#NewMusicFriday: June 20, 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.

U.S. Girls: Scratch It (4AD)

Tropical Fuck Storm: Fairyland Codex (Fire Records)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra: CURSE (Jagjaguwar)

Yaya Bey: do it afraid (drink sum wtr)

Mark Guiliana: questions (volume one) (Edition Records)

John Zorn: Fantasma (Tzadik)

Terrace Martin, Kenyon Dixon: Come As You Are (Sounds of Crenshaw)

S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs (Slough Water Records)

Nikki Nair: Violence is the Answer (Future Classic)

HAIM: I quit (Columbia Records)

Lukah, Statik Selektah: A Lost Language Found (Perfect Time Music Group)

KAROL G: Tropicoqueta (Interscope Records)

Yosef Gutman, Yonathan Avishai: Shir Yedidot (Soul Song Records)

Willie Nile: The Great Yellow Light (River House Records)

Jess Kerber: From Way Down Here (Felte Records)