Album of the Week – 13/06/25

There are new albums this week from the likes of Neil Young and Chrome Hearts (Talkin to the Trees), Patrick Wolf (Crying the Neck) and  Steve Queralt (of Ride – Swallow).

There are a few oddities released this week, including The Cure (Mixes of a Lost World) and Queens of the Stone Age (Alive in the Catacombs).

For our album of the week, we’ve gone for Welsh indie rock band The Bug Club and their 4th album, called Very Human Features.

Album of the Week — The Bug Club – Very Human Features

“The Bug Club are back, again, for their annual appointment at the garage rock makers’ market, where they’re flogging yet another pedigree record.

LP number four, Very Human Features, arrives June 13, hot on the heels of the band’s first Sub Pop release, 2024’s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System. That record saw the band continue their love affair with BBC Radio 6, start up a new one with KEXP thanks to a session with them, and crop up in the pages of the NME. Anything else from the bucket list? Oh yeah, festival slots including packing home ground Green Man’s Walled Garden to its non-existent rafters. Then shows across the US in those venues us Brits tend to hear about and that’s as far as we get. This record gives the band an excuse to continue their never-ending tour and feed their baying fans, engorged and expectant thanks to this band’s relentless record-releasing hot streak, a new batch of typically playful, riff-laden, smart Bug Club Tunes.”

Albums of Note:

— The Cure – Mixes of a Lost World

— Neil Young and Chrome Hearts – Talkin to the Trees

— Patrick Wolf – Crying the Neck

— Queens of the Stone Age – Alive in the Catacombs

— Steve Queralt (of Ride) – Swallow

Albums released today – 

— 49th & Main – Happy Tears

— Ada Morghe – Pure Good Vibes

— Adam Beyer – Explorer Vol.1

— Adrian Sherwood – The Grand Designer EP

— Annahstasia – Tether

— BABYMETAL – METAL FORTH

— Brett Young – 2.0

— Brittany Davis – Black Thunder

— Buckcherry – Roar Like Thunder

— The Bug Club – Very Human Features

— Buscabulla – Se Amaba Así

— Calum Hood – ORDER chaos ORDER

— Common Holly – Anything glass

— The Cure – Mixes of a Lost World

— The Dare – What’s Wrong With New York?: Afters

— Dierks Bentley – Broken Branches

— Fallujah – Xenotaph

— Felly – Ambroxyde

— Gary Wilson – Come On

— Goya – In the Dawn of November

— Graham Hunt – Timeless World Forever

— Grateful Dead – Greatest Hits

— Hot Mustard – Mustard Season

— iann dior – CYCLES

— King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Phantom Island

— King Isis – Serenity EP

— Leikeli47 – Lei keli ft 47 / For Promotional Use Only

— Lipsticism – Wanted To Show You

— LSDXOXO – DGTL ANML

— Lyra Pramuk – Hymnal

— Maiya Blaney – A Room With a Door That Closes

— Metallica – Load (Remastered)

— Metallica – Load Remastered Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set

— Mister Romantic (John C. Reilly) – What’s Not to Love?

— Murder By Death – Egg & Dart

— neil young and chrome hearts – Talkin to the Trees

— Nina Nastasia – Songs for a World of Trouble

— NoMBe – Diáspora

— Patrick Wolf – Crying the Neck

— Pretoria – If We’re Pretending EP

— Queens of the Stone Age – Alive in the Catacombs

— Ray LaMontagne – Trouble (20th Anniversary Edition)

— Sea Lemon – Diving For A Prize

— Sons of the East – Sons

— Steve Queralt (of Ride) – Swallow

— Teri Gender Bender – TGB

— Terri Lyne Carrington and Christie Dashiell – We Insist 2025!

— Theo Croker – Dream Manifest

— TOKiMONSTA – Eternal Reverie with Eternal Reverie Remixes EP. 2

— Van Morrison – Remembering Now

— Various Artists – Smurfs (Music From and Inspired By)

— Woodkid – Woodkid for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach