Album of the Week — 23/05/25

This week sees new releases from the likes of Sparks (MAD!) and Pan Amsterdam (Confines). There’s even an impossible new album from Stereolab (Instant Holograms On Metal Film), their first in 15 years?

For our album of the week, we’ve gone for “one of the more unusual albums of the year“.  You can check it out below…

Album of the Week – These New Puritans – Crooked Wing

“Crooked Wing is These New Puritans’ long-awaited fifth album—their first in six years. Produced by Bark Psychosis pioneer Graham Sutton and Jack Barnett, and executive produced by George Barnett, it features an unpredictable lineup of collaborators, from Caroline Polachek to veteran jazz bassist Chris Laurence.

The cult duo returns with one of 2025’s boldest and most immersive records, shifting from the brutal to the beautiful. Crooked Wing cements TNP’s status as visionaries—defying genre, rejecting convention, and delivering their most moving, powerful work yet.”

Albums of Note:

— Sparks – MAD!

— Sports Team – Boys These Days

— Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film

— Pan Amsterdam – Confines

Albums Released – May 23rd:

— …and Oceans – The Regeneration Itinerary

— 7Seconds – New Wind / Change In My Head

— Age of Apocalypse – In Oblivion

— BED – everything hurts

— bob junior – record friends, vol. 2

— CDSM – Convertible Hearse

— Charmer – Downpour

— Cindytalk – Camouflage Heart (Reissue)

— Cola Boyy – Quit to Play Chess

— Crystal Spiders – Metanoia

— David Bazan – Headphones (Reissue)

— Dirty Nice – Planet Weekend

— Don Felder (of Eagles) – The Vault – Fifty Years Of Music

— Don Henley – Inside Job (Reissue)

— Earth – WEM Dominator (Live in London NW1, 2016)

— emptyset – Dissever

— Florry – Sounds Like…

— Fredo Bang – The Big Bang

— Green Day – Saviors (édition de luxe)

— Home Is Where – Hunting Season

— Howard Jones – Piano Composed

— Jawbone – Jawbone II

— Joe Jonas – Music For People Who Believe In Love

— Julia Michaels – Second Self EP

— Julia Wolf – Pressure

— kuru – Stay true forever

— Laura Anglade – Get Out of Town

— Lou Tides – Autostatic!

— Marc Ribot – Map of a Blue City

— Martha Wainwright – Martha Wainwright (20th Anniversary Edition)

— Marumari – Hidden Tracks and Rarities 2001-2005

— Moontype – I Let The Wind Push Down On Me

— MSPAINT – No Separation EP

— Nymphlord – Rough Blue Blanket EP

— Orbital – Orbital (Brown Album) (Reissue)

— pablopablo – Canciones En Mí‘

— Pachyman – Another Place

— Pan Amsterdam – Confines

— Resavoir & Matt Gold – Horizon

— Rich Brian – Where Is My Head?

— rusowsky – Daisy

— Sedona – Getting Into Heaven

— shower curtain – words from a wishing well (Deluxe Edition)

— Skunk Anansie – The Painful Truth

— Smerz – Big City Life

— Sophia Kennedy – Squeeze Me

— Sparks – MAD!

— Sports Team – Boys These Days

— The SteelDrivers – Outrun

— Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film

— Taj Mahal + Keb’ Mo’ – Room On The Porch

— Thalia Zedek Band – The Boat Outside Your Window

— These New Puritans – Crooked Wing

— VC Pines – Viole(n)t Colour EP

— When Rivers Meet – Addicted to You

— Witchcraft – IDAG

— Witchrot – Soul Cellar