In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on May 30, 2025:
Miley Cyrus, Something Beautiful
Miley Cyrus’ Something Beautiful has arrived. Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, Alvvays’ Molly Rankin, the War on Drugs’ Adam Granduciel, Tobias Jesso Jr., Kenny Segal, bassist Pino Palladino, saxophonist Joseph Shabason, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, Model/Actriz’s Cole Haden, and BJ Burton are among the notable contributors to the LP, which was executive-produced with Shawn Everett and luxuriates in some of her grandest and most cinematic arrangements to date. Ahead of its release, Cyrus shared the singles ‘Prelude’, ‘Something Beautiful’, ‘End of the World’, and ‘More to Lose’.
Matt Berninger, Get Sunk
Matt Berninger has released a new solo album, Get Sunk. Working with producer Sean O’Brien, the National frontman enlisted the help of of friends and musicians including Booker T Jones, Meg Duffy (Hand Habits), Julia Laws (Ronboy), Kyle Resnick (The National), Garret Lang, Sterling Laws, Mike Brewer (Nancy), Walter Martin (Walkmen), Paul Maroon (Walkmen) and Harrison Whitford. The results are more dynamic and less carefully gracious than his solo debut Serpentine Prison, which makes it a sea worth diving into, even if you know, more or less, exactly what you’re gonna get. You can stare at one thing forever – it’s nothing till you feel it rush through your bones. Read the full review.
caroline, caroline 2
caroline have followed up their self-titled 2022 debut with an even more delightfully chaotic record. The experimental octet still works on a micro scale, but caroline 2 is wide-eyed and enchanting without shying away from emotional profundity. “One of the fundamental themes is the idea of different things happening at once, things that are very different from each other but also simultaneous,” the band’s Jasper Llewellyn, who produced the record with Casper Hughes and Mike O’Malley, explained. The LP, led by ‘Total euphoria’, was written and recorded across various studio sessions over an 18-month period.
yeule, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
yeule has come through with a new album called Evangelic Girl is a Gun, the follow-up to their excellent 2023 LP softscars. The Singaporean artist explores the intersection between post-humanism and pop stardom, blurring the line between emotional fragmentation and transformation. “I made a deal with an angel to immortalise the fragments of my heart falling away forever across light-years of voids cutting through blades of chromatic illuminations, these endless glaciers of me,” yeule wrote. “I put my trust in Vasso Vu to resurrect through art, the invisible gravitic tug of violence with his razor sharp claws of chrome.”
Shura, I Got Too Sad for My Friends
Shura has returned with a new album, I Got Too Sad for My Friends, her first since 2019’s forevher. Produced by Luke Smith, the record features collaborations with the aforementioned Cassandra Jenkins, Becca Mancari and Helado Negro. “I thought I might never get to make a record again. So it was that selfish, childish thing of: I want all the sweets I can see in the sweet shop. I wanted to approach this record by doing all the things that either I wish I’d already explored or have never done and want to. I wanted to really make decisions that bring me immediate joy,” Shura said in our interview, citing Brooklyn, memoirs, and The Little Prince as some of the inspirations behind the new album.
Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled By Turtles
Alan Sparhawk has released his collaborative effort with fellow Duluth musicians Trampled by Turtles. Following Sparhawk’s production of the group’s 2014 album, Wild Animals, the record arrives less than a year after his debut solo album, White Roses, My God. “When the opportunity seems right, you jump,” Sparhawk said of the collaboration, adding, “When playing together is that powerful an embrace, why stop there?” With Trampled By Turtles was previewed by the singles ‘Stranger’, ‘Not Broken’, and ‘Get Still’.
Sea Lemon, Diving for a Prize
Sea Lemon, the moniker of Seattle musician Natalie Lew, has unveiled her mesmerizing full-length debut, Diving for a Prize. Describing her sound as “shoegaze but with pop structures,” Lew cites Enya, Caroline Palochek, Air, and My Bloody Valentine as inspirations. “With these songs, I wanted to find a place for myself in the world,” she said. One of the early singles, ‘Crystals’, features Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard.
Garbage, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light
Garbage are back with a new album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light. The follow-up to 2021’s No Gods No Masters was recorded at at Los Angeles’ Red Razor Sounds, Butch Vig’s home studio, and in singer Shirley Manson’s bedroom. “Going into making this record, I was determined to find a more hopeful, uplifting world to immerse myself in,” Manson explained in a press release. “The title of the album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, is the perfect descriptor for this new record as a whole. When things feel dark it feels imperative to seek out forces that are light, positive and beautiful in the world. It almost feels like a matter of life and death. A strategy for survival.” Read our track-by-track review.
Ty Segall, Possession
Ty Segall has released a new album, Possession, via Drag City. It marks the prolific singer-songwriter’s 16th solo album, following last January’s Three Bells. Segall collaborated with longtime collaborator and filmmaker Matt Yoka on the lyrics for the record, which, per a press release, features “invigorated new sounds around every bend—glittering rhythm arrangements feature more of Ty’s own piano woodshedding than ever, joined in battle by sweeping movements of strings and horns. Rife with singing guitar leads and banks of Ty’s vocal harmonies, Possession features some of Ty’s most inspired songs to date.”
Other albums out today:
Ben Kweller, Cover the Mirrors; Foxwarren, 2; CIVIC, Chrome Dipped; Planning for Burial, It’s Closeness, It’s Easy; Aesop Rock, Black Hole Superette; Swans, Birthing; Gordi, Like Plasticine; Sally Shapiro, Ready to Live a Lie; Obongjayar, Paradise Now; Faun Fables, Counterclockwise; Mt. Joy, Hope We Have Fun; Photographic Memory, I Look at Her and Light Goes All Through Me; Hari Maia, The Endless Hum.
