New Release & Staff Picks - 4/25/25

STAFF PICKS
Dario – Elori Saxl
Kimber – Ida reissue
Jake – Deerhoof
Zach – Viagra Boys
Ash – Selena reissue 
Mary - William Tyler and Selena Reissue

VIAGRA BOYS - Viagr Aboys CD/LP (Shrimptech)
viagr aboys is the fourth studio album from Viagra Boys. Featuring single Man Made of Meat, the LP sees VB turn inwards, leaving the acid-laced, conspiracy-addled societal commentary of previous LP Cave World behind to journey into the acid-laced, conspiracy-addled landscape within. Absurd, intense and surprisingly tender, viagr aboys shuts out the noise to find that the important part of being alive in the big, stupid world is figuring out that the world inside of you that is equally big and stupid.

RILO KILEY - The Execution of All Things LP [Reissue/2002] (Saddle Creek)
More than 20 years since the 2002 release of The Execution of All Things, this album remains an integral part of the underground and indie-rock story. With Jenny Lewis nearly a household name at this point, we are finally giving the people what they have wanted - a deluxe version of this classic album with expanded artwork, a die-cut gatefold jacket with limited edition poster insert, and on colored vinyl for the first time ever.

WISHY - Paradise on Planet Popstar CD/LP (Winspear)
On the heels of their breakthrough debut album, Wishy returns with a new compilation LP titled Paradise on Planet Popstar. The 11 track LP features their 2023 debut EP Paradise on side A and a brand new, six-song EP titled Planet Popstar on the B side. A dreamy and pop-forward compilation of b-side tracks, the new EP was recorded in the same sessions that birthed Triple Seven, the band’s widely acclaimed debut (“one of the best indie rock debuts in recent memory” says Stereogum). A critical success, Triple Seven recently landed on “best of the year” lists from The New York Times, GQ, Alt Press, Paste, Stereogum, Uproxx, NME, and more. Named for the glowing, five pointed star that the iconic bubblegum-pink Nintendo character Kirby hails from, Wishy’s latest offering, Planet Popstar, is a bite-sized antidote to the anxiety and precarity of life in the 2020s. 

DEERHOOF - Noble and Godlike in Ruin Cassette/CD/LP (Joyful Noise)
Though Deerhoof long ago established itself as one of the greatest rock groups ever to stride the earth—and if you think that’s hyperbole, you haven’t spent enough time listening to Deerhoof—they once again discover previously unknown combinations of candy-coated riffs, sideways pop hooks, free-jazz freakouts, and surrealist humor. Joyful and foreboding, cybernetic and deeply human, carrying an implicit note of defiant optimism in their refusal to bow to convention or received wisdom. A firecrackers-for-breakfast, intercontinental-ballistic-blockparty, household-chemicals-that-should-never-be-mixed, electric-jolt-to-body-parts-and-brain-chemistry, combustible love-letter to the human race. Featuring special guest Saul Williams on one track.

IDA - Will You Find Me 25th Anniversary Edition 5CD/4LP (Numero)
Funded by Capitol, tracked in 14 studios, issued by Tiger Style, and lost in the Y2K shuffle, Ida’s fourth album captures a band caught between Brooklyn and Woodstock, temping and adulting, burying a parent and birthing a child. A tireless compendium and ode to sleep, sex, all-night talking, and other bed-ridden activities, Will You Find Me‘s 14-songs are pillowed with 89 outtakes, alternate mixes, 4-track demos, and covers from the band’s extensive vault, unfolding thematically across five CDs. The accompanying 64-page booklet documents Ida’s major label album that never was in both stunning photographs and Douglas Wolk’s blow-by-blow essay. Who were you then?

MARIA SOMERVILLE - Luster CD/LP (4AD)
By the time Irish musician Maria Somerville started writing Luster, her landmark label debut for 4AD, she had lived away from her native Connemara for quite some time. Having grown up amongst the wild, mountainous terrain of Galway’s rural west coast, she later relocated to Dublin, where she patiently developed an atmospheric dream pop signature inspired by the landscape of her youth – a spellbinding sound world of gusting ambient electronics, ethereal guitar strums, sparse percussion, and hushed lyrical vignettes. In 2019, this culminated in All My People, a self-released LP steeped in reverb, nostalgia and a yearning for home that won praise from discerning press and listeners alike. It was upon returning to Connemara, in a house near where she was raised overlooking one of the country’s largest lakes, Lough Corrib, that work commenced on the songs that would eventually become Luster, an album that illuminates Somerville’s music anew, pushing it forward in both sound and spirit. 

