The coming week sees a whole plethora of new releases and reissues. Here’s our choice.
First out of the blocks are Deftones, who have carved out an unmistakable sonic identity – ferocious yet dreamlike – while making space for constant refinement and surprise. Now, following a long line of masterpieces including their era-defining debut, Adrenaline, 2000’s White Pony, 2010’s Diamond Eyes and 2020’s Ohms, they return with one of the most focused statements of their career. Meditating on the beauty and peril of nature and visions of a journey beyond the physical realm, Private Music showcases Deftones at their most evolved. At once a psychedelic voyage and a skull-rattling wallop, it’s the latest peak in a catalogue filled with immersive, emotive triumphs.
Bioscope is a collaborative project from guitar maestro Steve Rothery, founding member of Marillion, who helped define the sound of progressive rock with chart-topping records, and electronic visionary Thorsten Quaeschning, musical director of Tangerine Dream and an acclaimed composer of film and game soundtracks. The first album to emerge from this project is Gentō, the Japanese term for ‘magic lantern’. The album’s music weaves together emotive, melodic guitar work with expansive soundscapes plus an amazing performance by Elbow’s drummer, Alex Reeves, creating a mesmerising journey through light and darkness, memory and imagination and flowing like a soundtrack to an unmade film.
On his meticulously constructed new album The Collapse of Everything, master producer and mixologist Adrian Sherwood pushes his ever-adventurous sound into new frontiers. Although underpinned by a natural dub sensibility, the music crosses genre borders and seamlessly fuses a wide range of influences from a lifetime of listening and producing. Busy with remix work for pop artists such as Halsey, critically acclaimed dub reconstructions of full albums and producing late-career albums for reggae icons Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Horace Andy, he has not released an album as a solo artist since 2012’s Survival & Resistance.
Inertia is the first new studio album in 15 years from drum’n’bass royalty Pendulum, widely considered to be one of the most important electronic bands of all time. Inertia includes tracks from the EPs Elemental (2021) and Anima (2023) and 2024 single ‘Napalm’, which form a key part of the story that culminates in the epic 16-track record. The album features collaborations with Bullet For My Valentine, Scarlxrd, AWOLNATION and Wargasm.
A Matter of Time is a beautiful masterpiece of introspection about the anguish that comes with life and love from Icelandic-Chinese composer, singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Laufey, who has captivated a generation with virtuosic songs of love and self-discovery by manifesting her vision of jazz- and classical-infused pop music. But after becoming the youngest ever recipient of a Grammy for Bewitched, she feels freer than ever to, as she puts it, “let my heart wander.”
Just pipping Deftones to the title of release of the week is The Clearing, the brand new album from indie-rock titans Wolf Alice. The album was written in Seven Sisters and recorded in LA in 2024 with Grammy-winning master producer Greg Kurstin and reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion.
As well as these gems there are also new releases from:
Kingfishr – Halcyon
Eve Adams – American Dust
James Yorkston and Friends – Songs for Nina and Johanna
Robert Jon & The Wreck – Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes
Royel Otis – Hickey
Mac Demarco – Guitar
The Who – Live at The Oval 1971
Miles Davis – Miles ‘55: The Prestige Recordings
The Warning – Live from Auditorio Nacional CDMX
There are also reissues from Annie Lennox, bdrmm, Smashing Pumpkins, Chris Stapleton, Electronic, John Fogerty, Lainey Wilson, Maccabees, Mazzy Star, Terry Riley, Tyler The Creator and U.K. Subs.
And finally a brand new single from Nine Inch Nails – ‘As Alive as You Need Me to Be’, taken from the Tron Ares soundtrack.
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