Albums in Stores – Aug 29th, 2025 • Page 2

I gotta hop in this week's thread to boost a fantastic new record from a local artist here in North Carolina.

RIYL: Dashboard Confessional, The Maine, Death Cab for Cutie, Acceptance, glitzy '80s-esque production

 

Have Mercy and Pinkshift released incredible records today! Also, will be revisiting VHS (X) from X Ambassadors and seeing what else finds its way into my ears today. Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!!

 

lots of good stuff out this week!

Bad Bad Hats - Psychic Readings
Big Wild - Wild Child
Blood Orange - Essex Honey
CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY
Dope Smoker - LXST CXSSXTTX [[stoner metal]]
Dummy - Dumb EP's
End It - Wrong Side Of Heaven
Ganser - Animal Hospital
Gulp - Beneath Strawberry Moons
Kacy Hill - But Anyways, No Worries! EP
Lathe of Heaven - Aurora [[post punk/indie]]
Lowheaven - Ritual Decay
Modern Nature - The Heat Warps
moonstone - Self Titled
No Apologies - Life
Nova Twins - Parasite & Butterflies
Palmer - 3 foot 5
Pinkshift - Earthkeeper
Retirement Party - Nothing To Hear Without A Sound EP
RUNNNER - A Welcome Kind of Weakness
Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend
Slow Crush - Thirst
The Beaches - No Hard Feelings
The Berries - Self Titled
The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie
The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

Singles:
Artemas, BENEE, Black Lips, Booze & Glory, Boy & Bear, Chat Pile/Hayden Pedigo, Cuco, Die Spitz, Fall Out Boy, Fangclub, fanclubwallet, Fime, Franc Moody, French Police, future.exboyfriend, Geese, Glimmer, Golden Apples, Hannah Jadagu, Hayley Williams, HUNNY, Jordana, Le Flex, Medium Build, Nova Twins, Pynch, Sainthood Reps, Spite House, Teen Jesus and The Jean Teasers, The Bouys, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Thrice, twen, Upchuck, White Reaper

 

• Slow Crush (Thirst) -- This came out of nowhere for me, but whoa. It's something. Shoegaze with some post-metal heaviness. This thing sounds beautiful.
• Asymmetric Universe (A Memory And What Came After) -- Instrumental prog-djent fusion with some keys, strings, & sax. This is a groovy time.
  
• Pinkshift (EarthKeeper) -- Catchy alt-punks go in a more nu-metal direction, and it really works for them.
• Have Mercy (the loneliest place i've ever been) -- Catchy emo. I thought these guys kind of fell off after their debut, but they've really come back blazing the past few years.
• The Beths (Straight Line Was a Lie) -- Fun, summer-y, jangly indie rock. Listen to this before the seasons change!
• Trudger (Void Quest) -- Prog crust. Can be slow, thick, & heavy. Can be agile, labyrinthine, & melodic.
• In Mourning (The Immortal) -- Prog-y melodeath. This band is always excellent.
• Hexrot (Formless Ruin of Oblivion) -- Pretty weird diso-death. but also pretttyyyy good.
• Kingdom of Giants (Burning Chrome) -- Acceptable, catchy metalcore.
• Månegarm (Edsvuren) -- Some big, dumb (compliment) Viking folk metal.
  
• Suotana (Ounas II) -- Melodeath

 

listened to a few of the snippets, will definitely check out the whole album. thanks for sharing!

 

New audiostrobelight out today. Didn’t even know they had new stuff coming out. Thanks Spotify.

 

I really appreciate your posts like this each week of breaking it down.

 

A day late and a buck short but I’m posting the report:

The Casket Lottery
Kingdom of Giants EP
Bony Macaroni
Have Mercy
The Losing Score EP
LTYM
Slow Crush