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JANUARY 10
FRANZ FERDINAND – THE HUMAN FEAR
Mercury Prize-winning, Grammy-nominated Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand return this month with The Human Fear; their first new studio album since 2018’s Always Ascending. The band’s sixth album finds them “at their most immediate, upbeat and life-affirming, unashamedly going for the pop-jugular in classic Franz style.” (Bandcamp)
Stream • Domino Recording Co • 2025
THE HALO EFFECT – MARCH OF THE UNHEARD
The Halo Effect, featuring former members of In Flames, return with their sophomore studio album March of the Unheard.
Stream • Nuclear Blast • 2025
STARFLYER 59 – DEJAME DORMIR
Dejame Dormir, which follows last year’s Lust for Gold, finds Starflyer 59 reimaging nine songs from their back catalog as “soft & tender, dreamy & sleepy, instrumental lullabies” which become “ridiculously cool, and laid back, perfect background music to any party.”
Velvet Blue Music • 2025
RINGO STARR – LOOK UP
Look Up is Ringo Starr‘s 21st studio album and second country album, following 1970’s Beaucoups of Blues. Produced and co-written with T Bone Burnett, the new album features appearances from country stars Billy Strings, Alison Krauss, Molly Tuttle, Lucius and Larkin Poe.
Stream • Roccabella, Inc./UMG • 2025
TREMONTI – THE END WILL SHOW US HOW
The End Will Show Us How is the first new album from Tremonti since 2021. The band’s sixth album also brings back producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette (Sevendust, Mammoth WVH, Alter Bridge) for the sixth-straight time.
“Tremonti have expanded their signature sound, allowing space for the instrumentation and vocals to breathe and bludgeon. The End Will Show Us How is a testament to Mark Tremonti’s legacy of ceaseless creativity and a certified triumph in his discography.”
Naplam Records
Stream • Napalm • 2025
JANUARY 17
THE WEATHER STATION – HUMANHOOD
Humanhood is the anticipated seventh studio album from Toronto’s The Weather Station. Their fifth album, 2021’s Ignorance, received wide critical acclaim and was declared one of the best albums of the year by Exclaim!, The Guardian, The New York times, The New Yorker, Paste, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum and Uncut.
Stream • Fat Possum • 2025
JANUARY 24
MOGWAI – THE BAD FIRE
Critically-acclaimed Scottish post-rock band Mogwai return this month with their eleventh studio album, The Bad Fire. Their previous album, As the Love Continues, was nominated for the 2021 Mercury Prize, and was awarded the Scottish Album of the Year Award.
After the high of putting out As the Love Continues, the following years were personally hard for us. We’ve dealt with a lot of loss and in Barry’s case a serious family illness with one of his daughters. Getting back together to write and record this record felt like a refuge and with John Congleton we feel that we’ve made something special. We often hear from people that our music has helped them get through hard times in their lives and for once I think it applies to us as well.
Mogwai’s press release for The Bad Fire
Stream • Temporary Residence Ltd. • 2025
BEN NICHOLS & RICK STEFF – LUCERO UNPLUGGED
For Lucero Unplugged, Lucero vocalist/guitarist Ben Nichols and multi-instrumentalist Rick Steff strip down 20 of their band’s classic tracks from across their 12-album, 27-year-career.
Stream • Liberty & Lament • 2025
IGGY POP – LIVE AT MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL 2023
Iggy Pop‘s career spanning performance on July 6, 2023 in Switzerland is documented in the 18-track Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023, featuring 9 classic Stooges tracks as well as solo classics “Lust For Life”, “The Passenger” and “Nightclubbing.”
Stream • Edel Music & Entertainment GmbH • 2025
DAX RIGGS – 7 SONGS FOR SPIDERS
Following 2007’s We Sing of Only Blood or Love and Say Goodnight to the World in 2010, 7 Songs for Spiders is the third solo album from Dax Riggs, frontman for Acid Bath and Deadboy & the Elephantmen.
Stream • Fat Possum • 2025
SLOWLY SLOWLY – FORGIVING SPREE
Forgiving Spree is the fifth studio album from Melbourne rockers Slowly Slowly.
Forgiving Spree is about the evolving state of being present, being all we have – and making the most of it, regardless of any pride we get caught up in. It is also a reminder that forgiveness can be a tool used to move forward, letting go, to grow and not look back.
Slowly Slowly (Bandcamp)
Stream • Nettwerk • 2025
THIN LIZZY – THE ACOUSTIC SESSIONS
Thin Lizzy‘s The Acoustic Sessions combines previously unheard vocal recordings from the late Phil Lynott with “fresh acoustic arrangements” of songs from the band’s first three albums; including the iconic “Whiskey In the Jar.”
Stream • Universal • 2025
THE VEILS – ASPHODELS
The Veils‘ seventh studio album, Asphodels, was recorded “live to tape over five days” and seamlessly follows-up to 2023’s …And Out of the Void Came Love with that album’s stringer arranger returning to collaborate with frontman Finn Andrews.
Stream • V2 • 2025
JANUARY 31
ALL THAT REMAINS – ANTIFRAGILE
Antifragile is the first new album from metalcore band All That Remains since 2018. The new album is the band’s first with new members Jason Richardson (lead guitar) and Anthony Barone (drums), as well as the first album in 21 years to feature bassist Matt Deis.
Stream • All That Remains • 2025
CIRCA WAVES – DEATH & LOVE, PT. 1
Liverpudlian quartet Circa Waves return this month with their sixth studio album, Death & Love Pt. 1.
I needed this record to process what I went through. A letter to tell myself I would stick around. Most of all, I wanted to make a record for me, with music I love and hopefully music to make kids in their bedroom pick up a guitar and believe they can take on the [effing] world.
Circa Waves vocalist Kieran Shudall
Stream • [PIAS] • 2025
FRECKLE – FRECKLE
Freckle is the eponymous debut album from Freckle; a duo featuring prolific singer-songwriter Ty Segall and Corey Madden of Color Green.
The album is available on Segall’s own GOD? record label imprint.
Stream • GOD? • 2025
L.S. DUNES – VIOLET
Post-hardcore supergroup L.S. Dunes (featuring members of Circa Survive, My Chemical Romance, Coheed and Cambria and Thursday) return this month with their highly-anticipated sophomore album, Violet.
With a fusion of experimental melodies and introspective lyricism, their latest offering is a giant leap forward in the evolution of the band.
L.S. Dunes (Bandcamp)
Stream • Fantasy • 2025
MANIC STREET PREACHERS – CRITICAL THINKING
Critical Thinking is the anticipated fifteenth studio album from Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers. Their previous album, 2021’s The Ultra Vivid Lament, was the band’s first album to go to #1 in the UK since This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours in 1998.
Critical Thinking celebrates conflicting ideas colliding, with unflinchingly soul-searching lyrics meeting some of the most head-on, addictive melodies the band have ever recorded.
manicstreetpreachers.com
Stream • Sony • 2025
THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA – GIVE US THE MOON
Give Us the Moon is the seventh studio album from Sweden’s The Night Flight Orchestra, which features members of Soilwork and Arch Enemy.
Stream • Napalm • 2025
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