Their debut album, which the trio straightforwardly dubbed The Record, arrives at the end of the month. Once again, the three indie rock singer-songwriters will take turns taking the lead on each song, as can be heard on “ Not Strong Enough,” “ $20,” “ Emily I’m Sorry,” and “ True Blue.” This time around, Boygenius sound bolder and more self-assured, both as musicians and as a group, and The Record glimmers with that confidence. It’s been five years since Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus formed their supergroup, Boygenius, and released their self-titled EP. –Jazz Monroe Boygenius: The Record March 31 Jump on It sweetens Orcutt’s trademark jerky abstractions with deft melodic motifs and follows a pair of standout albums that traced a similar path from chaos into harmony: last year’s Music for Four Guitars and 2021’s Made Out of Sound, a collaborative LP with Chris Corsano. This spring, the wily noise guitarist Bill Orcutt will release his first solo acoustic record in a decade. Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott, whose late bandleader Sun Ra appeared in the original documentary, close the conceptual loop, contributing parts to the album’s final movement. –Jazz Monroe The Cry of Jazz, a 1959 film that links jazz history with documentary footage of Chicago’s Black neighborhoods, inspired the latest LP from the city’s eminent avant-garde jazz composer, Angel Bat Dawid. Following the film’s lead, the clarinetist and singer weaves a critique of racial politics-as well as samples from the movie-into a bracing jazz opus. Angel Bat Dawid: Requiem for Jazz March 24 But, as usual, everything is subject to change.
As of March 21, all release dates have been confirmed.
As marquee acts line up for their first major tours since before the pandemic, the release schedule has filled apace, with overdue comebacks (Everything But the Girl, Feist), long-teased debuts (Boygenius, Overmono), and crowdpleasers galore from the likes of Lana Del Rey and the National.
And just like that, spring is upon us: daffodils sprout, forget-me-nots remember, festivals beckon, would-be songs of the summer shake their fledgling tail-feathers, and the distant hum of a Rihanna album mingles with the birdsong.
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