New Music Friday: March 21, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
James Arthur | “Pisces” (English singer-songwriter’s sixth album; producer: Steve Solomon; new single: “ADHD”; See here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Columbia)
Bloodywood | “Nu Delhi” (Indian metal band’s third album; producer: guitarist Karan Katiyar; guests: BABYMETAL; new single: “Tadka”; See here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Fearless / Concord)
The Cat Empire | “Bird in Paradise” (Australian, Flamenco, Afro-Cuban project’s 10th album; new single: “Blood on the Stage”; See here; Blue Wren Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; BMG Rights Management)
Cerrone | “Disco Symphony” (Double CD; revisits 21 of his greatest hits, performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Cannes; Hear here; Amber Crystal Clear Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on Feb. 21; Apple Music; Because Music)
Cradle of Filth | “The Screaming of the Valkyries” (Grammy-nominated extreme metal band’s 14th album; producer: Scott Atkins; new single: “To Live Deliciously”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Napalm)
Deacon Blue | “The Great Western Road” (Scottish band’s 11th album; producers: lead singer Ricky Ross, guitarist Gregor Philp; new single: “Late ’88”; Hear here; Transparent Blue Vinyl; HMV-Exclusive Yellow Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour; Cooking Vinyl)
Kinky Friedman | “Poet of Motel 6” (posthumous album from the Texas icon, recorded at his Echo Hill Ranch; producer: David Mansfield; guests: Rodney Crowell, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Rick Trevino, Amy Nelson; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Hardcharger / Blue Élan)
Selena Gomez & benny blanco | “I Said I Love You First” (her first album since 2020; producers: blanco, FINNEAS; guests: FINNEAS, Lucy Healey; new single: “Scared of Loving You”; See here; Read here; Candy Can Red Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Merlot Vinyl, with alternative artwork and poster; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch; SMG Music / Friends Keep Secrets / Interscope)
Greentea Peng | “TELL DEM IT’S SUNNY” (London singer’s second album; producers: Declan Gaffney, Earbuds, J Mills, Nat Powers, SAMO, St Francis Hotel; new single: “One Foot”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; AWAL Recordings)
Lonnie Holley | “Tonky” (guests: Isaac Brock, billy woods, Mary Lattimore, Alabaster dePlume, Open Mike Eagle, Angel Bat Dawid, Saul Williams, Jesca Hoop, Joe Minter; new single: “Protest With Love”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Jagjaguwar)
The Horrors | “Night Life” (English rock band’s sixth album; new members: Amelia Kidd on keyboards and Telegram’s Jordan Cook on drums; new single: “The Silence That Remains”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Glow in the Dark Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Fiction)
Ryan Hurd | “Midwest Rock & Roll” (Grammy-nominated country singer-songwriter’s second album; guest: Sasha Alex Sloan; new single: “Die For It”; See here; Silvertone Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Big Machine)
Ashley Jackson | “Take Me to the Water” (award-winning harpist’s label debut album; new singles: “Deep River Pt. 1” and “Deep River Pt. 2”; See here; Read here; Download; Apple Music; Decca)
Japanese Breakfast | “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)” (Michelle Zauner’s fourth album; producer: Blake Mills; guest: Jeff Bridges; new single: “Orlando in Love”; See here; Read here; Frosted Shadow Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Summer Sky Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Frosted Coke Bottle Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Dead Oceans)
Dave Mason | “A Shade of Blues” (11-track blues album includes covers of “Dear Mr. Fantasy” and “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys”; guests: Michael McDonald, Joe Bonamassa, Warren Hill; Blue Vinyl; Amazon.ca; On Tour; Barham Records)
McFly | “21 Live” (Double CD; 21st anniversary concert, recorded at The O2 in London in October 2024; See here; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Super Records)
My Morning Jacket | “is” (their 10th album; producer: Brendan O’Brien; new single: “Time Waited”; See here; Summer Sky Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Blue/Rust Swirl Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; ATO)
Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd | “YOUNG FASHIONED WAYS” (new single: “Who Was That,” which will also be featured in the Lionsgate film “Flight Risk,” starring Mark Wahlberg, in theaters on Jan. 24; Hear here; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Deep Rush Records / Ram Records / Thirty Tigers)
