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June 13
Annahstasia: Tether [Drink Sum Wtr]
Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season [Impulse!]
Buscabulla: Se Amaba Así [Domino]
236M views in 10 weeks: how KPop Demon Hunters dethroned Red Notice
Materialists Raises Eyebrows: Sharp Satire or Elitist Attack on Modern Love?
Park Chan‑wook’s 2025 Venice Comeback: 6‑Minute Ovation and a 20‑Year Return
Julia Roberts’ 6‑minute ovation at Venice 2025 — the quote already igniting awards talk
The Cure: Mixes of a Lost World [Fiction/Capitol]
Cuzzos: Family Reunion [MyFault]
FearDorian: Out the Past With a Window [self-released]
James Holden & Wacław Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You [Border Community]
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Phantom Island [(P)Doom]
Leikeli47: Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only [Acrylic/Hardcover]
Lil Tecca: Dopamine [Galactic/Republic]
Lyra Pramuk: Hymnal [7K!/pop.soil]
Maiya Blaney: A Room With a Door That Closes [Lex]
Metallica: Load (Remastered Deluxe Box Set) [Blackened]
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts: Talkin to the Trees [Reprise]
Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs [Matador]
Skaiwater: PinkPrint 3 EP [GoodTalk]
Slick Rick: Victory [7Wallace]
June 20
Bambii: Infinity Club II [Because Music]
Benson Boone: American Heart [Night Street/Warner]
Cocojoey: Stars [Hausu Mountain]
Facta: Gulp [Wisdom Teeth]
Haim: I Quit [Columbia]
Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon [Third Man]
James McMurtry: The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy [New West]
Matmos: Metallic Life Review [Thrill Jockey]
Maxo: Mars Is Electric [Smileforme]
Nathan Salsburg: Ipsa Corpora [No Quarter]
S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs [Slough Water]
U.S. Girls: Scratch It [4AD]
Yaya Bey: Do It Afraid [Drink Sum Wtr]
June 27
Barbra Streisand: The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2 [Columbia]
Blonde Redhead: The Shadow of the Guest [Section1]
Bruce Springsteen: Tracks II: The Lost Albums [Columbia]
Frankie Cosmos: Different Talking [Sub Pop]
HLLLYH: Uruburu [Team Shi]
Isabella Lovestory: Vanity [Giant Music]
Lorde: Virgin [Republic]
Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill: Clay [Strut]
Nick León: A Tropical Entropy [TraTraTrax]
Pi’erre Bourne: Made in Paris [SossHouse/Interscope]
R&D: I’ll Send You a Sign [Ruination]
Wavves: Spun [Ghost Ramp]
July 2
Nilüfer Yanya: Dancing Shoes EP [Ninja Tune]
July 3
Double Virgo: Shakedown [Year0001]
July 4
Kesha: . [Kesha]
July 10
Burna Boy: No Sign of Weakness [Spaceship/Bad Habit/Atlantic]
July 11
Clipse: Let God Sort Em Out [Roc Nation Distribution]
Gina Birch: Trouble [Third Man]
The Swell Season, Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová: Forward [Plateau]
Wet Leg: Moisturizer [Domino]
July 18
Alex G: Headlights [RCA]
Disiniblud, Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith: Disiniblud [Smugglers Way]
DJ Haram: Beside Myself [Hyperdub]
Forth Wanderers: The Longer This Goes On [Sub Pop]
Sly and the Family Stone: The First Family: Live at the Winchester Cathedral 1967 [High Moon]
July 25
Indigo De Souza: Precipice [Loma Vista]
Madonna: Veronica Electronica [Warner]
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul [Sophomore Lounge]
Stars of the Lid: Music for Nitrous Oxide (30 Year Anniversary Remastered) [Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing]
August 1
The Armed: The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed [Sargent House]
August 8
The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers [Easy Eye Sound/Warner]
Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You [Daughters of Cain]
MGK: Lost Americana [Interscope]
No Joy: Bugland [Hand Drawn Dracula]
August 15
Pile: Sunshine and Balance Beams [Sooper]
August 22
Hand Habits: Blue Reminder [Fat Possum]
Hunx and His Punx: Walk Out on This World [Get Better]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Gush [Nettwerk]
Laufey: A Matter of Time [Vingolf]
Nourished by Time: The Passionate Ones [XL]
Superchunk: Songs in the Key of Yikes [Merge]
Water From Your Eyes: It’s a Beautiful Place [Matador]
August 29
Jehnny Beth: You Heartbreaker, You [Fiction]
The Hives: The Hives Forever Forever the Hives [Play It Again Sam]
Margo Price: Hard Headed Woman [Loma Vista]
Sabrina Carpenter: Man’s Best Friend [Island]
Wolf Alice: The Clearing [RCA]
September 4
Max Richter, Louisa Fuller & Max Ruisi: Sleep Circle [Deutsche Grammophon]
September 5
Big Thief: Double Infinity [4AD]
Brian Dunne: Clams Casino [Missing Piece]
David Byrne: Who Is the Sky? [Matador]
El Michels Affair: 24 Hr Sports [Big Crown]
Ivy: Traces of You [Bar/None]
La Dispute: No One Was Driving the Car [Epitaph]
Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves [Rvng Intl.]
Saint Etienne: International [Heavenly]
Shame: Cutthroat [Dead Oceans]
September 12
Cafuné: Bite Reality [Aurelians Club]
September 19
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler: 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s [Temporary Residence Ltd.]
Leon Vynehall: In Daytona Yellow [Ooze Inc]
September 26
Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying [Mexican Summer]
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