September is Library Card Sign-Up Month, and in the immortal words of Arthur and friends: having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card! An additional thank-you goes to the legends who keep saving our weekly playlists. Some might say 3 saves are considered rookie numbers and we have to pump those numbers up, but we’re not Endor, don’t you know? It’s time for another imperfect curation of new releases, this time for September 5th, 2025. Feel free to jam the tunes below, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week (in music or otherwise), and remember: blue M&M, red M&M, they all wind up the same color in the end. Have a good week and we’ll catch you on the flip side!

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– List of Releases: September 5th, 2025 –

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Before the Dawn – Cold Flare Eternal
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Gothic Metal
Label: Reaper Entertainment

Big Thief – Double Infinity
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Indie Rock
Label: 4AD

blessthefall – Gallows
Genre: Melodic Metalcore / Mall Screamo
Label: Rise

Christopher Larkin – Hollow Knight: Silksong
Genre: Video Game Music / [sigh] Bapanada…
Label: [digital]

Curtis Harding – Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt
Genre: Chicago Soul / Psychedelic Soul
Label: ANTI-

Cut Copy – Moments
Genre: Alternative Dance / Indietronica
Label: Cutters

Dark Angel – Extinction Level Event
Genre: Thrash Metal / Death Metal
Label: Reversed

David Byrne – Who Is the Sky?
Genre: Art Pop / Chamber Pop
Label: Matador

Faithless – Champion Sound
Genre: Melodic Techno / Deep House
Label: Faithless

Faun – Hex
Genre: Neo-Medieval Folk / Mittelalter-Rock
Label: Pagan Folk

Fieldwork – Thereupon
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Jazz
Label: Pi

Fleshwater – 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky
Genre: Alternative Metal / Shoegaze
Label: Closed Casket Activities

grandson – Inertia
Genre: Nu Metal / Rap Rock
Label: XX

Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Pt. I: The Shores of Melancholia
Genre: Progressive Metal / Gothic Metal
Label: Season of Mist

Gwenifer Raymond – Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark
Genre: American Primitivism / Free Folk
Label: Busy Bodies

Hasard – Abgnose
Genre: Avant-Garde Metal / Dissonant Black Metal
Label: I, Voidhanger

Hold Me Down – Devour
Genre: Industrial Metal / Power Electronics
Genre: Sentient Ruin

Hot Chip – Joy in Repetition [Compilation]
Genre: Synthpop / Alternative Dance
Label: Domino

Iglooghost – Bronze Claw Iso [EP]
Genre: UK Bass / Electro-Industrial
Label: LuckyMe

Ivy – Traces of You [Archival]
Genre: Dream Pop / Indie Pop
Label: Bar/None

Jord – Emellan träden
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal / Blackgaze
Label: Hammerheart

La Dispute – No One Was Driving the Car
Genre: Post-Hardcore / Emo
Label: Epitaph

Long Goodbye – To Reconcile with Death for the Sake of a Beautiful Ending [EP]
Genre: Metalcore / Alternative Metal
Label: The Coming Strife

Lucrecia Dalt – A Danger to Ourselves
Genre: Art Pop / Dark Jazz
Label: RVNG

Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Max Ruisi – Sleep Circle
Genre: Modern Classical / Chamber Music
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Modern Life Is War – Life on the Moon
Genre: Melodic Hardcore / Hardcore Punk
Label: Deathwish / Iodine

Modestep – Give Up the Ghost
Genre: Brostep / Dancefloor Drum and Bass
Label: Create

Nailed to Obscurity – Generation of the Void
Genre: Death Doom Metal / Melodic Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

Rob Thomas – All Night Days
Genre: Pop Rock / Alternative Rock
Label: Universal

Saadi – Birds of Paradise
Genre: Electropop / Indie Pop
Label: Switch Hit

Saint Etienne – International
Genre: Acid House / Dance-Pop
Label: PIAS

SG Lewis – Anemoia
Genre: Festival Progressive House / Melodic House
Label: PMR

shame – Cutthroat
Genre: Post-Punk Revival / Indie Rock
Label: Dead Oceans

The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina: Aranea Alba Editio [Compilation]
Genre: Alternative Rock / Alternative Metal
Label: Martha’s Music

Suede – Antidepressants
Genre: Alternative Rock / Glam Rock
Label: BMG

Swollen Teeth – Ask Nothing
Genre: Nu Metal / Alternative Metal
Label: Blowed Out

Tallah – Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
Genre: Nu Metal / Metalcore
Label: Earache

Tchotchke – Playin’ Dumb
Genre: Sunshine Pop / Jangle Pop
Label: [self-released]

ten56. – IO
Genre: Downtempo Deathcore / Nu Metal
Label: Out of Line

Venna – Malik
Genre: Jazz-Funk / Neo-Soul
Label: Cashmere Thoughts

Weval – Chorophobia
Genre: UK Bass / Breakbeat
Label: Technicolour

Ziúr – Home
Genre: Deconstructed Club / Avant-Pop
Label: Kuboraum

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