New Reviews for March 7, 2025

MAYHEM
Interscope / Polydor
The pop chameleon's seventh mainline set embraces the chaos of being unbound by genre.
- Neil Z. Yeung
Foxes in the SnowEditor's choice
Southeastern Records
The singer and songwriter cuts a solo acoustic album that's spare, intimate, and quietly brilliant.
- Mark Deming
Here We Go Crazy
Granary Music / Universal Music
The hardcore hero has made an album that's taut, powerful, and a claustrophobic reflection of a world gone mad.
- Mark Deming
Oceanside Countryside
Reprise
Another of Young's lost albums from a vibrant period in the late '70s splits the songs between gentle solo tunes and full band romps.
- Fred Thomas
Blood on the Silver Screen
Domino
After making dream pop- and alt-metal-inspired records, the singer/multi-instrumentalist goes unabashedly pop on a set of heartbreak bops and ballads.
- Tim Sendra
This Side of the Island
Glassnote Entertainment Group
Eight years in the making, the former Walkmen frontman's rousing fourth album dares to be uplifting during difficult times.
- Heather Phares
ASTROPICALEditor's choice
Sony Music
The debut offering by the joined members of Bomba Estéreo and Rawayana is ecstatic, spiritual, and sensual.
- Thom Jurek
All WorldsEditor's choice
Sacred Bones
Reunited with former bandmate Loke Rahbek, the duo dramatically reinvents itself with heartbroken hybrids of post-punk, dance, hip-hop, and ambient.
- Heather Phares
Flood City Trax
AllMusic Staff Pick - March 12, 2025
April 7, 2023
Pennsylvania-based artist Nondi_ acknowledges footwork, Detroit techno, and breakcore as genres that have influenced her music from a distance, but most of her work sounds as if it was created in its own isolated bubble, following its own sense of logic. Mostly releasing music on netlabels like Eat Dis and her own HRR, Nondi_ surfaced on Planet Mu with Flood City Trax, an album of lush and radiant yet smeared and obscured melodies, with heavy beats vibrating under a foggy haze.
- Paul Simpson