Sifting through the most anticipated albums of next year.

In 2015, Australia’s psych rock phenoms Tame Impala made synthpop more organic than ever with Currents, while Kendrick Lamar’s sexy beast To Pimp a Butterfly is a modern-day hip-hop opus. Father John Misty’s folk-rock saga I Love You, Honeybear is full of delicious dark humor, piercing cynicism and self-discovery that works as a well-written memoir.

Here’s hoping next year it’s as exciting to reflect on these records. (Note: Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Spiritualized and Tool also have albums coming, but haven’t announced dates.)

Jan. 8 • David Bowie Blackstar

The superstar releases his 25th album on his 69th birthday, but Bowie fans are the ones getting a gift in Blackstar, his most ambitious and unique record yet. Producer Tony Visconti told Rolling Stone Bowie found inspiration in Lamar’s creative “open-minded” approach to a hip-hop with To Pimp a Butterfly: “[Lamar] threw everything in there, and that’s what we wanted,” Visconti said. “The goal was to avoid rock ‘n’ roll.”

Jan. 22 • Ty Segall Emotional Mugger

Indie rock’s most prolific entity is breaking from his noise-punk-meets-proto-metal outfit Fuzz to tour behind a new record that somehow involves creepy baby masks. Check out the album website and see for yourself.

Feb. 5 • DIIV Is The Is Are

DIIV frontman Zachary Cole Smith released a statement describing the album: “It is a diverse record, it is a happy record, a sad record, a happysad, sadhappy, mad, glad, quiet, mad, dark, glad, poppy, fast, slow, heavy, fast, peaceful, angry, chaotic, beautiful, lost/found, ugly, dry, wet, fuck, fast, dead, heartbroken, in love, loud, quiet, loud, loudquiet, quietloud, happy, mad, quiet, fuck, and loud record.” Translation: An orchestra of guitar distortion equipped with melodic My Bloody Valentine hooks that latch on.

April 1 • Charles Bradley Changes

For those who missed out on Otis Redding, thank heavens for Charles Bradley. The 67-year-old sings soul that induces goosebumps. The titular song is an R&B reworking of Black Sabbath’s otherworldly “Changes.” Can’t wait to see what the “Screaming Eagle of Soul” has in store for the rest of Changes.

April 29 • De La Soul The Anonymous Nobody

It’s been over a decade since De La’s last LP and over 20 since their hip-hop gamechanger 3 Feet High And Rising, but the seminal Long Island crew is set to return with force and a meaningful message. The hip-hop trio broke down the record title as “an everyday individual who one day, when least expected, stands up and faces the challenger.”