Album of the Week – 22/08/25

It’s a good week with new albums from Mac DeMarco (Guitar), Adrian Sherwood (The Collapse Of Everything) and Earl Sweatshirt (Live Laugh Love). You should definitely have a listen to Water From Your Eyes (It’s a Beautiful Place) as it’s definitely the most unusual new release of the week.

We’ve gone for the bold James Yorkston this week, with his new album, which includes vocals from Nina Persson (The Cardigans) and Johanna Söderberg (First Aid Kit), hence the name.

Album of the Week – James Yorkston – Songs for Nina and Johanna

Songs for Nina and Johanna is the beautiful new album from James Yorkston, this time featuring not one but two of Sweden’s most recognisable female vocalists. Recorded in Stockholm with Nina Persson (The Cardigans), Johanna Söderberg (First Aid Kit) and members of The Second Hand Orchestra, these are songs about family, love and parenthood. Tender and heart-breaking yet overwhelmingly life-affirming, Songs for Nina and Johanna is a vital addition to the James Yorkston catalogue.

Albums of Note:

— Anand Wilder (of Yeasayer) – Psychic Lessons

— Deftones – Private Music

— Earl Sweatshirt – Live Laugh Love

— Mac DeMarco – Guitar

— Water From Your Eyes – It’s a Beautiful Place

— Adrian Sherwood – The Collapse Of Everything

August 22nd:

— Adrian Sherwood – The Collapse Of Everything

— Ami Taf Ra – The Prophet and The Madman

— Anand Wilder (of Yeasayer) – Psychic Lessons

— Arcadea (feat. Mastodon’s Brann Dailor) – The Exodus of Gravity

— Asleep At the Wheel – Riding High In Texas

— Ava Max – Don’t Click Play

— Bask – The Turning

— BLACKBRIAR – A Thousand Little Deaths

— Case Oats – Last Missouri Exit

— CROWNE – Wonderland

— Daniel Donato – Horizons

— The Dare – Freakquencies: Vol. 1 EP

— Dean Johnson – I Hope We Can Still Be Friends

— Deftones – Private Music

— Delicate Steve – Luke’s Garage

— Dinosaur Pile-Up – I’ve Felt Better

— Dizzy F’n Reed – Rock ‘N’ Roll Chose Me

— Dominic Fike – Rocket

— Double Wish – Double Wish

— Earl Sweatshirt – Live Laugh Love

— Electronic – Raise the Pressure (Vinyl Reissue)

— Electronic – Twisted Tenderness (Vinyl Reissue)

— Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma – Beethoven for Three

— Emma Louise and Flume – DUMB

— Eve Adams – American Dust

— Foreign Air – Such That I May Glow

— Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele 2

— Goo Goo Dolls – Summer Anthem EP

— Greg Freeman – Burnover

— Hand Habits – Blue Reminder

— Hot Mulligan – The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still

— Hunter Oliveri – Teen Slug

— Hunx and His Punx – Walk Out On This World

— James Yorkston – Songs for Nina and Johanna

— Jeremy Zucker – Garden State

— Jobber – Jobber to the Stars EP

— John Fogerty – Legacy: the Creedence Clearwater Revival years

— Jon Batiste – Big Money

— Judy Blank – Big Mood

— Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Gush

— Karan Aujla – P-POP CULTURE

— Kathleen Edwards – Billionaire

— Kid Cudi – FREE

— Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind (Deluxe Edition)

— Laufey – A Matter of Time

— Lecrae – Reconstruction

— Lissie – Promises EP

— Mac DeMarco – Guitar

— Mariah the Scientist – HEARTS SOLD SEPARATELY

— Nourished By Time – The Passionate Ones

— Oasis – Oasis: Complete Studio Album Collection

— Offset – Kiari

— Old Dominion – Barbara

— Pendulum – Inertia

— Pino Palladino and Blake Mills – That Wasn’t A Dream

— The Planet Smashers – On the Dancefloor

— quannic – Warbrained

— RNIE – FULL NEPTUNE

— Robert Jon & The Wreck – Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes

— Royel Otis – hickey

— Scree – August

— Sheff G – Weight on Me

— Sir Chloe – Swallow The Knife

— Small Shake – Platonics EP

— Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines of God (25th Anniversary Reissue)

— sombr – I Barely Know Her

— Spaceface – Lunar Manor

— Superchunk – Songs in the Key of Yikes

— Teyana Taylor – Escape Room

— Three Days Grace – Alienation

— TOPS – Bury the Key

— Tullycraft – Shoot the Point

— UMI – people stories

— The Warning – Live From Auditorio Nacional, CDMX

— Water From Your Eyes – It’s a Beautiful Place

— The Who – Live At The Oval 1971

— Winter – Adult Romantix

— The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Dreams of Being Dust