New Music Friday: July 11, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
Barry Can’t Swim | “Loner” (Scottish DJ’s second album; new single: “Different”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Transparent Green and Opaque White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Ninja Tune)
Gina Birch | “Trouble” (Raincoats co-founder’s second solo album; new single: “Causing Trouble Again”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Third Man)
Burna Boy | “No Sign of Weakness” (Nigerian star’s eighth album; new single: “TaTaTa,” feat. Travis Scott; Hear here; Read here; Brown Opaque Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Spaceship / Bad Habit / Atlantic)
Clipse | “Let God Sort Em Out” (rap duo’s first album since 2009; producer: Pharrell Williams; new single: “Ace Trumpets”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour; Roc Nation)
Noah Cyrus | “I WANT MY LOVED ONES TO GO WITH ME” (Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter’s second album; producers: Cyrus, Mike Crossey, PJ Harding; guests: Fleet Foxes, Blake Shelton, Bill Callahan, Ella Langley; new single: “I Saw the Mountains”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; RECORDS Label / Columbia)
GIVĒON | “BELOVED” (R&B singer’s second album; producers: Jahaan Sweet, Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman, Maneesh, Matthew Burnett, Sevn Thomas; new single: “RATHER BE”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Translucent Tan Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Not So Fast / Epic)
Steve Hackett | “The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall” (Double CD + Blu-ray; October 2024 performance in London; mixed by Chris Lord-Alge; See here; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; InsideOutMusic)
Nate Mercereau, Josh Johnson & Carlos Niño | “Openness Trio” (debut collaborative album; new single: “Hawk Dreams”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Blue Note)
Maria Muldaur | “One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey” (guests: Elvin Bishop, Taj Mahal, Tuba Skinny; new single: “Funny Feathers”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Nola Blue)
Keith Secor | “Story the Crow Told Me” (Old Crow Medicine Show frontman’s debut solo album; producer: Jody Stevens; guests: Molly Tuttle, Marty Stuart, Old Crow alums Critter Fuqua and Willie Watson, The Cadillac Three’s Jaren Johnston; new single: “Dickerson Road”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, solo; On Tour, Old Crow Medicine Show; Equal Housing Records / Firebird Music)
Mark Stewart | “The Fateful Symmetry” (completed shortly before his untimely passing in April 2023; new single: “Neon Girl,” feat. Gina Birch; See here; Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Mute)
TWICE | “THIS IS FOR” (K-pop group’s fourth album; Dragonfruit Glitter Vinyl; Merch; JYP Entertainment / IMPERIAL / Republic)
Tanner Usrey | “These Days” (country-rock singer’s second album; producer: Dave Cobb; new single: “Don’t Let Go [Hold Me Close]”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Atlantic)
Wet Leg | “moisturizer” (British indie rock quintet’s second album; producer: Dan Carey; new single: “catch these fists”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Ice White Frosted Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Domino)
The Wildmans | “Longtime Friend” (Virginia roots-music band led by sister and brother Aila and Eli Wildman; producer: Nicholas Falk; new single: “Longtime Friend”; See here; Read here; Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; New West)
Plus … Brent Cobb & The Fixin’s | Calva Louise | Gwenno | Amy Macdonald | Tami Neilson | Gigi Perez | Petey USA | Stars Go Dim | Kate Vargas … and many more
REISSUES + MORE
Backstreet Boys | “Millennium 2.0” (Double CD; 1999 album, featuring “I Want It That Way,” “Larger Than Life” and “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely,” along with 13 bonus tracks, including live and alternative versions, demos, and the never-before-heard track, “Hey”; Double Vinyl; Target-Exclusive S’Mores Marbled Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Las Vegas Sphere Residency; Merch; Jive / Legacy)
The Bells | “Stay Awhile / Love, Luck N’ Lollipops” (1971 albums on one CD, with two bonus tracks; JGJ Records)
