New Music Friday - May 16, 2025

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Aminé - 13 Months of Sunshine Watch: "Familiar" Watch: "Arc de Triomphe"
	Artificial Go - Musical Chairs Watch: "Circles" Listen: "Lasso"
	Lido Pimienta - La Belleza Watch: "Mango" Watch: "Aún Te Quiero"
	Rico Nasty - Lethal Watch: "TEETHSUCKER (YEA3X)" Watch: "CRASH"
	Tune-Yards - Better Dreaming Watch: "Limelight" Watch: "Heartbreak"

Other Full-Length Releases

Ben Frost - Under Certain Light and Atmospheric Conditions Watch: "Prism Inversion, Pantanal/La Habana" Listen: "Permcat, Ки́їв"

Billy Nomates - Metalhorse Watch: "Plans" Watch: "The Test"

Chuck D - Armageddon Radio Watch: "NEW GENS" (featuring Daddy-O) Listen: "What Are We to You?"

Dan Mangan - Natural Light Watch: "Melody" Watch: "Cut the Brakes"

Gold Dust - In the Shade of the Living Light Listen: "An Early Translation of a Later Work" Listen: "Traveler Stay"

MØ - Plæygirl Watch: "Keep Møving" Watch: "Heartbreak"

Nicole Lawrence - Time in Love Listen: "Way It Is" Listen: "When I Get Home"

Peter Doherty - Felt Better Alive Watch: "Felt Better Alive" Watch: "Pot of Gold"

Triathalon - Funeral Music Watch: "RIP" Watch: "Down"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Erick The Architect - Arcstrumentals 3 Listen: "REVIVAL" (with Joyce Wrice)

Fine Food Market - I’m afraid to be in love with someone who crashes their car that much Watch: "Emmène-moi" Listen: "Sometimes"

Full of Hell - Broken Sword, Rotten Shield Watch: "Knight’s Oath" Listen: "Broken Sword, Rotten Shield"

KILO KISH - Negotiations Watch: "negotiate" (featuring Miguel) Watch: "enough"

Upcoming Album of the Week (Ending October 28)

I've been so busy the past couple of weeks that my blog hasn't been getting much love from its creator. Hopefully, I can get back into the swing of regular posting going forward. I missed last week's Upcoming Album post, so the list below represents the past couple of weeks.

This week, tUnE-yArDs announced their fourth album, I Can Feel You Creep into My Private Life.

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tUnE-yArDs is fronted by the incredible Merrill Garbus and specialize in looping and layering her voice in a way that it becomes its own instrument in their music. I got on board with their second album, 2011's w h o k i l l, and tracks like "Gangsta" and "Es-So" which perfectly showed off that instrument.

They followed that album up in 2014 with Nikki Nack, another spectacular release, and announced this latest record on Tuesday. They also released a new song to tide us over until the album, "Look at Your Hands".

I Can Feel You Creep into My Private Life will be released next year on January 19.

Also announced this week:

Charles Hayward & Thurston Moore - Improvisations (December 8)
FAN - “Fire”/“Disappear” (November 3)
Fever Ray - Plunge (out now)
First Aid Kit - Ruins (January 19)
Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending (February 9)
Future & Young Thug - Super Slimey (out now)
Jack Antonoff - MTV Unplugged (November 10)
Jonny Greenwood - Water Vinyl Release (November 10)
The Juan MacLean - The Bright the Light (December 1)
Kevin Morby - “Baltimore (Sky at Night)”/“Baltimore (County Line)” (out now)
MØ - When I Was Young (out now)
NxWorries - Yes Lawd! Remix (November 17)
Porches - The House (January 19)
Screaming Females - All at Once (February 23)
Sia - Everyday Is Christmas (November 17)
Sleater-Kinney - “Here We Come” (out now)
The Soft Moon - Criminal (February 2)
Superchunk - “Break the Glass”/“Mad World” (out now)
Tom Waits - Alice Reissue (November 24)
Tom Waits - Blood Money Reissue (November 24)
Tom Waits - Bad as Me Reissue (November 10)
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live Reissue (December 1)
Tom Waits - Mule Variations Reissue (December 15)
Tom Waits - Real Gone Reissue (November 24)

Upcoming Album of the Week (Ending December 12)

If you live in the Cincinnati (and probably much of the Midwest), you know that it's unseasonably warm right now. You should take advantage of that and, like, go out for a walk or something, before winter officially sets upon us. If somehow you find yourself still holed up at home, spend some time with my Upcoming Releases page to see what's coming out over the next few months.

New release news is slowing down a bit as we head towards the end of the year, but there were still a few exciting announcements this week. This included Thao Nguyen, who announced a new album, A Man Alive, with her band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down.

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I first checked out Nguyen when she released her last album, We the People, two years ago, but she has been active since 2004. She has an upbeat, pop-tinged folk sound and has often collaborated with other musicians in the same vein; including Joanna Newsom and Andrew Bird. She even released a full-length with Mirah in 2011.

On this go-around, she is working with tUnE-yArDs' frontwoman Merrill Garbus, who provided production for the record (she also produced Thao and Mirah's collaborative album). Garbus' music is much more experimental than Nguyen is known for, but her influence shows a bit even on the first track, "Nobody Dies," released from the record.



A Man Alive is set to be released March 4.

Also announced this week:

The Body - No One Deserves Happiness (March 18)
George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison (February 26)
Jaill - Wherever It Be (January 8)
Prince Rama - Xtreme Now (March 4)