In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on October 31, 2025:
Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream
“Let me put out a record and not have it ruin my life,” Florence Welch sings on ‘Music by Men’, a stripped-back highlight from the album she’s putting out today. The visceral origins of these songs are hard to overstate: in 2023, complications from a miscarried ectopic pregnancy forced Welch into emergency surgery mid-tour, which saved her life and prompted an exploration of witchcraft and pagan imagery. Still seeking cathartic release, she delivers a torrential and shadowy record that’s anything but lacking in big choruses and brutal confrontation, yet contains some of her most intimate music to date. Read the full review.
Snocaps, Snocaps
Katie and Allison Crutchfield, the twin sisters and former P.S. Eliot bandmates, have formed a supergroup of sorts with MJ Lenderman and longtime Waxahatchee producer Brad Cook. It’s called Snocaps, and their surprise self-titled album is out today on ANTI-. Harking back to Allison’s band Swearin’ and Katie’s earlier work as Waxahatchee, the record – produced and almost entirely engineered by Cook – is an absolute treat before the release schedule starts to slow down.
Anna von Hausswolff, Iconoclasts
Anna von Hausswolff is back with an expansive, revelatory album called Iconoclasts, her first for Year0001. The Swedish musician and composer produced the follow-up to 2020’s All Thoughts Fly with longtime collaborator Filip Leyman. It features collaborations Ethel Cain (who also contributed to the Florence record), Abul Mogard, Iggy Pop, and Maria von Hausswolf, as well as an ensemble of musicians including saxophonist Otis Sandsjö.
Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo, In the Earth Again
In the Earth Again seems like an unlikely collaboration until it makes entirely too much sense. Fingerstyle guitarist Hayden Pedigo and noise-rockers Chat Pile connected through Oklahoma City’s DIY scene, and the early singles, including ‘Demon Time’ and ‘Radioactive Dreams’, suggested a near-perfect, apocalyptic collision of their stylistic approaches. But the collaborators aren’t afraid to veer into the extremes rather than simply meet in the middle, striking gold with the sprawlingly heavy ‘The Matador’ and ending with the hauntingly intimate ‘A Tear for Lucas’.
KeiyaA, hooke’s law
keiyaA wrote the music on her much-anticipated sophomore LP, hooke’s law, over the course of five years. Expanding her fusion of jazz, R&B, hip-hop, electronic, and experimental music, it’s “an album about the journey of self love, from an angle that isn’t all affirmations and capitalistic self-care. it’s not a linear story with a moral at the end,” she explained. “It’s more of a cycle, a spiral – it’s Hooke’s law.” keiyaA added, “With this work i aim to interrogate and embrace anger and conflict, disappointment and dissatisfaction, about not being docile and about rejecting mammyism and traditional expectations of fat black brown and dark skinned women in our communities. i speak about desire + longing, about examining maladaptive tendencies, conflict avoidance – the eternal relationship with the self.”
claire rousay, A Little Death
With A Little Death, claire rousay completes a trilogy that includes 2020’s A Heavenly Touch and 2021’s A Softer Focus. Crinkling moments of intimacy through field recordings and delicately textured piano, guitar, clarinet, viola, and electronics, the record features contributions from M. Sage and Mari Maurice (aka more eaze). The eight-minute title track, built on piano and viola, is the perfect conclusion and one of the most emotional pieces of music I’ve heard from rousay.
The Belair Lip Bombs, Again
After reissuing the Belair Lip Bombs’ 2023 debut, Lush Life, Third Man Records has now released the Melbourne power-pop band’s riveting new album Again. Dubbing their sound “yearn-core,” the band produced the LP with Nao Anzai (The Teskey Brothers) and Joe White (Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever). “It was really good having someone else there who was just as invested in what we were playing as we were,” drummer Daniel “Dev” Devlin commented. “Sometimes when you’re recording you’re in your own little world… He made all of us feel really confident in what we were doing.” Maisie adds, “We really didn’t know what to expect going into it. But it was really beneficial having someone on the outside looking in at the songs and can pick up on things that we don’t necessarily see.”
Alexa Rose, Atmosphere
Alexa Rose has followed up 2021’s Headwaters with a stunning new album, Atmosphere, has arrived via First City Artists. Recorded at Sylvan Esso’s North Carolina studio Betty’s, the 10-track LP was produced by Ryan Gustafson of The Dead Tongues and mixed by Matt Ross Spang. It features pedal steel from Mat Davidson, percussion from Dom Billet, bass from Jeff Ratner, cello from Hilary James, banjo from Helena Rose, and harmonies from Josh Oliver. “This album is all about tenderness,” Rose reflected. “It’s about going out on a limb to feel the full swirl of what life throws at you.”
Other albums out today:
Daniel Avery, Tremor; Hilary Woods, Night CRIÚ; Guided By Voices, Thick Rich And Delicious; Zach Hill & Lucas Abela, Bag of Max Bag of Cass; Saintseneca, Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs; Eleni Drake, Chuck; Camp Trash, Two Hundred Thousand Dollars; Shlohmo, Repulsor; Ship Sket, InitiatriX; Big L, Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King; Ship Sket, InitiatriX; DJ Premier & Ransom, The Reinvention; Mohinder Kaur Bhamra, Punjabi Disco; Ohm, The Architects; Maneka, bathes and listens; Holy Sons, Puritan Themes; Alister Spence, Within Without; Mark Harwood, Two Actors; Chloe Kim, Ratsnake; Lydia Luce, Mammoth; Massa Nera, The Emptiness of All Things.
