In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on October 17, 2025:
Tame Impala, Deadbeat
Tame Impala is back with Deadbeat, the follow-up to 2020’s The Slow Rush. It curiously combines some of Kevin Parker’s flashiest, most cinematic production with intimate lyrics about burnout and heartbreak, a feeling of disconnect from the “normal” world. He crafted the record between his hometown of Fremantle and his studio, Wave House in Injidup, Western Australia during the first half of 2025. According to press materials, it channels “an endless bummer, a self-deprecating f*ck-up stuck in a negative feedback loop when he should have long had his sh*t together,” framing “raving as self-enquiry, self-medication in lieu of self-care and the kick-on as domestic bliss.”
They Are Gutting a Body of Water, LOTTO
They Are Gutting a Body of Water have come through with their best and most visceral album, LOTTO, their first for NYC label ATO Records. The innovative shoegaze band previewed the 10-track record with the singles ‘trainers’, ‘american food’, ‘the chase’, and ‘rl stine’. “In a world of perpetually increasing artifice, this record is my attempt to surface through the sea of false muck,” bandlead Doug Dulgarian said in press materials. “It’s rife with perceivable mistakes, ebbing and flowing with the most humanity I can place on one record.”
bar italia, Some Like It Hot
As cheeky as it is punchy, the latest effort from the London trio bar italia takes its name from the 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon about a group of rogue musicians looking for an adventure. Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, and Sam Fenton trade vocals in ways that sound detached, but there’s more vulnerability here than meets the surface. The record includes the previously released singles ‘Cowbella’, ‘Fundraiser’, ‘rooster’, and ‘omni shambles’.
bloodsports, Anything Can Be a Hammer
bloodsports’ blistering debut album innervates the New York band’s slowcore foundations, its volatile songs often beginning with spare, somber guitar parts before bursting with noise. “For me at least, what I was into at the time is I just wanted to pile on as much as we possibly could,” guitarist Jeremy Mock said in our Artist Spotlight interview. “I love a big orchestral arrangement, so with the limited time and tools we had, I just tried to do as much as I could.” Vocalist/guitarist Sam Murphy added: “I think I generally lean towards writing more minimal or simpler things. Combining that with what Jeremy was saying, these more orchestral, composed arrangements, I think works really well.”
Sudan Archives, THE BPM
Sudan Archives has followed up her 2022 breakout Natural Brown Prom Queen with a bold, kinetic, vulnerable LP called THE BPM. It finds the 31-year-old violinist introducing a new persona, a technologically advanced musician named Gadget Girl. “I was never the girl in a band in high school—I could only express myself for the first time when I got my first iPad and started making beats on it, and when I got my first electric violin,” she explained. “I’m all gadget girled out now, but I’ve never felt so free as a human.”
Skullcrusher, And Your Song Is Like a Circle
Helen Ballentine’s songs are instantly disarming. Her new Skullcrusher album, And Your Song is Like a Circle, is just as hauntingly gorgeous as 2022’s Quiet the Room, but feels more openly existential, emerging from a period of isolation and grief following a move to the East Coast. “I like thinking about my work as a collection, and every time I add more to it, I’m adding a rock,” Ballentine reflected. “Eventually it might form a circle. Each time I make something, I’m putting another line around the body of work. It feels like I’ll be trying to trace it for my whole life.”
The Last Dinner Party, From the Pyre
The Last Dinner Party continue to naturally lean into over-the-top lyricism and intricate arrangements on From the Pyre, which doesn’t come long after their chart-topping 2024 debut Prelude to Ecstasy. “This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them,” the band expounded. “‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light. The songs are character driven but still deeply personal, a commonplace life event pushed to pathological extreme. Being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer, and heartbreak laughs into the face of the apocalypse. Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos. We found this kind of evocative imagery to be the most honest and truthful way to discuss the way our experiences felt, giving each the emotional weight it deserves.”