Bronski Beat | “Forbidden Fruit: The Age of Consent Remixed” (new reworks of the 1984 album from the likes of Gareth Jones, Kinky Roland, et al, with extended versions of 2024 remixes by Superchumbo and The Knocks; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; London)
Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids | “Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids / There’s No Face Like Chrome / Sons of the Beaches / Later Than Midnight” (their first four albums, from 1972-1988, on two CDs; JGJ Records)
Jeffrey Foskett | “Something There – Remembering Jeffrey Foskett” (first career anthology of The Beach Boys’ late backup singer-guitarist known as “Vice-Principal,” featuring 15 previously unissued tracks, including never-before-heard Brian Wilson song “Mary Honey”; includes guest appearances from Brian Wilson, Mike Love, America, Robert Lamm, Christopher Cross, Los Straitjackets, et al; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; Omnivore Recordings)
Don Gibson | “The King of Country Soul / More Country Soul / Dottie & Don / Don Gibson Sings All-Time Country Gold” (four albums from 1968-69 on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK; Morello)
Vince Guaraldi | “You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown: Original Soundtrack Recording (50th Anniversary Edition)” (premiere release of the score from the 1975 animated special; Clark Germain mixed the album at WonderWorld Studio; restored and mastered by Vinson Hudson; with four bonus cuts from “Bicycles Are Beautiful”; 45 RPM Zoetrope Picture Disc; Download; Merch; Lee Mendelson Film Productions)
Honey Cone | “Take Me With You / Sweet Replies / Soulful Tapestry / Love, Peace & Soul” (four albums, from 1970-1972, on two CDs, featuring “Want Ads,” “Stick-Up” and “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show”; JGJ Records)
Jethro Tull | “Still Living in the Past” (1972 compilation of singles, album tracks and outtakes; five-CD, one-Blu-ray Audio box set expanded to include Steven Wilson remixes, edits, demos, “Live at Carnegie Hall 1970” and four promo films; includes 24/96 PCM stereo, DTS 5.1 surround, flat transfer of the original album and bonus unreleased original mixes; Double Vinyl, featuring Steven Wilson remixes of the original album and 1971 master mixes of the closing tracks; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch; Rhino / Parlophone)
The Kinks | “The Journey – Part 3” (Double CD; final installment in 60th anniversary celebration covers the band’s Arista years, 1977-1984, along with the previously unreleased “Live at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England – 7/11/1993”; Double Vinyl, minus the live set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; BMG Rights Management)
Melanie | “Melanie in Nashville: Anyway That You Want Me” (recordings from 1980; Cleopatra)
Chris Rea | “New Light Through Old Windows: The Best of Chris Rea” (Double CD; 1988 compilation; remastered; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Rhino / Warner)
Sonny Rollins | “The Prestige Albums 1953-1957” (eight original 10-inch and 12-inch albums on three CDs, featuring recordings with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Roy Haynes, Kenny Drew, et al; Amazon UK; Acrobat)
Sneaker | “Sneaker / Loose in the World” (1981 and 1982 albums on one CD, featuring their only Top 40 hit, “More Than Just the Two of Us”; See here; JGJ Records)
311 | “311 (30th Anniversary Edition)” (1995 album, featuring “Don’t Stay Home,” “All Mixed Up” and “Down”; remastered, with seven bonus tracks; Blue Smoke Double Vinyl; Download; On Tour; Merch; Legacy Recordings)
Various artists | “NOW 12″ 80s: 1985 – Part One” (four CDs, 46 tracks; Amazon UK; Sony Music / EMI)
Bobby Whitlock | “Bobby Whitlock / Raw Velvet / One of a Kind / Rock Your Sox Off” (his first four solo albums, circa 1972-1976, on two CDs; JGJ Records)
Yusuf / Cat Stevens | “Mona Bone Jakon” (1970 album, featuring “Lady D’Arbanville”; CD Digisleeve in Japanese-style gatefold jacket; remastered; Vinyl) + “Tea for the Tillerman” (1970 album, featuring “Wild World,” “Father & Son” and “Where Do the Children Play?”; CD Digisleeve in Japanese-style gatefold jacket; remastered; Vinyl; On Tour; A&M / UMe)
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