New Reviews for May 30, 2025

Let All That We Imagine Be the LightEditor's choice
Garbage
Let All That We Imagine Be the Light
BMG / BMG Rights Management
Pop/Rock
On their potent eighth set, the alt-rock stalwarts channel hope and optimism as chaos swirls around them.
- Neil Z. Yeung
With Trampled by Turtles
Alan Sparhawk
With Trampled by Turtles
Sub Pop
Pop/Rock
Turning drastically from the cold electronica of his last solo album, the former Low member teams up with a rootsy bluegrass group for this spirited effort.
- Fred Thomas
PossessionEditor's choice
Ty Segall
Possession
Drag City
Pop/Rock
The sonic chameleon jumps a level to try classic rocker with strings and horns on for size and finds the fit to be perfect.
- Tim Sendra
Get Sunk
Matt Berninger
Get Sunk
Concord
Pop/Rock
With his lyrical prowess on full display, the National singer takes stock of those who make us who we are on a bittersweet sophomore LP.
- Marcy Donelson
Evangelic Girl Is a GunEditor's choice
yeule
Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
Ninja Tune
Electronic, Pop/Rock
A chaotic yet introspective fusion of shoegaze, trip-hop, and industrial pop, containing some of the artist's strongest hooks.
- Paul Simpson
2
Foxwarren
2
Anti-
Pop/Rock
Captained by Andy Shauf, a surprising follow-up that trades the pastoral indie rock of the project's debut for melodic, sample-based experimentalism.
- Marcy Donelson
caroline 2Editor's choice
caroline
caroline 2
Rough Trade
Pop/Rock
The U.K. octet's intoxicating sophomore LP runs the gamut from spare experimental folk to crushing noise.
- Marcy Donelson
Abstraction Is Deliverance
James Brandon Lewis Quartet / James Brandon Lewis
Abstraction Is Deliverance
Intakt Records
Jazz
On their fifth album in five years, the saxophonist's quartet explore the many textures, harmonies, and dynamics in the jazz ballad form.
- Thom Jurek

More Recent Releases

Something Beautiful
Miley Cyrus
Something Beautiful
New Vienna [Live]
Keith Jarrett
New Vienna [Live]
The Complete Virgin Years
Pale Fountains
The Complete Virgin Years
VII
The Budos Band
VII
Oar On, Penelope!
The Minus 5
Oar On, Penelope!
Cover the Mirrors
Ben Kweller
Cover the Mirrors
Black Hole Superette
Aesop Rock
Black Hole Superette
Demise of Love
Demise of Love
Demise of Love
All Featured New Releases
Artifacts and Oddities from the Jim Irsay Collection
Rick Derringer, 1947-2025
7 Artists to Soundtrack Your Brat Summer Revival

Trending Artists on Streaming Services

Sherelle
Sherelle

Sherelle

Club/Dance, Jungle/Drum'n'Bass, Juke/Footwork, Techno

Apple - Featured Albums: SHERELLE - WITH A VENGEANCE

London-born DJ, label founder, and producer Sherelle has earned widespread praise for her high-octane sets, which blend footwork, jungle, breakbeat hardcore, and other dance styles above 160 beats per minute. She had been active for several years before her popularity exploded in early 2019, when she was featured on an infamous Boiler Room set, which led to a massive increase in bookings, including a BBC Radio 1 residency. She was then awarded Essential Mix of the Year in 2020. The…  Read More

Editors' Choice for May, 2025

The Scholars
Car Seat Headrest
The Scholars
Truth Is
Carolyn Wonderland
Truth Is
Hawalat
Charif Megarbane
Hawalat
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 'The Year 1905'
Gianandrea Noseda / London Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 'The Year 1905'
Animaru
Mei Semones
Animaru
Even in Arcadia
Sleep Token
Even in Arcadia
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
Sun Ra
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
VII
The Budos Band
VII
The Who Sell Out
AllMusic Staff Pick - June 1, 2025
The Who
The Who Sell Out
December 15, 1967
Album Rock
As the Who go about the business of firing and hiring drummers while planning yet another farewell tour in 2025, let us savor one of their finest celebrations of youth culture in the 1960s and the siren song of AM radio. 1967's The Who Sell Out was the band's first great concept album, full of witty pop numbers, barbed radio spots, would-be commercials, and the vengeful ferocity of "I Can See For Miles."
- Mark Deming
Justin Hayward Discusses the Moody Blues' Biggest Hits and Recently Covering an '80s Pop Classic
Space Jams - The Funky, Futuristic, and Featherbrained Universe of Sci-Fi Dance Music
Jill Sobule, 1959-2025