{"id":3663,"date":"2025-08-15T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:14:16","slug":"new-releases-22aug2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-22aug2025\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 22 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The coming week sees a whole plethora of new releases and reissues. Here\u2019s our choice.<\/p>\n

First out of the blocks are Deftones<\/strong>, who have carved out an unmistakable sonic identity \u2013 ferocious yet dreamlike \u2013 while making space for constant refinement and surprise. Now, following a long line of masterpieces including their era-defining debut, Adrenaline<\/em>, 2000\u2019s White Pony<\/em>, 2010\u2019s Diamond Eyes<\/em> and 2020\u2019s Ohms<\/em>, 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<\/em><\/strong> showcases Deftones at their most evolved. At once a psychedelic voyage and a skull-rattling wallop, it\u2019s the latest peak in a catalogue filled with immersive, emotive triumphs.<\/p>\n

Bioscope<\/strong> 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 Gent\u014d<\/em><\/strong>, the Japanese term for \u2018magic lantern\u2019. The album\u2019s music weaves together emotive, melodic guitar work with expansive soundscapes plus an amazing performance by Elbow\u2019s drummer, Alex Reeves, creating a mesmerising journey through light and darkness, memory and imagination and flowing like a soundtrack to an unmade film.<\/p>\n

On his meticulously constructed new album The Collapse of Everything<\/em><\/strong>, master producer and mixologist Adrian Sherwood<\/strong> 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 \u2018Scratch\u2019 Perry and Horace Andy, he has not released an album as a solo artist since 2012\u2019s Survival & Resistance<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Inertia<\/em><\/strong> is the first new studio album in 15 years from drum\u2019n\u2019bass royalty Pendulum<\/strong>, widely considered to be one of the most important electronic bands of all time. Inertia<\/em> includes tracks from the EPs Elemental<\/em> (2021) and Anima<\/em> (2023) and 2024 single \u2018Napalm\u2019, 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.<\/p>\n

A Matter of Time<\/em><\/strong> 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<\/strong>, 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<\/em>, she feels freer than ever to, as she puts it, \u201clet my heart wander.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just pipping Deftones to the title of release of the week is The Clearing<\/em><\/strong>, the brand new album from indie-rock titans Wolf Alice<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n

As well as these gems there are also new releases from:
\nKingfishr<\/strong> \u2013 Halcyon<\/em><\/a>
\nEve Adams<\/strong> \u2013 American Dust<\/em><\/a>
\nJames Yorkston and Friends<\/strong> \u2013 Songs for Nina and Johanna<\/em><\/a>
\nRobert Jon & The Wreck<\/strong> \u2013 Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes<\/em><\/a>
\nRoyel Otis<\/strong> \u2013 Hickey<\/em><\/a>
\nMac Demarco<\/strong> \u2013 Guitar<\/em><\/a>
\nThe Who<\/strong> \u2013 Live at The Oval 1971<\/em><\/a>
\nMiles Davis<\/strong> \u2013 Miles \u201855: The Prestige Recordings<\/em><\/a>
\nThe Warning<\/strong> \u2013 Live from Auditorio Nacional CDMX<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And finally a brand new single from Nine Inch Nails \u2013 \u2018As Alive as You Need Me to Be<\/a>\u2019, taken from the Tron Ares soundtrack.<\/p>\n

\"Wolf<\/a>\"Deftones<\/a>\"Bioscope<\/a>\"Adrian<\/a>\"Pendulum<\/a>\"Laufey<\/a><\/div>\n

Click on an image to order your copy.<\/p>\n

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