Albums in Stores – Feb 7th, 2025

Things I’m checking out this week

inhaler rock
Olly Alexander gay dance pop
Wilder woods roots rock
Michigander indie rock
Ollie wride electronic alternative
Don’t panic EP (covers) pop punk rock
Nessa Barrett deluxe album (aftercare) alt pop
Artikal sound system pop reggae
Johnnyswim singer/songwriter
The rumjacks Celtic punk
The jellybricks power pop
Will hoge rerecording (carousel) singer/songwriter
Wafia electronica R&B
Loi power vocal pop
Lewis Watson singer/songwriter
The ocelots alt folk
Winona oak EP electropop


HARDY live from red rocks bro country meets nu metal

 

Michigander

 

New Tiny Voices single, fuck yes

 

Michigander - Self titled

Been looking forward to this one for a long time.

 

lewis watson - blue skies grey.

quite excited for that one.

 

Heartworms
Sharon van Etten
Sarah Klang
Markus Krunegård
Squid

 

I know this is waaaay way out there, but my band released a remix of our latest single today and it's wild ... maybe some of you are into electronic stuff, too ...

WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.

 

Matt Nathanson - King of Un(Simple)

 

Happy Friday folks! Plenty of new stuff out today to enjoy.

For a more extensive list of new albums and EPs than what’s already listed in the main post, you can check out my release schedule spreadsheet which includes stuff released so far in 2025 and currently beyond as far as August 2025.

It also includes stuff that's expected and/or speculated for release with a supporting source link where available.

SINGLES:
A Swift Farewell
Abduction
Abyss, Watching Me
ACCVSED (feat. The Narrator)
Aim High
Air Drawn Dagger (feat. Tobi Duncan)
Amira Elfeky
Anyala
Arch Enemy
Archers
As It Is (feat. Mikaila Delgado)
AYAR
Benediction
Berried Alive
Blackjacket
Blackout Problems
Bob Mould
Comastatic
chaos.sequence (Two songs)
Cloakroom
Combust
Comeback Kid
Cryptosis
Deadlands (feat. The Pretty Wild)
Decoy
dEMOTIONAL
De'Wayne
Diesect
Doomscope
Earth Attack
Earth Caller
Engineer Of Death
False Reality
FloodGate
Four Seconds Ago (Periphery)
FRND CRCL
The Funeral Portrait (feat. Lilith Czar)
Gorepig
Graystone
Guiltless
Hamartia
HELLTH
Her Last Sight
The Heretic (feat. Subcortex)
His Kingdom Suffers
HolyName (feat. Convictions) (Live)
Hour Of Reprisal
Hundred Arrows
Idle Heirs
Imminence
IMPVLSE (feat. Lost In Hollywood)
Into The Vein
intouchwithrobots
Ivory Curse
Karmella
Lights
Lost In Separation
Lycanthrope
Maelfoy
Major Moment
Mark Morton (feat. Cody Jinks)
Mayflower
The Mechanist
Mirabi Frame
Morning In May
Nasty (feat. Terror)
Navarre
Nite
Northbound & Down
Peacemaker (Two songs)
Pieces Of The Past
Pinghost
Prospective
Retromorphosis (ex-Spawn Of Possession)
Revnoir
Revocation (feat. Travis Ryan)
The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus
The Rising Tide
Rivers Of Nihil
Roses Are Dead
Rotting Christ (Live)
Rum Jungle
sadeyes
Saetia
Sacred Skin (Remix)
Samarra
Samurai Pizza Cats
SENNA
Set The Sun (feat. Demon Hunter)
Shoreline (feat. Joe Taylor)
Sleep Theory
snake eyes
Spiritbox
Splinters.
Staticlone
Stranger Club
Stray From The Path
STVW (feat. Story Untold)
Sugar Spine
Synestia
Then It Ends
The Throwaway Scene
Then It Ends
THENEWLEVEL
Tidebringer
Tiny Voices
Tómarúm
Tumorflesh Rejection (feat. Brains Outward)
Unchain The Spineless
Venamoris
Vicious Rain (feat. Future Static)
Vulvarine
Wake Me
Waxahatchee
WildAsh
Wounded Touch (Two songs)

As always, all of the above singles are available to stream from my #NewMusicFriday playlist (below) which gets completely updated every single Friday, so feel free to follow/like it and you're all set.

If you don't want to risk missing it, you can also sign up to my mailing list and I'll email it out to you every Friday along with a list of that week's new album and EP releases.

 

Good Music To Lift Los Angeles and a bunch of other LA benefit releases on Bandcamp Friday:

 

Ben Seretan
Caroline Rose (Bandcamp exclusive)
FACS
Heartworms
Oklou
Phrenelith
Saor
Sharon Van Etten
Squid
Unreqvited

 

Dream Theater, Squid, and Saor are really the only things on my list this week.

 

New Spiritbox single. It rips.

 

Stale Azzwater - A Broadcast of Love to Unite Us All
new Jordan Davis single
new Ryan Hurd single
Cricktown Brown - Hymns of the South
The Bonchons - Through it All In my Head

 

Not too much today!

Your Neighbors
DARKO US

 

Will catch a few singles and catch up on albums from last week.

 

So proud to see how far Michigander has come. I remember seeing Jason as the opener at local shows way back when. Then seeing him open up a rally for Bernie in MI. And now hearing and seeing him all over the place! The album is gorgeous and he deserves all this and more.

 

FINAL RESTING PLACE
The Crimson Armada

 

New Matt Pond PA!!!!!

 

It's a prog-y epic-y kind of day!

• Dream Theater -- I'm not going to lie, I think that almost every album they put out is a 4/5, so I'm unreasonably biased about these dudes.
• Unreqvited -- Wow. A post-black metal one man band that leans more into straight up post-metal this time around, with beautiful orchestrations, singing, and epic songs that build expertly.
• Saor -- Scottish folk post-black metal. Dude is back to writing more expansive, atmospheric tunes.
• Jinjer -- Prog-y metalcore that can turn on a dime with great grooves, crushing heaviness, good melodies, and an incredibly dynamic vocalist.
• 16 -- Mid-tier sludge. It's fine. good if you just want to listen to some new music with some hooks and slow and heavy guitars.
• Obscura -- Is some of the music on this album stolen from ex-members? probably. It's a shame too, because this is some really good progressive tech-death.

 

Biig Piig - 11:11 (alt r&b/neo soul)
FACS - Wish Defense
Heartworms - Glutton For Punishment
Michigander - Self Titled
Nessa Barrett - Aftercare (Deluxe Edition)
Slaughterhouse - Sick and Tired EP (female fronted punk)
Squid - Coward

Singles:
always other, Beach Bunny, Cloakroom, Combust, Courtney Barnett, Deb Never, Giveon, Holy Wave, L'Impératrice, La Lom, Lady Gaga, Michi, Peach Pit, Punchlove, Rocket, Summer Salt, Surf Trash, Tash Sultana, Teen Mortgage, Tennis, Threaded, Tommy Newport, The Black Keys, Traitrs, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Vundabar, Waxahatchee

 

New Matt Nathanson record is great. Just super sturdy, emotional songwriting.

Also, a good friend of mine mixed and engineered this track, which I think a lot of people around here would love. Been playing it on repeat all day.