In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on October 10, 2025:
The Antlers, Blight
The Antlers are back with a new album, Blight, the follow-up to 2021’s Green to Gold. It finds singer-songwriter Peter Silberman exploring the impacts of accelerating technology, artificial intelligence, and environmental neglect. “I felt like for the sake of the message of this record and what I was trying to get across with these songs, the details were what was going to make the difference, because they create an image that you then see in your mind and can be hard to shake,” he said in our inspirations interview. “‘Carnage’ is talking about these different instances of accidental animal cruelty, and for me, when I had seen some of that, I can’t erase the image from my mind. And it changes the way I think about the creatures I’m sharing space with.”
Hannah Frances, Nested in Tangles
Working once again with co-producer Kevin Copeland, Hannah Frances expands the earthy intricacies of last year’s Keeper of the Shepherd by leaning into graceful, winding maximalism on Nested in Tangles. “I was going through a lot of emotional stickiness, anxiety, and heaviness, so that was my expression of feeling like I needed to lift myself out of something, whereas I think Keeper of the Shepherd was going into something very deep, really sinking into it,” the Vermont-based songwriter said in our Artist Spotlight interview. “That’s why all that music has a somberness or a density to it that feels very much like being on the ground, in the roots of something, in the dirt and the moss. As this record started to take shape, the visuals I was playing with lyrically – birds, the sun, the sky, the branches, all of it was very different from Keeper of the Shepherd.”
Jay Som, Belong
Jay Som has returned with her first new album in six years, Belong. The follow-up to 2019’s Anak Ko features guest vocals from Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Mini Trees’ Lexi Vega, and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins. Richly produced in ways that bring texture to its dreamy atmosphere, the record was written, performed, engineered, and mixed by Melina Duterte, with contributions from Joao Gonzalez, Mal Hauser, Steph Marziano, and Kyle Pulley. It was previewed by the singles ‘Past Lives’, ‘What You Need’, ‘Cards on the Table’, ‘Float’, and ‘A Million Reasons Why’.
Flock of Dimes, The Life You Save
Jenn Wasner has unveils her new Flock of Dimes album The Life You Save, following up 2021’s Head of Roses. “My previous records, generally, have been a summary of things I had already been through — experiences I had observed and reflected upon, reporting back from some amount of distance,” Wasner explained. “But this record is different. It is an attempt to report from inside of a process that is ongoing and unfinished, from which I will likely never fully emerge as long as I am alive: my struggle within the cycles of addiction and co-dependency.” Though she set out to make a record about other people, through it she realized it “is not someone else’s story — it is mine, the story of my life. A life spent believing I had escaped, and that I deserved to feel guilty for doing so. A life in which I believed that the right combination of words, actions, effort, and expense could somehow change others’ behavior.”
Madi Diaz, Fatal Optimist
Madi Diaz has followed up last year’s Weird Faith with a new album called Fatal Optimist. As the singer-songwriter suggests in a statement accompanying the album’s announcement, the records are quite interconnected, charging sparse, delicate instrumentals with emotional intensity. “Fatal Optimism is the innate hope for something magical,” Diaz said. “It’s the weird faith that kicks in while knowing that there is just plain risk that comes with wanting someone or something. It’s when you have no control over the outcome, but still choose to experience every moment that happens, and put your whole heart in it.” It was preceded by the singles ‘Why’d You Have To Bring Me Flowers’, ‘Feel Something’, ‘Ambivalence’, and ‘Heavy Metal’.
Avery Tucker, Paw
Paw is the debut album by Avery Tucker, formerly one half of Girlpool. While consistently moody, the album has a way of haunting the edges of its palette, at times gritty and explosive, hazy and vulnerable. Tucker credits co-producer Alaska Reid with reaching for the kind of “rawness” that served “the spirit of the songs,” which also makes it feels spiritually aligned with Reid’s work. Additional collaborators on the record include A. G. Cook, MUNA’s Katie Gavin, and Porches’ Aaron Maine.
Gab Ferreira, Carrossel
São Paolo singer-songwriter and model Gab Ferreira, who eclectically melds Brazilian traditions like bossa nova and Tropicália with electronic sounds, has released a new album. Carrossel goes down really smoothly, buoyed by pristine production and mesmerizing melodies that fall somewhere between the likes of Melody’s Echo Chamber, Men I Trust, and TOPS. It’s inspired by the close observation of what Ferreira calls “codes from nature,” like the spirals in shells or the configuration of rocks in the sand, as well as her studies of Buddhism and pagan theology.
Amber Mark, Pretty Idea
Amber Mark has released Pretty Idea, the gorgeous follow-up to 2022’s Three Dimensions Deep. “This album carries many highs and lows and lessons I didn’t know I needed,” Mark wrote. “So excited to finally share these songs with you. Consider this my way of turning all my bad ideas into Pretty ones.” The singer-songwriter worked with Julian Bunetta (Gracie Abrams), John Ryan (Olivia Dean), and Two Fresh (Duckwrth) on the album, which also follows the 2024 Loosies EP.
Madison Cunningham, Ace
“You think you’re on the verge of true healing but something scares you,” Madison Cunningham said, introducing her third album Ace, “And you have to start all over.” The follow-up to 2022’s Revealer was co-produced by Cunningham and Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Rilo Kiley, Bahamas, Peach Pit) and features a collaboration with Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes, who sings on ‘Wake’. Though it retains the beguiling intimacy of her previous albums, it is the kind of breakup album that feels like a reset, an unburdening. “I wanted it to feel like a mountain peak,” Cunningham added. “I wanted Ace to feel like a mountain we built together.”
Emily A. Sprague, Cloud Time
Florist’s Emily A. Sprague recorded her latest ambient project, the tenderly inviting Cloud Time, while she was on tour in Japan last year. “When I began preparing for the tour, I couldn’t shake a sense that the invitation to Japan was more about opening myself up to this new place instead of bringing something into it tightly under my control,” Sprague shared in press materials. “Improvisation has always been such a pillar in my music practice, and I really wanted to meet the country, spaces, and people through that process.”
Other albums out today:
Mobb Deep, Infinite; Black Eyes, Hostile Design; Feeo, Goodness; Not for Radio, Melt; dust, Sky Is Falling; Weakened Friends, Feels Like Hell; Jacob Collier, The Light for Days; Jerskin Fendrix, Once Upon a Time… In Shropshire; Dead Heat, Process of Elimination; Khalid, After the Sun Goes; Miles Kane, Sunlight in the Shadows; Silly Goose, Keys to the City; David Aimone, Changes; Greg Jamie, Across a Violet Pasture.
