In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on May 9, 2025:
billy woods, GOLLIWOG
“When I was nine years old, I wrote a story about an evil golliwog,” billy woods explained in a press release. “My mother read it and told me it was overly derivative and needed some work. Here we are.” Concepts of evil and horror take on different dimensions on the rapper’s grim, unsparing new album GOLLIWOG, which follows his 2023 Kenny Segal collaboration Maps. Guests on the LP include billy woods’ Armand Hammer bandmate ELUCID, Bruiser Wolf, Despot, Cavalier, al.divino, and Yolanda Watson, while El-P, the Alchemist, Shabaka Hutchings, Conductor Williams, DJ Haram, Preservation, and more contributed production.
Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Kali Uchis
has been teasing her fifth album, Sincerely,, for a couple of months, sharing the singles ‘Sunshine & Rain’ and ‘ILYSMIH’ ahead of the release. Now that it’s here, the 14-track LP breezes by like a dream, and those songs cap it off wonderfully. While the Colombian-American singer-songwriter’s last two albums, 2023’s Red Moon in Venus and 2024’s Orquídeas, came out via Geffen, this marks her first album for Capitol Records. She wrote and executive-produced it herself. “Thank you all for the well-intentioned wishes on this journey, and thank you to my team!” Uchis said in a statement. “I have boundless gratitude for my silent ascent throughout the years and am very much looking forward to what’s next.”
PinkPantheress, Fancy That
PinkPantheress is back with a new project, Fancy That. The English pop musician worked on the mixape with aksel arvid, Count Baldor, phil, Oscar Scheller, and the Dare, while the samples on it range from Panic! at the Disco to Jessica Simpson. “This tape marks a huge milestone for me as an artist,” PinkPantheress said in a press release. “This feels like the most tied together project i’ve applied myself to as an artist and for my fans who have been with me for years, I hope they can hear the signs of growth in me as an artist.” She previewed it with the songs ‘Stateside’ and ‘Tonight’.
Deradoorian, Ready for Heaven
Deradoorian has unveiled a new album, Ready for Heaven, via Fire. It marks the former Dirty Projectors member’s first album for the British label, which previously released Ticket to Fame, Deradoorian’s debut album with Kate NV as Decisive Pink. Daring yet restlessly danceable, the record was previewed by the tracks ‘Digital Gravestone’, ‘Set Me Free’, ‘Any Other World’, and ‘No No Yes Yes’. “This album is partly about watching humanity erode,” Deradoorian said in a press release. “It’s about mental struggle, and it’s avowedly anti-capitalist. I mean; would we have all these identity labels we have to live by, if we didn’t live in a capitalist world?”
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, Tall Tales
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke have released their new collaborative album, Tall Tales, their first album as a duo. Driven by Pritchard’s eerie minimalism as it rubs up against Yorke’s haunting vocals, the record was previewed by the singles ‘Back in the Game’, ‘This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice’, ‘Gangsters’, and ‘The Spirit’. They all came with music videos directed by Jonathan Zawada, who also helmed and animated a feature film accompanying the album. “Mark sent me a large file of Mp3s of ideas during lockdown,” Yorke shared. There were so many great ones I knew straight away that i had to drop what i was doing. It felt very much that i had not been anywhere like this before, both as soon as i put my headphones on and started trying to find the vocals, words and sounds, but also, as it progressed, watching Jonathan [Zawada] respond so freely and spontaneously with all his video and artwork ideas.”
I’m With Her, Wild and Clear and Blue
I’m With Her — the folk supergroup of Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins — have returned with a new album, Wild and Clear and Blue. The trio recorded the LP in New York state between The Outlier Inn in the Catskills and The Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, enlisting Bonny Light Horseman member Josh Kaufman to produce it and D. James Goodwin to mix it. In a statement, O’Donovan said that while writing the album, they were “thinking about growing up so in love with music and then actually making music ourselves — it’s very specific to our own lives, but I think there’s something universal about having those childhood memories tied up in the music your parents played for you.”
Mclusky, the world is still here and so are we
The World Is Still Here and So Are We is Welsh rock trio Mclusky’s first new album in 20 years. Released by Ipecac Recordings, the label co-founded by Faith No More’s Mike Patton, the relentlessly frantic follow-up to The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Fire features the early singles ‘way of the exploding dickhead’, ‘people person’, and ‘chekhov’s guns’. Led by Andrew Falkous, the band’s current lineup is rounded out by drummer Jack Egglestone (a 2003 appointee) and bassist Damien Sayell.
Adult Mom, Natural Causes
Adult Mom – the indie rock quartet led by Stevie Knipe and featuring Olivia Battell, Allegra Eidinger, and Lily Mastrodimos – have put out a new album, Natural Causes. Written between 2020 and 2023, it finds the band channeling the global turmoil that accompanied those years into “rage that burns so bright you can light your way by it,” according to a press release. Compared to Knipe’s previous records, they described the process behind Natural Causes as a “very communist practice of making a record. It was the whole band and our engineer Chance [Milestone], and we were all making choices as a unit. Every guitar tone, every sound that you hear was all decided together. We’re all the collective producer. I’ve never made a record like that before.”
Other albums out today:
Preoccupations, Ill At Ease; Young Thug, UY Scuti; Maia Friedman, Goodbye Long Winter Shadow; Maren Morris, Dreamsicle; Benny the Butcher, Excelsior; Alien Boy, You Wanna Fade?; MIKE & Tony Seltzer, Pinball II; Andy Bell, Ten Crowns; Spacey Jane, If That Makes Sense; Cole Pulice, Land’s End Eternal; Arcade Fire, Pink Elephant; Counting Crows, Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!; Sleep Token, Even in Arcadia; The Head and the Heart, Aperture; King Hüsky, King Hüsky; Provoker, Mausoleum; Laibach, Alamut; Quinquis, eor; helen island, silence is priceless.
