This week’s New Music Friday is a genre-jumping joyride for Sept. 12, 2025.
Ed Sheeran surprises fans with “Play,” an experimental project that steps outside his usual singer-songwriter territory.
Spinal Tap returns with tongue-in-cheek rock antics on “The End Continues.”
Twenty One Pilots dig deeper into their dystopian alt-pop world on “Breach.”
Swedish indie darling Jens Lekman brings his signature whimsy and sentimentality with “Songs for Other People’s Weddings.”
Genre-defying jazz visionary Kassa Overall flips a classic on “CREAM (Cash Rules Everything Around Me).”
As always, the entire list of new albums released today, Friday, September 12, 2025 is below in no particular order. My most anticpated albums are in bold.
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New Album Releases – Friday, Septemeber 12, 2025
Algernon Cadwallader – Trying Not to Have a Thought
Baxter Dury – Allbarone
Between the Buried and Me – The Blue Nowhere
Calum Scott – Avenoir
The Chameleons – Arctic Moon
Dance Gavin – Dance Pantheon
Demon Hunter – There Was a Light Here
Ed Sheeran – Play
Frost – Children Sister
Fruit Bats – Baby Man
Gruff Rhys – Dim Probs
Guerilla Toss – You’re Weird Now
Helstar – The Devil’s Masquerade
I See Stars – The Wheel
Jade – That’s Showbiz Baby
Jens Lekman – Songs for Other People’s Weddings
John Carter – Cash Pineapple John
Josh Ritter – I Believe in You, My Honeydew
King Princess – Girl Violence
Liquid Mike – Hell Is an Airport
Lorna Shore – I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me
Maruja – Pain to Power
Michael Hurley – Broken Homes and Gardens
Mimi Webb – Confessions
Nevertel – Start Again
Not Enough Space – Weaponize Your Rage
The Rasmus – Weirdo
Rezz -As the Pendulum Swings
Ruston Kelly – Pale, Through the Window
Silverstein – Pink Moon
Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Perimenopop
Spinal Tap – The End Continues
Starset – Silos
Teenage Bottlerocket – Ready to Roll
Twenty One Pilots – Breach
Ty Dolla Sign – Tycoon
Kassa Overall – CREAM (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)
Robin Kester – Dark Sky Reserve
Joviale – Mount Crystal
Peyton – Au
Rafiq Bhatia – Environments
The Hidden Cameras – Bronto
Blue Earth Sound – Cicero Nights
