New Music Friday: May 16, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
Avery Anna | “let go letters” (country singer-songwriter’s second album; each of the 14 tracks was inspired by real-life situations and struggles shared by fans in letters they wrote to her; new single: “danny don’t”; Hear here; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Warner Music Nashville)
BEATrio | “BEATrio” (debut album from Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez; new single: “Archipelago”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Béla Fleck Productions / Thirty Tigers)
BOYNEXTDOOR | “BOYNEXTDOOR 4th EP [No Genre]” (K-pop group’s fourth mini album; Target-Exclusive CD, with photo card; KOZ Entertainment)
Bury Tomorrow | “Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience” (British metalcore band’s eighth album; producer: Carl Brown; new single: “What If I Burn”; See here; Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Music For Nations)
Damiano David | “FUNNY little FEARS” (Måneskin frontman’s debut solo album; producers: Jason Evigan, Labrinth, Mark Schick; new single: “Next Summer”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Sony Music Italy / Arista)
Friendship | “Caveman Wakes Up” (Philly indie rock quartet’s fifth album; producers: Friendship; new single: “Free Association”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merge)
Ms. Ezra Furman | “Goodbye Small Head” (her 10th studio album; producer: Brian Deck; new single: “Power of the Moon”; See here; Read here; Sea Blue Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Red and White Candy Swirl Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Bella Union)
José James | “1978: Revenge of The Dragon” (recorded live to tape in one take at Dreamland Studios near Woodstock, NY; producer: James; guests: Ben Wendel, Takuya Kuroda, Taali, Ebban Dorsey; new single: “They Sleep, We Grind [For Badu]”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Rainbow Blonde)
Jin | “Echo” (BTS member’s second mini album; available in other versions; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with photo card; BIGHIT MUSIC)
Bryce Leatherwood | “Bryce Leatherwood” (Georgia native and “The Voice” season 22 winner’s debut album; new single: “Shenandoah”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Mercury Nashville)
M(h)aol | “Something Soft” (Irish post-punk trio’s second album; new single: “DM:AM”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merge)
Miso Extra | “Earcandy” (Japanese-British singer and producer’s debut album, featuring collaborations with DJ Boring, Metronomy, AK Paul, Samo, Tyson and Michelle; producers: Miso Extra, Ricky Damian; new single: “Certified”; See here; Baby Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Transgressive)
MØ | “Plæygirl” (Danish indie-pop singer-songwriter’s fourth album; producer: Nick Sylvester; new single: “SWEET,” feat. Biig Piig; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; RCA)
MEOVV | “My Eyes Open VVide” (K-pop group’s debut EP; new single: “Hands Up”; Target-Exclusive CD, with photo card; THEBLACKLABEL)
Charlie Musselwhite | “Look Out Highway” (recorded at Kid Andersen’s Greaseland Studio in San Jose, CA; guests: Edna Luckett, Al Kapone; new single: “Storm Warning”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Forty Below)
Ken Pomeroy | “Cruel Joke” (her second album; producers: Dakota McDaniel, Gary Paczosa, Colton Jean; guest: John Moreland; new single: “Stranger”; Hear here; Read here; Forest Green Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Rounder / Concord)
Prince Royce | “Eterno” (his eighth studio album, with reworking of classic pop hits into bachata; new single: “How Deep Is Your Love”; Hear here; Blue Vinyl out Sept. 5; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Sony U.S. Latin)
Rico Nasty | “LETHAL” (Maryland rap-rock artist’s third album; new single: “TEETHSUCKER [YEA3X]”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Fueled By Ramen / Atlantic)
Sleep Theory | “Afterglow” (Memphis nu-rockers’ debut album; producer: Dave Cowell; new single: “Static”; See here; Translucent Clear with Orange Swirl Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Epitaph)
Robin Trower | “Come and Find Me” (English rock guitar legend’s 28th solo studio album; new single: “A Little Bit of Freedom”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Provogue / Artone Label Group)
