New Releases: March 14, 2025

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New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks	“Live – Perpetual Change” (CD + DVD; recorded and filmed at Arcada Theater in St. Charles, IL in August 2023; See here; Blu-ray; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Jason Boland & The Stragglers	“The Last Kings of Babylon” (Red Dirt pioneers’ 11th album; producer: Lloyd Maines; new single: “Drive”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)	Proud Souls Entertainment / Thirty Tigers
Circuit des Yeux	“Halo on the Inside” (Chicago-based musician Haley Fohr’s eighth album; producer: Andrew Broder; new single: “Megaloner”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Matador
Nels Cline	“Consentrik Quartet” (his fourth album for Blue Note, with band comprising saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Chris Lightcap, and drummer Tom Rainey; new single: “The 23”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)	Blue Note
clipping.	“Dead Channel Sky” (experimental hip-hop group’s fifth album; producers: clipping., Steve Kaplan; guests: Aesop Rock, Nels Cline, Bitpanic, Tia Nomore, Cartel Madras; new single: “Change the Channel”; See here; Read here; Ghostly Green Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Sub Pop
Coheed and Cambria	“The Father of Make Believe” (their 10th album; producers: singer-guitarist Claudio Sanchez, Zakk Cervini; new single: “Searching for Tomorrow”; See here; Magenta Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Virgin Music Group
Edwyn Collins	“Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation” (Scottish musician’s 10th solo album; producers: Collins, Sean Read, Jake Hutton; new single: “Knowledge”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music)	AED Records
Courting	“Lust for Life, Or: ‘How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story'” (Liverpool-based rock quartet’s third album; producer: lead singer Sean Murphy-O’Neil; new single: “Pause at You”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Lower Third / [PIAS]
Rose Cousins	“Conditions of Love – Vol. 1” (Nova Scotia folk/pop singer-songwriter’s seventh album; producers: Cousins, Joshua Van Tassel; See here; Light Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour)	Nettwerk
Charley Crockett	“Lonesome Drifter” (producers: Crockett, Shooter Jennings; new single: “Lonesome Drifter”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Island
Davido	“5ive” (Nigerian-American singer-songwriter’s fifth album; new single: “Funds”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music)	Davido Music Worldwide / Columbia
DOROTHY	“THE WAY” (L.A. rock band’s fourth album; producer: Scott Stevens; new single: “Tombstone Town,” feat. Slash; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Roc Nation
Florence + The Machine	“Symphony of Lungs (BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall)” (recorded during the band’s recent performance with Jules Buckley and his orchestra to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their debut album; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Oct. 25)	Republic
Nick Frater	“Oh Contraire!” (producer: Frater; new single: “One Minute”; See here; Download; Apple Music)	Think Like a Key Music
Stephen Gallagher	“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Double CD; anime fantasy film opened on Dec. 13; Trailer; Vinyl, four-LP set, out March 28, 2025; Download released on Dec. 6)	Mutant
JISOO	“AMORTAGE” (BLACKPINK member’s debut solo mini-album; producers: Blissoo, The Wavys; Read here; Purple Vers.; Target-Exclusive CD; Download released on Feb. 14)	Warner
Jan Lisiecki	“preludes” (Canadian pianist tackles Bach, Messiaen, Rachmaninoff, Górecki and Chopin; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)	Deutsche Grammophon
The Loft	“Everything Changes Everything Stays the Same” (full-length debut album from British indie rock band, first signed to Creation Records in the early 1980s then split up in 1984; producer: Dexys’ Sean Read; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download)	Tapete
Steve Postell	“Walking Through These Blues” (guests: Glen Phillips, Leland Sklar, Danny Kortchmar, Steve Ferrone, Bekka Bramlett, Russ Kunkel, the late David Crosby; Download)	Quarto Valley
Rwake	“The Return of Magik” (Southern sludge band’s first album in more than 13 years; new guitarist: Austin Sublett; new single: “The Return of Magik”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music)	Relapse
The Seldom Scene	“Remains to Be Scene” (bluegrass band’s first album since the death of founding member and trailblazing banjo player Ben Eldridge; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour)	Smithsonian Folkways
The Slow Readers Club	“Out of a Dream” (Manchester rock band’s seventh album; producer: Joe Cross; new single: “Boy So Blue”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	SRC Records
Throwing Muses	“Moonlight Concessions” (indie rock band’s 11th album and first since 2020; producer: singer-guitarist Kristin Hersh; new single: “Summer of Love”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Fire Records
Tiktaalika	“Gods of Pangaea” (solo album from Haken guitarist Charlie Griffiths; new single: “Gods of Pangaea”; See here; Purple Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)	InsideOutMusic
Warbringer	“Wrath and Ruin” (Double CD; SoCal thrash metal band’s seventh album; second CD contains 15 live tracks from 2023; producer: Mark Lewis; new single: “A Better World”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Napalm
ZZ Ward	“Liberation” (her fourth album; producer: Ryan Spraker; new single: “Love Alive”; See here; Psychedelic Waves Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Dirty Shine / Sun Records
Ricky Warwick	“Blood Ties” (guests: Lita Ford, Billy Duffy, Charlie Starr; new single: “Don’t Leave Me in the Dark”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Earache
Steven Wilson	“The Overview” (his eighth solo album; 42-minute, two-song journey, with lyrics from XTC’s Andy Partridge; Read here; Vinyl, mastered at half-speed at Miles Showell; Blu-ray Audio; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour)	Fiction
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek	“Yarın Yoksa” (translation: “if there is no tomorrow”; producer: Leon Michels; new single: “Ceylan”; Hear here; Vinyl; Purple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music)	Big Crown
Warren Zeiders	“Relapse, Lies, & Betrayal” (2024 “Relapse” album expended to 21 tracks; new single: “Can a Heart Take”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	717 Entertainment / Warner

