Album of the Week – 19/09/25

You’ve a new band name to remember in the form of Boo Boos (comprised of co-singer/songwriters Katie Boo and Bronco Boo, AKA E of EELS and Kate Mattison of 79.5) have just released Young Love.

There is also a new soundtrack from Nine Inch Nails (TRON: Ares – Original Motion Picture) and a few other releases worthy of a mention in Black Lips (Season Of The Peach), NewDad (Altar) and Sarah McLachlan (Better Broken).

We’ve picked an old friend for our album of the week. Yes, Mr Hannon returns on a Rainy Sunday Afternoon! There are no pop hits here, but there are a few nice ones. The Man Who Turned into a Chair “There’s no return when you’re part of the furniture”.

Album of the Week – The Divine Comedy – Rainy Sunday Afternoon 

Rainy Sunday Afternoon’, the new album from The Divine Comedy will be released September 19th 2025, on Divine Comedy Records.

Recorded at Abbey Road last autumn, ‘Rainy Sunday Afternoon’ is The Divine Comedy’s thirteenth album and their first studio album since 2019’s UK top 5 ‘Office Politics’. The band’s last release was 2022’s Best Of compilation ‘Charmed Life’, which also reached 5 in the UK album charts. The band’s Neil Hannon most recently wrote the original songs for the Warner Bros blockbuster ‘Wonka.’

Neil says: “My musical output is, for better or worse, a representation of my personality. A good chunk of that personality revels in the rumbumptious; celebrates the silly. And I made ample use of that for the Wonka songs. I have though, like everyone, a darker, more melancholy side. And for one reason or another it has been much in evidence of late. I needed to use this album as an outlet for those feelings. To work through some stuff. Mortality; memories; relationships; political and social upheaval. Everyone should get to make an orchestral pop album once in a while. It should be available on the NHS.“

Albums of Note: 

— Boo Boos (EELS and Kate Mattison) – Young Love

— Black Lips – Season Of The Peach

— NewDad – Altar

— Nine Inch Nails – TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture)

— Sarah McLachlan – Better Broken

September 19th:

— 38 Special – Milestone

— Afternoon Bike Ride – Running With Scissors

— ALA.NI – Sunshine Music

— Atmosphere – Jestures

— Bad Cop Bad Cop – Lighten Up

— Bad Wolves – Die About It (Deluxe Edition)

— The Black Heart Procession – Hearts and Tanks EP

— Black Lips – Season Of The Peach

— Bone Shredder – Morbid Little Thing

— Bones Owens – Best Western

— Boo Boos (EELS and Kate Mattison) – Young Love

— Briscoe – Heat of July

— Cardi B – Am I the Drama?

— Chase Rice – Eldora

— cktrl – spirit

— clipping. – Dead Channel Sky Plus

— The Cowsills –  The “Cocaine Drain” Album

— Cuddle Magic – Underwater

— DED – RESENT

— Descendents – Milo Goes to College (Reissue)

— Dido – No Angel (25th Anniversary Edition)

— Doe Paoro – Living Through Collapse

— The Favors (FINNEAS and Ashe) – The Dream

— Evan Greer – AMAB/ACAB

— Evan Honer – Everything I Wanted

— Hunxho – For Her 2

— Hushtones – Wildflower in the Mystery

— Lawn – God Made the Highway

— Leith Ross – I Can See the Future

— Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks – Buckingham Nicks (Reissue)

— Golden Apples – Shooting Star

— Greywind – Severed Heart City

— Halima – Sweet Tooth

— The Happy Fits – Lovesick

— I Prevail – Violent Nature

— Igorrr – AMEN

— JÁNA – Orbit

— Joan Shelley – Real Warmth

— Joanne Robertson – Blurrr

— KennyHoopla – conditions of an orphan// EP

— Kieran Hebden + William Tyler – 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s

— Kojey Radical – Don’t Look Down

— Leith Ross – I Can See The Future

— Lenny Kravitz – Circus (Digital Deluxe Edition)

— Leon Vynehall – In Daytona Yellow

— Lola Young – I’m Only Fucking Myself

— Los Straitjackets – Somos Los Straitjackets

— Mappe Of – Afterglades

— Maura Weaver – Strange Devotion

— Mike Tramp – Songs of White Lion — Vol. III

— Milo Korbenski – Sex Angel

— MIRADOR (feat. Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka and Ida Mae’s Chris Turpin) – MIRADOR

— Motion City Soundtrack – The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World

— múm – History of Silence

— Nation of Language – Dance Called Memory

— Native Sun – Concrete Langauge

— NewDad – Altar

— Newton Faulkner – Octopus

— Nine Inch Nails – TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture)

— The Oxys – Casting Pearls Before Swine

— Patrick Shiroishi (of The Armed) – Forgetting Is Violent

— Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay – AM PM SOHO LIVE

— pôt-pot – Warsaw 480km

— praise. – LOST EP

— Public Opinion – Perpetual Motion Machine EP

— ROME – Gemini EP

— Sammy Virji – Same Day Cleaning

— Sarah McLachlan – Better Broken

— Shonen Knife – Our Best Place (Expanded Edition)

— Stoned Jesus – Songs tmajoo Sun

— TEKE::TEKE – Hagata Deluxe

— The Third Mind – Right Now!

— Toro Y Moi – Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged

— Total Wife – Come Back Down

— Wednesday – Bleeds

— Wilder Maker – The Streets Like Beds Still Warm