Tune-Yards | “Better Dreaming” (Oakland-based experimental pop duo’s sixth album; new single: “Limelight”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; 4AD)
Various artists | “Chet Baker Re:imagined” (reworkings of the trumpeter-singer’s classic repertoire, to mark 70 years since the release of the seminal jazz album “Chet Baker Sings”; featuring dodie, Matt Maltese, Matilda Mann, Joel Culpepper, Ife Ogunjobi, Hohnen Ford, Eloise, Poppy Daniels, mxmtoon, Sara Kang, grentperez, et al; new single: dodie’s “Old Devil Moon”; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Blue Note)
Morgan Wallen | “I’m the Problem” (Double CD; his fourth album; 37 songs; producers: Joey Moi, Charlie Handsome; guests: Post Malone, Tate McRae, Eric Church, ERNEST, HARDY; new single: “I Ain’t Comin’ Back”; Hear here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with fishing ID; Target-Exclusive Opaque Brown Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch; Big Loud / Mercury)
Carolyn Wonderland | “Truth Is” (producer: Dave Alvin; new single: “Sooner or Later”; See here; Read here; Maroon Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Alligator)
REISSUES + MORE
Avicii | “Avicii Forever” (20-song compilation includes a new track, “Let’s Ride Away,” with Elle King on vocals; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Interscope / UMe)
Chuck Berry | “The Jasmine EP Collection” (30 songs drawn from EPs issued in the U.S., U.K. and Sweden between 1956 and 1963, including A-sides, B-sides and LP tracks; Merch; Jasmine)
Larry Carlton | “The Warner Brothers Anthology” (three-CD compilation of tracks from his six Warner albums, along with tracks with The Crusaders and Fourplay and Mike Post’s Grammy-winning “Hill Street Blues” theme song, featuring Carlton on guitar; Read here; Amazon UK; Robinsongs / Cherry Red)
The Church | “The Hypnogogue” (2023 album; Double Vinyl; On Tour; Easy Action)
Dire Straits | “Brothers in Arms (40th Anniversary Edition)” (U.K. release; Triple CD; 1985 album, featuring “Money for Nothing,” “Walk of Life” and “So Far Away”; with previously unreleased 15-track concert from San Antonio’s Municipal Auditorium in 1985; plus a 28-page booklet featuring new liner notes, written by Paul Sexton, with new interviews with band members Mark Knopfler, John Illsley and Guy Fletcher; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Rhino / Warner)
Hozier | “Hozier (10th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 2014 debut album, featuring Grammy-nominated “Take Me to Church”; with 13 live and studio tracks; Opaque Custard Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Olive Green Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour; Columbia / Legacy)
Linkin Park | “From Zero (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 2024 album; with three new songs, five live tracks and expanded packaging, including a 16-page booklet; Translucent Emerald Green Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch; Warner)
Oscar Peterson | “In Session: Oscar’s Arrangement” (25-song collection of his session work, for the likes of Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Lester Young, Benny Carter, Roy Eldridge, et al; Jasmine)
Britney Spears | “Oops!… I Did It Again (25th Anniversary Edition)” (Download; 2000 album, featuring the title track, “Lucky” and “Stronger”; with B-sides, mixes, edits and additional tracks that were released internationally; Double Vinyl, with alternate cover and 20-page booklet; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; Merch; Jive / Legacy)
Rick Springfield | “Big Hits: Rick Springfield’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Special Edition)” (CD + Book; 24-song compilation, circa 1999-2024, includes rarities and unreleased tracks, packaged with the coffee table book “Burning Film: Rick Springfield Through the Lens”; On Tour; Sing)
Status Quo | “Live! (Deluxe Edition)” (1977 album; eight-CD box set includes the double album, newly mixed and mastered, with all three complete 1976 Glasgow shows in their entirety; Amazon UK; Merch; Edsel / Demon Music Group)
Throbbing Gristle | “Live at the Volksbühne, Berlin, New Year’s Eve, 2005” (Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Mute)
Various artists | “Snuffy: The Productions of Tommy Garrett 1959-1962” (32-track collection, featuring Bobby Vee, the Crickets, Gene McDaniels, Buddy Knox, Johnny Burnette, Jackie DeShannon, Jan & Dean, Vikki Carr, et al; Jasmine)
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