In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on June 27, 2025:
Lorde, Virgin
Lorde’s Virgin has arrived. The much-anticipated follow to 2021’s Solar Power was promoted with the singles ‘What Was That’, ‘Man of the Year’, and ‘Hammer’. Throbbing, unmoored, and angsty even at its most muted, the record was co-produced with Jim-E Stack, with additional contributions from Fabiana Palladino, Daniel Nigro, Rob Moose, No World’s Andrew Aged, Blood Orange’s Devonté Hyves, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, and more. ‘Current Affairs’, an emotional highlight, samples of Dexta Daps’ ‘Morning Love’, while ‘If She Could See Me Now’ features elements of Baby Bash and Frankie J’s hit ‘Suga Suga’.
Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Frankie Cosmos‘ new album is their first to be self-produced since Greta Kline’s earliest demos. Kline, Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley tracked the homey, gentle Different Talking at a house in upstate New York that they all lived in for a month and a half. “We set up to record this album having only toured for ten days together total as a four piece,” Kline noted in our inspirations interview. “We’d been playing together and practicing, but we hadn’t toured that much together when we set out to make the record, so I feel like I was being a camp counselor trying to get us to bond. In tandem with making a record, we were also building our rapport as a band and our communication and our dynamics together, figuring that out just day by day.”
Greet Death, Die in Love
Greet Death are back with Die in Love, their first LP since 2019’s New Hell. They recorded the album in Davisburg, Michigan – specifically in Harper Boyhtari’s parents’ basement, where she and co-vocalist Logan Gaval spent much of their formative years. Going into it, Gaval had been listening to the Beatles and Paul McCartney’s solo work “because I was trying to figure out how to write a song that wasn’t just depressing,” according to the album’s bio. There’s a song called ‘Emptiness Is Everywhere’, for instance, but the line goes, “Emptiness is everywhere, so hold each other close.” “I wanted to try to write something less fatalistic, because I feel some kind of responsibility to help,” Gaval explained. The results are beautiful in both their tenderness and occasional grandeur.
Sharpie Smile, The Staircase
The duo of Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner, formerly Kamikaze Palm Tree, have made their debut album as Sharpie Smile, The Staircase. It’s a pop record that takes cues from both the more maximal and minimal (but uniformly futurist) sounds in the contemporary landscape, from 100 gecs to Oklou. Featuring the early singles ‘The Slide’ and the title track, the album was engineered and produced by Cesar Maria, with additional engineering by Spencer Hartling, additional vocal engineering and production by Cairo Marques-Neto, and mixing by Mikey Weiland.
Smut, Tomorrow Comes Crashing
Smut have released a new album called Tomorrow Comes Crashing, out now via Bayonet. The Chicago-based recorded the vivacious How the Light Felt follow-up with producer Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma) in Brooklyn, right after vocalist/lyricist Tay Roebuck and guitarist Andie Min got married. “Looking at the record as it is now, I can listen to each individual song and kind of place how we were feeling as a band in that moment, because it did feel like we were being very honest with ourselves,” Roebuck said in our Artist Spotlight interview. “If we were frustrated, the song was frustrated. If we were elated and excited about an opportunity, then the song was going to be more exciting and optimistic.”
Nick León, A Tropical Entropy
Miami-based producer Nick León has come through with his debut album, A Tropical Entropy, via TraTraTrax. Drawing inspiration from Joan Didion’s 1987 book Miami as well as “altered states of consciousness – both chemically induced and sleep-deprived,” the record brims with hypnotic and fluorescent moments, growing dreamier and more relaxed in its second half. It features collaborations with Ela Minus, Erika de Casier, Xander Amahd, Jonny From Space, Esty & Mediopicky, Lavurn, and Casey MQ.
Laura Stevenson, Late Great
Laura Stevenson has released a new album called Late Great. It’s a striking record – just listen to the heartbreaking climax of lead single ‘Honey’ – and the singer-songwriter called it “a document of loss for sure, but it also draws the map of this exciting precipice that I’m standing on. I am making my own life now. With the record, with everything, this is the first time I get to call all the shots.” It was recorded and produced with John Agnello, with contributions from Jeff Rosenstock, Sammi Niss, James Richardson, Shawn Alpay, Kayleigh Goldsworthy, Chris Farren, Kelly Pratt, and Mike Brenner.
Isabella Lovestory, Vanity
Lurid, maximalist, and infectious, Vanity is the follow-up to Isabella Lovestory’s playful 2022 record Amor Hardcore. The Honduran experimental pop artist previewed it with a series of singles, including ‘Puchica’, ‘Putita Boutique’, ‘Telenovela’, ‘Gorgeous’, and ‘Eurotrash’. “Vanity has a metallic analog vibe: a robotic funeral,” Lovestory explained. “Ghost in the Shell mixed with a poppy ultra-feminine sound. Shiny yet rusty, fancy yet trashy, like ancient encrusted diamonds.” She added, “Thematically, this album explores fragility, how easily a mirror shatters, but it also explores the indestructible and eternal essence of beauty. I don’t mind when things break, I like to collect the pieces and create something new.”
Other albums out today:
Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums; Barbra Streisand, The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two; Kevin Abstract, BLUSH; Jeanines, How Long Can It Last; Lightheaded, Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming; Daisy the Great, The Rubber Teeth Talk;
Zoh Amba, Sun; BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation; Deadguy, Near-Death Travel Services; Sean Nicholas Savage, The Knowing; Blonde Redhead, The Shadow of the Guest; Le Diouck, Grace Joke; GELO, League of My Own; Felly, Ambroxyde; Pi’erre Bourne, Made In Paris; HLLLYH, URUBURU; TDJ, TDJ; Moving Mountains, Pruning of the Lower Limbs; late night drive home, as I watch my life online; Gelli Haha, Switcheroo; Pleasure Pill, Hang a Star; Daisychain, All In a Name; Melaine Dalibert & David Sylvian, Vermilion Hours.
