Weekly Releases 22.08.25
Your round-up of the latest and greatest sounds heading your way over the next few days.
Well ladies, theydies and gentlemen, we’ve finally made it to the biggest cultural moment of the decade. Yes, Joy from the greatest girl group of all time (Red Velvet) is finally dropping her first (proper) solo release and… No wait, that wasn’t it (as much as it should be in a just world). Yep, there is a new Deftones album in our laps on this fine Friday morning, and the bullet-hypetrain is about to lift off the tracks. Reception to the singles has been generally very positive, but can they make it all the way to their destination, or are we primed for the deadliest derailment since (insert callous and highly inappropriate reference to tragic event here).
But if you’re one of those weirdos who isn’t fully invested in the first nu-metal band to discover reverb pedal abuse, there’s still plenty of gems here for you. A surpise Earl Sweatshirt drop, a big change of direction for The World Is a Beautiful Place… (I am not typing out the whole name again), and the aptly-titled debut EP Provocateur from electropop upstart Adéla, and you’ll see why if you scroll down. These and many others can be sampled in our handy Spotify playlist below.
In celebration of actually publishing this on time for once, here are this week’s hottest new releases…
This Week’s New Music
Adéla
The Provocateur (Capitol)
SLOVAKIA | Electropop // Dance-Pop
Arcadea
The Exodus of Gravity (Relapse)
USA | Synthpop // Neo-Psychedelia
Ava Max
Don't Click Play (Atlantic)
USA | Synthpop // Dance-Pop
Bask
The Turning (Season of Mist)
USA | Stoner Rock // Stoner Metal
Ben Bondy
XO Salt Llif3 (3XL)
USA | Downtempo // Dream Pop
Blackbriar
A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast)
NETHERLANDS | Symphonic Metal
Camellia
Chimera Dragons (Self-released)
JAPAN | EDM // Hardcore
Ciara
CiCi (Beauty Marks)
USA | Contemporary R&B // Trap Soul
Crowne
Wonderland (Frontiers)
SWEDEN | Hard Rock // Heavy Metal
The Dare
Freakquencies: Volume 1 (Republic)
USA | Electroclash
Defacement
Doomed (Unorthodox Emanations)
NETHERLANDS | Blackened Death Metal
Deftones
Private Music (Reprise)
USA | Alternative Metal // Shoegaze
Desaster
Kill All Idols (Metal Blade)
GERMANY | Thrash Metal // Black Metal
Dinosaur Pile-Up
I’ve Felt Better (Mascot)
UK | Alternative Rock // Post-Grunge
Earl Sweatshirt
Live Laugh Love (Tan Cressida)
USA | Abstract Hip Hop // Experimental Hip Hop
EDEN
DARK (MCMXCV)
IRELAND | Alt-Pop // Art Pop
Emma Louise & Flume
DUMB (Flume)
AUSTRALIA | Wonky // Future Bass
Eve Adams
American Dust (Basin Rock)
USA | Singer-Songwriter // Contemporary Folk
Ghostface Killah
Supreme Clientele 2 (Mass Appeal)
USA | Hardcore Hip Hop
Greg Freeman
Burnover (Transgressive)
USA | Indie Rock // Alt-Country
Hand Habits
Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
USA | Singer-Songwriter // Indie Rock
Hot Mulligan
The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still (Wax Bodega)
USA | Emo-Pop // Pop Punk
Hundreds of AU
Life in Parallel (Iodine)
USA | Screamo // Post-Hardcore
Hunx and His Punx
Walk Out on This World (Get Better)
USA | Queercore // Garage Punk
Innumerable Forms
Pain Effulgence (Profound Lore)
USA | Death Metal // Doom Metal
James Yorkston
Songs for Nina and Johanna (Domino)
UK | Chamber Folk // Indie Folk
Jobber
Jobber to the Stars (Exploding in Sound)
USA | Power Pop // Alternative Rock
JOY
From JOY, With Love (SM)
SOUTH KOREA | K-Pop
