Album of the Week – 25/07/25

The sleepy month of July continues, and there’s a significant reduction in the number of new albums released. Are all the bands on holiday or at festivals? Either way, they’re not releasing new music.

Fear not, as there is enough to keep you entertained. For the Nick Drake purist, there’s the Making Of Five Leaves Left. “The Nick Drake Estate authorised 4LP and 4CD editions comprise over 30 previously unheard outtakes from the sessions, compiled across three discs. ”

There are also new releases from Fever Ray (The Year of the Radical Romantic) and Yoshika Colwell (On The Wing). For our album of the week, we’ve gone for the debut album from the wonderfully named Folk Bitch Trio.

Album of the Week — Folk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be A Good Time

“Folk music has a bad habit of being presented as a deathly serious concern. It’s something you cry to, it’s overly sacred, it’s solemnly considered by critic-historians. But Folk Bitch Trio, former high school friends Heide Peverelle (they/them), Jeanie Pilkington (she/her) and Gracie Sinclair (she/her), have a shared sense of humour that is embedded deep in their music, and that sets it alight, safe from the self-serious traps of the genre.

Now Would Be A Good Time, their debut album, tells vivid, visceral stories, and is funny and darkly ironic in the manner of writers like Mary Gaitskill or Otessa Moshfegh. Their music sounds familiar, but the songs are modern, youthful, singing acutely through dissociative daydreams and galling breakups, sexual fantasies and media overload, all the petty resentments and minor humiliations of being in your early twenties in the 2020s.”

Albums of Note: 

— Bicep – TAKKUUK (Original Soundtrack)

— Fever Ray – The Year of the Radical Romantic

— Nick Drake – The Making Of Five Leaves Left

— Yoshika Colwell – On The Wing

July 25th:

— Alice Cooper Band – The Revenge of Alice Cooper

— Apollo Brown and Bronze Nazareth – Funeral For a Dream

— Ben Nichols (of Lucero) – In the Heart of the Mountain

— Bicep – TAKKUUK (Original Soundtrack)

— Black Sabbath – Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes

— The Blaze – FOLK

— The Body – All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood (Deluxe Reissue)

— Bruce Dickinson – More Balls to Picasso

— Cheat Codes – Future Renaissance

— Clifford – Golden Caravan

— Cody Jinks – In My Blood

— Cory Hanson – I Love People

— Devon Allman – The Blues Summit

— The Dirty Nil – The Lash

— Duke Dumont – Union

— Editrix – The Big E

— EELS – Electro-Shock Blues (Vinyl Reissue)

— Elton John – Live from the Rainbow Theatre with Ray Cooper

— Ember Knight – Water Can Fly!

— Far Caspian – Autoficition

— Fever Ray – The Year of the Radical Romantic

— Fitz and the Tantrums – Man On The Moon

— Folk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be A Good Time

— Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist – Alfredo 2

— Gary Numan – A Perfect Circle: Live

— GWAR – The Return of Gor Gor

— The Haunt – New Addiction

— Heatmiser – Mic City Sons – 30th Anniversary Edition

— Hanumankind – Monsoon Season

— Indigo De Souza – Precipice

— Kiesza – Dancing and Crying: Vol. 2

— Kurt Vile with Luke Roberts – Classic Love EP

— Latter – What Lives Inside of Me EP

— Mádé Kuti – Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From?

— Madonna – Veronica Electronica

— Manslaughter 777 (feat. members of The Body and Nothing) – God’s World

— MARINA – FROOT (Vinyl Reissue)

— Nick Drake – The Making Of Five Leaves Left

— Naethan Apollo – Tales From Cazilor: Wyldflowers

— Nihilistic Easyrider (Jacob Duarte of Narrow Head) – Deluxe Edition

— Paul Weller – Find El Dorado

— Patty Griffin – Crown of Roses

— Post Animal – IRON

— QUINN XCII – LOOK! I’m Alive

— Rebecca Schiffman – Before the Future

— Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band – New Threats from the Soul

— Samantha Schmütz and Adrian Younge – Samantha e Adrian

— SCALP – Not Worthy of Human Compassion

— Tasha Cobbs Leonard – TASHA

— Tommy Genesis – Genesis

— Tyler Childers – Snipe Hunter

— UMLAUT – Desolé

— Why Bonnie – The Bedroom EP

— Yoshika Colwell – On the Wing

— YoungBoy Never Broke Again – MASA