New Music Friday: March 28, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
The Adventures | “Once More With Feeling” (Belfast band’s first album in more than 30 years, featuring original members Pat Gribben, Terry Sharpe and Eileen Gribben; includes a songwriting collaboration between Gribben and Cathy Dennis; Read here; Amazon UK; Cherry Red)
Don Airey | “Pushed to the Edge” (Deep Purple keyboardist’s seventh solo album; new single: “Tell Me”; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; earMUSIC)
Arch Enemy | “Blood Dynasty” (their 12th studio album; producer: Jens Bogren; new single: “Liars & Thieves”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Century Media)
Joe Armon-Jones | “All the Quiet (Part I)” (Ezra Collective keyboardist’s first solo LP in six years; Part II is out June 13; producer: Armon-Jones; guests: Greentea Peng, Wu-Lu, Yazmin Lacey, Hak Baker, Nubya Garcia, Oscar Jerome, et al; new single: “Kingfisher”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Aquarii)
Butcher Brown | “Letters From the Atlantic” (guests: Yaya Bey, Melanie Charles, Leanor Wolf, Mia Gladstone, Victoria Victoria, Nicholas Payton, Neal Francis; new single: “Ibiza”; See here; Read here; Translucent Sea Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Concord Jazz)
Butler, Blake & Grant | “Butler, Blake & Grant” (debut album from Suede co-founder Bernard Butler, Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and Love and Money’s James Grant; new single: “Bring an End”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; 355 Recordings)
Chase Atlantic | “LOST IN HEAVEN” (Australian R&B/rock trio’s fourth album; producers: Chase Atlantic, Christian Anthony, Clinton Cave, Mitchel Cave, Tricky Stewart; new single: “DOUBT IT”; See here; Violet Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Nov. 1; Apple Music; On Tour; Fearless / Concord)
Lucy Dacus | “Forever Is a Feeling” (her fourth solo album; guests: Hozier, Madison Cunningham, as well as Dacus’ boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker; new singles: “Ankles” and “Limerence”; See here; Read here; Clear Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Greek Marble Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Geffen)
The Darkness | “Dreams on Toast” (British rock band’s eighth album; producer: guitarist Dan Hawkins; new single: “The Longest Kiss”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; On Tour; Cooking Vinyl)
Maya Delilah | “The Long Way Round” (London-based singer-songwriter and guitarist’s debut album; producers: Peter Miles, Josh Grant, Doug Schadt, Seth Tackaberry, Ben Fletcher, Tom Higham; new single: “Maya Maya Maya”; Hear here; Transparent Pumpkin Spice Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Blue Note)
Destroyer | “Dan’s Boogie” (Vancouver indie rock band’s 14th album; new single: “Bologna”; See here; Vinyl; Black Swirl/Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merge)
Envy of None | “Stygian Wavz” (sophomore album from supergroup led by Alex Lifeson; new single: “Stygian Waves”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Kscope)
Bryan Ferry | “Loose Talk” (his 17th solo album and first since 2018; a collaboration with performance artist Amelia Barratt; new single: “Orchestra”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Dene Jesmond Records)
Alison Krauss & Union Station | “Arcadia” (their first album since 2011; new member: Russell Moore on guitar, mandolin and co-lead vocals; producers: Krauss, Union Station, Gary Paczosa; new single: “Looks Like the End of the Road”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Translucent Violet Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Down the Road)
Lil Durk | “Deep Thoughts” (Download; new single: “Monitoring Me”; See here; Apple Music; Alamo Records / Sony)
Branford Marsalis Quartet | “Belonging” (a full album reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett’s 1974 ECM album of the same name; his first new release since 2019 with bandmates pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner; new single: “Spiral Dance”; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour; Blue Note)
Mumford & Sons | “RUSHMERE” (their fifth album and first in seven years; producer: Dave Cobb; new single: “Rushmere”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Clear Smoke Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Bloodshot Red Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Translucent Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Glassnote)
NAV | “OMW2 REXDALE” (new single: “Real Me,” feat. Metro Boomin; See here; Download; Apple Music; XO / Republic)
