New Music Friday: March 14, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks | “Live – Perpetual Change” (CD + DVD; recorded and filmed at Arcada Theater in St. Charles, IL in August 2023; See here; Blu-ray; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Frontiers Music s.r.l.)
Circuit des Yeux | “Halo on the Inside” (Chicago-based musician Haley Fohr’s eighth album; producer: Andrew Broder; new single: “Megaloner”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Matador)
Nels Cline | “Consentrik Quartet” (his fourth album for Blue Note, with band comprising saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Chris Lightcap, and drummer Tom Rainey; new single: “The 23”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Blue Note)
clipping. | “Dead Channel Sky” (experimental hip-hop group’s fifth album; producers: clipping., Steve Kaplan; guests: Aesop Rock, Nels Cline, Bitpanic, Tia Nomore, Cartel Madras; new single: “Change the Channel”; See here; Read here; Ghostly Green Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Sub Pop)
Coheed and Cambria | “The Father of Make Believe” (their 10th album; producers: singer-guitarist Claudio Sanchez, Zakk Cervini; new single: “Searching for Tomorrow”; See here; Magenta Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Virgin Music Group)
Edwyn Collins | “Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation” (Scottish musician’s 10th solo album; producers: Collins, Sean Read, Jake Hutton; new single: “Knowledge”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; AED Records)
Charley Crockett | “Lonesome Drifter” (producers: Crockett, Shooter Jennings; new single: “Lonesome Drifter”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Island)
DOROTHY | “THE WAY” (L.A. rock band’s fourth album; producer: Scott Stevens; new single: “Tombstone Town,” feat. Slash; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Roc Nation)
JISOO | “AMORTAGE” (BLACKPINK member’s debut solo mini-album; producers: Blissoo, The Wavys; Read here; Purple Vers.; Target-Exclusive CD; Download released on Feb. 14; Warner)
Jan Lisiecki | “preludes” (Canadian pianist tackles Bach, Messiaen, Rachmaninoff, Górecki and Chopin; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Deutsche Grammophon)
The Seldom Scene | “Remains to Be Scene” (bluegrass band’s first album since the death of founding member and trailblazing banjo player Ben Eldridge; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour; Smithsonian Folkways)
Throwing Muses | “Moonlight Concessions” (indie rock band’s 11th album and first since 2020; producer: singer-guitarist Kristin Hersh; new single: “Summer of Love”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Fire)
Various artists | “Maybe Happy Ending (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (Download; new musical starring Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen; Hear here; Apple Music; On Broadway; Ghostlight)
ZZ Ward | “Liberation” (her fourth album; producer: Ryan Spraker; new single: “Love Alive”; See here; Psychedelic Waves Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Dirty Shine / Sun Records)
Steven Wilson | “The Overview” (his eighth solo album; 42-minute, two-song journey, with lyrics from XTC’s Andy Partridge; Read here; Vinyl, mastered at half-speed at Miles Showell; Blu-ray Audio; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour; Fiction)
Warren Zeiders | “Relapse, Lies, & Betrayal” (2024 “Relapse” album expended to 21 tracks; new single: “Can a Heart Take”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; 717 Entertainment / Warner)
REISSUES + MORE
Goo Goo Dolls | “A Boy Named Goo (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1995 album, featuring “Only One,” “Name,” “Naked” and “Long Way Down”; includes an unreleased live concert performance recorded in Las Vegas on March 10, 1996, plus four B-sides and six songs the band recorded for the radio show “Modern Rock Live” in 1996; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Warner)
Mike + The Mechanics | “Looking Back – Living the Years” (16-song compilation; Hear here; Double Vinyl out April 4; Amazon UK; On Tour; Craft Recordings / Concord)
of Montreal | “The Sunlandic Twins (20th Anniversary Edition)” (Download; 2005 album; with 40 bonus tracks of B-sides, rarities, remixes, and a 2006 live set; Translucent Ruby Red Double Vinyl, remastered by Glenn Schick, with a half-speed vinyl master by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, with 10 bonus tracks; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour; Polyvinyl)
Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes | “Live at the Greek” (Triple CD; 25th anniversary reissue of their 2000 album, with 16 previously unreleased recordings from the 1999 concerts at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Vinyl Box Set, six LPs; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Silver Arrow)
Carly Pearce | “hummingbird: no rain, no flowers (deluxe)” (Download; 2024 album; with five new tracks; new single: “no rain”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour; Big Machine)
Steve Reich | “Steve Reich Collected Works” (26-CD, one-DVD box set covering the Grammy-winning composer’s past 40 years with Nonesuch; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Nonesuch)
Rufus and Chaka Khan | “Stompin’ at the Savoy – Live / Seal in Red” (Double CD; 1983 albums, with three bonus tracks; Read here; Amazon UK; Robinsongs / Cherry Red)
The Smithereens | “2011” (2011 album, originally released on eOne Music; final LP with original lead singer Pat DiNizio, produced by Don Dixon; Clear Vinyl, first time on vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour, with guest vocalist John Cowsill; Sunset Blvd.)
Snow Patrol | “The Forest Is the Path (Extended Edition)” (2024 album; with five new songs and a Will Reynolds remix of “This Is the Sound of Your Voice”; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour; Republic)
Talk Talk | “The Very Best of Talk Talk” (1997 compilation; with one bonus track, “New Grass”; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Rhino / Parlophone)
Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Gold – The Ultimate Hits” (four CDs, 85 songs; Amazon UK; Sony Music / EMI)
World Party | “Best in Show” (17-song compilation from 2007; Yellow and Red Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Seaview)
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