New Music Friday: Feb. 14, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More ♥️
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NEW RELEASES
Marshall Allen | “New Dawn” (Sun Ra Arkestra leader’s debut solo album; guest: Neneh Cherry; new single: “New Dawn”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Mexican Summer)
The Altons | “Heartache in Room 14” (new single: “Waiting”; producer: Bosco Mann; See here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Clear with Orange and Green Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Daptone)
Alessia Cara | “Love & Hyperbole” (Canadian alt-pop singer-songwriter’s fourth album and first in four years; producers: Mike Elizondo, Yakob; new single: “[Isn’t It] Obvious,” feat. John Mayer on guitar; See here; Vinyl, with 12″ x 24″ poster; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Def Jam)
Richard Dawson | “End of the Middle” (British avant-garde folk musician’s eighth album; new single: “Polytunnel”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Domino)
María Dueñas | “Paganini: 24 Caprices” (Double CD; Spanish violinist’s second album; See here; Double Vinyl, with nine-track CD in minijacket; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Deutsche Grammophon)
Louis Dunford | “Be Lucky” (North London singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “Billy Flynn of Bethnal Green”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; RCA)
Horsegirl | “Phonetics On and On” (NYC-based indie rock trio’s second album, recorded at Wilco’s Chicago studio, the Loft; producer: Cate Le Bon; new single: “Switch Over”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Matador)
JISOO | “AMORTAGE” (Download; BLACKPINK member’s debut solo mini-album; producers: Blissoo, The Wavys; Read here; CD and Purple Vers. out March 14; Warner)
John Lodge | “Love Conquers All” (five-song EP; guests: Geoff Downes, Tim Maple, Dave Colquhoun, Ray Nesbit, Lodge’s 10,000 Light Years Band, and wife Kirsten and son Kristian; See here; Violet Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Halesouth Ltd.)
Gary Louris | “Dark Country” (The Jayhawks frontman’s third solo album; new single: “Getting Older”; See here; Cream Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Sham / Thirty Tigers)
The Lumineers | “Automatic” (their fifth album; producers: The Lumineers, David Baron, Simone Felice; new single: “Same Old Song”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Dualtone)
Manic Street Preachers | “Critical Thinking” (their 15th album; new single: “Hiding in Plain Sight,” with Nicky Wire on lead vocals for the first time; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Columbia)
Bartees Strange | “Horror” (producers: Strange, Jack Antonoff, Yves Rothman, Lawrence Rothman; new single: “Sober”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; 4AD)
The Velveteers | “A Million Knives” (Boulder, CO trio’s second album; producer: Dan Auerbach; new single: “Go Fly Away”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Easy Eye Sound / Concord)
The War and Treaty | “Plus One” (husband-and-wife roots duo’s fourth album, recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals; producers: band member Michael Trotter Jr., Jonathan Singleton, John Shanks, Jesse Frasure; guest: Billy Strings; new single: “Carried Away”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Mercury Nashville)
Peter White | “Light of Day” (jazz guitarist’s 17th album; guests: Ernie Watts, Vince Ingala, Rick Braun, Ilya Serov; new single: “Catalonia”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; A-Train / Lobster)
Denison Witmer | “Anything At All” (Download; Pennsylvania-based singer-songwriter’s 12th album; producer: Sufjan Stevens; guests: Andy Sam Evian, Hannah Cohen, Sean Lane, Keenan O’Meara; new single: “A House With”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; Asthmatic Kitty)
The Wombats | “Oh! The Ocean” (English indie rock band’s sixth album; producer: John Congleton; new single: “Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come”; See here; Read here; Transparent Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; AWAL Recordings)
REISSUES + MORE
Chuck Berry | “Collected” (three CDs, 70 songs; Track List; Amazon UK; Double Vinyl, 35 songs; Merch; Music on CD)
Brownsville Station | “Yeah!” (1973 album, featuring “Smokin’ in the Boy’s Room” and “Let Your Yeah Be Yeah”; Music on CD)
Sabrina Carpenter | “Short n’ Sweet (Deluxe Edition)” (2024 album; with a new remix of “Please Please Please,” feat. Dolly Parton, and bonus tracks “15 Minutes,” “Couldn’t Make It Any Harder,” “Busy Woman” and “Bad Reviews,” along with a 24-page booklet; Read here; Bright Azure Double Vinyl, with lyrics insert and poster; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch; On Tour; Island / UMe)
Fleetwood Mac | “Tango in the Night” (Hybrid SACD; 1987 album, featuring “Big Love,” “Everywhere,” “Seven Wonders” and “Little Lies”; sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP-style packaging; Double Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Merch; Mobile Fidelity)
Melanie | “Ace O’ Diamonds: The Lost Broadway Musical” (Double CD; musical based on letters that Calamity Jane wrote to her daughter that Melanie wrote the lyrics and music for; this collection compiles all known songs intended for the production, which never made it to Broadway because the lead producer had died; See here; Cleopatra)
MUD | “The RAK Years 1973-75” (two CDs, 37 songs, featuring their first two albums, plus non-LP singles; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; 7Ts / Cherry Red)
Robert Palmer | “Live at the Apollo” (17-song set, recorded on Dec. 15, 1988; first released in 2001 by Eagle Records; Vinyl; Amazon UK) + “Rhythm & Blues” (1998 album, featuring “True Love”; Vinyl; Amazon UK) + “Drive” (2003 album, his 14th and final solo LP; he died of a heart attack four months after its initial release; Vinyl; Amazon UK; BFD)
Daryle Singletary | “Daryle Singletary / All Because of You / Ain’t It the Truth” (1995, 1996 and 1998 albums on two CDs; Amazon UK; Morello)
Soul Coughing | “Ruby Vroom (30th Anniversary Edition)” (1994 debut album, featuring “Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago”; remastered, with five bonus tracks, three of which are previously unreleased; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; On Tour; Round Hill)
Rick Springfield | “Big Hits: Rick Springfield’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2” (24-song compilation, covering 1999-2023, including rarities and unreleased tracks; Clear Double Vinyl; Vinyl Box Set out April 18, featuring coffee table book, “Burning Film: Rick Springfield Through the Lens”; On Tour, with Richard Marx; Sing)
Various artists | “NOW Yearbook ’98” (four CDs, 60 hits; Triple Vinyl, 43 songs; Amazon UK; Sony Music / EMI)
Rusty Williams | “Grand Man” (previously unreleased 1970s recordings from the 70-year-old grandfather of Paramore’s Hayley Williams; See here; Read here; Apple Music; Congrats Records)
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