New Releases 2025
*Curated highlights
★★★ = Higher side of Average
★★★½ = Good
★★★★ = Great
★★★★½ = Excellent
★★★★★ = Impeccable
January
Richard Sallis - Felix
Art Rock
January 3rd
★★★½
Lambrini Girls - Who Let the Dogs Out
Punk
January 10th
★★★
Ex-Vöid - In Love Again
Indie Rock
January 17th
★★★★
The Weather Station - Humanhood
Art Pop
January 17th
★★★½
Ela Minus - Día
Electropop
January 17th
★★★
Mogwai - The Bad Fire
Post Rock
January 24th
★★★½
Chais Guevara - Goyard Ibn Said
Hip Hop
January 24th
★★★★
Benjamin Booker - Lower
Singer-Songwriter
January 24th
★★★½
Autumn's Grey Solace
- The Dark Space
Dream Pop
January 25th
★★★½
AJ Suede - The Duke of Downtempo EP
Hip Hop - Drumless
January 28th
★★★
MIKE - Showbiz
Abstract Hip Hop
January 30th
★★★½
Other releases:
- Pink Siifu - Black'!Antique (Abstract Hip Hop)
- Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Purple Bird (Alt-Country)
- Farma G - How to Kill a Butterfly (UK Hip Hop)
February
Sharon Van Etten &
The Attachment Theory
Indie Rock
February 7th
★★★
Brother Ali - Satisfied Soul
Hip Hop
February 7th
★★★½
Heartworms -
Glutton for Punishment
Gothic Rock
February 7th
★★★½
Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On
Indie Rock
February 14th
★★★½
Richard Dawson - End of the Middle
Folk
February 14th
★★★★
Saya Gray - Saya
Art Pop
February 21st
★★★★
Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream
Indie Pop
February 21st
★★★½
Baths - Gut
Indietronica
February 21st
★★★½
Joshua Burnside - Teeth of Time
Folk
February 28th
★★★½
bdrmm - Mictrotonic
Indietronica
February 28th
★★★½
Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart
Indie Rock
February 28th
★★★½
Other releases:
- Big Thief - Passional Relations EP
- Larry June, 2 Chainz & Alchemist - Life is Beautiful (Hip Hop)
- Josiah the Gift & Machacha- The Happening (Hip Hop)
- Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point - F.L.A.W. (Hip Hop)
- Sam Fender - People Watching (Stadium Rock)
- acloudyskye - This Won't Be the Last Time
- Smif-n-Wessun - Infinity (Hip Hop)
- Squid - Cowards
- Boldy James & Chuck Strangers - Token of Appreciation (Hip Hop)
- Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
- The Lathums - Matter Does Not Define
- Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman Vol.3
- Black Milk & Fat Ray - Food From the Gods (Hip Hop)
- Queen Herawin - Awaken the Sleeping Giant (Hip Hop)
March
Throwing Muses -
Moonlight Concessions
Alternative Rock
March 14th
★★★
Circuit des Yeux - Halo on the Inside
Post-Industrial
March 14th
★★★
Charley Crockett - Lonesome Drifter
Country
March 14th
★★★½
Che Noir & Superior
- Seeds in Babylon EP
Hip Hop
March 21st
★★★½
PremRock - Did You
Enjoy Your Time Here?