Howard Shore | “Howard Shore: Anthology – The Paris Concerts” (Double CD; spring 2023 concerts by Shore, hosted by “Maison de Radio France”; also includes two concerts by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Ludwig Wicki and Bastien Still, with a third concert for small ensemble of experimental works; See here; Double Vinyl; Triple Picture Disc; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Deutsche Grammophon)
Jessica Simpson | “Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1” (Download; five-song EP; her first new music in 16 years; new single: “Use Your Heart Against Me”; Hear here; Apple Music; Nashville Canyon)
The Stylistics | “Falling in Love With My Girl” (Double CD; group lineup: original members Airrion Love and Herb Murrell, with Jason Sharp; their first album since 2008; guests: Shania Twain, The Elton John Band feat. Nigel Olsson and Davey Johnstone, Ronnie Wood, Gene Simmons, Billy F Gibbons, Bill Champlin, Justin Hawkins, Ray Parker Jr., The Real Thing, Tower of Power, Steve Lukather, Nathan East; new single: “Yes, I Will”; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour; Greatest Music of All Time LLC / Absolute Label Services)
REISSUES + MORE
Blue Rodeo | “Greatest Hits, Vol. 2” (16 songs; Double Vinyl; Amazon.ca; WEA Canada)
Climie Fisher | “Everything (Deluxe Edition)” (1988 debut album, featuring “Love Changes [Everything]”; five-CD clamshell box set, with 51 bonus tracks, featuring singles, B-sides, remixes, edits, alternate versions, demos, previously unreleased recordings, etc.; with 28-page booklet; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cherry Pop)
De La Soul | “The Grind Date (20th Anniversary)” (Double CD; 2004 album; with bonus instrumental versions of “The Grind Date,” “Verbal Clap,” “Shopping Bags” and “Days of Our Loves”; Hear here; Splatter Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch; BMG Rights Management)
Vince Guaraldi | “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown! Original Soundtrack Recording” (19-track score, with one bonus song; mixed by Clark Germain at WonderWorld Studio, and restored and mastered by Vinson Hudson from the original 2″ session tapes to a 192kHz/24bit master; Hear here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Lee Mendelson Film Productions)
Don McLean | “Greatest Hits Live! At the Dominion Theater” (20-song London performance from 1980; remastered; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour; BFD)
The Alan Parsons Project | “Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe) (Expanded Edition)” (1976 debut album, featuring “[The System of] Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” and “The Raven”; remastered, with four bonus tracks; Clear Vinyl, half-speed mastered at Abbey Road Studios, with no extra tracks; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour; Cooking Vinyl)
Rush | “Rush 50” (four-CD box set, featuring 50 tracks from every studio, live and deluxe reissue album, with 104-page hardcover book, etc.; Vinyl, seven-LP box set; Super Deluxe Edition, four-CD, seven-LP box set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch; Mercury / UMe)
Tina Turner | “Private Dancer (40th Anniversary Edition)” (Grammy-winning 1984 comeback album, featuring “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” “Better Be Good to Me,” “Private Dancer” and “Show Some Respect”; five-CD, one-Blu-ray box set includes previously unreleased tracks, B-sides, single edits, extended versions, etc.; plus newly upgraded 55-minute Private Dancer Tour show filmed at the NEC, Birmingham, with guests David Bowie and Bryan Adams; also includes five upgraded music videos, fully restored to 4K from its original 35mm film; Hear here; Read here; Double CD, with B-sides, single edits, and extended versions; Pearl Vinyl, with 12×12 art card of the U.S. album cover; Picture Disc; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Rhino / Parlophone)
Various artists | “Jingle Jangle Morning: The 1960s U.S. Folk-Rock Explosion” (three-CD, 74-song compilation, featuring tracks by The Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, the Youngbloods, Judy Collins, Dion, Linda Ronstadt, the Lovin’ Spoonful, et al; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Strawberry / Cherry Red)
Various artists | “Middle Earth: The Soundtrack of London’s Legendary Psychedelic Club 1967-1969” (three-CD clamshell box set, featuring tracks by The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Yes, Traffic, The Byrds, Free, The Pretty Things, et al; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Strawberry / Cherry Red)
Various artists | “Motor City Is Burning: A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972” (three-CD, 66-song compilation, featuring The Stooges, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, ? & The Mysterians, Rare Earth, Freda Payne, R. Dean Taylor, et al; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Grapefruit / Cherry Red)
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