SUNFLOWER BEAN - Mortal Primetime CD/LP
Sunflower Bean’s fourth album, and follow-up to their self-produced EP Shake, is their most accomplished work yet. A 10-song powerhouse that elegantly merges arena-rock, art pop, and new wave into a truly unfettered manifestation of their one-of-a-kind artistry. A record that bursts with vitality and vulnerability it both celebrates their history whilst hurtling towards their future. Mixed by Caesar Edmunds (The Killers, St Vincent) & engineered by Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties, boygenius).

GHOST - Skeleta CD/LP (Loma Vista)
Produced by Gene Walker and mixed by Andy Wallace and Dan Malsch, Ghost's sixth psalm, Skeletá, is it's most unflinchingly introspective work to date. Where previous albums dealt largely with chronicling and/or observing outward facing subject matter - such as IMPERA's meditations on the rise and fall of empires and it's predecessor Prequelle's evocations of the ravages of era-defining plagues - Skeletá's lyrics render the distinct individual emotional vistas of each of it's 10 songs in one-on-one fashion, at times as if in a dialogue with oneself in a mirror. The end result is a singular collection of timeless, universal sentiments, all filtered through a prism of a uniquely personal point of view.

MOLCHAT DOMA - Live at Paranorma Hotel LP (Sacred Bones)
Molchat Doma are releasing their first official live record, performed and recorded at the iconic Panorama Hotel, the striking architectural monument featured on the cover of their breakthrough album Etazhi.

SELENA - Entre a Mi Mundo LP [Reissue/1992] (EMI Latin)
Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. Entre a Mi Mundo encapsulates Selena's signature Tejano cumbia sound with pop elements. Spawning the career-defining hit ‘Como La Flor', the album topped Billboard's Regional Mexican Albums chart, scored a Top 5 on the Top Latin Albums chart and even earned Top 100 debut on the Billboard 200 when it was released in 1992. Celebrate its legacy with this first-ever vinyl reissue.

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - Laminated Denim LP (PDOOM Records)
King Gizzard's 22nd album and spiritual successor to Made In Timeline, Laminated Denim features two 15-minute tracks, including fan-favorite ‘Hypertension.’ Package includes a single lucky rainbow-colored LP made from recycled vinyl, housed in an embossed single-pocket jacket with flood printing. Artwork by Jason Galea.

SUMAC & MOOR MOTHER - The Film CD/LP (Thrill Jockey)
What happens when you combine SUMAC: a band that uses the volume, distortion, and guitar-centric approach of metal to make music that has the malleability of jazz and textural exploration of noise with Moor Mother: a poet and sound artist that has deconstructed hip hop to a point where it’s less about rhyme and rhythm (though obviously both are present in her work) and more about oratorical cadence and power. The Film is an album that takes attributes of both artists’ work and finds common ground in shifting musical patterns, and expressive force. The record is a musical thumbing of their noses at the more traditional approaches of their respective fields, an innovative, powerhouse of an album.

ELORI SAXL - Texada LP (Western Vinyl)
Elori Saxl’s soundtrack for the VR film Texada captures the collision of human and geologic time. Inspired by her experiences on Madeline Island, Saxl blends analog synths, saxophone (Henry Solomon), and field recordings to evoke Earth’s vast history and intimate human moments.

HTRK - Rhinestones LP [Reissue/2021] (Ghostly International)
Self-released in the fall of 2021, Rhinestones was a revelation for HTRK, kickstarting a subtle resurgence for the Melbourne group and showing them at the top of their powers. Marked by a new infatuation with “eerie and gothic country music,” Rhinestones is an elegant nine-song suite of windswept emotion and heartbreak noir, crafted in skeletal arrangements of guitar, voice, metronomes, and FX. From whispered lament to acoustic eulogy to downtempo vignettes, the album took cues from the economy and brevity of Western folk but skewed through a narcotic, nocturnal lens. The set garnered high praise from Gorilla vs. Bear, The Wire, and Pitchfork. The latter wrote, "Over the past decade, the Melbourne group’s music has grown lighter, gentler, and more inviting with every release. Here, they trade their minimal-wave roots for unexpected forays into gothic country."

MAMACITA - TU AMOR 12” (MR. BONGO)
When it comes to musical discovery, sometimes the stars just align. DJ and record collector, Steve KIW, put Mr Bongo onto this amazing Chilean cover version of Jamie Principle & Frankie Knuckles' all-time classic 'Your Love’. Despite being originally released 13 years ago, it had recently started to prick the ears of house and Balearic connoisseurs in the UK, further cemented by inclusions in the Idjut Boysepic sets. Steve heard them play it, tipped us off and it soon became a favourite at Mr Bongo HQ.

