Albums in Stores – May 9th, 2025

Brandon
PinkPantheress
Raue
Billy Woods
Sunday (1994)
Unwed Sailor
Paper Lady

 

Things I’m Checking Out This Week

Sleep Token
Blake Shelton
Arcade Fire
Counting Crows
The Head and the Heart
KALEO
Sunday (1994) EP
The Wonder Years
A Tribute to Sublime (2025 Version)
Jake Wesley Rogers
Adult Mom
Leftover Salmon
The Kooks
Bebe Stockwell
Jack Van Cleaf
Travis Garland
Alien Boy
Dexter and the Moonrocks EP

 

The Kooks
Head and the Heart
Arcade Fire

 

Wild Party - Cheeky Giants

First album in 11 years!

 

Sleep Token
The Wonder Years

.... Of course this one.

 

Big folk/indie day with a few new releases from older bands on my personal radar. A lot of these were a surprise to me, so I don't have a few most-anticipated albums to highlight this week.

Adult Mom - Natural Causes (indie rock)
Arcade Fire - Pink Elephant (indie)
Bebe Sockwell - Driving Backwards (folk/americana)
Counting Crows - Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! (alternative)
Dottie Anderson - Nordic Machine (indie pop)
I'm with Her - Wild and Clear and Blue (folk/americana)
Kali Uchis - Sincerely (pop/R&B)
Maia Friedman - Goodbye Long Winter Shadow (indie with orchestral accompaniments. You may know her from Dirty Projectors or Coco)
Next of Kin - Homemaker (country)
PinkPantheress - Fancy That (pop)
Sunday 1994 - Devotion (indie rock)
Toledo - Inertia (jangly indie rock)
The Wonder Years - Burst and Decay III (acoustic pop-punk)
Zoe Ko - still not ur girlfriend (pop)

 

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 November 2025.

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

SINGLES:
A Foreign Affair (feat. Andy Cizek)
A Part Of The Problem
A-Z
Abrupt Decay
Age Of Apocalypse (feat. Demonstration Of Power)
Alexisonfire (Live)
Alien Boy
Anamanaguchi
APOC
Atriox
Attack Attack! (Two songs)
Autumn Lies Buried
AVRALIZE
Avril Lavigne (feat. Simple Plan)
Bad Beat
Battle Beast
battlepass
Beauty School
Belmont
Belvebuth
Berried Alive
Black Satellite
Blood Of Lions
Botch (Live)
Bridges Ablaze
The Broken Horizon
Call It Tragedy
CarrierWave
Caskets
CHAMEL3ON
Charmer
Chiefland
Closure
The Cruel
cryout (Two songs)
Daedric
Dal Av (feat. Tyler Tate)
Dark Watch
DaysEye
Dead By April
Dead Cassette
Deaf Havana
Deviants
Die Another Day
DIESECT
Effuse
En Masse
Eville
Fangs Out
First Grade Fight Club
First To Eleven
Foxcult (feat. Abel Abarca)
From Fall To Spring
Full Of Hell
Gaahls WYRD
Gaupa
Greywind
Halsey & Amy Lee (Evanescence)
HAWK (feat. Hit The Lights)
Health & Chelsea Wolfe
Hillhaven
Hiroe
Hot Milk
Hundredth
I Conqueror
I See Aura
In.Her.Head
Inner Image
Inner Voice
INVICIM
Justice For The Damned
Kaonashi
Katatonia
KOH
Kusanagi
Ladders On Tables (ex-Hands Like Houses) (Two songs)
Leisure Hour
Letters Sent
Levels
Lil Be Empty (feat. Maelfoy)
Lilith's Demise
The Longest Heartbreak
Man/Woman/Chainsaw
Misery Whip
MoistCr1tikal (feat. Nik Nocturnal & Knosis)
Moses Sumney (feat. Hayley Williams)
The Murder Project
My Own Shiva
My Place Was Taken
Nailwound
Nevertel
No Drop For Us
No Light Escapes
Nonel
Nothing Noble
Of Mice & Men
On Every Page
One Step Closer
Orbit Culture
Orthodox
Our Waking Hour
Paleface Swiss (Acoustic)
Parkway Drive
Peacemaker FL
Pearlescent
Petroglyphs
Pierce The Veil
Pig Pen (Matty Matheson, Alexisonfire)
Plagued Earth
Pleaser
polearm
Postal
The Pretty Wild
Pupil Slicer (Two songs)
Quietude (feat. Michael Barr)
Red Keep
The Rooks
sace6 (feat. Rain City Drive)
Secondhand Saints
So Far So Good
Soccer Mommy
Sodom
Sophia Kennedy
SOULWALKER
Sounds Of A Story
Splutter
The Standby
Stelarial
Struck A Nerve
SURGE HC
Take Breath
Tallah
Tetrarch
Then It Ends
Three Days Grace
THROATCUT.
Tim Minchin
Tummyache
Twist It
Variant
Via Sky
Villain Of The Story
The Voynich Code
Watch Out Stampede
The Western Expanse
Wildernesses
Wolves At The Gate

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.

 

Sleep Token

#worship

 

All singles again:
Morgan Wallen - Superman
Parker McCollum - Big Sky
Dierks Bentley - Standing in the Sun
Phil Abrams - Crank
Thomas Rhett - Small Town Girls

 

A bit quieter day today. Nothing I’m too jazzed on but we’ll dive in and see what happens.

Cascadent
The Bunny The Bear
Sleep Token
The Wonder Years

 

TWY
Lord Huron single

 

i’m with her (folk)
blackliq & dub sonata (hip hop)
wonder years (pop punk)
don’t try (hardcore)

 

Thomas Rhett did release a full album (really 2) A total of 19 songs

 

New stuff from basically every genre this week
Our Last Night
Sleep Token
Thomas Rhett
The Kooks
Head and the Heart

 

Didn't realize it was a whole album til you posted this. Thanks for letting me know!

 

New Pig Pen single and really that's it tbh.

 

Adult Mom
Catbite
Sunday (1994)

 

Never heard Don’t Try. Bangers. Thanks!

 

slower day, totally okay! just a reminder that Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler accused of sexual misconduct

Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? (pdx noisy indie rock)
Adult Mom - Natural Causes (indie)
Men I Trust - Equus Caballus (dreamy indie)
Deradoorian - Ready for Heaven (indie)
Soda Blonde - People Pleaser EP (indie pop)
Sunday (1994) - Devotion EP (indie pop)

 

The Wonder Years

 

I believe they were previously known as Boundaries. Found them after their 2019 album Turning Point. Definitely check that out.

 

Sounds good! Will do!

 

Correct! Their “boundaries” album is my favourite

 

@slickdtc
I looked it up on Spotify and it appears to be under Don’t Try. Is this it? Either way, can’t wait to check it all out.