY tracks and Earl appears on two POMPEII tracks. Other guests joining MIKE were Jadasea, Anysia Kym, Na-Kel Smith and Niontay. The lone additional guest joining Earl was Lerado Khalil.