SALAMI ROSE JOE LOUIS - Lorings LP (Brainfeeder)
The brilliant Salami Rose Joe Louis returns for further adventures in experimental dream pop. Previously earning praise from The New York Times, Paste, Crack Mag, The Guardian, Bandcamp (“glowing bouquets of homespun electric jazz and soul”), and The FADER (“an electrified passage of fusion perfection”), The Line of Best Fit, DJMag, & XLR8R. Olsen conjures her utterly inimitable sound from her long term musical partner – the Roland MV8800 lovingly nicknamed FunFunFun.

SAMIA - Bloodless LP (Grand Jury)
SAMIA: On her third album Bloodless, Samia seeks comfort in absence.Written & produced in both North Carolina and her new home of Minneapolis throughout 2024, Bloodless finds Samia reuniting with longtime-collaborator Caleb Wright and Jake Luppen for the highly-anticipated follow-up to 2023's revered Honey, which followed Samia's 2020's breakthrough debut The Baby. Across these thirteen songs, Samia grapples with the hollow form she once embodied - a vessel that gained value through its own absence, until playing dead became its own form of life. With Bloodless, she endeavors to unearth the self buried beneath these carefully constructed personas, ultimately reaching a place of acceptance for her whole, imperfect being.

BRYAN FERRY - Loose Talk LP (Merry Star)
2025 release from the former Roxy Music vocalist. Loose Talk is a collaboration between Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt, who penned all the lyrics for the album. Introducing Loose Talk, the new collaborative album of music by Bryan Ferry with spoken texts by performance artist, writer and painter Amelia Barratt. Richly detailed and transportive, 'Orchestra' - the first piece to be revealed from the album Loose Talk. Loose Talk signals the beginning of a new creative chapter for Bryan Ferry, blurring the lines between music, poetry and art. Fifty-three years since Roxy Music's iconic debut album arrived like a bolt-from-the-blue, his latest project is just as startlingly unexpected. The sounds and shapes, and the spoken words they are set to, are unlike any previous Bryan Ferry album. At the same time, the mood that Loose Talk captures is rooted in Ferry's past half-century of work.

JULIE DOIRON - Broken Girl LP [Reissue/2003] (Numero)
The original 90s soft grunge sad girl. Broken up, new love, pregnant, grandma dying. The usual 21st trip around the sun. In between Eric's Trip albums, boyfriends, and dress sizes, Julie strummed her downcast bedroom pop diaries through a Rat II distortion pedal and quit the scene. Expanded 29th anniversary edition includes rare 7" tracks and a photo of Julie with her dog Samantha.

JULIE DOIRON - Loneliest In The Morning LP [Reissue/1997] (Numero)
The original soft grunge 90s sad girl. Julie in Memphis. With Eric's Trip on ice, the Duchess of Canadian flannel flew south in December '96 to cut an album of postpartum depression ballads. Joined by Giant Sand's Howe Gelb and The Grifters' David Shouse, Loneliest In The Morning captures Julie's blue period with trembling accuracy. Hanky not included.

LIL PEEP - California Girls CD/LP (Death Note)
California Girls is a six-track collaborative EP between Lil Peep and producer Nedarb Nagrom. Recorded throughout the winter of 2015-16, it was made entirely via email before the two met in person and features one of Peep's biggest hits, ‘Beamer Boy.’ Nine years since its initial release, California Girls remains a favorite amongst fans for its emotive lyrics and catchy hooks. For the 9 year anniversary, California Girls will be available on vinyl, CD, and cassette.

WILLIAM TYLER - Time Indefinite CD/LP (Psychic Hotline)
After crucial stints in Silver Jews and Lambchop, William Tyler emerged with a string of inquisitive albums that paired his country rearing and classical enthusiasm with his ardor for experimentation and field recordings. His productive enclave of instrumental music has not only ushered in new sounds, but also critical new voices. No other solo American guitarist this century has impacted that fecund scene quite like him. And on the brilliant, bracing Time Indefinite, Tyler’s first solo album in five years, he steps at last into the widening gyre he helped create. The guitar is the starting point for an album that will make you reconsider not only Tyler but also the possibilities of an entire field. A vortex of noise and harmony, ghosts and dreams, anguish and hope, it is not just a great guitar record. It is a stunning record by a great guitarist, a masterpiece of our collectively anxious time.

Z-ROCK HAWAII - Z-Rock Hawaii (Eggroll Records)
"You want me to tell you how my day was?!? Well, God was on my bed when I got home! That's...how my day was." For the first time on vinyl, Eggroll Records is proud to present Z-ROCK HAWAII. In 1996 groups Ween and Boredoms collaborated to create a one-off masterpiece. From the floating, trance-like state of "Sunset Over Osaka," to the fan favorite "I Get a Little Taste of You," to, perhaps, the definitive version of George Thorogood and the Destroyers' "Bad to the Bone," every second of this album demands to be heard...and cherished. Squeak Toy Silver edition, housed in a gatefold cover. Hand-numbered. Limited to 500 copies.

