Here’s a rundown of new Albums & EPs on DSPs and physical releases in record shops this week.
Nialler9 keeps a rolling list of Irish album releases for 2025.
It’s the first big release week of the year.
Let’s dive in.
Releases Index
New Albums
FKA Twigs – Eusexua
Tahliah Barnett’s return to albums, her first since 2019’s Magdalene (2022’s Caprisongs was a mixtape), is a ravey release, fuguratively and sonically, an album themed on the made-up word Eusexia – “a state of being. A feeling of momentary transcendence often evoked by art, music, sex, and unity. Eusexua can be followed by a state of bliss and feelings of limitless possibility.”
That means ’90s dance music- rave, trance, pop, underground electronic sounds – and an emphasis on euphoria.
FKA twigs says her late nights in the underground techno scene of Prague, while shooting the film The Crow was a major inspiration on the record.
Sam Amidon – Salt River
The London-based Vermont folk singer-songwriter has been spending a lot of time in Ireland at the moment, performing in Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa’s Nobodaddy and playing a show at the Gate Theatre this weekend.
Sam’s new album, released on River Lea (Rough Trade) is a long form collaboration with saxophonist and producer Sam Gendel with the aim of reinterpreting and regenerating 10 folk songs Sam has gathered over the years.
“This album is a campfire, but the campfire is around Sam Gendel’s synthesizer,'” says Amidon. “Or maybe it’s a journey through the corridors of my memory, if my memory wastransplanted into Sam and Phil’s dreams.”
Mogwai – The Bad Fire
The Scottish post-rock band’s eleventh studio album was produced by John Congleton, and as such it’s billed as their slickest yet.
It was made after a rough personal period for the band, but isn’t a dark record, and not as electronic as the previous album As The Love Continues.
Strings, synths, drum machines, voices are in the mixes – a Mogwai album is always worth spending time with.
Anna B Savage – You & i are Earth
The Donegal-based musician’s new album on City Slang was produced by John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum), and is partly, “a love letter to a man and to Ireland.”
The album’s first single is ‘Agnes’, which like the artist, has an Irish connection with Anna Mieke featuring, who is one a few Irish musicians featured on the record including Kate Ellis and Caimin Gilmore from Crash Ensemble, Cormac MacDiarmada from Lankum.
The Irish connection began when Savage studied a poetry Masters in Manchester, where both her teachers were Irish and she adored the work of Seamus Heaney.
Savage then did a Masters in Music in Dublin, and was learning about sean-nós singing, Cartoon Saloon, and Irish mythology, before moving to Donegal in-between touring with The Staves and St Vincent, soundtrack work with the Alex Lawther-directed short film “Rhoda” and Mike Lindsay’s collaborative Supershapes album a track called ‘Table’ was previously featured.
Jordan Adetunji – A Jaguar’s Dream
The Northern Irish artist capitalises on the worldwide smash hit ‘Kehlani‘ with a 10-track mixtape that features Bryson Tiller on a feature, along with Lil Baby, East London’s kwn and of course, Kehlani.
It’s out today via 300 Entertainment and Warner UK. The mixtape also includes collaborations with Chase & Status and Danja.
Also released today
- Matt Berry – Heard Noises
- Boldy James – Permanent Ink
- C Duncan – It’s Only A Love Song
- HorsegiirL v.i.p. – very important pony EP
- Linkin Park – From Zero A Capellas
- Tunng – Love You All Over Again
- The Veils – Asphodels
- Young Franco – “it’s Franky baby!
