This Friday the market sees 34 new albums and ten reissues, along with four vinyl editions from Rhino's Rocktober series.
Among the debut releases are albums from SAVE US, June McDoom and Wyatt McCubbin. SAVE US release their debut album Death to Something on Solid State, produced by Landon Tewers of The Plot In You, with lead single "Last of Me". June McDoom releases her debut album Follow the Light on Jagjaguwar, preceded by the single "Without You". Wyatt McCubbin releases his debut album 650 on Lucille Records / MCA, produced by Dave Cobb, recorded live to tape at Thunderbolt Studios in Savannah, with lead single "I Love You".
Fontaines D.C. release their fifth studio album Dopamine Chamber on XL Recordings, produced by James Ford, featuring ROSALÍA as a guest, with lead single "Tongue". Eels release their sixteenth studio album Cookie Happened on E Works / Play It Again Sam, preceded by the single "Cap in Hand". Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble release Return to the Red Planet on Madfish, a follow-up to the 2020 album The Red Planet, recorded with bassist Lee Pomeroy, guitarist Dave Colquhoun, drummer Adam Falkner and vocalist Mollie Marriott, Steve Marriott's daughter, with lead single "Bowie's Vision".
Insomnium release their tenth album Netherworlds on Century Media, produced by Miira Varjus and mixed by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios, with lead single "Shadowlife". Gloryhammer release their fifth album Space 1993: Wrath of Kor-Virliath on Napalm, produced by the band members themselves, with lead single "Warriors of Auchtermuchty". Temperance release their eighth album Arcani on Napalm, conceptually tied to the major arcana of tarot with thirteen songs for thirteen cards, with lead single "The Tower: Lean Into Fear". The Number Twelve Looks Like You release their sixth album Howls From the Holographic Heart on Equal Vision, their first in seven years, produced by Jeremy Cormitas, Trae Titus and guitarist Alexis Pareja, with lead single "Glow in the Dark Skin". Defects release their second album Artificial Icons on Mascot, produced by Jim Pinder, with Matt Heafy of Trivium as a guest, with lead single "Where Did I Go Wrong".
John Diva and the Rockets of Love release their fourth album Your Favorite Drug on Frontiers, produced by Hannes Brun, with lead single "Soundtrack of My Life". PÆRISH release their fourth album RITA on SideOneDummy, named after Saint Rita, patron saint of lost causes, produced by Will Yip, with lead single "What You Want". Rachel Chinouriri releases her second album I think I spoke too soon on Warner, produced by apob and the artist herself, with lead single "Broken chair". Angèle releases her third album Instinct on Angèle VL Records / Sony Music, produced by Angèle, Justice and Tristan Salvati, with Caroline Polachek, SebastiAn and Soulwax as guests, with lead single "Love Triangle". Ashe releases his fourth solo album The Girl of Your Dreams on Atlantic, produced by Noah Conrad, with lead single "Funeral". Giant Rooks release their third album IF HEAVEN EXISTS, THIS MIGHT BE IT on Mercury / Republic, co-produced with Jonathan Gilmore, with lead single "The Better Life".
Richard Thompson releases his twentieth studio album Hippies, Thugs and Heroes on New West, recorded live with his backing band in New Jersey, produced by Thompson and James Frazee, with lead single "Sorcerer's Apprentice". Charlie Parr releases his twentieth album Rooming House on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, a folk opera in seven songs set in the upper Midwest, featuring drummer Dave King of The Bad Plus, with lead single "[what's so funny about] Universal Healthcare?". Bruce Cockburn releases his thirty-ninth album The Blood of Others on Sunset Blvd., featuring fifteen covers of songs that shaped Cockburn before he began writing his own, with lead single "Yellow Dog Blues".
Eivør releases the album Tungl on Nuclear Blast, meaning "moon", a follow-up to the 2024 album Enn and Eivør's first release on Nuclear Blast, preceded by the singles "Healer", "Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden" and "Verjugarðar / Walls". @ release their second album Autosmile on 4AD, their first for the label, with the title track as a single. Dummy release their third album do you love the color of the sky? on Polyvinyl, produced by the band members and Joo-Joo Ashworth, with lead single "April Limousine / Alluvial Fan". K. Michelle releases her first country album Jesus & Whiskey on Real Outlawz Records / BBR Music Group, produced by Kristian Bush of Sugarland, with ERNEST as a guest, with lead single "Yodel". Mary Bragg releases her sixth album Secrets to Strangers on Single Lock Records, recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, produced by John Paul White and Ben Tanner, with lead single "The Game". Béla Fleck releases the live album Live Heart: My Bluegrass Heart at the Ryman on Béla Fleck Productions / Thirty Tigers, recorded on 8 January 2022 at the Ryman, with Billy Strings, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Molly Tuttle and Sierra Hull as guests, with lead single "Tennessee". The Avalanches release their fourth album No Bad Memories on Modular Recordings, featuring 31 tracks.
