Here’s a rundown of new releases out today, 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.
New Albums and Releases
New Albums
Daniel Avery – Tremor
Daniel Avery’s sixth album moves away from his heavy electronic compositions to weight of a different kind – with guitar noise and distortion central to these songs borne of collaborations with various singers – Alison Mosshart of The Kills, Julie Dawson of NewDad, Cecile Believe, Art School Girlfriend and more.
Tremor is a floor-shaking collection of music bridging techno, electro, breaks and noise with a serene widescreen atmosphere of shoegaze and heavy rock music. It was mixed by Alan Moulder who did wonders with Nine Inch Nails.
Since the earliest recordings, Tremor felt like a studio in the sky, a space in time through which we could all pass as artists. It’s the welcoming spirit of acid house with the doors flung open wider to allow in every influence from my musical life: the warmth of distortion, the stillness inside intensity, the transcendental beauty of noise… They have always been there in my music but now it feels like those ideas are being transmitted in Technicolor. This is a record for the post-rave comedown kids, the guitar heads and anyone else who wants to come along for the ride.
Avery plays Dublin on November 28th.
Bricknasty – Black’s Law
The Ballymun punk-jazz band’s music gives D’Angelo from Dublin vibes, while pulling from Irish trad, soul and jazz horns. Their latest mixtape/EP release Black’s Law intends to be “a visceral exploration of faith, political disillusionment, and the volatility of human nature.”
Black’s Law defines the band’s present moment – a radical reset forged in six months of touring, falling out, reconciliation, and total creative immersion. With much of the mixtape built DIY-style in makeshift studios and B&Bs on the Irish border, it captures the volatile alchemy between Fatboy and producer/multi-instrumentalist Cillian McCauley, the band’s spiritual and sonic co-architect. This is not just a mixtape – it’s a manifesto. Politically charged, spiritually searching, and sonically untethered, it laces together Ireland’s bruised past with a fervent hope for the future.
- 25 Nov – Limelight 2, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- 27 Nov – Kasbah, Limerick, Ireland
- 28 Nov – Mike The Pies, Listowel, Ireland
- 29 Nov – Roisin Dubh, Galway, Ireland
- 03 Dec – Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland
- 04 Dec – The Vic, Tramore, Ireland
- 06 Dec – 3Olympia, Dublin, Ireland
Florence + The Machine – Everybody Scream
Everybody Scream is Florence Welch’s sixth album, and it was written and produced by Florence Welch over the past two years with a close-knit circle of collaborators including Mark Bowen of IDLES, Aaron Dessner and Mitski.
After needing lifesaving surgery on the Dance Fever Tour, Florence’s recovery took her down the path of spiritual mysticism, witchcraft and folk horror as she felt the limits of her body and explored what it means to be healed. The album treads through womanhood, partnership, aging and dying; exposing the murky in the mundane.
Florence + The Machine Dublin and Limerick shows announced
bog band – Mocashno Days
London-based Irish duo of childhood friends Stephen Sorensen and Isaac Clarke aka Bog Band trade in sophisticated pop music drawn from the ’80s and recent past and their second album with soft rock soul and pop music a la The Style Council, Prefab Sprout and The Blue Nile.
I previously featured ‘Midnight Chancers’, and ‘Apryl Fools’ which recalls Steely Dan and yacht rock with its breezy melodies and sounds.
Bog band play shows at Tengu in Dublin on November 8th, and Avalon Cafe, London on November 13th with Officer John and polyp.
Anna Van Hausswolff – Iconoclasts
Swedish experimental composer Anna Von Hausswolff’s new album is arriving with a buzzy rep. The sixth album from the avant garde explorer, musician and vocalist is one of ambition, with doomy neoclassical and ambient textures, contrasted with experimental pop and drone.
Big name vocal guests Iggy Pop and Ethel Cain appear alongside Italian musician Abul Mogard and Swedish saxophonist Otis Sandsjö.
Katie & Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman, & Brad Cook – Snocaps
Country indie rock twin sisters Katie (Waxahatchee) and Allison Crutchfield (Swearin) have made an album together, backed by pals MJ Lenderman, & Brad Cook as Snocaps.
It was surprised released on ANTI- today, and you can already guess what it sounds like if you are familiar with any of the above (complimentary).
claire rousay – a little death
The latest album from diaristic experimental Canadian-American musician, composer and artist Claire Rousay is out today on Thrill Jockey.
Shaped around field recordings she captured at dusk, the album is an homage to the gentle drifts and lurking disquiet of twilight. “This record is a return to what I see as my core solo practice, a re-dedication to those methods of working which I’ve found most align with what I envision my music or sound to be.” Intended as a part of a trilogy along with a heavenly touch and a softer focus, the pieces on a little death sprout from a wellspring of tactile samples and granularly processed sounds. The use of sounds recorded from her life outside of the studio remains a throughline in her work. While the previous two albums used field recordings as the primary sound source or central figure in the compositions, here they act more as springboards, timbrally intertwining with live instruments like additional voices in a chamber ensemble. Captured as daylight fades into memory, the sounds give a subtler diaristic impression, the recordings occupying a more elemental space which give moments of absolute clarity a shine in the dim gloaming.