CHIME OBLIVION - Chime Oblivion (Deathgod)
Chime Oblivion began out of the blue. David Barbarossa reached out to John Dwyer saying he was a fan of Osees and he was invited to a show in London. The two hung out and hit it off, "then I rabbit holed on Bow Wow Wow too…," Dwyer recalls. "I reached out to David and suggested that we try and write some songs together... I flew David out, we met at my studio and spent five days writing basic drums ideas." The two got to know each other and had a lot of laughs. Dwyer then brought in Weasel Walter, knowing that he would be perfect "to add all that legitimate old-school weird proto-punk no wave guitar scratch to it, which of course he did masterfully." Next came Tom Dolas to play fuzzy marimba, and the fabulous H.L. Nelly, "as I knew her from a record I’d put out back in the day for a band called Naked Lights from Oakland. I knew that she could pull off the vocal style I had in mind." Together, the group created their debut self-titled album for Dwyer’s new label Deathgod. "For fans of Adam & the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Crass, The Slits, and any other wierdo punk we fell in love with as youths."

OPETH - The Last Will and Testament LP (Reigning Phoenix)
The Last Will and Testament is a concept record, a restless musical journey in a way mirroring the band's own relationship with music as a consumer of it. There are some familiar ingredients, as most of the band's music has sprung from the same source, so it's naturally going to sound like "Opeth". Instead of the usual instant rush, expect to favour the "strange" over the "obvious", sonically speaking!

BLUR - The Magic Whip LP [Reissue/2015] (WB)
Blur celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Magic Whip with a special edition vinyl release, featuring new cover artwork by original designer Tony Hung. A reimagining of the iconic ice cream cover with added gold foil and embossed details, the new format is presented in a gatefold sleeve and available as a half-speed mastered, single gold disc for the first time. The Magic Whip is Blur's eighth studio album and includes the tracks Ghost Ship, Go Out, Lonesome Street, and Ong Ong.

Enhet För Fri Musik - Låt Oss Vada Genom All Änglsan Tillsammans LP [Reissue/2015] (Discreet Music)
Originally released on Förlag För Fri Musik back in 2015, now finally reissued on Discreet Music. A very important piece in the Gothenburg-puzzle and the milieu around acts like Amateur Hour, Blod, Leda, Arv & Miljö and Sewer Election that eventually culminated in Discreet Music. Recorded in Gothenburg, winter 2014, by Dan Johansson, Sofie Herner, Gustaf Dicksson and Hugo Randulv. The new edition stays true to the original release with identical hand assembled cover sleeves in varying colors. Edition of 500 copies.

BIG|BRAVE - OST LP (Thrill Jockey)
BIG|BRAVE’s preternatural instincts and depth of skill as musicians are on full display on their most naked and austere record to date, OST. The trio entered the studio with broader concepts and themes in mind, but no preconceived music. The overarching concept was to make a film score for a film that had yet to be created, to use minimal instrumentation, or *more specifically not their standard band instruments, and to improvise within these parameters. “Although this record could stand on its own, we envisioned it being paired with moving images, which introduced a fresh and exciting way of working,” notes guitarist Mathieu Ball. In addition to forgoing their usual instrumentation, they notably built their own. Ball created a stringed instrument using piano strings simply called “The Instrument”. 

NICK SHOULDERS & THE LOSTINES -  Heart of Night 10” [Reissue/2022] (Gar Hole Records)
NICK SHOULDERS -  All Bad LP [Reissue/2023] (Gar Hole Records)
NICK SHOULDERS - Lonely Like Me [Reissue/2018](Gar Hole Records)
NICK SHOULDERS - Okay Crawdad [Reissue/2019] 10” (Gar Hole Records)
Colored vinyl reissues from Arkansas songwriter & yodeler Nick Shoulders and his band The Okay Crawdad.

COMING NEXT WEEK!
CAR SEAT HEADREST - The Scholars CD/LP
PUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs? CD/LP
SHARON JONES - Naturally LP Reissue
GLIXEN- She Only Said CD/LP
SEXTILE - Yes Please CD/LP
SLEIGH BELLS - Bunky Becky Birthday Boy CD/LP
JENNY HVAL - Iris Silver Mist CD/LP
BLONDSHELL - If You Asked for a Picture CD/LP
LUCIUS - Lucius CD/LP
BRISTON MARONEY - Jimmy LP
KALI UCHIS - Por Vida LP reissue
SUZANNE VEGA - Flying with Angels CD/LP
COLLEEN GREEN - I Want to Grow Up LP Reissue
LAEL NAELE - Altogether Stranger LP
THE WALTERS - Good Company LP
JPEGMAFIA - I Lay Down My Life For You (Director’s Cut Edition) CD/LP