In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on April 25, 2025:
Samia, Bloodless
Samia is back with her third album, Bloodless, out now via Grand Jury. Recorded in North Carolina and Minneapolis, the follow-up to 2023’s Honey is grittier but no less vividly rendered than her previous albums. “I’ve spent the past two decades unintentionally conflating an abstract idea of men with my understanding of God,” Samia explained. “The person I became in order to impress this imagined figure is inseparable from who I am today. A significant part of my personality was built around traits and behaviors I believed—whether through observation or hearsay—men would like. With this album, I’ve tried to confront that head-on.”
Deerhoof, Noble and Godlike in Ruin
Deerhoof have put out their 20th studio album, the self-produced Noble and Godlike in Ruin. Spanning 10 tracks, the follow-up to 2023’s Miracle-Level is both charmingly playful and densely packed with ideas. It was previewed by the singles ‘Under Rats’ (feat. Saul Williams), ‘Immigrant Songs’ and the double-B side ‘Sparrow Sparrow’ f/w ‘Overrated Species Anyhow’. “This is our low-budget DIY Frankenstein,” drummer Greg Saunier remarked. “A sensitive, spurned, intelligent, dehumanised creature made out of people.” Read our review of the album.
Maria Somerville, Luster
“Treasereful” is not a word, but it’s the one that keeps coming to mind when trying to describe Luster, Maria Somerville’s debut for 4AD. The Irish dream pop musician began working on the songs that would become the follow-up to 2019’s All My People upon returning to Connemara, in a house near where she grew up overlooking Lough Corrib, one of the country’s largest lakes. She then fleshed out the songs with friends and collaborators including producers J. Colleran, Brendan Jenkinson, and Diego Herrera (aka Suzanne Kraft), Lankum’s Ian Lynch, Margie Jean Lewis, andmusicians Henry Earnest and Finn Carraher McDonald (aka Nashpaints).
Colin Miller, Losin’
Colin Miller has released a new album called Losin’. The Asheville, North Carolina musician plays in MJ Lenderman’s live backing band The Wind and has worked on his studio records, and his Haw Creek follow-up features Lenderman on drums and guitar, as well as Wednesday/The Wind members Ethan Baechtold (bass, keys, aux percussion) and Xandy Chelmis (pedal steel). It was produced by Alex Farrar at Drop of Sun Studios, too. The record is described as “the story of grief’s impact on the psyche,” as it was recorded following the passing, in July 2022, of Miller’s late landlord Gary King, who became a father figure to him.
SUMAC & Moor Mother, The Film
SUMAC and Moor Mother have joined forces for a collaborative LP titled The Film. The experimental metal trio create a punishing atmosphere for the Philadelphia-based avant-rapper’s spoken-word polemic, a unrelenting combination that stretches over a full hour. “The idea is to create a moment outside of the convention,” Moor Mother remarked. “This is a work of art. Thinking about the work as a Film, instead of an album or a collection of songs. This task is impossible in an industry that wants to force everything into a box of consumption. You won’t understand or get the full picture until the artwork is completed. This work is developing and is requesting more agency within the creative process.”
Beach Bunny, Tunnel Vision
Beach Bunny have come through with a new album, Tunnel Vision. The Lili Trifilio-led band recorded it with with Sean O’Keefe, who also produced 2022’s Emotional Creature. No less propulsive, catchy, or colourful for how anxiety-ridden it is, the record was preceded by the tracks ‘Big Pink Bubble’, ‘Vertigo’, ‘Clueless’, and the title track. Having dealt with a lengthy bout of writer’s block leading up to the recording, Trifilio found inspiration by writing about both her own quarter-life crisis and the existential challenges faced by her friends.
Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
Viagra Boys’ (sort of) self-titled album has arrived. Following 2022’s Cave World, viagr aboys marks the Swedish post-punk outfit’s fourth LP and first on their newly launched label Shrimptech Enterprises. “The whole political thing was exhausting. This is like a self-titled album but a bit simple and stupid – because that’s how I am,” the band’s Sebastian Murphy stated in press materials, which is not to say it’s any less frantically fun. ‘Man Made of Meat’ and ‘Uno II’ arrived ahead of the LP’s release.
Tennis, Face Down in the Garden
Two months after Tennis announced their new album Face Down in the Garden, the husband-and-wife duo revealed it would be their last under the moniker. That’s enough for their already wistful indie pop to take on a new resonance, though there’s still a kind of serenity, even breeziness, to its pervasive melancholy. “The inspiration for new work came while we were still on the road touring Pollen,” Alaina Moore shared. “We felt a clear pull to write new music, but ran up against a series of bizarre setbacks. We blew tires and lost an engine. I developed a chronic illness. We took a doomed voyage that culminated in an attempted robbery at sea. Fragments of songs that first arrived like gifts from the universe later refused to be completed. Our days were awash in major and minor crises that dragged the album out endlessly.”
William Tyler, Time Indefinite
The Nashville-based guitarist/composer William Tyler’s wondrously sublime new LP, Time Indefinite, is out now via Psychic Hotline. The record was inspired by Ross McElwee’s film of the same name, which began as “a movie about Sherman’s march through the South,” according to press release, but “spiraled into a tangled history about family, loss, and what we do when our best instincts surrender to the worst things we can imagine. It is no great revelation that the lives we lead shape the work we make, whether or not we intend that to be the case. In these songs, you can hear Tyler, like McElwee, wrestle with incoming demons out loud—addiction, middle age, loneliness, neurosis. All of our struggles are different, but we are united at least in having them. Time Indefinite is the soundtrack that Tyler creates.”
Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
Sunflower Bean have dropped Mortal Primetime, their fourth studio album and first that they’ve self-produced. The follow-up to 2022’s Headful of Sugar features the previously unveiled songs ‘Champagne Taste’, ‘Nothing Romantic’, and ‘There’s a Part I Can’t Get Back’. “You get to decide what your prime is, and you fight for it,” bassist and vocalist Julia Cumming said in a statement. “This is ours, and that can’t be taken away by circumstance. We can’t take it away from each other. This moment, where we are now, is what we’ve always fought for.” The record was mixed by Caesar Edmunds and engineered by Sarah Tudzin.
Other albums out today:
Emma-Jean Thackray, Weirdo; Um, Jennifer?, Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark; Djrum, Under Tangled Silence; Self Esteem, A Complicated Woman; Cloth, Pink Silence; Goose, Everything Must Go; Jensen McRae, I Don’t Know How But They Found Me; Fly Anakin, (The) Forever Dream; Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas, Totality; Uwade, Florilegium; The Raveonettes, Pe’ahi II; Ghost, SKELETÁ; Willie Nelson, Oh What a Beautiful World; Prima Queen, The Prize; The Moonlandingz, No Rocket Required; Eliana Glass, E; BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality;
