The Voidz (formerly Julian Casablancas + The Voidz) return March 30 with Virtue, the band’s first album in almost four years, via Cult/RCA. Casablancas and Co. will be supporting the 15-track LP at Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Festival in May, with more tour dates to be announced soon … Used Future is the sixth album from the Sword, produced by Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, Decemberists, First Aid Kit) and out March 23 on Razor & Tie … Erasure has joined forces with Brussels post-classical ensemble Echo Collective for World Beyond (Mute, March 9), a reworking of the duo’s most recent album, last year’s World Be Gone … Frank Turner‘s latest, Be More Kind, is out via Xtra Mile/Polydor/Interscope on May 4 … Forest Bathing, the eighth album from A Hawk And A Hacksaw, is out April 13 on Living Music Duplication … Dead Meadow‘s The Nothing They Need is out March 2 on Xemu … On May 18, Contender will issue Low Cut Connie‘s Dirty Pictures (Part 2), the follow-up to last year’s—wait for it—Dirty Pictures (Part 1) … Wooden Shjips‘ aptly titled fifth album, V., is due out May 25 on Thrill Jockey … Barrence Whitfield And The Savages are back with their fourth LP since reforming in 2010 after a quarter century out of the music biz: Soul Flowers Of Titan, out March 2 via Bloodshot … Chappo‘s third album, the John Vanderslice-produced Do It, is out February 23 on Votiv … On February 16, Pavement’s Scott Kannberg will see the reissue of three of his “solo” records by Nine Mile—Preston School Of Industry‘s All This Sounds Gas (2001) and Monsoon (2004) and Spiral Stairs‘ The Real Feel (2009)—with extra tracks, b-sides and BBC sessions … ’90s indie-rock mainstay Sleepyhead gets the vinyl-reissue treatment April 13 courtesy of Drawing Room with Future Exhibit Goes Here, which compiles 1994’s Starduster and 1996’s Communist Love Songs … Part two of Mute’s three-year A Certain Ratio reissues campaign arrives April 27 with the release of 1990’s acr:mcr, 1982’s I’d Like To See You Again, 1989’s Good Together and 1992’s Up In Downsville … Cobb’s Corner: Award-winning producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson) lent his studio magic to two upcoming albums by Grammy winners: Old Crow Medicine Show‘s Volunteer (Columbia, April 20) and the Oak Ridge Boys‘ 17th Avenue Revival (Lightning Rod, March 16).
