Albums in Stores – Jan 31st, 2025

Things I’m checking out this week

RØRY female pop rock
L.S. Dunes post-hardcore
Maribou state electronic
Neon Union duo vocals country
Jann Arden cover album singer songwriter
Circa waves indie rock
Jonathan Hultén goth folk
Freckle jam bandesque rock
You&I EP singer/songwriter
Everyone says hi mellow indie rock
Thecityisours melodic metal
Grayscale rock
The Weeknd R&B/Soul
Northvale pop punk rock
Young rising sons EP indie rock
Down and Out EP pop punk

 

ASkySoBlack - Touch Heaven
Circa Waves - Death & Love, Pt.1
Freckle - Self Titled [Ty Segall]
Grayscale - The Hart
Jamie XX - In Waves (Deluxe)
L.S. Dunes - Violet
Sweet Pill - Unraveled EP

Singles:
Big Bite, Castlebeat, Church Tongue, Dark Soft, Dead Meadow, Dreamer Isioma, French Police, GANG!, Glare, GUM/Ambrose Kenny Smith, Jay Wood/Tune-Yards, Jivebomb, Julien Baker/Torres, La Sécurité, Michi, Momma, Nessa Barrett, Poison The Well, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Sasami, Sleigh Bells, Slow Crush, Spy, Sundressed, Sunflower Bean, Teleforme, The Knocks, Twin Mill

 

L.S. Dunes and Augustana - Live With String Quartet

I'll also check out Circa Waves

I feel like it's the first time since November that there's something "on my radar".

 

Head North - Winner!

 

L.S. Dunes and Grayscale!

 

New poison the well song!

 

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:
5th.Incision
Abbie Falls
Aborted
Acadence
Afterlove
Alone I Play
Alphoenix (feat. Upon Stone)
Anger Party
Arcadia Ego
AURAS (feat. Kyle Anderson)
Aurora View
Aviana
Awakeness
babychaos
Bare Bones
Basterds
Behemoth
BLIND8
Bloodveil
Bloodywood
Bowling For Soup (Blink-182 cover)
Bring Me The Horizon (Oasis cover)
Caliban (feat. The Browning)
Cartographer
Casket Cassette
Causality
Church Tongue (feat. Colin Young)
Coletta
Crossing i's Dotting t's
Dead By April
Dead Harts
Dead/Awake
Deafheaven
Death Benefits
Designing Creation
dethorned
Detroit_FvcX
DEVILOOF
Disparilis
DONEFOR
Drastic Of Sorts
Endeavour
ENOX
Ever Since Eve
Everlit (feat. Famous Last Words)
Face 2 Fake
Face Yourself
fats'e
Fear, And Loathing In Las Vegas
First Grade Fight Club
F!TH
Flow Kobra
FLOYA
Forlorn
Fracture
Gauze Is (feat. Moodring)
Glare
God Complex
Graves End
Halflives
HANABIE.
Harbinger
Heartbound
Heavy Heavy Low Low
Hell Can Wait (Two live songs)
High Regard
Hollow Valley
Illist
Impending Doom
In Division
isitjosh
Jivebomb
Johnnie Guilbert
Killstreak (feat. Andy Cizek)
KODAMA
Laid To Rest
landless
Lil Peep (feat. Lil Tracy and Horse Head)
Low Class Alien
LUMENS
Man With A Mission
Momma
Mother Vulture
Museum Of Light
Neon Sky
Nerv
Nevertel
Next To Eternity
Nick Llerandi
Novelists
Ov Ruin (feat. Casey Needler)
Pale Sailor (Two songs)
PaleVoid
PARCS
Phantom Limbs
Poison The Well
Pravitas
Safety Net
Season Of Ghosts
Slow Crush
Sophia Kennedy
SPY
STELLVRIS
Stereophonics
STESY
Storm Orchestra
Sun Don't Shine
Thornhill
Threatin
Tropic Gold
Unhealthy While Unhinged
Vigilandia
We Are The Catalyst
Weatherday (Two songs)
Within Destruction
Yours Truly
Youth Never Dies

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.

 

First major day of the year for me.

LS Dunes
The Weekend
Head North
Grayscale
Sweet Pill
ASkySoBlack
Bay Faction

 

Jonathan Hultén "Eyes of the living night" (Apple calls this "fanatical goth folk." Former member of the band Tribulation)

Singles: Slow Crush, Poison the well, Mantar, SOM, Glare, Deafheaven.
A good friend's band has their debut album coming out in March. They're called Errth. It would mean a ton if folks gave it a chance:

 

LS and The Weeknd

 

Sweet Pill and L.S… will also be scoping out some of what y’all share.

 

Yeah today is a big one for albums and some EP’s. Excited to get in to all of these!

Cartographer
Grayscale
Head North
Great American Ghost
LS Dunes
Bay Faction EP
Northvale
Arlen Gun Club EP
Down and Out EP
narrowcast.
Flash Forward
Sweet Pill (live/unraveled)

 

Stale Azzwater - Wet January
Morgan Wallen's new single
The Bonchons - Turn Left Before the Creek

 

Did not realize we had this much fire coming out today until just now.
In order of most excited:
thecityisours-singles were great, Hot Mess has been so relatable
Circa Waves-just released a good one in 2023
All That Remains-1st with Jason Richardson
grayscale-Last full length was great
Great American Ghost
Kelsy Karter
Also a new single/EP by Young Rising Sons
Larkin Poe is listed up top. It came out last week but was a very solid release

 

LS Dunes and ASkySoBlack for me today

 

MIKE

 

Sweet Pill has steadily become one of those bands I go back to more and more. Been following them since Hayley Williams gave them a shout out a couple years back. I like this new EP with the reimagined tracks and dig their TWY cover of There, There from last year too.

 

i'm biased because i love them, but i could see them being an absolutely massive band over the next 10-20 years. zayna just simply has star power, it's undeniable.

 

Head North

 

Yeah, her voice is awesome and the songs are so catchy. I'm not much of a math rock fan, but the band has so many different elements like that and they're able to meld them together very well. Solid group and wish them the best. Will be fun to see them live eventually

 

• The Night Flight Orchestra -- Incredibly well-constructed AOR that is supremely catchy. Brought to you by Soilwork's vocalist and friends (might like this project more than Soilwork)
• L.S. Dunes -- Circa Survive, Thursday, MCR, & Coheed fellows gather to play some top-tier post-hardcore
• Great American Ghost -- Metalcore that goes hard AND can be catchy
• Grayscale -- Killer pop-rock band that doesn't miss.
• The Hellacopters -- Wonderful hard rock with great hooks, melodies, & a big sound.
  
• Enterprise Earth -- Deathcore that makes me want to run around and punch inanimate objects
• Grief Ritual -- edit: I was led astray about this album! It’s more like sludge-core.
• ZERO ABSOLU -- EPIC black-metal
• Lunar -- What if Leprous & BTBAM made a baby?