In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on March 14, 2025:
Circuit des Yeux, Halo on the Inside
After channeling grief through operatic experimentation on 2021’s -io, Circuit des Yeux transfigures loneliness via industrial club music on her new album, Halo on the Inside. Haley Fohr lived alone through the making of her -io follow-up, working 9pm to 5am (make sure you read that right: pm to am) down in her basement studio. As much as it serves an exploration of Fohr’s inner world, or that of the characters she fashions, it’s also a challenge to transform her working space: into a gothic club, a dream, an ideal destination. The record was previewed by the singles ‘Truth’, ‘Canopy of Eden’, and ‘Megaloner’. Read the full track-by-track review.
terraplana, natural
Brazilian group terraplana have delivered a strikingly immersive shoegaze record with natural, their sophomore LP. The follow-up to 2023’s Olhar Pra Trás was produced and mixed by JooJoo Ashworth, brother of Sasami, mastered by Greg Obis, and features a guest appearance from Winter on the early single ‘hear a whisper’. Its textured beauty skirts the line between lo-fi and grandiose, a tension that steers the record feverishly towards transcendence.
clipping., Dead Channel Sky
Experimental hip-hop collective clipping. are back with their fifth LP, Dead Channel Sky, out now via Sub Pop. Produced and mixed by clipping. and Steve Kaplan, the album boasts guest spots from Aesop Rock, Nels Cline, Bitpanic, Tia Nomore, and Sub Pop labelmates Cartel Madras. The trio’s first album since 2020’s Visions of Bodies Being Burned draws its title from the first sentence of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer – “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel” – and deeply immerses itself in cyberpunk world-building. “If we are currently living in the apocalypse that the cyberpunk fiction of the 80s and 90s predicted, this is the music,” Daveed Diggs told The Guardian.
Courting, Lust for Life Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’
If you’re in for a dizzyingly bright half-hour of indie rock, look no further than the third album by Courting, which bears the title Lust for Life Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’. The follow-up to 2024’s New Last Name is every bit as infectious as it is chaotic. “We wanted to keep everything incredibly direct – to hit everyone in the face and leave,” frontman Sean Murphy-O’Neill explained, adding: “It’s meant to feel very contradictory and confusing but it’s also fully realised. Everything we do is like a collage – we take all the things we love and blend them together.”
Whatever the Weather, Whatever the Weather II
Whatever the Weather II is the second ambient album by London-based experimental artist Loraine James, following the project’s 2022 self-titled debut. Like its predecessor, the album once again traces different lines on the thermometer, focusing on the idea of emotional rather than literal temperatures – and finding human warmth even in the chillier moments. She layers songs like ’20°C’ with recordings of laughter and conversation, as much a crucial part of the environment as the intermittent rain and sunshine she captures elsewhere. It’s as evocative as anything in James’ catalog, and I urge you to go out and get some sun in its company.
Other albums out today:
Bambara, Birthmarks; Throwing Muses, Moonlight Concessions; Curren$y & Harry Fraud, Never Catch Us; Hekla, Turnar; RWAKE, The Return of Magik; Jorg Kuning, Elvers Pass; Charley Crockett, Lonesome Drifter; cootie catcher, Shy at First; Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet; K Camp, Built Different; Twin Shadow, Georgie; Zoë Mc Pherson, Upside Down; cootie catcher, Shy at First; Memotone, Pruning; Coheed and Cambria, The Father of Make Believe; Neal Francis, Return to Zero; Mia Wray, Hi, It’s Nice to Meet Me; Carly Pearce, hummingbird: no rain, no flowers; Neal Morgan, PAW; Amphior, Disappearing.
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