In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on June 13, 2025:
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Phantom Island
Ten months is not a particularly long time between albums, but it feels like it for the scarily prolific King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Today, the Australian band has released a new album they made with an orchestra during the same time period as 2024’s Flight B741. Arriving on their own (p)doom records label, Phantom Island is a typically adventurous record that leans on Southern rock tropes while cooking up some of the group’s most introspective songs to date. “When I was younger, I was just interested in freaking people out,” bandleader Stu Mackenzie remarked, “but as I get older, I’m much more interested in connecting with people.”
Lyra Pramuk, Hymnal
Lyra Pramuk is back with a new album, Hymnal, out now via 7K! and pop.soil. It finds the Berlin-based vocalist, producer, and composer foregoing the dazzling minimalism of 2020 her debut Fountain, weaving in richly layered strings – in collaboration with chamber ensemble the Sonar Quartett – and processing them to fit her imaginative, deconstructive framework. “This work represents an attempt to articulate my own belief system,” Pramuk explained. “Everything about our society is designed to distract us from our true power, innate beauty, and connection with all (real) life. It’s up to us to unlearn this.… We must cultivate interplanetary consciousness and tell the universe stories about who we are. Being trans has led me to question everything about society to keep the good bits, and imagine a better, more holistic reality.”
Common Holly, Anything glass
Montreal artist Brigitte Naggar, who records as Common Holly, has come through with a new album called Anything glass. The poignant, mesmerizing follow-up to 2019’s When I say to you Black Lightning, out now via Keeled Scales and Paper Bag, was previewed by the singles ‘Enough’ and ‘Aegean blue’. “You can hear some of the vocal doubling here,” Naggar said of the latter, “since the album was recorded live, many (all?) of the songs have doubled vocals, because I would sing live while we were performing the song, and then I would later add more vocals on top of that initial vocal. This came to be a quality we liked in the whole experience of the album.”
The Bug Club, Very Human Features
The Bug Club have dropped Very Human Features, their fourth album and second for Sub Pop. Led by mononymous songwriters Sam and Tilly, the group made the dizzying, infectious collection of garage rock songs with producer Tom Rees, who also worked on 2024’s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System. It was preceded by singles such as ‘Jealous Boy’, ‘How to Be a Confidante’, and ‘Appropriate Emotions’.
Patrick Wolf, Crying the Neck
Patrick Wolf has returned with his first new LP in 13 years, Crying the Neck. Following 2023’s The Night Safari EP, which was shaped by a journey of “addiction, crisis, bankruptcy, recovery and survival,” the record features Zola Jesus, Serafina Steer, drummer Seb Rochford, and Wolf’s sister Jo Apps. Also appearing on the LP is a recording of the writer Vita Sackville-West reading the line “faith, doubt, perplexity, grief, hope, despair” from her poem ‘The Land’. “The quote is important because it’s acceptance and acknowledgement,” Wolf explained in press materials, adding, “I do feel like I have a certain amount of time left, to do the work that I want to do, and a certain amount of time left to not do the work as well, and to live.”
Others albums out today:
Graham Hunt, Timeless World Forever; Buscabulla, Se Amaba Así; Leikeli47, Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only; WITCH, SOGOLO; Felly, Ambroxyde; Van Morrison, Remembering Now; James Holden & Wacław Zimpel, The Universe Will Take Care of You; Maiya Blaney, A Room With a Door That Closes; Brandon Lake, King of Hearts; Loula Yorke, The Book of Commonplace.