Hip Hop
March 21st
★★★★
Dutch Interior - Moneyball
Alt-Country
March 21st
★★★½
KRS-One - Global Awareness
Hip Hop
March 22nd
★★★½
Destroyer - Dan's Boogie
Art Rock
March 28th
★★★½
Snapped Ankles - Hard
Times Furious Dancing
Dance Punk
March 28th
★★★★
DJ Python - i was put on this earth
Ambient Dub
March 28th
★★★★
Hannah Cohen - Earthstar Mountain
Singer-Songwriter
March 28th
★★★½
Other releases:
- Lisa Knapp - Hinterland (Folk)
- Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea (Metal)
- KOAN Sound - Glyph EP (EDM)
- Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (Indie Pop)
- My Morning Jacket - Is
- Perfume Genius - Glory
- Ramson Badbonez - White Rabbit (UK Hip Hop)
- oldstar - Of the Highway
- Senica da Misfit - Masterpiece 2 EP (Hip Hop)
- Weatherday - Hornet Disaster
- Aya - Hexed! (EDM)
- Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power (Metal)
- clipping. - Dead Channel Sky (Industrial Hip Hop)
April
Black Country New Road
- Forever Howlong
Art Rock
April 4th
★★★
DJ Koze - Music Can Hear Us
Dance
April 4th
★★★★
Anika - Abyss
Post-Punk
April 4th
★★★★
Brown Horse - All the Right Weaknesses
Alt-Country
April 4th
★★★½
Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE
Art Pop
April 11th
★★★★
Erika de Casier - Lifetime
Trip Hop
April 16th
★★★★
Cappo - Houses
UK Hip Hop
April 25th
★★★½
Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
IDM
April 25th
★★★
Maria Somerville - Luster
Dream Pop
April 25th
★★★
Fly Anakin - (The) Forever Dream
Drumless Hip Hop
April 25th
★★★★
Other releases:
- David Longstreth - Song of the Earth
- Sault - 10
- Babe Rainbow - Slipper Imp and Shakaerator
- The Mars Volta - Lucro sucio; los ojos del vacio (Rock Opera)
- Red Snapper - Barb and Feather
- Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys (Punk)
- Self Esteem - A Complicated Woman (Art Pop)
- Hélène Vogelsinger - Reappearance
- The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi
- Blu & August Fanon - Forty (Hip Hop)
- Jane Remover - Revengeseekerz
- Turnpike Troubadors - The Price of Admission
- quickly, quickly - I Heard That Noise
May
Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist
Art Pop
May 2nd
★★★★½
Lael Neale - Altogether Stranger
Indie Pop
May 2nd
★★★½
Deradoorian -
Ready for Heaven
Neo-Psychedelia
May 9th
★★★½
Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming
Neo-Psychedelia
May 16th
★★★
Xzibit - Kingmaker
Hip Hop
May 16th
★★★½
Alexandra Saviour
- Beneath the Lilypad
Art Pop
May 16th
★★★★
Stereolab - Instant
Holograms on Metal Films
Indietronica
May 23rd
★★★
These New Puritans
- Crooked Wing
Art Pop
May 23rd
★★★★½
John Michel & Anthony James
- Egotrip
Conscious Hip Hop
May 23rd
★★★½
Smerz - Big City Life
Synth-Pop
May 23rd
★★★½
Foxwarren - 2
Indie Folk
May 30th
★★★★
Other releases:
- Billy Woods - GOLLIWOG (Abstract Hip Hop)
- Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars
- The Kooks - Never Know
- Thom Yorke & Mark Pritchard - Tall Tales
- Morcheeba - Escape the Chaos (Trip Hop)
- yeule - Evangelic Girl Is A Gun (Glitch Pop)
- Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams - Trainspotting (Hip Hop)
- Billy Nomates - Metalhorse (Punk)
- Mei Simones - Animaru (Indie Pop)
- Model/Actriz - Pirouette
- Bruiser Wolf - POTLUCK (Hip Hop)
- caroline - caroline 2
- Swans - Birthing
June
Little Simz - Lotus
Hip Hop
June 6th
★★★½
The High & Mighty - Sound of Market
Hip Hop
June 6th
★★★½
McKinley Dixon - Magic, Alive!
