Album of the Week – 18/07/25

It’s a sleepy week in July, and most people are on holiday! So, don’t expect too many exciting new sounds to drop this week, but we do have a few things to enjoy!

We Are Scientists return with Qualifying Miles, and there’s also Jim Legxacy with black british music.

For our album of the week, we’ve gone for the new release from Forth Wanderers. Mumbled lyrics and some interesting guitar lines are contained within.

Album of the Week – Forth Wanderers – The Longer This Goes On

There’s one thing Forth Wanderers want to make clear as they prepare to release their third album The Longer This Goes On: “We’re not back,” guitarist Ben Guterl says emphatically. It’s perhaps an unexpected sentiment to pair with the band’s first album since they parted ways seven years ago, but the band insists it’s just an honest answer—they came together to record the ten intricately constructed gems that make up this new record, and they’re still figuring out what being in Forth Wanderers means to them, over ten years after the project’s conception. Listening to these songs, each a glittering celebration of vocalist Ava Trilling’s urgent and intuitive lyrics and the band’s natural musical chemistry, though, it’s hard to feel like there’s much of anything left unsaid. Filled with spit-shined melodies, chiming vocal harmonies, and slinky, slanted rhythms, the album is more expansive than just a return to form. Here, the band aren’t afraid to take the scenic route to a hook, layering instrumental flourishes to fill in the empty spaces, creating room for Trilling’s haunting range, or repeating a riff or a lyric until it becomes a Zen koan. On The Longer This Goes On, Forth Wanderers sound more self-aware and self-assured than ever before. Just don’t call it a comeback.

Albums of Note:

— We Are Scientists – Qualifying Miles

— Zac Farro (of Paramore) – Operator

— Jim Legxacy – black british music (2025)

Released on July 18th:

— Above & Beyond – Bigger Than All Of Us

— Alex G – Headlights

— Alex Warren – You’ll Be Alright, Kid

— Avalon – permanent californian EP

— Billie Marten – Dog Eared

— Billy Raffoul – Billy Raoffoul

— BTS – PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE – LIVE

— Bush – I Beat Loneliness

— CAM – All Things Light

— Che – Rest in Bass

— Colin Hay – Man @ Work Volume 2

— Coral Grief – Air Between Us

— Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway – Addicted to Violence

— Dream, Ivory – When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You

— Drought – Souvenir

— Dylan Gossett – Westward

— Five Finger Death Punch – Best Of – Volume 1

— Fletcher – Would You Still Love Me If You Really Knew Me?

— Forth Wanderers – The Longer This Goes On

— Grinderman – Grinderman (Reissue)

— Grinderman – Grinderman 2 (Reissue)

— Grinderman – Grinderman 2 RMX (Reissue)

— Hannah Holland – Last Exit on Bethnal

— Healy – Force of Nature

— Jackson Wang – MAGICMAN 2

— Jade Bird – Who Wants to Talk About Love?

— Jessie Murph – Sex Hysteria

— Jim Legxacy – black british music (2025)

— Joe Bonamassa – Breakthrough

— Joyner Lucas – ADHD 2

— KillJoy – Dream and Violence

— Laura Jane Grace In The Trauma Tropes – Adventure Club

— Lord Huron – The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1

— Madeline Kenney – Kiss From the Balcony

— Margarita Witch Cult – Strung Out in Hell

— Messer (Mitch Grassiof Pentatonix) – Cuts EP

— Natalie Bergman – My Home Is Not In This World

— Nefarious – Addicted to Power

— Niko Moon – American Palm

— Panic Shack – Panic Shack

— Raekwon – The Emperor’s New Clothes

— Samora Pinderhughes – Black Spring

— Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (20th Anniversary Edition)

— $ilkMoney – Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and the Fruits No Longer Bear?

— Slaughter to Prevail – Grizzly

— Sly & the Family Stone – Sly & The Family Stone’s The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967

— Styx – Circling From Above

— Trisha Yearwood – The Mirror

— Vines – I’ll Be Here

— We Are Scientists – Qualifying Miles

— Zac Farro (of Paramore) – Operator