New Music Friday: June 13, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
Joe Armon-Jones | “All the Quiet (Part II)” (Ezra Collective keyboardist’s first solo LP in six years; Part I released on March 28; producer: Armon-Jones; guests: Greentea Peng, Wu-Lu, Yazmin Lacey, Hak Baker, Nubya Garcia, Oscar Jerome, et al; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download; Aquarii)
Dierks Bentley | “Broken Branches” (country star’s 11th studio album; producers: Jon Randall, Ross Copperman; guests: Miranda Lambert, John Anderson, Riley Green, Stephen Wilson Jr.; new single: “Well Well Whiskey”; See here; Jet Black Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Capitol Nashville)
Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap | “Elemental” (Grammy winners’ first collaborative album; new single: “Honeysuckle Rose”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour; Mack Avenue / DDB Records)
Buckcherry | “Roar Like Thunder” (California rockers’ 11th album; producer: Marti Frederiksen; new single: “Roar Like Thunder”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Round Hill)
The Bug Club | “Very Human Features” (Welsh indie rock band’s fourth album; producer: Tom Reesl new single: “Jealous Boy”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour; Sub Pop)
Calum Hood | “ORDER chaos ORDER” (5 Seconds of Summer bassist-vocalist’s debut solo album; new single: “Don’t Forget You Love Me”; See here; Opaque Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Capitol)
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | “Phantom Island” (Download; Australian psych-rock band’s 27th album; producer: frontman Stu Mackenzie; new single: “Deadsick”; See here; Read here; Recycled Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour; p(doom) records)
Brandon Lake | “King of Hearts” (Grammy-winning Christian artist’s fourth album; producers: Micah Nichols, Rodrick Simmons; guests: Jelly Roll, CeCe Winans, Hank Bentley, Hulvey; new single: “SEVENS”; See here; Walmart-Exclusive CD, with bonus version of “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” with Jelly Roll, live from the Grand Ole Opry; Download, with a bonus Amazon Music Original version of “I Know a Name”; Apple Music; On Tour; Provident Label Group)
Larry McCray | “Heartbreak City” (Rust Belt blues singer-guitarist’s 11th album; producers: Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith; new single: “Bye Bye Blues”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Keeping the Blues Alive)
Idina Menzel, et al | “Redwood (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (cast includes De’Adre Aziza, Michael Park, Zachary Noah Piser, et al; producers: Neil Avron, Kate Diaz; orchestrations and arrangements by Diaz; new single: “In the Leaves”; See here; Double Vinyl out July 25; Download released on May 13; Apple Music; On Broadway; Masterworks Broadway)
Mister Romantic | “What’s Not to Love?” (recording debut of actor John C. Reilly’s vaudevillian-style character tackling the Great American Songbook; producers: David Garza, Reilly; new single: his version of Johnny Mercer’s “Dream”; Hear here; Read here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Eternal Magic Recordings)
Van Morrison | “Remembering Now” (his first collection of original music since 2022; producer: Morrison; new single: “Down to Joy”; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Exile Productions)
The Ting Tings | “Home” (English indie pop duo’s fifth album and first since 2018; new single: “Good People Do Bad Things”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Wonderful)
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts | “Talkin’ to the Trees” (producer: Lou Adler; new single: “Lets Roll Again”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Reprise)
Plus … Mindi Abair | Annahstasia | AVKRVST | Byzantine | Dillon Carmichael | Fallujah | Lyra Pramuk | WITCH | Patrick Wolf | Isaiah J. Thompson … and many more
REISSUES + MORE
The Cure | “Mixes of a Lost World” (Double CD; conceived and compiled by Robert Smith, new remix collection from 2024 album “Songs of a Lost World,” featuring remixes from Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, Deftones’ Chino Moreno, 65daysofstatic, and Mogwai; all Cure royalties will benefit War Child; Bio Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch; Capitol)
Grateful Dead | “Gratest Hits” (nine-track best-of marking the band’s 60th anniversary; Read here; Amazon-Exclusive Orange Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Opaque Spring Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch; Rhino / Grateful Dead Productions)
Vicki Lawrence | “Singles” (best-of includes her 1973 No. 1 “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” and the follow-up “He Did With Me”; Garrett Music / Notefornote Music)
John Mayall | “The Second Generation: Live Magic 1968-1993” (30-CD box set, with hardback book, featuring collaborations with Mick Taylor, Harvey Mandel, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya, Keef Hartley, John McVie, Larry Taylor, et al; Read here; Madfish)
Metallica | “Load (Expanded Edition)” (Triple CD; 1996 album, featuring “Until It Sleeps,” “Hero of the Day,” “Mama Said” and “King Nothing”; remastered, with previously unreleased songs, demos, rough mixes and live tracks, plus a 36-page booklet; Read here; Deluxe Box Set, 15 CDs, six LPs and four DVDs; Amazon UK; Deluxe Download, 233 songs; Apple Music; Merch; Rhino / Blackened Recordings)
New Kids on the Block | “Step by Step (35th Anniversary)” (1990 album, featuring the title track and “Tonight”; six bonus tracks: two previously unreleased songs and four remixes; Read here; Vinyl, without bonus cuts; Target-Exclusive White Opaque Vinyl; Download, with 13 bonus tracks; Apple Music; Las Vegas Residency; Columbia / Legacy)
Oasis | “Time Flies… 1994-2009” (Double CD; 26-track compilation from 2010; remastered; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour; Merch; Legacy Recordings)
Queen | “Queen I” (Blu-ray Audio; 2024 remix of their 1973 debut album in Dolby Atmos, with stereo backing tracks and a stereo mix, featuring “Keep Yourself Alive” and “Seven Seas of Rhye”; Merch; Legacy Recordings)
Neil Sedaka | “Sedaka’s Back” (1974 compilation, featuring “Laughter in the Rain”; with four bonus tracks; remastered; Hear here; Red Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Primary Wave)
Connie Smith | “Born to Sing / Soul of Country Music / I Love Charley Brown / Sunshine and Rain” (four albums from 1966-1968 on two CDs; Amazon UK; Morello)
Ultravox | “Lament (Deluxe Edition)” (1984 album, featuring “Dancing With Tears In My Eyes”; eight-disc, 72-track box set includes a newly remastered version of the album, plus B-sides, 12-inch remixes, 45 previously unreleased tracks, along with new 5.1 and stereo mixes by Steven Wilson and newly mixed full concert from Hammersmith Odeon 1984; Amazon UK; Chrysalis)
Various artists | “NOW Yearbook: Vault ’81” (U.K. release; four CDs, 82 tracks; Transparent Purple Triple Vinyl, 45 songs; Sony Music / EMI)
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