{"id":10907,"date":"2025-08-10T10:33:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10907"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:33:57","slug":"music-update-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/10\/music-update-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Music update, July 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>July may have been the weakest month of the year for new music \u2026 or it might be that I was busier than ever between the day job and Gen Con, so I didn\u2019t find as many new tracks or artists as I would in a typical month. Regardless of the reason, my playlist is shorter than usual, but August\u2019s is already about to surpass this one in number of tracks. As usual, if you can\u2019t see the widget below, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/0bZ8XqiOPNHZ2cwumbn7tx?si=44d4ad5fad344b62\">access the playlist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Klaw&amp;apos;s July 2025 music update\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/0bZ8XqiOPNHZ2cwumbn7tx?si=53cf5eb583dc4c4c&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cerrone &amp; Christine and the Queens \u2013 Catching Feelings. <\/strong>Cerrone was an Italo-French disco pioneer in the late 1970s; this new track is from a four-song EP with Rahim Redcar, who resurrected his Christine and the Queens moniker for this project after releasing two albums last year under other names. If you\u2019re looking for a \u201csong of the summer\u201d that\u2019s worthy of the title, this is it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jay Som feat. Jim Adkins \u2013 Float.<\/strong> Som\u2019s new album <em>Belong<\/em> comes out on October 10<sup>th<\/sup>; Adkins is the lead vocalist and guitarist for Jimmy Eat World, and you can definitely hear his influence on the rhythm lines in this pulsating indie rock track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SENSES \u2013 call me out. <\/strong>This Britpop revival band put out their latest album <em>all the heavens<\/em> last month, one of the few bright spots among July albums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Geese \u2013 Taxes.<\/strong> This inventive post-punk band from Brooklyn is set to release its fourth album, <em>Getting Killed<\/em>, in September, and I don\u2019t think any of the members is older than about 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rocket \u2013 Wide Awake.<\/strong> Named for the Smashing Pumpkins song, this LA-based band sounds a lot like their idols, but with better vocals that also serve as a softer contrast to the darker riffs on this track. Their debut album, <em>R is for Rocket<\/em>, comes out on October 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Black Honey \u2013 Shallow.<\/strong> This Brighton band\u2019s shiny take on indie-rock hooked me from the start almost ten years ago, and they\u2019re still churning out catchy tracks that highlight singer Izzy Phillips\u2019s sultry voice. Their fourth album, <em>Soak<\/em>, comes out on the 15<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Iron &amp; Wine feat. I\u2019m With Her \u2013 Robin\u2019s Egg.<\/strong> It bothers me a little that Iron &amp; Wine is one guy, not two, or a full band, but I\u2019ll have to get over it. He\u2019s put out two collaborations this summer, including this track with the trio I\u2019m With Her, a supergroup that includes former members of Nickel Creek and Crooked Still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wet Leg \u2013 mangetout.<\/strong> Once again, everyone seems to be falling all over themselves to praise Wet Leg\u2019s new album, <em>Moisturizer<\/em>, and I think it\u2019s more style than substance with a couple of decent tracks, including this one. I don\u2019t find their lyrics as humorous as the majority of critics do, so their appeal comes down to the quality of their hooks \u2013 and this is one of the best on the record, but not up to \u201cAngelica\u201d from their debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kassa Overall \u2013 Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat).<\/strong> Jazz drummer and occasional rapper Overall is releasing an album of jazz covers of hip-hop classics called <em>C.R.E.A.M. <\/em>on September 12<sup>th<\/sup>, featuring this Digable Planets cover and the titular one from the Wu-Tang Clan, along with Tribe\u2019s \u201cCheck the Rhime\u201d and Dr. Dre &amp; Snoop Dogg\u2019s \u201cNuthin\u2019 But a \u2018G\u2019 Thang.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sudan Archives \u2013 My Type. <\/strong>I loved Sudan Archives\u2019 2022 album <em>Natural Brown Prom Queen<\/em>, naming it my #2 album of that year. This is her second single this year, more of a straight rap song with an electronic backing track, without quite the same experimentalist bent of <em>NBPQ<\/em>. Both are from her upcoming third album <em>BPM<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jorja Smith \u2013 With You.<\/strong> I\u2019ll probably include every single Smith releases on my playlists, now and forever, but I do wish she leaned more into jazz and funk and less into this sort of EDM, which I just don\u2019t think does her voice justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Luke Haines &amp; Peter Buck \u2013 56 Nervous Breakdowns.<\/strong> Haines was the leader of the Auteurs, a Britpop band who somehow get blamed for the downfall of the entire genre, and Buck was in some \u201880s alternative band before becoming best known as one of the guitarists in The Baseball Project. The two have collaborated here on an album called <em>Going Down to the River to Blow My Mind<\/em>; this song sounds much more like Haines\u2019 prior work than Buck\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(The London) Suede \u2013 Dancing with the Europeans.<\/strong> I\u2019d rank this third among the three singles Suede have released so far this year ahead of their upcoming album <em>Antidepressants<\/em>, just because I think it has the weakest hook of the troika. It\u2019s still strong enough to make me more excited for the full-length record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Charlatans \u2013 We Are Love.<\/strong> One of my favorite bands of all time, The Charlatans came from the Madchester scene of the early 1990s and thrived right on through Britpop, even surviving the bizarre death of one of the founding members, but they ran out of steam around the turn of the millennium, and singer Tim Burgess\u2019s voice, never the strongest, grew increasingly thin. That last part hasn\u2019t improved any here, but this guitar riff is one of their best in 25 years. I saw them in concert in 2001, with Starsailor opening, and they were one of the most disappointing live bands I\u2019ve ever seen because Burgess really can\u2019t sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wytch Hazel \u2013 The Citadel.<\/strong> Doom metal in the earliest sense \u2013 this song wouldn\u2019t be out of place on a late \u201870s British hard-rock album. It\u2019s from <em>Lamentations<\/em>, the fifth album from this relatively new band (they started up in 2011), released in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blanco Teta \u2013 Perdida.<\/strong> This trio from Buenos Aires blends punk, noise, and experimental rock together in a frenetic blend that has some of the abrasiveness of extreme metal and the edge of early post-punk experimentalists like Art of Noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Forbidden \u2013 Divided by Zero. <\/strong>Thrash metal and math references \u2013 two great tastes that taste great together. Forbidden came up in the Bay Area along with some of their better-known contemporaries, never getting their due during their original run in the late 1980s, but I think they\u2019re underrated. This is their first new song in 15 years, and first with new vocalist Norman Skinner, as their original vocalist Russ Anderson retired entirely from music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Void \u2013 Apparition.<\/strong> This Lafayette, Louisiana, band is churning out old-school thrash in the Bay Area style, with crunchy guitars, abrupt tempo shifts, and vocals that you can still understand, mostly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sodom \u2013 Battle of Harvest Moon. <\/strong>Sodom are one of the pioneers of German thrash metal, and one fo the most prolific; this track comes from their 17<sup>th<\/sup> album, <em>The Arsonist<\/em>, released in June. As with their compatriots Kreator, their sound has always included elements that would later become hallmarks of death metal, without the worst of the vocals or the blast beats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July may have been the weakest month of the year for new music \u2026 or it might be that I was busier than ever between the day job and Gen Con, so I didn\u2019t find as many new tracks or artists as I would in a typical month. 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