New Albums out today: Dijon, Alison Goldfrapp, Joey Valence & Brae, Kaytranada and more

Here’s a rundown of new releases, including new albums and EPs on DSPs and physical releases in record shops this week.

Nialler9 keeps a rolling list of Irish album releases for 2025.

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New Albums

Dijon – BABY

Four years on from the release of his debut album Absolutely, the emotive R&B indie singer from Baltimore releases a second LP, after recent features on albums from Bon Iver and Justin Bieber, and a forthcoming starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film One Battle After Another alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

Soaking up the eclectic influences of his collaborators Justin Vernon, Bieber and MkGee, there’s a wider-range of sounds on this restless sonic record – with ’80s Prince affectations, funk and the inspiration of fatherhood.

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Alison Goldfrapp – Flux

Synth-pop artist continues her solo run of day-glow pop tracks made with producer Richard X (hello 2000s).

There are retro futuristic electronic pop and Europop vibes galore here – Kylie-esque adult contemporary electro anyone?

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Marissa Nadler – New Radiations

The tenth album from the Nashville-based folk songwriter, with emphasis on fingerpicked guitar, “Everly Brothers–style harmonies over dreamlike, lonesome soundscapes—fuzzed‑out distortion, Hammond organ, and ominous synthesizers”.

“Lyrically, she shape-shifts through time and space—inhabiting characters in an airborne Cessna, a spaceship, a getaway car, and alternate dimensions.”

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KAYTRANADA – AIN’T NO DAMN WAY!

The bumping electronic producer follows up last year’s Timeless album with a 34-minute record that closes with a feature from TLC no less.

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Joey Valence & Brae – HYPERYOUTH

Y2K club-rap duo are back making throwback rap bops with features from JPEGMAFIA, Rebecca Black and Tiacorine, on a record which they say:

HYPERYOUTH is an album that forces you to dance. It was born from our experience going out to clubs and looking around in astonishment that nobody else shared the same excitement and expression for music and dancing that we did. Why is everyone so afraid to dance? Are you too cool? Are you protecting an ego? Are you afraid of what people will think of you? We made this album as a pure form of love for dancing, club music and genuine self-expression.”

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Cass McCombs – Interior Live Oak

American singer-songwriter of repute returns with a 74-minute double album named after a tree species native to Northern California, recorded with the help of early musical cohorts Matt Sweeney, Mike Bones, Jason Quever (Papercuts) and Chris Cohen (Deerhoof).

The album is said to be a return to his more economically-minded early work.

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Chance the Rapper – Star Line

We are all surely curious to hear what Chance sounds like after the crushing critical disappointment of 2019’s The Big Day, which preceded a divorce and a tumultuous personal time for Mr Bennett.

Six years later, the world of rap has changed, and he’s no longer the wide-eyed kid on the come up. For the grand return, he’s enlisted Jay Electronica, Jazmine Sullivan, BJ The Chicago Kid, Smino, Vic Mensa, Joey Bada$$, Lil Wayne and Jamila Woods which early doors is being called a return to form.

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Negro Impacto – TV Dreams EP

Five-track EP from the excellent Dundalk soulful indie duo of Chi-Chi and Lauernce Kapinga aka Strangelove, featuring the recent singles ‘Fangirl’ and ‘1800’ and three fresh songs.

Chi-chi says of the closing track:
Nwanne is the Igbo word for sibling. Growing up, I would hear my parents use the word when greeting their close friends as they welcomed them into our home or over the phone. This word always resonated with me and for that reason, we wanted the song to be given this name.

The song is a letter to a friend, letting them know that they’re family. Your house is their house. They’re no longer enyi gi (your friend) they’re now your Nwanne (your brother/sister). It mentions prayers of ability and the possibility of the future of good health, joy, and the simple pleasure of being able to chat and catch up about life.

Catch them here:
August 17 – Féile na Gréine, Limerick
September 6 – Final Frontier (House of Hibernia & Sleepover Club)
September 13 – Earth Rising IMMA, Dublin
September 20 – Vantastival, Drogheda

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Linda Buckley – Thar Farraige

Irish composer Linda Buckley combines contemporary chamber music with Irish and Scottish folk traditions.

The album meaning “over sea”, features Brìghde Chaimbeul and Maxwell Quartet, merging traditional instrumentation with electronics inspired by keening, Gaelic psalm singing and emigration ballads.

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Nerves – Iarmharieacht EP

The West Of Ireland alt-noise band release their second EP, produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox, a followup to last year’s Glórach, which goes “deeper into the intersections of personal collapse, cultural memory, and the slow erosion of rural Ireland.”

The title comes from “an untranslatable Irish phrase that loosely means “the uncanny loneliness felt at first light”.

It features “archival samples from Irish folklore, RTÉ documentaries, and pub conversations” and “wrestles with mental illness, addiction, grief, and the frayed bonds of love- not as isolated experiences, but as symptoms of broader social decay”.

The band’s upbringing in rural County Mayo hangs heavy over the record, a place where economic stagnation and mass emigration hollow out communities, and where cultural pride must live in spite of governmental neglect.

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Also released this week

• Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Massage Parlor
• Danny L Harle & Torus – Starlight Divergence EP
• Jack Garratt – Pillars
• King Crimson – In The Wake Of Poseidon
• Mahalia – Luvergirl EP
• Radiohead – Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009)
• Steve Gunn – Music for Writers