{"id":2192060,"date":"2025-12-09T06:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2192060"},"modified":"2025-12-09T06:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:47:13","slug":"this-weeks-best-new-albums-to-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/this-weeks-best-new-albums-to-stream\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s best new albums to stream"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paste is the place to kick off each and every New Music Friday. We follow our regular roundups of the best new songs<\/a> by highlighting the most compelling new records you need to hear. Find the best new albums of the week below, from priority picks to honorable mentions.<\/i><\/p>\n

Dove Ellis: Blizzard<\/em><\/h2>\n

\u201cTo the Sandals\u201d: A debut single hasn\u2019t stuck with me like this since JADE\u2019s \u201cAngel of My Dreams\u201d got dropped on my head last year. But Dove Ellis sounds like he\u2019s been here forever. The song, which is about \u201creflections on a failing shotgun marriage in Canc\u00fan,\u201d and was mixed by the great Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Dijon), summons the ghosts of Radiohead and Black Country, New Road without depending on their styles for relevancy. What I\u2019m trying to say is: Dove Ellis copies the homework but changes the answers. He gravitates toward tonal contrasts; instruments collide until they coalesce. The guitar reminds me of David Gilmour\u2019s on \u201cWot\u2019s\u2026 Uh the Deal?\u201d and Ellis\u2019 vocal isn\u2019t too far away from Thom Yorke\u2019s, his decaying holler never raising itself above Fred Donlon-Mansbridge\u2019s wilted saxophone. With 30 seconds left to spare, the song takes a strident plunge, piecing corroded fragments of woodwind, acoustic guitar, rattling percussion, and Ellis\u2019 now-distant vocal together with scotch tape. In his conclusion, Ellis delivers either a list of destinations or a collapsing salutation: \u201cTo the back teeth, to the front teeth, to the split tyres, to the penthouse, to the milk deal, to the wax seal, to the cracked heel, to the sandals.\u201d Every song could sound like this and I\u2019d still beg for a thousand more. Luckily Ellis has given us a whole album\u2019s worth. Blizzard<\/em> is marked by one of my favorite tracks of the year, \u201cLove Is.\u201d Inaugurated by a sparse piano melody, \u201cLove Is\u201d erupts into this wonderful, erratic flush of rock and roll. The drums sound like they\u2019re being pounded on in the next room over, and Ellis\u2019 voice vibrates nearly into a falsetto. But beneath all the fundamental stuff is this undertow of curdling distortion, attic noise, and skinny, bursting strings. None of it ever erupts, only the guitars and the phantom of Ellis\u2019 refrain. This is pop music caught in the bardo. I think I\u2019ll come back and visit from time to time. \u2014Matt Mitchell<\/em> [Black Butter\/AMF]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jane Remover: \u2661<\/em><\/h2>\n

\"\"\"\"Remember last year when Jane Remover released some of the best pop music of the year, like \u201cMagic I Want U,\u201d \u201cFlash in the Pan,\u201d and \u201cDream Sequence\u201d? Me too! It seems that Jane couldn\u2019t let 2025 end without dropping her third<\/em> project, the \u2661<\/em> EP, which features all four of her 2024 singles plus two new songs, \u201cSo What?\u201d and \u201cMusic Baby.\u201d The EP is a detour from the rage-dance bombast of Revengeseekerz<\/a><\/em> and the subterranean guitar drones coating the Venturing<\/em> tape. I quite like it when Jane goes deep into a pocket like this, where the glitches are grand and the hooks are plentiful. In a press release, she described the EP as \u201cdancing with tears in your eyes, feeling the music in your chest being in love with your friends drunk in the backseat of an Uber windows down on a summer night, a feeling you can never recreate the summer that changed everything. It\u2019s pronounced \ud83e\udef6.\u201d As we enter the clickable doldrums of list season, expansive release days are hibernating until January, maybe even February. Luckily I can coast into this weekend with \u2661<\/em> in my pocket. \u201cMusic Baby\u201d has been on repeat all morning. \u2014Matt Mitchell<\/em> [deadAir]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joanna: Hello Flower<\/em><\/h2>\n

\"\"\"\"This is a cool one for your weekend radar: the long-lost debut Joanna album, Hello Flower<\/em>, has been resurrected by New Feelings. Now the world can get hip to the strange and skronking world of Neil Holliday, Terry Lloyd, Tyrone Holt, and Carl Alty\u2014a payoff for the cult following the band amassed when they were hot shit in the late-\u201880s Madchester scene. Someone found the Hello Flower<\/em> tapes in a Manchester apartment loft, and now we get to hear the earliest iterations of what would become a contagious and unignorable Britpop phase in rock history. The tape is just eight songs long, but all of them tap into these raw-hemmed, funky guitar riffs teetering on the rim of psychedelia. Holliday sings about poverty, bad cops, and corrupt politicians like it\u2019s 2025, crying out \u201cBut you wouldn\u2019t see it happen in England, \u2018cause we\u2019re all civilized\u201d on \u201cGardener\u2019s World.\u201d \u201cBandit Country\u201d is rips, and \u201cWeather Vane\u201d sounds like it might have inspired a certain pair of brothers to start writing music. The band is clearly letting all of their ecclecticisms pull them every which way, and I\u2019ve had a good time chasing down every whim. It would\u2019ve been cool to see Joanna tour with the Stone Roses back in the day, but the Hello Flower<\/em> songs will just have to do. \u2014Matt Mitchell<\/em> [New Feelings]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Melody\u2019s Echo Chamber: Unclouded<\/em><\/h2>\n

\"\"\"\"The first Melody\u2019s Echo Chamber album was so good that I promised to listen to all of Melody Prochet\u2019s subsequent releases at least once. True to my word, I have been sitting with Unclouded<\/em> this week, and it\u2019s scratching an itch. With this band, you know what you\u2019re getting: technicolor production, big orchestration, psych-pop grooves, a strange idea here and a retro melody there. I dig a project that sticks to what it does best, and an effervescent \u201860s splendor is served well by Prochet and producer Sven Wunder\u2019s shared affinity for soul music. That\u2019s why \u201cIn the Stars\u201d and \u201cBroken Roses\u201d sound so great, so timeless. Session drummer Malcolm Catto (Madlib, DJ Shadow) comes in for a hi-fi freakout on \u201cEyes Closed,\u201d while \u201cDaisy\u201d opens the door for the El Michels Affair to turn in one of the sharpest collabs of this concluding year. Consistency can<\/em> be versatile. Unclouded<\/em> doesn\u2019t reinvent the wheel or usurp Melody\u2019s Echo Chamber<\/em>\u2019s potency, but Prochet won\u2019t let you leave without having a good time. \u2014Matt Mitchell<\/em> [Domino]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other Notable New Album Releases This Week:<\/strong> Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Live God<\/em>; Redveil: Sankofa<\/em>; The Deep: KPop B!tch<\/em>; V\/A: Passages: Artists in Solidarity With Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers<\/em>; Voices From the Lake: II<\/em><\/p>\n

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