On June 27, 2025, “Sun” label released “Preacher Kids”, the fifth Robert Randolph album. It was recorded in 2025, and was produced by Shooter Jennings. “Preacher Kids” won a “Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album”.
Personnel:
Robert Randolph – vocals, pedal steel guitar
Tash Neal – guitar
Jay White – bass
Willie Barthell – drums
Margo Price – vocal
Judith Hill – vocal
David Spreng – mixing
Pete Lyman – mastering
Daniel Bacigalupi – assistant
Julian Gross – design, photography
Track listing:
Big Women – Robert Randolph, Judith Hill
7 Generations – Robert Randolph, Stephen Kellogg
Gravity – Robert Randolph
I’d Like to Love You Baby – JJ Cale
Choir Woman – Robert Randolph, Judith Hill
Sinner – Robert Randolph, Aaron Raitiere
King Karma – Robert Randolph, JT Nero
When Will the Love Rain Down – Robert Randolph, Judith Hill
On June 13, 2025, “Exile Productions” and “Virgin” labels released “Remembering Now”, the 47th Van Morrison studio album. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by Van Morrison.
Personnel:
Van Morrison – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, saxophone
Dave Keary – acoustic and electric guitar, lap steel guitar, bouzouki, backing vocals
Richard Dunn – Hammond organ, Rhodes, backing vocals
On June 13, 2025, “Mack Avenue” label released “Elemental”, studio album by Dee Dee Bridgewater and Bill Charlap. It was recorded in February 2025, at “Sear Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Dee Dee Bridgewater and Tulani Bridgewater-Kowalski.
Personnel:
Dee Dee Bridgewater – vocals
Bill Charlap – piano
Timothy J. Zick – recording, mixing
Track listing:
Beginning to See the Light – Lou Reed
Mood Indigo – Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills
Honeysuckle Rose – Thomas “Fats” Waller, Andy Razaf
Here’s That Rainy Day – Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
On June 13, 2025, “Nonesuch” label released “About Ghosts”, the fourteenth Mary Halvorson studio album. It was recorded in 2025, at “Sear Sound” in New York City, “Masterdisk” in New York, and was produced by John Dieterich.
On June 6, 2025, “Rough Trade” label released “More”, the eighth Pulp studio. It was recorded in 2024, at “Orbb” in London, and was produced by James Ford.
Personnel:
Jarvis Cocker – vocals, Dobro, acoustic and classical guitar, guitar, Wurlitzer piano, Korg Trident, original landscape and studio shot photography, cover concept
Brian Eno, Cecily Eno, Darla Eno, Irial Eno, Lotti Eno – vocals
Richard Hawley – acoustic guitar
Chilly Gonzales – piano
Animesh Raval – piano, Wurlitzer
Serafina Steer – keyboard
Emma Smith – violin, 12 string Vox guitar, choir and backing vocals, string arrangements,
Rich Jones – conductor, string arrangements, viola, piano, keyboards
Jennymay Logan – violin, choir vocals
Paloma Deike, Phil Granell, Rosie Tompsett – violin
Mandhira de Saram, Patrick Dawkins, Ros Stephen – violin
Freya Goldmark – violin
Chihiro Ono – violin
Flora Curzon – violin, choir vocals
Shelley Britton, Zami Jalil – viola, choir vocals
Charlotte Stock – viola, choir vocals
Jordan Bergmans – viola
Laura Moody – cello, choir vocals, vocal arrangements
Sergio de Serra – cello
David Kadumukasa – cello, choir vocals
Val Welbanks – cello
Sam Becker – double bass
Andrew McKinney – bass
Jason Buckle – electronics, guitar
Adem Ilhan, Leo Chadburn, Mara Carlyle, Matthew Kerr – choir vocals
Adam Betts – Synare, percussion
Animesh Raval – engineer, mixing
Matt Colton – mastering
Julian House – design, image creation
Rankin – cover band cut-outs
Tom Jackson – LP back cover band and book back cover portrait
Ashley Bayston – studio painting
Track listing:
All lyrics by Jarvis Cocker, music by Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Mark Webber, Jason Buckle, Andrew McKinney, and Emma Smith, with additional composers noted.
