#NewMusicFriday: October 3, 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.

Nala Sinephro: The Smashing Machine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Warp Records)

Kate Bollinger: Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind (Deluxe) (Ghostly International)

Kelly Moran: Don’t Trust Mirrors (Warp Records)

Fugazi: Live at Metropolitan University Leeds UK 10/31/02_FLS1041 (Live) (Dischord Records)

Jakob Bro, Wadada Leo Smith, Marcus Gilmore: Murasaki (Loveland Music)

Alfa Mist: Roulette (Sekito)

Vernon Reid: Hoodoo Telemetry (The Players Club)

Sarah Elizabeth Charles: Dawn (Ropeadope)

Sylvie Courvoisier – Wadada Leo Smith: Angel Falls (Intakt Records)

Mike Clark, Eddie Henderson, Patrice Rushen, Henry “The Skipper” Franklin, Craig Handy: Itai Doshin (Wide Hive Records)

Jazzy: GEWAH Selects (UMG)

Snõõper: Worldwide (Third Man Records)

Alberto Baldan Bembo: Io E Mara (Sonor Music Editions)

Sparks: MADDER! (Transgresive)

My Morning Jacket: Z (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (ATO)