In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on July 4, 2025:

Kesha, . (PERIOD)

Kesha has released a new album, . (PERIOD), via her own independent label, Kesha Records. Bombastic and frequently funny, the Gag Order follow-up features the promotional singles ‘THE ONE’, ATTENTION!’, ‘BOY CRAZY.’, ‘YIPPEE-KI-YAY.’, ‘JOYRIDE’, and ‘DELUSIONAL’. “The muse for my other albums has been a lot of external factors or things I’ve been going through, things that were unavoidable to create art about,” Kesha told Paper. “And to be honest with you, this is my first album where I’m truly free in every way. And not only in all the legal ways, but also I’m really working on healing and feeling free from any residual emotional turmoil that’s left in my body.”

Kae Tempest, Self Titled

Kae Tempest’s Self Titled has arrived via Island Records. The musician and poet co-produced the record with Fraser T Smith, who encouraged him to write in the first person, resulting in some of Tempest’s most intimate and illuminating work to date. Neil Tennant, Young Fathers, Connie Constance, and Tawiah guest on the LP. “I was trying to make this other album and I played a couple of demos to Fraser and he said, ‘I don’t think this is what’s meant to be coming out of you right now,” Tempest told NME. “Let’s start again and see what happens’. So we got together and it felt like being caught in a strong current. It’s like something wanted to happen, this album wanted us to make it. That’s the only way I can put it.”

Dropkick Murphys, For the People

Celtic punk legends Dropkick Murphys have dropped a new album, their 13th, called For the People. Billy Bragg, the Scratch, the Mary Wallopers, and original Murphys singer Al Barr appear on the fiery LP, which ends with a tribute to Shane MacGowan who died in 2023. “We’ve always had the same message and haven’t been afraid to speak out about what’s important to us,” singer Ken Casey reflected in press materials. “But for me now, I think about my kids’ future, and the next generation. That could be anything from speaking out against injustices, or just simply making sure you take the time to tell the people close to you how important they are to you.”

Motherfuckers JMB & Co, Music Excitement Action Beauty

Brian Weitz, the Animal Collective member also known as Geologist, plays hurdy gurdy in Motherfuckers JMB & Co. Accompanying him are Jim Thomson, who helped found the cartoonish art-metal band GWAR, on drums, and Marc Minsker on bass, guitar, harmonium. Connecting via the DC/Maryland/Virginia experimental scenes, they named themselves after the German psych band Xhol Caravan’s 1972 album Motherfuckers GmbH & Co, and their new album, Music Excitement Action Beauty, rides out on textured, vibey, exploratory grooves. “Every group I’ve played with was usually organically formed and informed by the community and friendships in some ways,” Thomson remarked. “I was very attracted to playing with Marc and Brian because of the promise of repetition, drone, and psychedelia, and it delivered in spades.”

Rival Consoles, Landscape From Memory

Rival Consoles, the moniker of UK producer Ryan Lee West, has released his ninth album, Landscape From Memory. “There is a kind of strange beauty to it because it involves the past, present and future in a very strong way,” West said of the record, which follows 2023’s Now Is. It’s warm and diaristic, like the lead single lead single ‘Catherine’, which is dedicated to his partner. “It’s extremely open, just a naked melody on drums, so exposed as an idea…” West commented. “I think because she was so excited by it, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m excited too, actually, I just didn’t realise.”

Other albums out today: 

Merpire, Milk Pool; The Brains, Crazy Monster; The Brains, Crazy Monster; Dmitry Evgrafov, Research Center; Marc Neys, Sanctuary; Xu, Murmurs of the Machine.