Spike Island – additional composer Adam Betts
Tina – additional composer Adam Betts
Grown Ups – additional composer Steve Mackey
Slow Jam – additional composer Serafina Steer
Farmers Market
My Sex – additional composer Adam Betts
Git to Have Love – additional composer Adam Betts, Nick Ingman, Steve Mackey
Background Noise
Partial Eclipse – Serafina Steer
The Hymn of the North – Adam Betts
A Sunset – lyrics with The Earth, additional composer Richard Hawley
On June 6, 2025, “Verve” label released “Luminal”, album by Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno.
On June 6, 2025, “Verve” label released “Lateral”, album by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe. It was recorded in 2025, and was produced by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe.
On June 6, 2025, “Vertigo” label released “God of Angels Trust”, the ninth Volbeat studio album. It was recorded October – November 2024, and was produced by Jacob Hansen and Michael Poulsen.
Personnel:
Michael Poulsen – vocals, guitars
Kaspar Boye Larsen – bass
Jon Larsen – drums
Flemming C. Lund – lead guitar
Martin Pagaard Wolff – acoustic and lead guitar
Mia Maja – backing vocals
Tue Bayer – engineer
Jacob Hansen – mixing, mastering
Track listing:
All lyrics by Michael Poulsen, music as noted.
Devils Are Awake – Michael Poulsen, Jon Larsen
By a Monster Hand – Michael Poulsen
Acid Rain – Michael Poulsen
Demone Depression – Michael Poulsen
In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth to Satan’s Spawn in a Dying World of Doom – Michael Poulsen
Time Will Heal – Michael Poulsen
Better Be Fueled Than Tamed – Michael Poulsen, Kasper Boye Larsen
At the End of the Sirens – Michael Poulsen
Lonely Fields – Michael Poulsen, Jon Larsen, Kasper Boye Larsen
Enlighten the Disorder (By a Monster’s Hand Part 2) – Michael Poulsen
On May 30, 2025, “Intakt Records” label released “Abstraction Is Deliverance”, album by James Brandon Lewis Quartet (the 17th James Brandon Lewis album overall). It was recorded in April 2024, at “Hardstudios” in Winterthur, Switzerland.
Personnel:
James Brandon Lewis – tenor saxophone, mixing
Aruán Ortiz – piano
Brad Jones – bass
Chad Taylor – drums
Michael Brändli – engineer, mixing
Patrick Lanfolt – mixing
Paul Bieri – artwork, design
Teju Cole – liner notes
Track listing:
All tracks by James Brandon Lewis, except where noted.
On May 9, 2025, “Metropolis Records” label released “Silver Shade”, the tenth Peter Murphy studio album. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by Youth.
Personnel:
Peter Murphy – vocals
Youth – guitar, bass
Michael Rendall – keyboards, synthesizer, strings. programming, recording, mixing
Eddie Banda – synthesizer, drums, percussion, programming
Justin Chancellor – bass
Amir John Haddad – oud, bouzouki, acoustic and electric guitar, flamenco guitar, handclaps
Boy George – vocals
Trent Reznor – vocals
Danny Carey – drums, percussion
Emilio DiZefalo – violin
Tim Dawson – additional engineering
Lore Young – engineering assistant
Tim Debney – mastering
Robert Hakalski – cover art, design
Track listing:
All tracks by Peter Murphy and Martin Glover, except where noted.
Swoon
Hot Roy
Sherpa
Silver Shade – Peter Murphy, Paul Statham
The Artroom Wonder
Meaning of My Life
Xavier New Boy
Cochita is Lame – Peter Murphy, Kevin Haskins, Peter DiStefano, Eric Avery, Doug DeAngelis
Soothsayer
Time Waits – Peter Murphy, Mark Mason
Sailmaker’s Charm
Let the Flowers Grow – Peter Murphy, Boy George, Martin Glover
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