#NewMusicFriday: August 29, 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.

IDLES, Rob Simonsen: Caught Stealing (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Partisan Records)

Blood Orange: Essex Honey (Domino Recording Co)

Wayne Shorter: Introducing Wayne Shorter (Remastered 2025) (Craft Recordings)

The Beths: Straight Line Was A Lie (Anti- Records)

Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke: Pareidolia (Drag City Records)

Orbits: Blood Red Sky (Jazzland Recordings Norway)

Brad Mehldau: Ride into the Sun (Nonesuch Records)

Pharoah Sanders: Journey to the One (Evidence Music Inc under exclusive license to Evolution Ltd.)

Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve)

Caroline Davis and Dustin Carlson: Sprites (Out Of Your Head Records)

Margo Price: Hard Headed Woman (Loma Vista Recordings)

Hayley Williams: Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party (Post Atlantic)

Sabrina Carpenter: Man’s Best Friend (Island Records)

THE BEACHES: No Hard Feelings (The Beaches)

Jehnny Beth: You Heartbreaker, You (Fiction Records)