Oklou – choke enough (Deluxe)
You might call the French producer, singer and artist Oklou’s music hyperpop as it is sometimes deemed, but there is something altogether nebulous and viscose at play in the debut album choke enough.
Ambient dream pop is another way to describe it, but there’s something genuinely off-kilter and close to confounding in how the album moves between melodies and textures.
Understated yet grand, minimal yet somehow maximal, choke enough is thoroughly 2025 music, digital yet full of soul, heart and weirdo pop morphs. It feels like post-PC Music experimental pop, that features an AG Cook and Danny L Harle production credits though most of the record was co-produced by Oklou with producer Casey MQ.
The new version adds four tracks, one featuring FKA Twigs.
Oklou plays a sold out show in Dublin in December, and her Tiny Desk is the bizness.
Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo – In the Earth Again
American midwesterners combine on an accidental collaborative album. Chat Pile are a Oklahoma City’s noise rock band and Pedigo is a Texas instrumental guitarist whose very recent album I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away was one of my key summer listens.
“What began as a casual split release idea spiraled into a thirty-six-minute album that threads their contrasting sensibilities into something entirely new.
Pedigo’s panoramic, primitive guitar, meets Chat Pile’s industrial decay, creating a record that explores unknown emotional registers and atmospheric depth for both, In The Earth Again sounds like a post-apocalyptic transmission from rural nowhere.
Instead of making concessions, the five artists work as a single unit, and each decision is made in support of the greater vision. The result is both intimate and expansive, a tribute to the modern wasteland.”
µ-Ziq – 1979
Planet Mu boss Mike Paradinas returns with a followup to 1977 two years on..
Just like 1977, 1979 surveys a synth-heavy array of ethereal soundscapes, ominous crevasses, and strange, psychedelic fugues. Like its predecessor, the new album’s atmospheric cast sets it apart from much of the work Paradinas has released as µ-Ziq on Planet Mu. It’s not strictly an ambient record, but it’s close, as close as this famously mutable artist ever comes to inhabiting a particular genre.
Paradinas’ inspiration for the record began on visits to the Spanish cities of Ávila and Majadahona, where his family hails from. That might account for the sense that there are spirits flitting through this music, presences you can intuit if not quite grasp. But 1979 is also a record to meet on your own terms, and to find your own meanings in.
Hilary Woods – Night CRIÚ
Irish artist Hilary Woods’ latest album on Sacred Bones puts the voice back in focus with the author’s and a children’s choir central to the record, along with a brass band. Night CRIÚ is a noir folk pop record bursting with atmosphere and shade, recorded and produced by Woods, with additional co-production from David Lynch collaborator Dean Hurley and Oliver Turvey.
Inspired and energised by many influences including aspects of Czech and early Italian cinema, the revival of indigenous language, a personal history of attending processions and parades, early music, the joy in dance, the immediacy of sound, and the collective standing up for what it means to be human in the face of tyranny and oppression, Night CRIÚ was recorded between the West Coast of Ireland, Dublin, London, Latvia and Richmond Virginia between 2023 and January 2025.
Micheál Quinn – Waves EP
Dermot Kennedy and Meltybrains? drummer releases a solo EP of electronic productions, which you can pay what you like on his website.
Subject Is Five – Notes From A Decaying Orbit
Dublin-based West Cork electronic artist Cian Roche aka Subject Is Five releases an album drawing on influences from Boards of Canada, Kraftwerk, DJ Shadow and beyond – hauntology, ambience, serenity and contempory neo-classical sounds combined within.
Outkast – Stankonia (25th anniversary)
Andre 3000 and Big Boi mark 25 years of their celebrated 2000 album Stankonia with a new version of the album, and merch offerings.
The new version released on October 31st, features three bonus tracks and comes with a different cover on a limited-edition, expanded heavyweight purple marble 3LP pressed on purple marble vinyl. A 2-LP version will be available.
The classic rap album features ‘So Fresh, So Clean’, ‘Miss Jackson’, ‘Bombs Over Baghdad’ ‘Gasoline Dreams’ and ‘Humble Mumble’ among others.
The three bonus tracks are ‘Speed Ballin’, which has never before appeared on streaming services; ‘Sole Sunday,’ featuring Goodie Mob; and two fresh remixes of ‘B.O.B.’ by Cutmaster Swiff and the Beat Bullies.
Also released this week
- Aesop Rock – I Heard It’s a Mess There Too
- Better Joy – at dusk
- Charlatans – We Are Love
- DJ Premier & Ransom – The Reinvention
- Etta Marcus – Devour
- Guided By Voices – Thick, Rich and Delicious
- Hildur Guðnadóttir – Where to From
- Joy Crookes – Juniper (Deluxe)
- keiyaA – hooke’s law (XL)
- Makaya McKraven – Hidden Out! EP / PopUp Shop EP + more
- Micah P. Hinson – The Tomorrow Man
- Tyler, The Creator – CHROMAKOPIA +
- Westside Gunn – HEELS HAVE EYES 3
- Zach Hill and Lucas Abela – Bag of Max Bag of Cass
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