Hip Hop
June 6th
★★★½
Flee Lord & Eto -
RocAmerikkka 3
Hip Hop
June 6th
★★★½
Trellion & Danny Lover
- Ok, the fire
UK Hip Hop
June 8th
★★★★
Matmos - Metallic Life Review
IDM
June 20th
★★★½
Tropical Fuck Storm -
Fairyland Codex
Punk
June 20th
★★★★
U.S. Girls - Scratch It
Soft Rock
June 20th
★★★½
Che Noir -
The Color Chocolate 2
Hip Hop
June 20th
★★★½
Neggy Gemmy -
She Comes From Nowhere
Chillwave
June 20th
★★★
Durand Jones & The
Indications - Flowers
Soul
June 27th
★★½
Gelli Haha - Switcheroo
Synthpop
June 27th
★★★★
Greet Death - Die in Love
Shoegaze
June 27th
★★★
Other releases:
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Phantom Island (Neo-Psychedelia)
- ANKHLEJOHN & August Fanon - Live at the Disco (Hip Hop)
- Pulp - More (Indie Pop)
- Slick Rick - Victory (Hip Hop)
- HAIM - i quit (Indie Pop)
- Young Fathers - 28 Years Later OST
- Death in Vegas - Death Mask
- Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
- Black Moth Super Rainbow - Soft New Magic Dream
- Laura Stevenson - Late Great
- Ken Starr & Kev Brown - Cold (Hip Hop)
July
Rival Consoles -
Landscape from Memory
House
July 4th
★★★
TURQOISEDEATH - Guardian
Drum & Bass
July 11th
★★★
Two Shell - Ilcons
UK Bass
July 14th
★★★½
Lord Huron -
The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1
Folk?
July 18th
★★½
Raekwon - The Emperor’s
New Clothes
Hip Hop
July 18th
★★★
Alex G - Headlights
Indie Pop
July 18th
★★★
Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist - Alfredo 2
Hip Hop
July 25th
★★★½
Apollo Brown and Bronze
Nazareth – Funeral For a Dream
Hip Hop
July 25th
★★★
Other releases:
- Nilufer Yanya - Dancing Shoes EP (2nd July)
- Arrested Development - Adult Contemporary Hip Hop (3rd July, Hip Hop)
- Jonathan Richman - Only Frozen Sky Anyway (4th July, Singer Songwriter)
- Gwenno - Utopia (11th July)
- Clipse - Let God Sort Them Out (11th July, Hip Hop)
- Nicholas Craven & Boldy James - Late to My Own Funeral (11th July, Hip Hop)
- Barry Can't Swim - Loner (11th July, EDM)
- Ryan Davis - New Threats from the Soul (25th July)
August
Chevelle - Bright as Blasphemy
Alternative Metal
August 15th
★★★
Racing Mount Pleasant -
Racing Mount Pleasant
Chamber Pop
August 15th
★★★½
Evidence - Unlearning vol. 2
Hip Hop
August 15th
★★★★
Nourished By Time -
The Passionate Ones
Alternative R&B
August 22nd
★★★½
Wolf Alice - The Clearing
Soft Rock
August 22nd
★★½
Water From Your Eyes
- It's a Beautiful Place
Post Punk
August 22nd
★★★
Ghostface Killah -
Supreme Clientele 2
Hip Hop
August 22nd
★★½
Deftones - Private Music
Alternative Metal
August 22nd
★★★★
quannnic - Warbrained
Alternative Metal
August 22nd
★★★★
CMAT - Euro-Country
Country?
August 29th
?
The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie
Power Pop?
August 29th
?
Other releases:
- Charley Crockett – Dollar A Day (August 8th, Alt-Country)
- Osees - Abomination Revealed at Last (August 8th)
- DJ Premier & Roc Marciano - The Coldest Profession (August 8th, Hip Hop)
- Alison Goldfrapp – Flux (August 15th, EDM)
- Melissa Nadler – New Radiations (August 15th)
- Pendulum - Inertia (August 22nd)
- Earl Sweatshirt - Live Laugh Love (August 22nd, Hip Hop)
- Chartreuse - Bless You & Be Well (August 29th)
- Blood Orange - Essex Honey (August 29th)
September
Big Thief - Double Infinity
Indie Folk?
September 5th
?
Parcels - LOVED
Surf Rock?
September 12th
?
Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying
Art Pop?
September 26th
?
Other releases:
- Saint Etienne – International (5th September)
- Joey Valence & Brae – Hyperyouth (5th September)
- Wednesday - Bleeds (19th September)
- Nation of Language – Dance Called Memory (19th September)
- Atmosphere - Jestures (19th September)
- Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green (26th September)
- Sloan – Based on the Best Seller (26th September)
- Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) – Twilight Overdrive (26th September)
October
Richard Ashcroft - Lovin' You
Indie?
October 3rd
?
Other releases:
- Soulwax - All Systems Are Lying (Oct 17th)
