#NewMusicFriday: April 11, 2025

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.

Daughter of Swords: Alex (Psychic Hotline)

Gerald Clayton: Ones & Twos (Blue Note)

Mamalarky: Hex Key (Epitaph)

Frankie Cosmos: Different Talking (Sub Pop)

Enemy, Kit Downes, Petter Eldh: Fiend (Edition Records)

Valerie June: Owls, Omens, and Oracles (Fantasy Records)

Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE (Jagjaguwar)

The Mars Volta: lucro sucio; Los ojos del vacio (Clouds Hill)

Nell Smith: Anxious (Bella Union)

Alessandro Cortini: Memorie (Modwheelmusic)

Tara Nome Doyle: Ekko (FatCat Records)

Galactic & Irma Thomas: Audience With the Queen (Thirty Tigers)

Vox Sambou: Hayti Lives (Delicious Tunes)

Benni: Bleeding Colors ([PIAS])

Kamasi Washington: Lazarus (Milan Records)