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Gush (Nettwerk)
USA | Art Pop // Glitch Pop
Kathleen Edwards
Billionaire (Dualtone)
CANADA | Singer-Songwriter // Americana
Kep1er
Bubble Gum (Klap)
SOUTH KOREA | K-Pop // Electropop
Kerala Dust
An Echo of Love (PIAS)
UK | Downtempo // Art Pop
Kid Cudi
Free (Wicked Awesome)
USA | Pop Rock // Pop Rap
Laufey
A Matter of Time (AWAL)
ICELAND | Traditional Pop // Chamber Pop
Lissie
Promises (Lionboy)
USA | Singer-Songwriter // Pop Rock
Mac DeMarco
Guitar (Mac’s)
CANADA | Bedroom Pop // Soft Rock
Malevich
Under a Gilded Sun (Church Road)
USA | Sludge Metal // Screamo
Mariah the Scientist
Hearts Sold Separately (Epic)
USA | Contemporary R&B // Alt-Pop
Medieval Demon
All Powers of Darkness (Hells Headbangers)
GREECE | Symphonic Black Metal
Min Jiwoon
Pink, Then Grey (KRUCIALIZE)
SOUTH KOREA | K-Pop // Contemporary R&B
Mob Rules
Rise of the Ruler (Rock of Angels)
GERMANY | Power Metal // Heavy Metal
Moonbyul
Laundri (Rainbowbridge)
SOUTH KOREA | K-Pop // Dance Pop
Nourished by Time
The Passionate Ones (XL)
USA | Bedroom Pop // Synthpop
Offset
Kiari (Motown)
USA | Trap // Gangsta Rap
Pains
Blistering Wrath (Twelve Gauge)
USA | Metalcore // Grindcore
Panzerpappa
Landsbysladder (Apollon)
NORWAY | Avant-Prog
Pendulum
Inertia (Virgin)
UK / AUSTRALIA | Drum and Bass // Alternative Metal
Perfume
Nebula Romance Pt. 2 (Perfume)
JAPAN | J-Pop // Synthpop
Pino Palladino & Blake Mills
That Wasn’t a Dream (Impulse!)
UK / USA | Nu Jazz
Plastic Girl in Closet
High Heart (Vinyl Junkie)
JAPAN | Inide Pop // Shoegaze
Polo Perks <3 <3 <3
Fatboy (Self-released)
USA | Experimental Hip-Hop // Cloud Rap
quannnic
Warbrained (deadAir)
USA | Noise Rock // Indie Rock
Royel Otis
Hickey (Ourness)
AUSTRALIA | Indie Pop // Indie Rock
Signs of the Swarm
To Rid Myself of Truth (Century Media)
USA | Deathcore
Sir Chloe
Swallow the Knife (ONErpm)
USA | Indie Rock // Post-Punk
sombr
I Barely Know Her (Warner)
USA | Indie Rock // Pop Rock
The Stargazer Lilies
Love Pedals (Self-released)
USA | Shoegaze // Neo-Psychedelia
Stray Kids
Karma (JYP)
SOUTH KOREA | K-Pop // Pop Rap
Superchunk
Songs in the Key of Yikes (Merge)
USA | Indie Rock // Power Pop
Swami Sound & gum.mp3
State of Emergency (Self-released)
USA | Garage // Breakbeat
Teyana Taylor
Escape Room (Def Jam)
USA | Contemporary R&B // Afrobeats
Thought Chamber
Myst of Lyriad (Lion)
USA | Progressive Metal
TOPS
Bury the Key (Ghostly)
CANADA | Soft Rock // Indie Pop
Valentina Magaletti & YPY
Kansai Bruises (AD 93)
ITALY / JAPAN | Experimental // Techno
Water From Your Eyes
It’s a Beautiful Place (Matador)
USA | Art Rock // Post-Punk
Winter
Adult Romantix (Winspear)
USA | Shoegaze // Indie Rock
Wolf Alice
The Clearing (Columbia)
UK | Pop Rock // Soft Rock
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
Dreams of Being Dust (Epitaph)
USA | Post-Hardcore // Alternative Rock
Wreck and Reference
Stay Calm (The Flenser)
USA | Experimental Rock // Post-Industrial
Have we missed anything? Almost certainly. Are you gonna shout it out in the comments? No, you’re gonna be jamming the Deftones record and having very normal takes and debates it for the next three weeks. I know your type…
On that note, anyone made a DefTones & I mashup yet? Pink Monkey could go hard. Shoutout any other audio abortions you’re pining for below.
hell yeah, might just be the most stacked release day of the year (...at least in the hashtag dreamo realm)
Lots of great stuff but what a **that's a choice** of an album art to start off this list lmao.