#NewMusicFriday: September 12, 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.

Yellow Ostrich: TRYING (Birdhaus Records)

Baxter Dury: Allbarone (Heavenly Recordings)

Maruja: Pain to Power (Music For Nations)

Kassa Overall: CREAM (Warp Records)

Rachel Chinouriri: Little House (Parlophone Records)

Frost Children: SISTER (True Panther)

John Prine: Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings (Deluxe Edition) (Oh Boy Records)

Fruit Bats: Baby Man (Merge Records)

Ruston Kelly: Pale, Through the Window (Rounder Records)

George Riley: More Is More (Confessions)

King Princess: Girl Violence (section1)

Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Perimenopop (UMG)

Rafiq Bhatia: Environments (Anti- Records)

Jens Lekman: Songs for Other People’s Weddings (Secretly Canadian)

LEISURE: Welcome to the Mood (Nettwerk Music Group)

Mal Waldron: Candy Girl (Strut Records)