Fresh Press Friday: Alabama Shakes Return, Interpol Turn Inward, Sera Cahoone's Year-Defining Single

Plus Prince's career-spanning vault collection, Geese's psychedelic Americana, and Joan Jett at 45. Out Friday on vinyl.

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Friday's stacked. Alabama Shakes finally return. Interpol turn inward on their most reflective album yet. Seattle's own Sera Cahoone drops one of our favorite songs of the year. Get your orders in.

Just Dropped

Alabama Shakes — I Must Be Dreaming [LP Sky Blue Vinyl]
Eleven years since Sound & Color, Brittany Howard, Heath Fogg, and Zac Cockrell return as a trio with the band's first album since drummer Steve Johnson's 2021 departure. Recorded in Nashville at Sound Emporium and Blackbird Studio with longtime collaborator Shawn Everett, I Must Be Dreaming leans further into viscerally charged psychedelic soul, its eleven songs sustaining the band's signature intensity while wandering into lusher, more otherworldly terrain. Howard has described the title as carrying a double meaning: 'It could be saying, \u2018I must be dreaming, because the world is so fucking crazy right now.\u2019 But it could also mean, \u2018I must be dreaming, because the world is so incredibly beautiful.\u2019 Both those things can be true at once.' A genuine comeback, on limited sky blue vinyl with a printed inner sleeve.

Interpol — This Mirror Weighs A Ton [2LP]
Interpol's first album in four years and their first for Partisan Records finds the band turning inward while still pushing forward. Produced by Andrew Wyatt (Rosalía, Charli XCX) and recorded in New York for the first time in over a decade, the album folds strings and layered harmonies into their signature post-punk chill, refracting familiar shapes through a different kind of light. Reflection, distortion, and perception — post-punk's most consistent band at their most introspective.

Sera Cahoone — I've Missed You All These Years [LP Gold Vinyl]
Seattle's own returns with her most triumphant record yet — eight years of profound loss transformed into ecstatic collaboration. Moving through blues, folk, pop, and country, Cahoone holds loss and connection in the same hand, evoking Loretta Lynn and Lucinda Williams in equal measure. Lead single 'Say Something' is one of our favorite songs of the entire year. Pressed on metallic gold vinyl.

Also New This Week

• Prince — Timeless [LP] — released on the 10th anniversary of his passing, this is the first Prince vault collection ever curated to span his entire career, ten previously unreleased recordings made between 1977 and 2016. Mastered by longtime Prince engineer Chris James, it traces his evolution from teenage Minneapolis prodigy to one of his final recorded performances, including 'Stone,' a 1995 track, and 'With This Tear,' a 1991 solo performance originally written for Celine Dion before Prince kept it for himself. Forty years of vault treasures, finally unlocked.
• Geese — 3D Country [Red Vinyl LP] — Cameron Winter's cowboy acid-trip rock 'n' roll, psychedelic Americana on translucent red.
• Pulp — Live! [2LP Blue Vinyl] — Jarvis Cocker's finest night, 'Common People' and Britpop euphoria captured live at The O2.
• Thornhill — Bodies Definitive [White & Blue Galaxy Vinyl] — Australian metalcore's atmospheric peak, now with bonus track 'Mercia.'
• Gojira — From Mars To Sirius (20th Anniversary) [2LP Zoetrope Picture Disc] — the metal masterpiece animated, 'Flying Whales' spinning on zoetrope at 20.
• Violent Vira — Lover Of A Ghost [Deluxe Picture Disc + Ghostly Vinyl] — eight bonus tracks and Spanish versions, the ultimate deluxe collector's haunting.
• Czarface — Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer [Ruby Red Vinyl] — comic-book hip-hop chaos, Busta, Method Man, and El-P enter the Czarverse.
• Marco Beltrami — Scream (Score) [Bloodbath Red Vinyl] — horror's most iconic score, 30 years of Woodsboro terror on blood-red vinyl.
• One Piece: Into Grand (Soundtrack) [2LP] — Straw Hat adventure scored, epic orchestral swells for the Grand Line.
• Dahi — Black Boy [White Vinyl] — Kendrick's secret weapon steps out with genre-defying experimental hip-hop.
• Joan Jett & The Blackhearts — I Love Rock 'n Roll (45th Anniversary) [Blue Vinyl] — the anthem that ruled the charts, raw attitude and 10 million copies, still timeless.
• Post Malone — August 26 (10th Anniversary) [Spring Leaf Green Vinyl] — where the empire began, Posty's debut mixtape official at last.

Alabama Shakes end an 11-year wait, Interpol turn the mirror inward, and Prince's vault finally opens wide. All out Friday — get your orders in before they're gone.

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