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Fopp’s Picks
March 2025
March is here, and with it comes another month of amazing new releases, here’s our top picks for this month.
lady gaga – mayhem
lady gaga – mayhemrelease: 7th march 2025
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blending the eclectic energy that first captivated her fans with a bold, fearless artistic vision, mayhem marks a triumphant return to gaga’s pop roots. the album explores themes of chaos and transformation, celebrating music’s power to unite, provoke, and heal. ‘the album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved’, said gaga. far from a nostalgic throwback, mayhem reinvents her early sound with a kaleidoscopic approach that draws from her expansive musical library while embracing a fresh and fearless artistic perspective. gaga describes the creative process as ‘reassembling a shattered mirror: even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way’.
release: 28th march 2025
available on cobalt blue vinyl / vinyl / cd
glory has a pristine surface and a tender, roiling underside. mike hadreas’ seventh album is muscular, filled out by his partner in life and songcraft alan wyffels and longtime producer blake mills alongside the fiercest band perfume genius has ever assembled: guitarists meg duffy and greg uhlmann, drummers tim carr and jim keltner, and bassist pat kelly. these players marshall their power, and hadreas his macabre imaginings and gallows humor, to humane ends. perfume genius pries open a mildewed den full of alienation, longing and desire and lets it bask in the sunlight.
release: 28th march 2025
available on liquid gold vinyl / clear vinyl / cd
lucy dacus’ fourth solo album dives into love’s highs and lows, the chaos of desire, and grand, cinematic romance. with sweeping melodies and raw emotion, it captures passion in all its intensity. set for release on march 28 via geffen records, it promises a bold, heartfelt journey through longing, loss, and the thrill of devotion.
release: 7th march 2025
available on liquid gold vinyl / clear vinyl / cd
alt-rock legend bob mould returns with his 2025 album, delivering 11 anthemic, emotionally charged tracks. the legendary former frontman of hüsker dü and sugar is in top form, blending raw energy with heartfelt songwriting. featuring singles here we go crazy, when your heart is broken, and breathing room, the album is a powerful new chapter in his storied career.
release: 28th march 2025
available on clear vinyl / vinyl / deluxe edition cd
fifty-three years since he delivered the bolt-from-the-blue of roxy music‘s debut lp as his calling card, ferry’s latest project is just as startlingly unexpected an arrival. on the one hand, loose talk is his first album of new music since 2014’s avonmore. on the other, little here, from the sounds and shapes of that music to the uses it gets put to, resembles any previous bryan ferry album. then again—on the third hand—it’s also a piece that is deeply rooted in his past half-century of work. ‘a conversation between two artists’ is how amelia barratt, one of the artists involved, describes loose talk. ‘something we’ve created together that neither could do on our own,’ adds bryan ferry, her interlocutor in the creative exchange. ‘and, for me, it seems to have opened up a whole new chapter for my work’.
release: 21st march 2025
available on vinyl / cd
The Horrors are not and will never be a band that approach the job lightly. They’re musicians who’ll funnel everything they are into the process, at the expense of health, wealth and sometimes sanity. And so, whilst sixth album ‘Night Life’ sees the band once more shapeshift into a new form, with a new sonic outlook and – this time – a new line up, in some ways The Horrors are still as they ever were.
release: 21st march 2025
available on fopp exclusive yellow vinyl / vinyl / cd
Marking 40 years since Ricky Ross and Dougie Vipond began Deacon Blue, The Great Western Road reflects the band’s journey with honesty and experience. Preceded by the nostalgic single Late 88 (out 29 November 2024), the album captures their enduring spirit. Recorded at Rockfield Studios, it reunites Ross and Gregor Philp on production, following 2020’s City of Love. Engineered by Matt Butler—who last worked with them on Raintown—this record celebrates where they’ve been and where they’re going, proving the adventure is as thrilling as ever.
release: 21st march 2025
available on vinyl / fopp exclusive cd / cd
Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined its predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration. The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.
release: 28th march 2025
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Recorded with producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen (St. Vincent, M83), the album follows Deafheaven’s 2021 studio album, Infinite Granite, which saw the Grammy-nominated band charting new ground and expanding stylistic boundaries. On Lonely People With Power, Deafheaven again confound expectations, piling element on element, and towering towards the sky with their most ambitious release yet. Tracked at EastWest Studios, Lonely People With Power includes additional vocal contributions from Jae Matthews of Boy Harsher and Paul Banks of Interpol.
release: 28th march 2025
available on bloodshot red vinyl / vinyl / cd
Grammy and BRIT Award winners, Mumford & Sons return with their highly anticipated fifth studio album, Rushmere, released via Island Records on 28th March 2025. Produced by Dave Cobb, the album sees the band explore new sonic textures while staying true to the anthemic, heartfelt songwriting that defines their sound.