Don’t Miss New Albums From Jeff Tweedy, Amanda Shires, Neko Case, Cate Le Bon & Others

Jeff Tweedy released a triple album entitled Twilight Override via dBpm Records. Tweedy recorded and self-produced the follow-up to 2020’s Love Is The King with engineering and mixing from Tom Schick at The Loft in Chicago. The 30-song collection features contributions from Tweedy’s children Spencer Tweedy and Sammy Tweedy along with Chicago-based collaborators James Elkington, Sima Cunningham, Macie Stewart and Liam Kazar. Twilight Override unfolds across three distinct chapters that work individually yet weave together to explore past, present and future. The four singles released today span the collection, delivering a sample of the project’s music and thematic range.

Tweedy issued a note about Twilight Override, stating:

“When you choose to do creative things, you align yourself with something that other people call God. And when you align yourself with creation, you inherently take a side against destruction. You’re on the side of creation. And that does a lot to quell the impulse to destroy. Creativity eats darkness.

“Sort of an endless buffet these days—a bottomless basket of rock bottom. Which is, I guess, why I’ve been making so much stuff lately. That sense of decline is hard to ignore, and it must be at least a part of the shroud I’m trying to unwrap. The twilight of an empire seems like a good enough jumping-off point when one is jumping into the abyss.

“Twilight sure is a pretty word, though. And the world is full of happy people in former empires, so maybe that’s not the only source of this dissonance. Whatever it is out there (or in there) squeezing this ennui into my day, it’s fucking overwhelming. It’s difficult to ignore. Twilight Override is my effort to overwhelm it right back. Here are the songs and sounds and voices and guitars and words that are an effort to let go of some of the heaviness and up the wattage on my own light. My effort to engulf this encroaching nighttime (nightmare) of the soul.”

Amanda Shires returns with album, Nobody’s Girl, arriving today through ATO Records. Nobody’s Girl follows the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s 2022 LP, Take It Like a Man, produced by Lawrence Rothman. Amanda teamed back up with Rothman for Nobody’s Girl, capturing the album at Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville with drummers Fred Eltringham and Julian Dorio, bassist Dominic Davis, keyboardist Peter Levin and guitarist Zach Setchfield. Rothman also contributed guitar. Additional sessions at Rothman Recorders in Los Angeles saw Jay Bellerose (drums), Pino Palladino (bass), Jimbo Hart (bass) and Joe Kennedy (piano, guitar) contributing to the record. The album is Shires’ first following her divorce from Jason Isbell.

“Nobody’s Girl is what came after the wreckage, the silence, the rebuilding,” Shires stated. “It’s about standing in the aftermath of a life you thought would last forever and realizing no one is coming to save you.”

Neko Case is back with her first album in seven years, Neon Grey Midnight Green, via ANTI- Records. The acclaimed singer-songwriter primarily recorded the self-produced album at her Carnassial Sound facility in Vermont. Additional recording went down in Denver with the PlainsSong Chamber Orchestra and in Portland, Oregon with Tucker Martine. The 12-track LP is Case’s first since 2018’s Hell-On.

“There are so few producers who are women, nonbinary, or trans,” saidCase, who identifies as gender fluid and uses she/her pronouns. “People don’t think of us as an option. I’m proud to say I produced this record. It is my vision. It is my veto power. It is my taste.”

Cate Le Bon issued her seventh album, Michelangelo Dying, through Mexican Summer. Michelangelo Dying came together in various recording spaces around the world. The Welsh musician worked in Cardiff, as well as the Grecian island Hydra, London and Los Angeles. The album was finalized in the California desert. The follow-up to 2019’s Reward and 2022’s Pompeii was co-produced by Le Bon and Samur Khouja.

Le Bon is joined on Michelangelo by pianist Paul Jones, drummer Dylan Hadley and drummer/percussionist Valentina Magaletti. The Velvet Underground’s John Cale appears on the track “Ride.” Le Bon’s longtime collaborator, saxophonist Euan Hinshelwood, prominently contributed throughout as well.

“Over the years of working together, Euan has uncoupled his playing from the traditional to house the emotional frequency I have asked of him,” Le Bon shared. “On this record especially, it’s the voice that takes over when words are too concrete for the feeling.”

Robert Plant issued Saving Grace, a new album six years in the making. The debut effort from the legendary vocalist’s Robert Plant and Saving Grace project sees Plant joined by vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley and cellist Barney Morse-Brown. The former Led Zeppelin frontman assembled the diverse group of musicians in 2019 and they’ve spent the past six years creating the 10-track collection and performing a series of concerts together in the United Kingdom and Europe.

Recorded between April 2019 and January 2025 in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, the self-produced Saving Grace sees the band offering new interpretations of songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind and Low. Saving Grace marks Plant’s first album since his 2021 collaboration with Alison Krauss, Raise The Roof.

