Album of the Week – 08/08/25

Things have definitely picked up this week, with plenty of new albums and a few good ones! There are new releases from Field Medic (Surrender Instead), The Black Keys (No Rain, No Flowers), Memory of Jane (Unsinking The Cypress) and Mechatok (Wide Awake).

For Those I Love (David Balfe) won the Choice Music Prize in 2021 with his self-titled album. Now, he’s back with a new album called Carving The Stone. It’s a tale of life in modern Dublin that needs to be heard.

Album of the Week – For Those I Love – Carving The Stone

The second album from Dublin’s For Those I Love, ‘Carving the Stone’ is a stark and stirring portrait of modern Irish life. Expanding the intimate world of his acclaimed debut, David Balfe turns his lens outward – grappling with the pressures of working-class survival, the erosion of home, and the passage of time. Set to soaring instrumentals and raw spoken word, this is his most direct, urgent work to date: a deeply human collection of songs rooted in memory, resistance, and emotional honesty.

Albums of Note:

— A Certain Ratio – Live in America (Reissue)

— Field Medic – surrender instead

— The Black Keys – No Rain, No Flowers

— Memory of Jane – Unsinking The Cypress

— Mechatok – Wide Awake

August 8th:

— A Certain Ratio – Live in America (Reissue)

— Ada Lea – when i paint my masterpiece

— alice does computer music – Bliss

— America – Hearts (50th Anniversary Edition)

— Anamanaguchi – Anyway

— Attack Attack! – Attack Attack! II

— BABYMETAL – METAL FORTH

— Bad Suns – Accelerator

— Bailey Zimmerman – Different Night Same Rodeo

— Better Than Ezra – Deluxe (Vinyl Reissue)

— Big Freedia – Pressing Onward

— The Black Keys – No Rain, No Flowers

— Bryson Tiller – Solace & The Vices

— Charley Crockett – Dollar A Day

— Chicago – Chicago IX: Greatest Hits Expanded

— Crash Adams – Crashing Into Your Living Room Vol. 2 EP

— The Drowns – Live at Rebellion

— Elliot Moss – Highspeeds (Expanded – 10th Anniversary)

— ena mori – rOe EP

— Ethel Cain – Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You

— Field Medic – surrender instead

— Filter – The Algorithm: Ultra Edition

— Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac (Rhino High Fidelity)

— Godsmack – 100HP (Vinyl Reissue)

— Good Charlotte – Motel Du Cap

— Gordi –  Like Plasticine

— Halestorm – Everest

— Hayes Carll – We’re Only Human

— iyla – WEEPING ANGEL

— Jenevieve – CRYSALIS

— J.I.D – God Does Like Ugly

— Jonas Brothers – Greetings From Your Hometown

— Kaash Paige – KAASHMYCHECKS EP

— Lydia Night – Parody of Pleasure

— Machine Gun Kelly – lost americana

— Malcolm Todd – Malcolm Todd (Still)

— Morgan James – Soul Remains The Same

— Mudi Sama –  Will I Make It Out Alive? EP

— Ninajirachi – I Love My Computer

— No Joy – Bugland

— OSEES – ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST

— The Royston Club – Songs For the Spine

— Teethe – Magic of the Sale

— Westside Cowboy – This Better Be Something Great EP

— Wombo – Danger in Fives

— XG – XG 1st WORLD TOUR “The first HOWL” Live