New Music Friday: April 25, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
James Arthur | “Pisces” (English singer-songwriter’s sixth album; producer: Steve Solomon; new single: “ADHD”; See here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Columbia)
Russ Ballard | “Songs From The Warehouse / The Hits Rewired” (Double CD; English singer-songwriter/producer’s 11th solo album, featuring new original songs and new versions of hits he penned; new single: “Resurrection”; See here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Frontiers Music s.r.l.)
Deerhoof | “Noble and Godlike in Ruin” (experimental rock band’s 20th album; new single: “Immigrant Songs”; Read here; Green Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Joyful Noise Recordings)
d4vd | “WITHERED” (NYC singer-songwriter David Anthony Burke’s debut album; new single: “One More Dance”; See here; Read here; Pure Cloudy White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Darkroom / Interscope)
Samantha Fish | “Paper Doll” (Kansas City-bred, New Orleans-based blues-rock guitarist-singer’s ninth album; producer: Bobby Harlow; new single: “Sweet Southern Sounds”; Hear here; Amazon-Exclusive CD, with a bonus cover of Neil Young’s “Don’t Let It Bring You Down”; Clear Smoke Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Rounder / Concord)
Ghost | “SKELETÁ” (Swedish rock band’s sixth album; producer: Gene Walker; new single: “Satanized”; See here; Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Translucent Grape Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Opaque Grey Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Bone Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Loma Vista Recordings / Concord)
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra | “Still Blooming” (guests: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Scarlett Johansson, Maiya Sykes; new single: “The Best Is Yet To Come”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Verve)
Billy Idol | “Dream Into It” (his ninth studio and first full-length in more than 10 years; producer: Tommy English; guests: Joan Jett, Alison Mosshart; new single: “Still Dancing”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts; Merch; Dark Horse / BMG Rights Management)
Coco Jones | “Why Not More?” (Grammy-winning R&B singer’s debut album; new single: “Taste”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Light Blue Vinyl, with bonus song “Hate You Right Now”; Download; Apple Music; Def Jam)
Femi Kuti | “Journey Through Life” (Nigerian Afrobeat icon’s 11th album; producer: Kuti; new single: “After 24 Years”; See here; Read here; Opaque Orange Vinyl out May 16; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Partisan)
Lyn Lapid | “BUZZKILL” (Download; 22-year-old L.A.-based Filipino American singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “death wish”; See here; Apple Music; Mercury)
Yo-Yo Ma | “Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos” (recorded in 2023 with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death in 1975; contains all 15 symphonies, key incidental works and new recordings of the complete cello, piano, and violin concertos — the latter with soloists Yuja Wang and Baiba Skride; Hear here; Double Vinyl out May 9; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Deutsche Grammophon)
Jensen McRae | “I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!” (L.A. folk-alt-pop singer’s sophomore album; producer: Brad Cook; new single: “Praying for Your Downfall”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Dead Oceans)
Willie Nelson | “Oh What a Beautiful World” (his 77th solo studio album and his 154th album overall; comprises 12 songs either written or co-written by fellow Texan songwriter Rodney Crowell; new single: “Oh What a Beautiful World,” feat. Crowell; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Legacy Recordings)
Joan Osborne | “Dylanology Live” (with Amy Helm, Jackie and Robert Randolph; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Womanly Hips)
Gigi Perez | “At the Beach, In Every Life” (Download; Cuban-American singer-songwriter’s debut album; producer: Perez; new single: “Chemistry”; See here; CD and Vinyl out July 11; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour; Island)
Rialto | “Neon & Ghost Signs” (London rock band’s first album in 24 years; new single: “No One Leaves the Discotheque Alive”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Fierce Panda)
Smokey Robinson | “What the World Needs Now” (self-described “inspiration” album includes versions of “Lean on Me,” “What a Wonderful World,” “I’ll Take You There” and “You’ve Got a Friend,” with original songs; Hear here; Ash Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Gaither Music Group)
Self Esteem | “A Complicated Woman” (BRIT- and Mercury Prize-nominated singer-songwriter’s third solo album; new single: “Focus Is Power”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Republic)