New Releases (Downloads)

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
cleopatrick	“FAKE MOON” (Toronto-based post-rock duo’s second album; new single: “PLEASE”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour)	nowhere special recordings / Thirty Tigers
Charlie Cunningham	“In Light” (his fourth album; producer: Luke Smith; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out April 4; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour)	Kartel Music Group
Brett Eldredge	“Lonestar Lovers” (five-song EP; new singles: “You’ll Be Mine” and “Gorgeous”; See here; Apple Music)	Warm and Cozy Records
Brock Geiger	“Some Nights” (producers: Geiger, Will Maclellan; guests: Matt Chamberlain, Gabe Noel, Sam Gendel, Clea Anaïs; new single: “Early August Rain”; Hear here)	Brock Geiger, March 18
Giovannie and the Hired Guns	“Quitter” (Texas alt-rock band’s sixth album; new single: “Quitter”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour)	Tejano Punk Boyz, LLC
Oslo Twins	“Tresor” (Bristol-formed, London-based band’s five-song EP; new single: “I Wake Up Slowly”; Hear here; Apple Music)	Half Normal
St. Lucia	“Fata Morgana: Dawn” (their fifth album; guests: Aly & AJ; new single: “Fear of Falling”; See here; Red Vinyl; Apple Music)	Nettwerk
Anoushka Shankar	“Chapter III: We Return to Light” (six-song EP, the third and final installment of the sitarist-composer’s album trilogy series; new single: “Hiraeth”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour)	LEITER
Twin Shadow	“Georgie” (his sixth album; producer: Twin Shadow; new single: “Good Times”; See here; Apple Music)	Dominator Records / Cheree Cheree
Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson & Sam Wilkes	“Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes” (Apple Music)	International Anthem
Various artists	“Maybe Happy Ending (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (new musical starring Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen; Hear here; Apple Music; On Broadway)	Ghostlight
Whatever the Weather	“Whatever the Weather II” (Loraine James’ third album; new single: “12°C”; See here; Green Vinyl; Apple Music)	Ghostly International
The Wilder Blue	“Still in the Runnin'” (country rock band led by Zane Williams; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour)	Hill Country Music / Stem
Womb	“One Is Always Heading Somewhere” (Wellington, NZ sibling trio’s third album; new single: “Sometimes”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music)	Flying Nun

Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
Goo Goo Dolls	“A Boy Named Goo (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1995 album, featuring “Only One,” “Name,” “Naked” and “Long Way Down”; includes an unreleased live concert performance recorded in Las Vegas on March 10, 1996, plus four B-sides and six songs the band recorded for the radio show “Modern Rock Live” in 1996; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)	Warner
Mike + The Mechanics	“Looking Back – Living the Years” (16-song compilation; Hear here; Double Vinyl out April 4; Amazon UK; On Tour)	Craft Recordings / Concord
Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes	“Live at the Greek” (Triple CD; 25th anniversary reissue of their 2000 album, with 16 previously unreleased recordings from the 1999 concerts at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Vinyl Box Set, six LPs; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)	Silver Arrow
Steve Reich	“Steve Reich Collected Works” (26-CD, one-DVD box set covering the Grammy-winning composer’s past 40 years with Nonesuch; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca)	Nonesuch
Rufus and Chaka Khan	“Stompin’ at the Savoy – Live / Seal in Red” (Double CD; 1983 albums, with three bonus tracks; Read here; Amazon UK)	Robinsongs / Cherry Red
The Smithereens	“2011” (2011 album, originally released on eOne Music; final LP with original lead singer Pat DiNizio, produced by Don Dixon; Clear Vinyl, first time on vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour, with guest vocalist John Cowsill)	Sunset Blvd.
Snow Patrol	“The Forest Is the Path (Extended Edition)” (2024 album; with five new songs and a Will Reynolds remix of “This Is the Sound of Your Voice”; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour)	Republic
Talk Talk	“The Very Best of Talk Talk” (1997 compilation; with one bonus track, “New Grass”; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca)	Rhino / Parlophone
Various artists	“NOW That’s What I Call Gold – The Ultimate Hits” (four CDs, 85 songs; Amazon UK)	Sony Music / EMI
World Party	“Best in Show” (17-song compilation from 2007; Yellow and Red Double Vinyl; Amazon UK)	Seaview

Reissues (Downloads)

ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL
of Montreal	“The Sunlandic Twins (20th Anniversary Edition)” (2005 album; with 40 bonus tracks of B-sides, rarities, remixes, and a 2006 live set; Translucent Ruby Red Double Vinyl, remastered by Glenn Schick, with a half-speed vinyl master by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, with 10 bonus tracks; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour)	Polyvinyl
Carly Pearce	“hummingbird: no rain, no flowers (deluxe)” (2024 album; with five new tracks; new single: “no rain”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour)	Big Machine

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