Greetings sputnikers and welcome to your weekly reminder that there are people out there with the audacity to release new albums despite music peaking with Jane Doe in 2001. I know, kinda cringe. Big hitters this week include a load of metal bands I vaguely recognise and the second half of that Bon Iver project that dropped last year, plus the new Ken Carson album that will definitely release on time. For sure. No doubt in my mind. Oh and Wu-Tang apparently, although the chances of that being real give Bigfoot some competition. Anywho, as usual let us know what you are hyping and why we all should definitely check the new Neptunian Maximalism album – those genre tags look tasty. Feel free to sample a few of these releases in the playlist below. ‘Til next week!

– List of Releases: April 11th, 2025 – 

AIR & Vegyn – Blue Moon Safari
Genre: Downtempo / IDM
Label: Warner Music France

Akutagawa – 鱗光
Genre: Emo / Post-Hardcore
Label: Shore&Woods Recordings

Annisokay – Abyss Pt. II
Genre: Alternative Metal / Metalcore
Label: Arising Empire

The Birthday Massacre – Pathway
Genre: Darkwave / Alternative Metal
Label: Metropolis Records

Blood Abscission – I I
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: Debemur Morti Productions

Bon Iver – SABLE, fABLE
Genre: Art…

Welcome to my first time doing the weekly releases! Feel free to give my performance a rating on a scale from 1 to 10, comment every single release not here that I didn’t even know existed, and let everyone know what you’re jamming to this week. As always, feel free to request reviews from staff and/or contributors, be sure to skim the release playlist for any songs that catch your eye, and have a great week!

– List of Releases: March 21st, 2025 – 

Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Label: Century Media

The Darkness – Dreams on Toast
Genre: Hard Rock / Glam Rock
Label: Cooking Vinyl

Deafheaven – Lonely People with Power
Genre: Black Metal / Blackgaze
Label: Roadrunner

Dean Wareham – That’s the Price of Loving Me
Genre: Indie Rock / Dream Pop
Label: Carpark

Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie
Genre: Indie Rock
Label: Merge

Decrepisy – Deific Mourning
Genre: Death Metal / Doom Metal
Label: Carbonized

Envy of None – Stygian Wavz
Genre: Alternative Rock / Electronic
Label: KSCOPE

girlpuppy – Sweetness
Genre: Indie Rock
Label: Captured Tracks

Great Grandpa – Patience, Moonbeam
Genre: Indie Rock / Alternative Rock
Label: Run for Cover

Invent Animate x Silent Planet – Bloom in Heaven
Genre: Progressive Metalcore
Label: UNFD

Lil Durk – Deep Thoughts
Genre: Hip-Hop…

3, 2, 1, Weeklies! Unless you’re using the DD/MM format, in which case you’ll be delighted to learn that the number 213 is part of Levine’s sequence. You already knew!? We’ll try to make up for the lack of educational value by surprising you with some of the upcoming releases below. Please feel free to request reviews from staff and/or contributors, let the community know what we’ve missed, brag about your PhD in Mathematics and/or post your jams.

– List of Releases: March 21st, 2025 –

Bloodywood – Nu Delhi
Genre: Nu Metal / Rap Metal
Label: Fearless

Cradle of Filth – The Screaming of the Valkyries
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal
Label: Napalm

Disarmonia Mundi – The Dormant Stranger
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Label: Coroner

Dissocia – To Lift the Veil
Genre: Progressive Metal
Label: Willowtip

Drudkh – Shadow Play
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: Season of Mist

Embrional – Inherited Tendencies for Self-Destruction
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
Label: Agonia

Floodlights – Underneath
Genre: Indie Rock / Post-Punk
Label: PIAS

Greentea Peng – Tell Dem It’s Sunny
Genre: Neo-Soul / Alternative R&B
Label: AWAL

The Horrors – Night Life
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Gothic / Synthpop / Post-Punk
Label: Fiction

Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar
Genre: Avant-Garde Metal / Dissonant…

Hello, children. On this silky Pi Day, despite our best efforts, music is not canceled this week. Please feel free to request reviews from staff and/or contributors and let the community know what’s missing and/or what you’ll be jamming this week.

– List of Releases: March 14th, 2025 –

BAMBARA – Birthmarks
Genre: Post-Punk / Gothic Rock
Label: Wharf Cat

Charley Crockett – Lonesome Drifter
Genre: Country Rock / Nashville Sound
Label: Island

Circuit des Yeux – Halo on the Inside
Genre: Darkwave / Post-Industrial
Label: Matador

cleopatrick – FAKE MOON
Genre: Slacker Rock / Noise Pop
Label: Thirty Tigers

clipping. – Dead Channel Sky
Genre: Industrial Hip-Hop / Breakbeat Hardcore
Label: Sub Pop

Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis: Act III: The Father of Make Believe
Genre: Progressive Rock / Emo-Pop
Label: Virgin

Courting – Lust for Life, Or: ‘How to Thread the Needle and Come out the Other Side to Tell the Story’
Genre: Post-Punk Revival / Indie Rock
Label: Lower Third

Curren$y & Harry Fraud – Never Catch Us
Genre: Gangsta Rap
Label: Jet Life

Dorothy – The Way
Genre: Hard Rock / Blues Rock
Label: Roc Nation

Envy of None…

Happy 8th birthday to the Nintendo Switch! Below is a non-exhaustive list of new releases for March 7th. Please feel free to request reviews from staff and/or contributors, feel a sense of pride and accomplishment letting tens of us know what you think is missing, what your Top 3 Switch games by playtime are, or simply let the community know what the hard jams are this week.

– List of Releases: March 7th, 2025 –

Alabaster dePlume – A Blade Because a Blade is Whole
Genre: Spiritual Jazz / Jazz Poetry
Label: International Anthem

Amber Asylum – Ruby Red
Genre: Neoclassical Darkwave / Dark Ambient
Label: Prophecy Productions

Arny Margret – I Miss You, I Do
Genre: Indie Folk
Label: One Little Independent

Black Foxxes – The Haar
Genre: Art Rock / Chamber Music
Label: oneRPM

Bob Mould – Here We Go Crazy
Genre: Alternative Rock / Power-Pop
Label: BMG

The Burning Hell – Ghost Palace
Genre: Indie Folk / Indie Rock
Label: BB*Island

Cryptosis – Celestial Death
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal / Technical Thrash Metal
Label: Century Media

Dawn of Ouroboros – Bioluminescence
Genre: Progressive Metal / Blackgaze
Label: Prosthetic

Destruction – Birth of…