New Music Friday: April 18, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
Tunde Adebimpe | “Thee Black Boltz” (TV on the Radio co-founder’s debut solo album; producers: Adebimpe, Wilder Zoby; new single: “Drop”; Hear here; Read here; Osupa Clear with Black and White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Sub Pop)
Julien Baker & TORRES | “Send a Prayer My Way” (their first collaborative album; new single: “Dirt”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Indie Exclusive Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Matador)
The Convenience | “Like Cartoon Vampires” (second album from New Orleans multi-instrumentalists Nick Corson and Duncan Troast; new single: “I Got Exactly What I Wanted”; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Winspear)
Doechii | “Alligator Bites Never Heal” (2024 album, featuring “Nissan Altima,” “Boom Bap” and “Denial Is a River”; Grammy winner for Best Rap Album; Target-Exclusive Gold Vinyl, with double-sided poster; Top Dawg / Capitol)
Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson | “What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow” (reunited with her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate, playing 18 of their favorite North Carolina fiddle and banjo songs; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Nonesuch)
Hawkwind | “There Is No Space for Us” (space-rock legends’ 37th album; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour; Atomhenge / Cherry Red)
Peter Holsapple | “The Face of 68” (Download; new single: “That Kind of Guy”; Hear here; Read here; CD out May 9; Label 51 Recordings / Flatiron Recordings)
Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto | “Electric War” (their second collaborative album; producers: Barrie Cadogan, Catto ; new single: “Zero Sun”; See here; Bone Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Easy Eye Sound / Concord)
Melvins | “Thunderball” (new single: “Victory of the Pyramids”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Ipecac Recordings)
Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill | “Long After the Fire” (married couple’s debut album, recorded at Sun Records in Memphis; producer: Paul Allen; new single: “Is Anybody Here?”; See here; Read here; Label 51 Recordings / Flatiron Recordings)
Taylor Rae | “The Void” (Austin-based singer-songwriter’s second album; producer: Eric Krasno; new single: “Telluride”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Missing Piece)
Various artists | “Eurovision Song Contest Basel 2025” (Download; 69th edition of the competition airs on May 17; 38 songs; Double CD out April 25; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Universal UK)
Neil Young | “Coastal Soundtrack” (11-song live album, recorded at several shows on his 2023 tour, accompanying a concert movie, “Coastal,” directed by his wife Darryl Hannah that airs in theaters for one night only on April 17; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Reprise)
REISSUES + MORE
Angel | “Angel” (1975 debut album, featuring “Tower”; Vinyl; On Tour; Deko Music)
Shirley Bassey | “The Singer: Classic & Undiscovered Gems From The EMI/UA Years 1962-79” (three-CD, 45-song set features singles, B-sides, rare soundtrack cuts and BBC broadcast excerpts from Royal Albert Hall concert on New Year’s Day 1974; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Strawberry / Cherry Red)
Patsy Cline | “Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963)” (two-CD, 52-song collection of previously unreleased performances, drawn from radio broadcasts, TV shows, and private recordings; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Elemental Music / Deep Digs)
David Crosby | “If I Could Only Remember My Name “ (Hybrid Stereo SACD; 1971 debut solo album, featuring “Cowboy Movie”; mastered directly from the original master tape by Bernie Grundman; Analogue Productions)
Julee Cruise | “Fall • Float • Love: Works 1989-1993” (two-CD compilation includes “Falling,” from “Twin Peaks,” alongside singles, remixes and her two albums, released in 1989 and 1993; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cherry Red)
Bill Evans | “Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969” (two CDs; previously unreleased recordings; with 28-page booklet; Elemental Music)
François Hardy | “En Vogue: Best of 1962-1967” (24 tracks; remastered; Omnivore Recordings)
Janis Ian | “Breaking Silence” (1992 album; out of print since 1995; “Janis Ian: Breaking Silence” documentary is out on DVD on April 29; Rude Girl)
Melanie | “Gathered In – The 1971 Gather Me Sessions” (studio outtakes and demos from her 1971 album “Gather Me,” featuring “Brand New Key,” “Ring the Living Bell” and “Someday I’ll Be a Farmer,” along with live recordings from the same period; Cleopatra)
Charles Mingus | “Mingus In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts” (Double CD; unreleased recordings from June 1977; transferred from the original tape reels that were recorded by engineer Carlos Melero; with 36-page booklet; Download; Resonance)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” (1976 debut album, featuring “Breakdown” and “American Girl”; Vinyl) + “You’re Gonna Get It!” (1978 album, featuring “I Need to Know” and “Listen to Her Heart”; Vinyl; Merch; Geffen / UMe)
The Rembrandts | “L.P. (30th Anniversary Edition)” (1995 album, featuring the “Friends” theme song “I’ll Be There For You” and “This House Is Not a Home”; with four bonus tracks; Omnivore Recordings)
Donna Summer | “Cats Without Claws (40th Anniversary)” (Double CD; 1984 album, featuring “There Goes My Baby,” “Supernatural Love” and “Eyes”; extras include five newly remixed tracks by Steve Anderson, 7th Heaven, Ladies On Mars and ShyBoy, plus the non-album B-side “Face the Music” and the original extended mix of “Eyes”; See here; Hot Pink and White Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Driven By the Music / Crimson Productions)
Tangerine Dream | “Phaedra (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1974 album; six-disc box set features the remastered original album mix, along with two discs of outtakes, the complete concert at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London in June 1974 [the band’s debut live appearance in the U.K.] and a Blu-ray disc featuring Steven Wilson’s 5.1 Surround Sound mix; Amazon UK; Virgin)
Thompson Twins | “Into the Gap Live” (Download; recorded at Del Mar Race Track in Southern California in 1984; originally released on VHS that year; See here; Turquoise and Yellow Double Vinyl; BMG Rights Management)
Various artists | “Pop Gems: The 80s” (U.K. release; three CDs, 63 songs; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Sony Music)
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