#NewMusicFriday: September 1, 2023

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.

Jeff Rosenstock: HELLMODE (Polyvinyl Records)

Slowdive: everything is alive (Dead Oceans)

Sprain: The Lamb as Effigy (The Flenser)

Speedy Ortiz: Rabbit Rabbit (Speedy Ortiz)

Lathe of Heaven: Bound By Naked Skies (Sacred Bones Records)

Smoke DZA, Flying Lotus: Flying Objects (Smoker’s Club Records)

Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns: Weejuns (Rune Grammofon)

Mark Reboul / Roberta Piket / Billy Mintz: Seven pieces / about an hour / saxophone, piano, drums (ESP Disk)

Public Memory: Elegiac Beat (Felte Records)

Aleighcia Scott, Rorystonelove: Windrush Baby (Black Dub Music)

Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons (Live At The Village Vanguard) (Pyroclastic Records)

Andrew Weathers: A Cardinal With a Sign of Blood (Full Spectrum Records)

Nanci Griffith: Poet In My Window (Craft Recordings)

Maija Sofia: True Love (TULLE)

Icona Pop: Club Romantech (Ultra Records)