#NewMusicFriday: May 29, 2026

Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.

RaiNao: Marcriá (Rimas)

Elder: Through Zero (Blues Funeral Recordings)

Willie Nelson: Dream Chaser (Sony Music)

Yazz Ahmed: Shinrin-Yoku (Night Time Stories)

Tyshawn Sorey: Members…Don’t! (Pi Recordings)

Boards of Canada: Inferno (Warp Records)

Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s been good to me (Verve)

38 Spesh: 8 Shots (TCF Music Group)

Iceage: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter (Mexican Summer)

Anderson .Paak: K-POPS! (Music from and inspired by K-POPS! Motion Picture) (UMG)

Joe Lovano, Julian Lage, Asante Santi Debriano, Will Calhoun: Paramount Quartet (ECM)

Bushman’s Revenge: Les Vaches! (Is It Jazz? Records)

Columbia Icefield: A Silence Opens (Out Of Your Head Records)

feeble little horse: bitknot (Saddle Creek)

Kikù Hibino and Merzbow: Rococo ∞ Echomatter (Superpang)

Coline Dutilleul, Aurelia Visovan: In deinen süßen Händen – Musik für verlorene Seelen (Outhere Music France)