Militarie Gun, God Save the Gun
Militarie Gun’s new album God Save the Gun is as convincingly frenzied and raw as it is dynamic and exhilarating. The follow-up to the post-hardcore band’s debut Life Under the Gun follows the narrator’s struggles with alcohol addiction and mental health. “It’s very convenient to numb yourself, and numb your receptors, which is a huge part of what I was doing,” Ian Shelton said in a recent interview. “I truly don’t think I ever felt normal until I started drinking. It was the only thing that made me feel comfortable in my skin. And when you finally feel like that, you want that all the time. I certainly miss it, but I have to continuously make the decision every day to stick to the path that I’m on.”
Elias Rønnenfelt, Speak Daggers
Iceage’s Elias Rønnenfelt made his new album Speak Daggers in his bedroom between tours. Slinkier, darker, and altogether weirder than his 2024 solo debut Heavy Glory, the record finds the Danish singer-songwriter collaborating with the likes of Erika de Casier and Fine. The song ‘Not Gonna Follow’ repurposes material Rønnenfelt recorded with reggae icons the Congos and I-Jahbar when he visited Jamaica a few years ago.
Living Hour, Internal Drone Infinity
Internal Drone Infinity is off to a jarring start, which I won’t spoil, but Living Hour quickly find the perfect balance between tenderness and noise. It finds the band reuniting with Jay Som’s Melina Duterte, who worked on 2022’s Someday Is Today. “I wrote a lot of the songs while working as a projectionist at a movie theater and on airplanes,” bandleader Sam Sarty explained. “Both places have a little window you look out of to see things move while you sit down. It’s a strange feeling to be completely still while watching the rest of the world moving in a frame.” It ends with a striking lyrical image: “Pregnant and thick/Wide with consciousness/ Rivers flowing all around us/ And we’re thankful for them.”
Ashnikko, Smoochies
Upon announcing her sophomore album Smoochies, Ashnikko promised the WEEDKILLER follo-up will be “sexy, playful and feminine.” On those fronts, the record surely delivers. “Smoochies feels like Demidevil’s older sister,” Ashnikko added, noting that it toes “the line of grotesque and absurd. I feel like purse sediment so much of the time – like a mess of crumbs and gum in receipts and lipgloss that I’ve forgotten about – so the album feels like that too. This is the first where I’ve written very autobiographically, but at the core of it all is personal autonomy and joyful whimsy.”
Jane Inc., A RUPTURE A CANYON A BIRTH
In 2023, Carlyn Bezic and her band were on the side of the road when a semi-truck crashed into their van. Bezic wrote Jane Inc.’s new album, A RUPTURE A CANYON A BIRTH, in the wake of the car accident, not to mention a break-up and a stage one cancer diagnosis on her left vocal cord. “The experience unlocked something for me, and I felt I could perform with more freedom and abandon than ever before,” Bezic said in a statement about the early single ‘Elastic’. “Here I imagine the audience as a lover, and under their gaze, life is filled with pure Dionysian possibility: an unrolling and malleable series of nows.”
Other albums out today:
Just Mustard, WE WERE JUST HERE; C.Y.M., C.Y.M.; Silvana Estrada, Vendrán Suaves Lluvias; Cusp, What I Want Doesn’t Want Me Back; Rachel Bobbitt, Swimming Towards the Sand; Chrissie Hynde, Duets Special; Poliça, Dreams Go; Destiny Bond, The Love; Good Luck, Big Dreams, Mister; Soulwax, All Systems Are Lying; Monaleo, Who Did the Body; Clarice Jensen, In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness; Linda From Work, Linda From Work; The Bats, Corner Coming Up; country girl, patience; Emily Jeanne, Past Through Desire; Maggie Lindemann, I Feel Everything; Josienne Clarke, Far From Nowhere; Dylan Henner, Star Dream FM; William Prince, Further From the Country; Rural Tapes, Oneiric.
