7 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Ari Lennox, Lucinda Williams, and More

As the all-ages fans flooding the aisles of David Byrne‘s 2025 Radio City Music Hall show made clear, Talking Heads have one of the most enduring catalogs in modern American rock music. Naive Melodies, a new compilation on BBE curated by Drew McFadden, aims to make the group’s often-undersung Afro-diasporic influences as indelible as the “Psycho Killer” chorus. In step with McFadden’s 2021 David Bowie tribute Modern Love, Naive Melodies gathers a collection of innovative Black artists to reframe Talking Heads’ catalog in the lineage of the soul, gospel, Latin, and spiritual jazz they drew from. The 18-track album reimagines favorites like “Once in a Lifetime,” “Road To Nowhere,” and “Burning Down the House” through the eyes of Liv.e, Aja Monet, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Theo Croker, and more.

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Gesaffelstein: Enter The Gamma [Columbia]

French producer Gesaffelstein is a connoisseur of big-room electro, and as the genre has crept back into fashion, his fingerprints have appeared on major pop records from Charli XCX (BRAT) and Lady Gaga (MAYHEM). His first live album, Enter The Gamma, aims to bottle that crowd-roaring energy for this broader audience. The new album compiles 14 recordings from his 2024 world tour of the same name, swerving away from the rock and synth-pop of 2024’s GAMMA back to driving four-on-the-floor.

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Megadeth: Megadeth [Tradecraft]