In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on September 26, 2025:
Geese, Getting Killed
While listening to Geese’s revelatory new album, Getting Killed, I kept thinking about Leonard Cohen’s assertion that “there’s something arrogant and warlike about putting the world in order.” The record wastes no time pointing to the carnage all around while spending most of it in a fervid, ludicrous freefall that fills the gaps between the bizarre chaos of 2023’s 3D Country and Cameron Winter’s solo album Heavy Metal. It rides a car with a bomb in it, becomes the car, becomes the road going nowhere. The fact that its lawlessness feels so graceful makes it one of the best records of the year. Read the full review.
Cate Le Bon, Michelangelo Dying
Michelangelo Dying requires patient listening, but like most of Cate Le Bon’s most albums, it has a strangely restorative effect. Its glacial pace is soothing, letting its aqueous textures unfurl underneath Le Bon’s tender voice. “I’ve made the panic of impermanence matter,” she sings on the more fast-paced ‘Body as a River’, succumbing to the waves of grief and making it feel worth the journey. Le Bon made the album with collaborator Samur Khouja, explaining, “Thereʼs this idea that you could do everything yourself, but the value of having someone you completely trust, as I do Samur, be your co-pilot allows you to get completely lost knowing youʼll get pulled back in at the right moment. We have come to quietly move as one in the studio.”
Jeff Tweedy, Twilight Override
Jeff Tweedy’s eclecticism shines through his sprawling new solo album, Twilight Override. Spanning 30 tracks, the triple record features contributions from Sima Cunningham, James Elkington, Liam Kazar, Macie Stewart, and his sons Sammy and Spencer Tweedy. “When you choose to do creative things, you align yourself with something that other people call God,” Tweedy reflected. “And when you align yourself with creation, you inherently take a side against destruction. You’re on the side of creation. And that does a lot to quell the impulse to destroy. Creativity eats darkness.” He added: “Sort of an endless buffet these days—a bottomless basket of rock bottom. Which is, I guess, why I’ve been making so much stuff lately. That sense of decline is hard to ignore, and it must be at least a part of the shroud I’m trying to unwrap. The twilight of an empire seems like a good enough jumping-off point when one is jumping into the abyss.”
Doja Cat, Vie
Doja Cat’s fifth studio album, Vie, has arrived via Kemosabe and RCA Records. Recorded over a period of three years at France’s Miraval Studios, the record was led by the August single ‘Jealous Type’. Steeped in ’80s influences, the “pop-driven project,” as Doja Cat described it in an interview with V magazine, is centered around love. “This album is very much about love in a way that reflects how I want it to be in the future — my hope, my hopefulness. What I hope it could be,” she said. “Because I remember there was a time when people were talking about wanting to be with each other, and it seems to have gotten a bit more vapid and just sort of like, not real … Not loving, not romantic.”
Neko Case, Neon Grey Midnight Green
Vibrant, expansive, and deeply compelling, Neon Grey Midnight Green is Neko Case’s first solo LP since 2018’s Hell-O. She primarily recorded it at her own Vermont studio, Carnassial Sound, with additional sessions in Denver, Colorado with the PlainsSong Chambe Orchestra and in Portland, Oregon with Tucker Martine. “There are so few producers who are women, nonbinary, or trans,” Case said. “People don’t think of us as an option. I’m proud to say I produced this record. It is my vision. It is my veto power. It is my taste.”
Emily Yacina, Veilfall
Around the time that Emily Yacina was making her latest album, Veilfall, she was hosting “death-themed salons in an LA bookstore, during which strangers are encouraged to open up about their experiences with death and how it affects their lives.” (For some context, read our 2022 interview Death, Intimacy, and All the Things.) This openness extended to the collaborative nature of the LP, which features producers Charlie Brand (Miniature Tigers) and Jonnie Baker (Florist), Gia Margaret, Oliver Hill (Coco), and Cameron Wisch (Porches). Yacina tackles mortality with graceful vulnerability – “Death laughs at denial and pours it back into the earth/ Know I’ll be thinking of your smile when I’m crawling through the dirt,” she sings on ‘Clarity’ – resulting in a set of songs that are way more than just melancholic.
Sprints, All That Is Over
Sprints have followed up their 2024 debut Letter to Self with a feverish new album called All That Is Over. The band’s sophomore LP was written and recorded while the band was still on a hectic schedule off the success of their first album. “There was just so much happening and so much to process,” Karla Chubb reflected. “I was going through a big breakup with my partner who I’d been with for eight years, Colm had left the band, we’d really progressed into being professional musicians, and I was at the start of a new relationship. But then you’d look outside, and it’s like the world has never been uglier. I was writing every day because there was so much going on.”
Amanda Shires, Nobody’s Girl
Amanda Shires is back with Nobody’s Girl, marking her first album since her divorce from Jason Isbell. “Nobody’s Girl is what came after the wreckage, the silence, the rebuilding,” the Nashville singer-songwriter said in a press release. “It’s about standing in the aftermath of a life you thought would last forever and realizing no one is coming to save you.” As disarmingly personal as it is beautiful, the album was record in Los Angeles and Nashville with Lawrence Rothman, Fred Eltringham, Jimbo Hart, Joe Kennedy, Julian Dorio, Dominic Davis, and Zach Setchfiel.
Robert Plant, Saving Grace
Robert Plant has released a new album, Saving Grace, his first LP since the 2021 Alison Krauss collaboration Raise the Roof. Led by a cover of Low’s ‘Everybody’s Song’, the album also features renditions of songs by artists such as Memphis Minnie, Moby Grape, Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, and Sarah Siskind. Plant produced the album and recorded it with a band that features vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown.
crushed, no scope
crushed – the duo of Temple Of Angels’ Bre Morrell and Weekend’s Shaun Durka – expand their blurry, sugary strain of dream pop on their debut album, no scope. Leaning into the poppier tendencies of their 2023 extra life EP, they enlisted Jorge Elbrecht (Japanese Breakfast, Weyes Blood, Hatchie) to round and flesh out the songs, magnifying the feelings of loneliness and malaise underneath. “‘Cwtch’ is a Welsh word meaning an embrace with a sense of offering warmth and safety, a safe place,” Durkan said of the poignant early single. “I wrote the song during a period where I was really struggling to ‘live life on life’s terms’. A time when learning new ways of coping with difficult feelings felt like an enormous challenge, and returning to self destruction sounded like returning home.”
Other albums out today:
Mariah Carey, Here For It All; Olivia Dean, The Art Of Loving; Tom Skinner, Kaleidoscopic Visions; Joy Crookes, Juniper; Young Thug, UY Scuti; White Reaper, Only Slightly Empty; Bitchin Bajas, Inland See; Sydney Sprague, Peak Experience; Sam Prekop, Open Close; Fred Armisen, 100 Sound Effects; Piotr Kurek, Songs and Bodies; M. Sage, Tender / Wading; Purity Ring, Purity Ring; Coach Party, Caramel; glaive, Y’ALL; Sloan, Based on the Best Seller; Piotr Kurek, Songs and Bodies; Fani Konstantinidou, Undertones; Rosa Anschütz, Sabbatical; Hatis Noit, Aura Reworks; cheryl e. leonard, near the bear; Xexa, Kissom; Daffo, Where the Earth Bends; Night Tapes, portals // polarities; Rochelle Jordan, Through the Wall; Robert Lax, Living in the present; Molly Grace, Blush; Donny McCaslin, Lullaby for the Lost.
