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Fopp’s Picks

May 2025

May is here, and with it comes another month of amazing new releases, here’s our top picks for this month.

miley cyrus – something beautiful

release: 30th may 2025

available on fopp exclusive crystal clear vinyl / vinyl / cd

Miley is back with her highly anticipated 9th studio album, Something Beautiful, arriving May 30. Centered around the theme of healing, the album features 13 new tracks, all written and produced by Miley herself, with Shawn Everett serving as executive producer. The album is also accompanied by a musical film of the same name. Vinyl editions include a 16-page booklet, while the CD edition features a 24-page booklet. Something Beautiful is poised to be her most profound and unforgettable release to date.

mark pritchard & thom yorke – tall tales

release: 9th may 2025

available on deluxe edition double vinyl / vinyl / deluxe edition 2cd / cd

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke are set to release their debut album as a duo via Warp Records. Following Pritchard’s remixes for Radiohead, the pair struck upon an otherworldly synergy with the track Beautiful People, a centrepiece of Mark’s 2016 solo album Under the Sun. Now presenting a whole album, Tall Tales showcases Pritchard’s mastery of archaic machines that he had previously unearthed in synthesizer archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths. Yorke meanwhile delivers a haunting and expansive vocal performance, evoking Radiohead’s OK Computer-era digital FX while delving into dark, introspective storytelling.

garbage – let all we imagine be the light

release: 30th may 2025

available on pearl sunrise vinyl / neon orange vinyl / cd

Let All That We Imagine Be The Light is the eighth studio record from Garbage, recorded at Red Razor Sounds in Los Angeles, Butch Vig’s studio Grunge Is Dead, and Shirley Manson’s bedroom. Produced by the band and longtime engineer Billy Bush, the album is unmistakably Garbage. All the signature elements for which they are known are present: big, angular guitars, precise, propulsive beats, and cinematic soundscapes, all beneath Shirley Manson’s expressive voice. Her lyrics bristle with attitude, creating an album that thrums equally with both light and shade. It’s the sound of a group at the peak of their creative powers, harnessing sonic juxtapositions and moods to craft something truly distinctive.

sparks – mad!

release: 23rd may 2025

available on pearl sunrise vinyl / neon orange vinyl / cd

Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, are back with their 28th album MAD! on May 23rd 2025, their first release with Transgressive Records. Most acts, by their seventh decade in the biz, would have slowed to a crawl, creakily playing their past hits on the heritage circuit and releasing nothing more than the occasional Greatest Hits collection. This is not the case for Sparks, who have triumphantly returned yet again, proving their resilience and relevance in a modern world with a fresh record and summer world tour to accompany it.

kali uchis – sincerely

release: 9th may 2025

available on pink vinyl / cd

Kali’s artistry has always felt otherworldly, ethereal, and elusive. Sincerely represents her most vulnerable and intimate work to date, offering an existential glimpse into the way she romanticizes life and her inner world. The album is a sanctuary, an escape from the chaos, a search for peace, and an act of catharsis. Sincerely is a collection of letters to the world, allowing her fans to witness her at her most exposed as she invites them into her emotional journey.

rico nasty – lethal

release: 23rd may 2025

available on opaque silver vinyl / cd

Rico Nasty is known for her own particular brand of rage-rap and for her outrageous on-stage, online, volume-up persona. But as she grew up, she started to feel trapped by the character she created. LETHAL is a reckoning of who Rico is at 27 with the trap-pop teen persona she created more than a decade ago. Executive produced by GRAMMY-nominated producer Imad Royal, the album still features all the hallmarks of a Rico Nasty record—female rage, heavy guitars, humor—but there are also notes of femininity, introspection, and a more complex framing of all the angles of Rico: the performer, the mother, the adult.

stereolab – instant holograms on metal film

release: 23rd may 2025

available on clear double vinyl / vinyl / cd

Instant Holograms On Metal Film will be available on 23rd May 2025, co-released by the band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records. Marking their first new record in fifteen years, the album features thirteen songs written by Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane, who have been the creative core of the band since its inception. Performed by Laetitia, Tim, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson, and Xavi Muñoz, who currently make up the touring line-up, the album blends the signature sound of the band with fresh, innovative elements. Fans can expect a return to the cerebral yet catchy textures that have always defined the band’s unique style.

car seat headrest – the scholars

release: 2nd may 2025

available on double vinyl / cd

The first studio album from Car Seat Headrest in five years, . From Shakespeare to Mozart to classical opera, Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo pulled from the classics when devising the lyrics and story arc of , while the music draws, carefully, from classic rock story song cycles such as The Who’s and David Bowie’s . “One thing that can be a struggle with rock operas is that the individual songs kind of get sacrificed for the flow of the plot,” Toledo notes. “I didn’t want to sacrifice that to make a very fluid narrative. And so this is sort of a middle ground where each song can be a character and it’s like each one is coming out on center stage and they have their song and dance.” While Car Seat Headrest started as Toledo’s solo project, the four-piece is now fully a band. “What we’ve been doing more of in recent years is just taking the pulses of each other.” says Toledo. “It didn’t really feel to me like things got in sync in an inner feeling way until this record, with that internal communal energy. And it’s become that band feeling for me in a much more realized way. That’s been a big journey.” It is a journey that listeners will want to embark on again and again as they absorb and discover the rich depths and clanging resonances of .

swans – birthing

release: 30th may 2025

available on triple vinyl + dvd / 2cd + dvd

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