Simple Minds | “Live in the City of Diamonds” (Double CD + Media Book; 24 tracks recorded in Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome in 2024; 24-page hardcover book, featuring photos and tour notes; See here; Double Vinyl, 18 tracks; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; BMG Rights Management)
Stereophonics | “Make ’em Laugh, Make ’em Cry, Make ’em Wait” (Welsh rock band’s 13th album; producer: frontman Kelly Jones; new single: “There’s Always Gonna Be Something”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; UMe)
Sting | “Sting 3.0 LIVE” (nine tracks; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour; Interscope / A&M)
Various artists | “DRAG: The Musical LIVE! (The Cast Recording)” (Download; Off-Broadway show ends its run on April 27; featuring performances from show co-creator Alaska Thunderf*ck, Adam Pascal, Nick Adams, et al; producers: Liza Minnelli, Tomas Costanza; Read here; PEG Records / Warner)
Tucker Wetmore | “What Not To” (country singer-songwriter’s 19-song debut album; producer: Chris LaCorte; new single: “3,2,1”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Target-Exclusive PNW Brown Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Mercury Nashville)
REISSUES + MORE
Blood, Sweat & Tears | “What Goes Up! The Best of Blood, Sweat & Tears” (two CDs, 32 tracks; Amazon UK; On Tour; Retroworld)
Kenny Burrell with Art Blakey | “On View At The Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters” (1959 album; with six previously unreleased tracks; all-analog and cut directly from Rudy Van Gelder’s original master tapes by Kevin Gray; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Blue Note / UMe)
Sam Cooke | “The Man Who Invented Soul” (2000 compilation; four-CD hardcover bookset, with 28-page booklet; Music on CD)
Aretha Franklin | “Aretha Live at Fillmore West [Quadio]” (1971 album; transferred from the original half-inch four-channel masters, on Blu-ray with 192/24 resolution quadraphonic and hi-res stereo mixes; Rhino / Atlantic)
Isaac Hayes | “Hot Buttered Singles Volume 2 1972-1976” (20-track collection; Hear/Read here; Double Vinyl; Kent / Ace)
Curtis Mayfield | “Roots [Quadio]” (1971 album, featuring “Get Down”; transferred from the original half-inch four-channel masters, on Blu-ray with 192/24 resolution quadraphonic and hi-res stereo mixes; Rhino)
Melanie | “Lullabies From Heaven – Melanie’s Children’s Album” (recorded over the course of her life, from the early 1960s up until 2016; newly restored and revised by her son Beau Jarred, husband Peter Schekeryk and Melanie herself; Pink Vinyl; Cleopatra)
Gary Numan | “Berserker (Expanded Edition)” (1984 album; remastered four-CD set, featuring the original album, with bonus tracks, extended mixes, B-sides and his live album “White Noise”; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; BMG Rights Management)
Ian North | “NEO” (1979 album; first time on CD worldwide; remastered by Vic Anesini from the Aura Records masters, with two live bonus tracks from October 1977, plus a 16-page color booklet; Iconoclassic)
Eugene Ormandy | “The RCA Victor Recordings 1935-42” (21-CD box set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Sony Classical)
Prince and the Revolution | “Purple Rain [Audiophile Blu-ray]” (1984 soundtrack album, featuring “When Doves Cry,” “Let’s Go Crazy,” “Purple Rain,” “I Would Die 4 U” and “Take Me with U”; won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, and Prince also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score; mixed in Dolby Atmos and includes 24bit / 96kHz HD stereo; Merch; NPG / Warner)
Jerry Reed | “East Bound and Down / Jerry Reed Rides Again / Sweet Love Feelings / Half Singin’ & Half Pickin'” (1977, 1978 and 1979 albums on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK; BGO)
Rilo Kiley | “The Execution of All Things (Frozen Lake Edition)” (2002 album; Cloudy Clear Vinyl, with expanded artwork and a die-cut gatefold jacket with poster insert; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour; Saddle Creek)
Sex Pistols | “Live in the U.S.A. 1978” (Triple CD; January 1978 shows in Atlanta, Dallas and San Francisco; Blue Vinyl, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco; Red Vinyl, South East Music Hall, Atlanta; White Vinyl, Longhorns Ballroom, Dallas; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch; UMe)
Various artists | “Gather in the Mushrooms: The British Folk Underground 1969-1975” (2004 collection, compiled by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley, with three bonus tracks; Hear/Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Ace)
Various artists | “Going Out of My Head: Adventures on the Indie Dancefloor 1995-1999” (four-CD clamshell box set, featuring Blur, Basement Jaxx, The Prodigy, Cornershop, Fatboy Slim, Supergrass, Death in Vegas, Leftfield, Radiohead, et al; Read here; Amazon UK; Cherry Red)
Various artists | “The Hits Album: Early 70s” (U.K. release; three CDs, 66 tracks; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Sony Music)
Various artists | “NOW Yearbook ’89” (U.K. release; four CDs, 78 tracks; Pink Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Sony Music / EMI)
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