#NewMusicFriday: July 4, 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.

Nilufer Yanya: Dancing Shoes (Ninja Tune)

Kae Tempest: Self Titled (Kae Tempest/Universal)

Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky (Blue Arrow Records)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples: The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed (Fire Records)

Rival Consoles: Landscape from Memory (Erased tapes)

Gaupa: FYR (Nuclear Blast)

The Mighty Redox: Love’s A Demon (The Mighty Redox)

The Worm: Pantilde (PRAH Recordings)

We Lost The Sea: A Single Flower (We Lost The Sea)

Rye Coalition: Wingwalker (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)

Prurient: Black table With The Two Griffins Attacking (Hospital Productions)

Uboa: All the Dead Melt Down as Rain (The Flenser)

Firas Shehadeh : The Heaviest Shrouds Are The Smallest Ones (Firas Shehadeh)

Nonlocal Variable and Hal McGee : Unlocking The Secret Codes (HAL Tapes)

Exploding Star Orchestra, Rob Mazurek: Holy Mountains (Selo Sesc)