“We laugh a lot, really. I think that suits me. I like laughing,” Plant said of his Saving Grace bandmates. “You know, I can’t find any reason to be too serious about anything. I’m not jaded. The sweetness of the whole thing … These are sweet people and they are playing out all the stuff that they could never get out before. They have become unique stylists and together they seem to have landed in a most interesting place.”

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram shared a new album, Hard Road, through his Red Zero Records. Hard Road is the acclaimed blues guitarist’s first LP since releasing his Grammy-winning album 662 in 2021. Ingram executive produced Hard Road alongside Ric Whitney for Red Zero Records with additional production from Patrick “Guitar Boy” Hayes, Nick Goldston and Tom Hambridge.

“This record comes from real-life reflection,” Ingram shared. “I’ve been balancing fame, heartbreak, love, and relationships while trying to stay grounded, touring, creating, and maturing. These songs are about owning my story. They’re about learning to see myself clearly and seeing others with more compassion. That’s changed the way I write, the way I play, and the way I live.”

Bitchin Bajas put out a new album, Inland See, via Drag City. Inland See follows Bitchin Bajas’ 2022 record, Bajascillators. Armed with material written by the psychedelic drone trio of Cooper Crain, Rob Frye and Daniel Quinlivan recorded the album at Chicago’s Electrical Audio, the recording facility founded by the late Steve Albini.

Revolução is trombonist Natalie Cressman and guitarist Ian Faquini’s new album, out today via GroundUp. The 12-track effort was produced by the couple along with Cressman’s accomplished musician father, Jeff Cressman. The album’s cover art is an image created by Faquini’s grandfather, Rui Faquini. One the album’s two instrumentals is “Blues For James,” a tribute Cressman’s former fellow Trey Anastasio Band horn section member James Casey, who played saxophone with TAB alongside Cressman and trumpeter Jennifer Hartswick from 2012 through his untimely death in August 2023 at age 40.

“Ian wrote this song in honor of our dear departed friend James Casey, who was a great musical talent and one of our closest friends,” Cressman explained. “Ian wrote this song imagining James’ saxophone playing the theme along with him, and it attempts to capture the energy and vitality that he brought to every musical setting. We were really intentional about recording this album as if it were a live performance, as we tried being much more organic than, say, a super produced recording.”

The Marcus King Band reunited for their first album in seven years, Darling Blue, out now through American Records/Republic Records.

After focusing on solo albums over the past five years, guitarist Marcus King got his old mate back together for their first album together since 2018’s Carolina Confessions. King was deeply inspired by his home state of South Carolina when writing 14 songs that are featured on the forthcoming album. Guest appearances from Billy Strings, Jamey Johnson, Noah Cyrus and Kaitlin Butts appear on select tracks.

“It truly felt like home,” King said of getting back his band back together. “Like my band and I were just working out songs to perform live but ended up creating a piece of recorded music for our fans to hear. Our goal is always to be a vessel and allow the music to flow through us and tap into something that’s already there in the room. But more than anything I’ve done before, this album felt like a real concerted effort to make music for myself, and for ourselves as a band — creating for the love of creating and being as honest as we possibly can. We put everything we had into making something that we love and we have faith that the audience will feel that and love it too.”

Rainbow Kitten Surprise issued bones, the follow-up to their 2024 album, Love Hate Music Box. The North Carolina-native band reconnected with producer Jay Joyce, who they worked with on their 2018 album, How To: Friend, Love, Freefall.

“With bones we were trying to reconnect with our fans and our roots as a rock ‘n’ roll band in a new way,” frontwoman Ela Melo stated. “This record is representative of the 13 years that we’ve spent touring and making music together, and it’s one of our most cohesive to date. Here’s bones.”

Olivia Dean shared her new album, The Art Of Loving. The 12-track effort is the British singer-songwriter’s much-anticipated follow-up to her well-received 2023 debut, Messy,

“I had the title quite quickly,” Dean told Apple Music about naming her sophomore LP The Art Of Loving. “I’ve also been fascinated by love. It’s the one thing that everybody is looking for in their life in some capacity, whether it be friendship, family, romantic, but it’s something that we’re not taught. There’s not a love module in school. It’s this magic thing we’re supposed to know how to do. So I wanted to take a closer look at it and what it means to me and the art of it, the craft of loving someone properly.”

Central Virginia-based Ramona and The Holy Smokes make their debut with their self-titled first album. The group fronted by Ramona Martinez includes guitarist Kyle Kilduff, pedal steel guitarist Brooks Hefner, bassist Jay Ouypron and drummer Porter Bralley. The album was co-produced by Kilduff and Kai Crowe-Getty. The record sees additional contributions from pianist Jeffrey Miller, fiddler Colby Pegg-Joplin, accordion player Matty Metcalfe, vocalist Blake Baines and assorted strings by Antonio Romero.