Perfume Genius | “Glory” (recorded with guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann, drummers Tim Carr and Jim Keltner, and bassist Pat Kelly; producer: Blake Mills; new single: “No Front Teeth”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Matador)
Underoath | “The Place After This One” (Tampa hardcore/punk band’s 10th album; producers: Danen Reed Rector, Matt Huber; guest: Troy Sanders of Mastodon; new single: “All the Love Is Gone”; See here; Translucent Ruby Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; MNRK Heavy)
REISSUES + MORE
Athlete | “Tourist (20th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 2005 album, nominated for Mercury Prize, featuring “Wires” and “Half Light”; newly remastered by Phil Kinrade, with B-sides and rarities, housed in 24-page hardback book; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Chrysalis)
Fleetwood Mac | “Fleetwood Mac 1975 to 1987” (five-CD box set contains “Fleetwood Mac,” “Rumours,” “Tusk,” “Mirage,” and “Tango in the Night”; Vinyl, six-LP box set; Amazon UK; Download; Merch; Rhino / Warner)
Ariana Grande | “eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead” (2024 album; with nine bonus tracks, including six new songs; Read here; Translucent Marble Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Merch; Republic)
Helloween | “March of Time (The Best of 40 Years)” (three CDs, 42 songs; Vinyl, five red LP box set; Amazon UK; Download; BMG Rights Management)
Robert Hunter | “Tiger Rose (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1975 album, produced by Jerry Garcia; remastered, with nine previously unreleased alternate versions of album tracks; Hear here; Vinyl, remastered from the original analog tapes by Grammy Award-winning engineer David Glasser using Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction; Download; Apple Music; Rhino)
Iron City Houserockers | “Blood on the Bricks (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1981 album, produced by Steve Cropper; remastered, with 11 previously unreleased bonus tracks; Amazon UK; Download; Omnivore Recordings)
The Jackson 5 | “Dancing Machine & Moving Violation” (1974 and 1975 albums on one CD, featuring “Dancing Machine,” “I Am Love” and “Forever Came Today”; Amazon UK; Music on CD)
Jimmy Jones | “Good Timin’: The Singles Collection 1956-62” (31 tracks on one CD, featuring “Handy Man” and “Good Timin’,” plus A- and B-sides on the Savoy, Rama, Epic and Cub labels; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Acrobat)
Iry LeJeune | “Viens Me Chercher” (translated: “Come and Get Me”; two-CD collection of previously unheard master tapes, unreleased alternate takes, and a rare radio performance from the Cajun button accordion great, who was struck and killed by a car in 1955 at age 26; Opaque Sky Blue and Opaque Red Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Yep Roc)
Santana | “Sentient” (11-track retrospective, compiled by the guitar legend; remastered and sequenced in a way to tell a dramatic story; guests: Smokey Robinson, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, the late Miles Davis and Michael Jackson, Paolo Rustichelli, Cindy Blackman Santana; new single: “Please Don’t Take Your Love”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Frosted Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Candid)
Pete Townshend | “The Studio Albums” (eight-CD box set; newly remastered by Jon Astley; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Amazon DE; Amazon ES; Universal)
Meghan Trainor | “Title (10th Anniversary Edition)” (2015 debut album, featuring “All About That Bass,” “Lips Are Movin,” “Dear Future Husband” and “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”; contains two bonus cuts and six tracks from “Live from Spotify London”; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Epic / Legacy)
Van Halen | “Live in Dallas 1991” (previously unreleased concert from their For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge Tour; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Merch; Rhino / Warner)
Various artists | “NOW Yearbook ’98 Extra” (three CDs, 60 songs; Amazon UK; Sony Music / EMI)
Various artists | “Paul Weller Presents That Sweet, Sweet Music” (26-track curated collection of his favorite soul records; Hear/Read here; Double Vinyl; Double Yolk Vinyl; Amazon UK; Ace)
Dinah Washington | “Hits and Classics: The Singles Collection 1944-62” (four-CD, 108-song set, featuring singles on the Keynote, Decca, Apollo and Mercury labels; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Acrobat)
The Charlie Watts Orchestra | “Live at Fulham Town Hall” (1986 performance; remastered, with 12-page booklet; Download; BMG Rights Management)
Wishbone Ash | “Wishbone Ash – At The BBC 1970-1988” (11-CD, one-DVD box set, with 72-page hardback book; Read here; Amazon UK; Madfish Music)
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