#NewMusicFriday: October 24, 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.

Halle: love?… or something like it (Columbia Records)

Mon Laferte: FEMME FATALE (Sony Music)

Yazmin Lacey: Teal Dreams (AMF Records)

Hit Boy & The Alechemist: GOLDFISH (Empire)

Cautious Clay: The Hours: Night (Concord)

Jesca Hoop: Selective Memory (Republic of Music)

Daniel Caesar: Son Of Spergy (Republic Records)

Lily Allen: West End Girl (BMG)

Miguel: CAOS (RCA Records)

Steve Tibbetts: Close (ECM Records)

Björk: Cornucopia: Live (One Little Independent Records)

Natural Information Society: Perserverance Flow (eremite records)

Horace Silver: Silver In Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (UMG)

The Headhunters: Live at Garcia’s Chicago (Devil Hills Entertainment)

Aquarelle Guitar Quartet, Sara Dowling: Latin Connections (Chandos Records)