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New This Week: Lady Gaga - MAYHEM "Gaga's first album in five years recalls some of her finest moments without feeling like a step backward." @rollingstone.com

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Car Seat Headrest will release their new album, The Scholars, on May 2nd.

Black Country, New Road share video for new song 'Happy Birthday'

Two months into 2025, these are the highest rated albums of the year.

New Music Friday: LISA - Alter Ego "BLACKPINK's scene-stealer delivers excess, but not much substance on her debut album – it paints the perfect image of a superstar, but not the woman behind it." - NME

New Music Friday: Rebecca Black - SALVATION "Far surpassing ‘Let Her Burn’ in scope, quality, ambition and vision, ‘SALVATION’ proves Rebecca Black’s got guts, and that it’s time she got her flowers." @diymag.com

New Music Friday: bdrmm - Microtonic "They’ve created an album that feels both familiar and fresh, rooted in the past but firmly looking forward." @undertheradar.bsky.social

New Music Friday: DARKSIDE - Nothing "Guided by the idea of wiping the slate clean, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington’s third album is a raw, surprisingly funky, desperately hopeful response to the chaos of the 2020s." @pitchfork.com

New Music Friday: Doves - Constellations For The Lonely "An intricate and masterful record from a band at the top of their game. Still a familiar sound for old fans to enjoy, yet still open to exploring new terrain." @clashmusic.com

New Music Friday: Panda Bear - Sinister Grift "Noah Lennox’s powerful and adventurous album has plenty of playlistable psych-pop, but then turns introspective: it’s a striking emotional arc." @theguardian.com

New Music Friday: Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures "Ichiko Aoba's compositions move incrementally, like the limbs of coral on the seabed, flourishing with cultivation and care." @theskinnymag.bsky.social

Have a look at our complete list of this week's new releases.

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By Storm share new song “Zig Zag”

Little Simz is set to release her new album, Lotus, on May 9th.

Jane Remover shares new single “Dancing With Your Eyes Closed”

Swans are releasing their new album, Birthing, on May 30.

Model/Actriz will release their new album, Pirouette, on May 2nd.

New Track: Deafheaven – “Heathen”

New Music Friday: Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream "The album evokes a powerful sense of longing: a yearning for the connection, understanding, and beauty found in fleeting moments." @exclaimdotca.bsky.social

New Music Friday: The Murder Capital - Blindness "More musically interesting and experimental than their previous album, Blindness feels looser and untethered." @northerntrans.bsky.social

New Music Friday: Tate McRae - So Close to What "Y2K pop tropes overhauled from a thrillingly personal perspective." @clashmusic.com

New Music Friday: Sam Fender - People Watching "Feeling existential, uprooted and disconnected from his old working-class life thanks to his rapid rise to fame, the British guitar hero channels it all into his gorgeous third album." - NME

New Track: Fontaines D.C. – “It’s Amazing To Be Young”

Check out our full list of this week's new releases.

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Sleigh Bells are releasing their new album, Bunky Becky Birthday Boy, on April 4.

New Music Friday: John Glacier - Like A Ribbon "She frames herself as an alien visitor, and sure enough, this ideas-packed album at the edges of rap doesn’t sound like anyone else right now – you’ll be repeating it again and again." @theguardian.com

New Music Friday: Richard Dawson - End of the Middle "End of the Middle is a more streamlined Richard Dawson album that’s no less engaging and perhaps more accessible than his previous work." @popmatters.bsky.social

New Music Friday: venturing - Ghostholding "A new album by the artist aka Jane Remover is full of sprawling, fearsome beauty, both compositionally tighter and texturally coarser than their past forays into rock." @pitchfork.com

New Music Friday: Bartees Strange - Horror "It is a triumphant record, despite its sometimes-dark themes, something that convinces with both its humble honesty and its soaring ambition." @northern-trans.bsky.social

New Music Friday: Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On "On their Cate Le Bon-produced sophomore record, Phonetics On and On, the quirky Chicago-to-New York trio grow up and grow into their influences." @pastemagazine.bsky.social

New Music Friday: PARTYNEXTDOOR & Drake - $ome $exy $ongs 4 U "On first listen, ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ isn’t terrible, but it equally isn’t a vintage release for either artist." @clashmusic.com

Check out our full list of this week's new releases.

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Bon Iver is releasing its new album SABLE, fABLE on April 11.

New Music Friday: Heartworms - Glutton for Punishment "A breath of fresh air that plays like a walk through a haunted woodland." @undertheradar.bsky.social

New Music Friday: Oklou - choke enough "choke enough, the debut album from French vocalist, producer and composer Oklou is mature and assured." @theskinnymag.bsky.social

New Music Friday: Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - s/t "Fronting a brand new band, the singer-songwriter dives into the dark side, with confusion and foreboding creeping through 80s moods, big choruses and fine melodies." @theguardian.com

New Music Friday: Squid - Cowards "Cataclysmic yet oddly satisfying — soothing, even — Cowards basks in the tranquility of demise and catastrophe." @exclaimdotca.bsky.social

Check out our full list of this week's new albums.

Squid share new song 'Cro-Magnon Man'

New Track: Waxahatchee – “Mud”

Who do you have winning AOTY at the Grammys tonight?

New Music Friday: Maribou State - Hallucinating Love ‘Hallucinating Love’ feels more expansive and ambitious than their previous work. @clashmusic.com

New Music Friday: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Purple Bird "Bonnie Prince Billy’s The Purple Bird reaches its highest points when Will Oldham finds the joy in life, which feels like its own form of resistance." @popmatters.bsky.social

New Music Friday: MIKE - Showbiz! "The prolific Brooklyn rapper reflects on dislocation and homecoming with his most refined, spiritual-sounding album to date." @pitchfork.com

New Music Friday: The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow "Hurry Up Tomorrow is certainly a bold way to drop the curtain on a phenomenal career, a luscious pop epic about how awful modern fame really is." @telegraphnews.bsky.social

Check out our full list of this week's new releases.