New Music Friday: Jan. 24, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
Sam Amidon | “Salt River” (London-based American singer-songwriter’s 13th album; he is married to Beth Orton; producer: Sam Gendel; new single: “Friends and Neighbors”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; River Lea / Rough Trade)
Kane Brown | “The High Road” (country star’s fourth album; producers: Connor McDonough, Dann Huff, Digital Farm Animals, Earwulf, Marshmello; new single: “Backseat Driver”; Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Onyx Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Zone 4 / Sony Music Nashville)
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart | “Looking for the Thread” (recorded at Real World Studios in Box, England; tracks written by all three artists, who take turns performing and collaborating on each song; producer: Josh Kaufman; new single: “Hold Everything”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Lambent Light / Thirty Tigers)
Central Cee | “Can’t Rush Greatness” (British rapper’s debut album, featuring “Band4Band” and “Gen Z Luv”; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; CC4L / Columbia)
Eric Clapton | “Meanwhile” (six new tracks and eight previously released singles; guests: Van Morrison, the late Jeff Beck, Bradley Walker, Simon Climie, Judith Hill, Daniel Santiago; new single: “One Woman”; Hear here; Blue Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on Oct. 4; Apple Music; On Tour; Surfdog)
Holly Cole | “Dark Moon” (Canadian jazz singer’s 13th album; new single: “No Moon At All”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Rumpus Room Records / Universal Music Canada)
FKA twigs | “EUSEXUA” (British singer-songwriter’s third album; producers: Dylan Brady, Ethan P. Flynn, Koreless, Lewis Roberts, Stargate, Wheezy; new single: “EUSEXUA”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Young Recordings / Atlantic)
JoJo | “NGL” (Download; eight-song EP; new single: “Too Much to Say”; See here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour; BMG Rights Management)
Larkin Poe | “Bloom” (Grammy-winning sister duo’s seventh album; producers: Rebecca and Megan Lovell, Tyler Bryant; new single: “If God Is a Woman”; See here; Yellow Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Tricki-Woo Records)
Mogwai | “The Bad Fire” (Scottish band’s 11th album; producer: John Congleton; new single: “Lion Rumpus”; See here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Rock Action / Temporary Leisure)
Iggy Pop | “Live At Montreux Jazz Festival 2023” (CD + Blu-ray; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download; On Tour; earMUSIC)
Teddy Swims | “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (part 2)” (continuation of his debut album; new single: “Bad Dreams”; See here; Read here; Solid Tangerine Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Crystal Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Warner)
Tunng | “Love You All Over Again” (U.K. experimental folk collective’s eighth album; producer: frontman Mike Lindsay; new single: “Deep Underneath”; Hear here; Read here; Heart Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Full Time Hobby)
VUKOVI | “MY GOD HAS GOT A GUN” (Scottish rock duo’s fourth album; producer: Machine; new single: “MISTY ECSTASY”; See here; Black and White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; SharpTone)
REISSUES + MORE
blink-182 | “ONE MORE TIME … PART-2” (2023 album; with eight more songs; new single: “All In My Head”; Read here; Blue Balls Colored Double Vinyl; Download released on Sept. 6; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch; Columbia)
The Blue Aeroplanes | “Magical Realism: The Best of the Blue Aeroplanes 1985-2025” (23 songs on one CD, with a 24-page booklet with lyrics and new track-by-track sleeves notes by frontman Gerard Langley; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Chrysalis)
Brass Construction | “The Definitive Collection – Don’t Stop Keep On” (three-CD, 43-track compilation; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Robinsongs / Cherry Red)
Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg | “No Resemblance Whatsoever” (1995 album; mastered by Michael Graves; See here; first time on Vinyl, with lacquers cut by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl/Sam Phillips Recording Service; Amazon UK; Omnivore Recordings)
Hootie & the Blowfish | “The Atlantic Years 1994-2003” (five-CD box set contains their first four studio albums, plus the covers collection “Scattered, Smothered & Covered”; Rhino-Exclusive Vinyl Box Set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Rhino / Atlantic)
Marty Robbins | “The Jasmine EP Collection” (29-track collection of songs drawn from EPs released in the U.S., the U.K., France, Holland and Australia between 1956-62; Jasmine)
Al Stewart | “Zero She Flies” (1970 album; with three bonus tracks; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Music on CD)
Thin Lizzy | “Acoustic Sessions” (original vocals from Phil Lynott, from their first three albums, are paired with new guitar parts from founding member Eric Bell; Hear here; Read here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Decca)
Various artists | “C92” (three-CD compilation of post-baggy, pre-Britpop indie tracks from 1992, featuring Radiohead, The Charlatans, Ride, Lush, Inspiral Carpets, Dodgy, Boo Radleys, The Auteurs, The Stairs, Levitation, et al; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; Cherry Red)
Various artists | “Embassy Records: The 78 RPM Years 1954-1957” (two-CD, 58-track collection of cover versions sold exclusively in Woolworths stores in the U.K.; Amazon UK; Jasmine)
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