The synth-pop singer Sky Ferreira started teasing a follow-up to her 2013 debut album, Night Time, My Time, way back in 2015, with the tentative title Masochism. A proposed summer 2016 arrival came and went. Over the next few years, she continued to drop hints about a new record and collaborated with Iceage on 2018’s “Pain Killer,” as well as flexed her acting chops in Baby Driver and “Twin Peaks: The Return.” Her SoundCloud kicked back into action in July, with Ferreira talking about an album once again, and she more recently penciled in a date: “this winter.” –Marc Hogan

Lana Del Rey

Norman Fucking Rockwell

Lana Del Rey’s next album title is so perfectly Lana. The title track is “about this guy who is such a genius artist but he thinks he’s the shit and he knows it and he won’t shut up talking about it,” she told Zane Lowe. “They just go on and on about themselves ... But there’s a little bit of merit to it, also.” She’s teased NFR so far with two Jack Antonoff-produced tracks, “Mariners Apartment Complex” and “Venice Bitch,” and has a new song coming next week. That forthcoming book of poetry is just icing. –Matthew Strauss

Gesaffelstein

Hyperion

French producer Mike Lévy—who makes murky, pulsating electronic music as Gesaffelstein—broke through in 2013 with his iconic work on Yeezus’ “Black Skinhead” and quickly after released his debut album, Aleph. Late last year, he charged back onto the scene with a new song, “Reset,” and its provocative, disorienting music video. Judging by the cover, Lévy’s next album, Hyperion, will be another glint of light in the darkness. –Matthew Strauss