New Music Friday: April 11, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
The Birthday Massacre | “Pathways” (Canadian dark pop group’s 10th album; producers: band members Brett Carruthers, Michael Rainbow, Mike Falcore; new single: “Sleep Tonight”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Metropolis)
Bon Iver | “SABLE, fABLE” (Justin Vernon’s first album since 2019; producers: Vernon, Jim-E Stack; guests: Danielle Haim, Dijon, Flock of Dimes; new single: “Everything Is Peaceful Love”; Read here; Double Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Black and Red Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Jagjaguwar)
Gerald Clayton | “Ones & Twos” (pianist-composer’s third album for Blue Note; featuring vibraphonist Joel Ross, flutist Elena Pinderhughes, trumpeter Marquis Hill and drummer Kendrick Scott; producer: Clayton; new single: “Angels Speak”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Blue Note)
Bootsy Collins | “Album of the Year # 1 Funkateer” (Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s 23rd studio album; guests: Snoop Dogg, Dave Stewart, Fred Wesley, Wiz Khalifa, Musiq Soulchild, Kurupt, Myra Washington, et al; new single: “Album of the Year # 1 Funkateer”; Hear here; Read here; Bootzilla Records / Equity Distribution)
Epica | “Aspiral” (CD + Blu-ray digi; Dutch symphonic metal titans’ ninth album; Blu-ray contains “Live at the Symphonic Synergy”; new single: “Cross the Divide”; See here; Red Gold Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Nuclear Blast)
Galactic and Irma Thomas | “Audience With the Queen” (eight new songs written specifically for Thomas and a cover of Nancy Wilson’s “[You Don’t Know] How Glad I Am”; new single: “Lady Liberty”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Tchoup-Zilla Records)
Valerie June | “Owls, Omens, and Oracles” (her sixth album; producer: M. Ward; guests: The Blind Boys of Alabama; new single: “Joy, Joy!”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Concord)
Mark Morton | “Without the Pain” (Lamb of God guitarist’s second solo album; producer: Josh Wilbur; guests: Cody Jinks, Grace Bowers, Matt James, Travis Denning, Tyler Bryant, Troy Sanders, Jared James Nichols, Neil Fallon; new single: “Brother”; See here; Read here; Download; Apple Music; Snakefarm)
OK Go | “And the Adjacent Possible” (their fifth album and first in more than a decade; new singles: “A Good, Good Day at Last” and “Going Home”; See here; Vinyl out May 9; Amazon.ca; On Tour; Paracadute)
Jon Pardi | “Honkytonk Hollywood” (his fifth album; 17 songs; Gold Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Capitol Nashville)
Nell Smith | “Anxious” (posthumous debut solo album from the teenage Flaming Lips collaborator, who died in a car crash last October; new single: “Boy in a Bubble”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Bella Union)
Spin Doctors | “Face Full of Cake” (their first studio album in 12 years; new single: “The Heart of the Highway”; Hear here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Capitol)
Paul van Dyk | “This World Is Ours” (Download; his first album in five years; 30 tracks; new single: “Beautiful”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour; VANDIT)
The Wrecks | “INSIDE :” (L.A. alt-pop quartet’s six-song EP; new single: “Speed”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Lava / Republic)
REISSUES + MORE
Paul Brady | “The Archive” (four-CD hardback book box set, with 64 rare and unreleased tracks; Amazon UK; On Tour; The Last Music Company)
The Brothers Four | “Greenfields: The Singles & Albums Collection 1959-62” (two CDs, 56 tracks; Acrobat)
Ella Fitzgerald | “All the Hits and More 1936-62” (three CDs, 73 songs; Acrobat)
Vince Guaraldi Trio | “Jazz Impressions of ‘A Boy Named Charlie Brown’ (Expanded Edition)” (Double CD; 1964 album; with 11 previously unreleased outtakes, including “Linus and Lucy [Studio Test]”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; Craft Recordings / Concord)
Mantovani & His Orchestra | “All the Hits and More: Orchestral Classics 1936-62” (two-CD, 45-track set covers his recordings for Columbia, Decca and London; Acrobat)
Nellie McKay | “Hey Guys, Watch This” (2023 album, her first album of original material since 2010; Hear here; available on CD and Vinyl for the first time; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Omnivore Recordings)
Marian McPartland | “At the Peninsula Library 1972” (previously unreleased 19-track set, recorded on Dec. 10 in Lawrence on Long Island, with Rusty Gilder [bass] and Joe Cosrello [drums] accompanying the British-born jazz piano legend and former host of NPR’s “Piano Jazz” program; with extensive liner notes from music historians Barry Singer and Paul de Barros; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Liberation Hall)
The Replacements | “Tim” (Double CD; contains the remastered 1985 album, along with the Ed Stasium remix; Amazon UK; Rhino / Warner)
Talking Heads | “Live On Tour ’78” (recorded at the Agora in Cleveland on Dec. 18, 1978, and released as a promo LP for radio broadcast in 1979; it’s the first official release of the full show, remastered from the original analog tapes, featuring one previously unreleased track; Amazon.ca; Merch; Rhino / Warner)
Various artists | “Feel Good All Over: The Sunshot Singles 1972-1973” (31 tracks on two CDs, featuring future reggae stars like Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Horace Andy, Dillinger, Al Campbell, et al; Read here; Amazon UK; Doctor Bird / Cherry Red)
Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Jukebox Classics: True Love Ways” (U.K. release; four CDs, 100 songs; Sony Music / EMI)
Various artists | “NOW 12″ 80s: 1984 – Part Two” (U.K. release; four CDs, 46 songs; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Sony Music / EMI)
Johnnie Lee Wills (younger brother of Bob Wills) | “The Band’s A-Rockin’: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight” (recordings for Decca, Bullet Records and RCA Victor from 1941 to 1953; Bear Family)
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