#NewMusicFriday: March 14, 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.

Circuit Des Yeux: Halo On The Inside (Matador)

44th Move: Anthem (Black Acre Records)

Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet (UMG)

Gary Peacock & Bill Frisell: It Happened Again (Arkadia Records)

Dana Gavanski: Again Again (Full Time Hobby)

clipping.: Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop Records)

Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter (UMG)

Courting: Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’ ([PIAS])

Whatever The Weather: Whatever the Weather II (Ghostly International)

Intensive Care, the body: Was I Good Enough? (Closed Casket Activities)

Steve Reich: Jacob’s Ladder/Traveler’s Prayer (Nonesuch Records)

Bambara: Birthmarks (Wharf Cat Records)

Twin Shadow: Georgie (DOM RECS)

Nicolas Masson, Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret, Lionel Friedli: Renaissance (ECM)

Spiral Deluxe: The Love Pretender (Axis Records)