In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on August 22, 2025:
Water From Your Eyes, It’s a Beautiful Place
“It ended up being about time, dinosaurs and space,” Nate Amos said of Water From Your Eyes‘ new album It’s a Beautiful Place. “We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everything’s just a tiny blip.” The follow-up to 2023’s breakout Everyone’s Crushed is characteristically silly, freaky, and clunky – because what’s more awkward than making sci-fi indie rock about cosmic existentialism – until its vast emotional range hits you. In the “long hard road from here to the truth,” as Rachel Brown puts it on ‘Playing Classics’, the band hardly stays motionless, let alone cynical. Silly, yes, but undeniably soulful and striking. Read the full review.
Mac DeMarco, Guitar
It was about time for Mac DeMarco to release a record like Guitar, an unironically guitar-based and ostensibly straightforward collection of songs that he recorded alone at his home studio in Los Angeles in about two weeks. As breezy and easygoing as it sounds, DeMarco has cultivated his gift for fraying and flexing the edges of his cozily bare-bones sound, both lyrically and vocally. He has a way of coming off both emblematically laidback and somehow unmoored, showing you the way around the wandering heart of his music without ever handing you the key. Read the full review.
Deftones, private music
Deftones are back with their 10th album, private music, which deftly balances their signature brutality and lushness. Featuring the previously released singles ‘milk of the madonna’ and ‘my mind is a mountain’, the follow-up to 2020’s relatively muted Ohms was produced by Nick Raskulinecz, who previously worked on 2010’s Diamond Eyes and 2012’s Koi No Yokan and does an incredible job here. Also joining the band’s creative core of Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham, and Frank Delgado is touring bassist Fred Sablan, making it the first since Sergio Vega’s departure in 2021.
Superchunk, Songs in the Key of Yikes
Superchunk have returned with their 13th studio LP, Songs in the Key of Yikes, their first since 2022’s Wild Loneliness and the departure of longtime drummer Jon Wurster. With Laura King now a permanent member, the effortlessly catchy and defiant album also features Bella Quinlan and Holly Thomas of Quivers, Rosali, as well as touring bassist Betsy Wright. “It’s always been the case that everyone is going through something that you may not be aware of,” Mac McCaughan said in a press release. “This is currently more true than ever—but also the case that we are all going through some things together. In the face of that, what good is art and where is happiness found? (Spoiler alert: I don’t know.)”
Hand Habits, Blue Reminder
Though oscillating between emotional extremes, Hand Habits’ new album Blue Reminder gels together beautifully. Nimble, patient, yet ambitious, the 12-track LP was recorded in Los Angeles by Phil Hartunian with co-producer Joseph Lorge. It features contributions from Alan Wyffels, Gregory Uhlmann, Olivia Kaplan, Blake Mills, Tim Carr, Daniel Aged, and Joshua Johnson, and Anna Butterss of SML. “For this record I set out to no longer shapeshift when it came to the person I become in the face of love,” Meg Duffy said. The singles ‘Wheel of Change’, ‘Jasmine Blossoms’, ‘Dead Rat’, and ‘Bluebird of Happiness’ arrived ahead of the release.
Case Oats, Last Missouri Exit
Out now on Merge, Last Missouri Exit is the debut album by Case Oats, the Chicago-based band led by Casey Gomez Walker and featuring Spencer Tweedy on drums, Max Subar on guitar and pedal steel, Jason Ashworth on bass, Scott Daniel on fiddle, and Nolan Chin on piano and organ. “I feel like we were really relaxed. We did maybe three or four live takes of each song to make sure we got it,” Tweedy said of the recording process in our Artist Spotlight interview. “I remember, when Casey and I were opening up the basic tracks that we did with the whole band later to start adding vocals and things, feeling really proud and relieved that the tracks sounded so stable and assured.”
Wolf Alice, The Clearing
Wolf Alice lean into their glammiest, campiest instincts on their new album The Clearing, which follows 2021’s Blue Weekend. Compared to the fantastic lead single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’, the rest of the LP is confident if a little timid in its grandiosity. It was written in the band’s native North London and recorded in Los Angeles with producer Greg Kurstin. ‘The Sofa’ and ‘White Horses’ also previewed the record.
Earl Sweatshirt, Live Love Laugh
Earl Sweatshirt has dropped a new album, Live Love Laugh. “I named it before I wrote it,” he remarked. “And then everything started clicking.” It marks the rapper’s first solo record since 2022’s Sick!, though in 2023 he released the Alchemist collaboration Voir Dire. Woozy, cerebral, and off-kilter, the collection features Erykah Badu on the closing track ‘Exhaust’, and features production from Theravada, Navy Blue, Black Noi$e, and Child Actor. “Constrictions breed creativity,” Sweatshirt added. “There are rules to reality. It reminds me of Ifá—how spirits operate within that system. I need rules. I need assignments.”
Nourished by Time, The Passionate Ones
Marcus Brown crafted his sublime new Nourished by Time album, The Passionate Ones, between Baltimore, London, and New York. Too resonant to slip into the background, the follow-up to Erotic Probiotic 2 and last year’s Catching Chickens EP was previewed by the singles ‘Max Potential’, ‘9 2 5’, and ‘BABY BABY’. Flitting between jazz, funk, R&B, indie rock, and electronic music, Brown explores themes of romance, labor, self-actualization, and more.
Winter, Adult Romantix
Winter has followed up her 2022 breakout What Kind Of Blue Are You? with another kaleidoscopic record, Adult Romantix. The singer-songwriter described the album as “a tunnel of summers and memories,” drawing inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and ‘90s rom-coms alike. It was recorded and produced with longtime collaborator Joo Joo Ashworth (SASAMI, Corridor, Automatic) and mixed by Henry Stoehr (Slow Pulp). While her previous album featured Hatchie and SASAMI, this time Winter enlisted Horse Jumper of Love for ‘Misery’, Tanukichan for ‘Hide-A-Lullaby’, and Alex G’s Samuel Acchione on ‘Running’.
Other albums out today:
Greg Freeman, Burnover; Laufey, A Matter of Time; Jobber, Jobber to the Stars; Hunx and His Punx, Walk Out on This World; Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, GUSH; Ghostface Killah, Supreme Clientele 2; TOPS, Bury the Key; Hot Mulligan, The Sound A Body Makes When It’s Still; Blake Mills & Pino Palladino, That Wasn’t A Dream; Sir Chloe, Swallow the Knife; Dean Johnson, I Hope We Can Still Be Friends; Royel Otis, hickey; Jon Batiste, Big Money; Double Wish, Double Wish; Scree, August; Sombr, I BARELY KNOW HER; Delicate Steve, Luke’s Garage; Wreck and Reference, Stay Calm; Teyana Taylor, Escape Room; Kid Cudi, FREE; Anand Wilder, Psychic Lessons; BigXThaPlug, I Hope You’re Happy; Kathleen Edwards, Billionaire; Mariah the Scientist, HEARTS SOLD SEPARATELY; Dinosaur Pile-Up, I’ve Felt Better; Ava Max, Don’t Click Play; quannnic, Warbrained; Offset, KIARI; Kerala Dust, An Echo of Love; Three Days Grace, Alienation; Glitterfox, Decoder; James Yorkston, Songs for Nina And Johanna; Claire Morales, Lost in the Desert.
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