#NewMusicFriday: January 30, 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.

Fred Frith + Karen Stackpole: Nature (Sub Rosa)

A.G. Cook: The Moment (The Score) (A24 Music)

Joel Ross: Gospel Music (Blue Note)

Bartees Strange: Magic Boy (Brassland)

Terrace Martin: Passion (Sounds of Crenshaw)

By Storm, Injury Reserve: My Ghosts Go Ghost (By(e) Storm)

Mark Edwards Wilson: Dangerous Journeys (Navona Records)

Berlin Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko, Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Schoenberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 36 (Berlin Phil Media)

Shackleton: Euphoria Bound (AD 93)

Tashi Dorji: low clouds hang, this land is on fire (Drag City Records)

Joyce Manor: I Used To Go To This Bar (Epitaph)

Sébastian Tellier: Kiss The Beast (Because Music)

Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost to Kindness (Nettwerk)

Emily Scott Robinson: Appalachia (Oh Boy Records)

Grupo Um: Nineteen Seventy Seven (Far Out Recordings)