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New albums June 2020: From HAIM's Women In Music Pt III to Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways

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Even though we're all still spending the majority of our time indoors, the album release cycle keeps on spinning.

June looks set to be another marvellous month for new music. Below, we've picked out 10 releases that need to be on your radar, from hard-and-heavy hip-hop to experimental pop.

And that's not all that's worth checking out: Khruangbin, Paul Weller, Orlando Weeks, Working Men's Club, Hinds, Owen, John Legend and Roy Ayers just a few of the artists with new stuff on the way.

Here's what to listen to next month.

Run The Jewels — Run The Jewels 4 (June 5)

The dynamic duo of Killer Mike and El-P are back with their fourth album under the Run The Jewels moniker. Expect more belligerent beats and exacting flows, with features from Zack De La Rocha, 2 Chainz, Pharrell and others.

Jehnny Beth — To Love is to Live (June 12)

Jehnny Beth, known best for her work in Savages, is going solo with this new album. The first few singles off this release are intriguing — dark, combative and experimental.

Liam Gallagher — MTV Unplugged (June 12)

Liam Gallagher famously missed out on Oasis’s MTV Unplugged session back in 1996 because of a “sore throat”, but will make up for it here with his own solo version, recorded at Hull City Hall.

Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways (June 19)

The old master is back with his 39th studio effort. The first single was a 17-minute track about the assassination of JFK, so expect some heady themes on Rough and Rowdy Ways.

Jessie Ware — What’s Your Pleasure? (June 19)

Jessie Ware’s food podcast Table Manners has taken up much of her time in recent years, but now she’s revived her music career and returns with her fourth album.

Maya Hawke — Blush (June 19)

Stranger Things star Maya Hawkes is proving she’s got more strings to her bow than just acting. She performed her first ever solo live shows earlier this year, and now delivers a debut album. Early singles suggest a dreamy folk sound.

Phoebe Bridgers — Punisher (June 19)

Phoebe Bridgers’ debut album, 2017’s Stranger in the Alps, was a triumph, packed full of emotionally bare, beautifully realised music. She follows it up with Punisher this month.

Arca — KiCk i (June 26)

Experimental Venezuelan artist Arca has been enlisted by the likes of Björk, Kanye West and Frank Ocean in the past, but is best experienced through her boundary-pushing solo work.

HAIM — Women in Music Pt III (June 26)

Este, Danielle and Alana Haim were initially set to release their third album back in April, but decided to push it back because of the pandemic. We’ve heard six singles so far, from the melancholy pop of I Know Alone to the throwback rock of The Steps.

Nadine Shah — Kitchen Sink (June 26)

Nadine Shah follows up on her Mercury-nominated 2017 album Holiday Destination with Kitchen Sink, described as “a conversation between me and so many of my friends in our 30s”.