5 New Albums To Check Out On October 31st, 2025

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bob Dylan continues his Bootleg series this Friday. Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 is a collection of rare early recordings and teenage outtakes from 1956 through 1963. It includes a previously unreleased full recording of his October 26, 1963, performance at Carnegie Hall. The boxed set tells the story of Dylan‘s maturation as a songwriter, from his Minnesota years to his time in Greenwich Village. There are also recordings from club dates, jam sessions, small informal gatherings, and hangouts in friends’ apartments.

The release is available as an 8-CD deluxe set, complete with 139 tracks and a hardcover book filled with liner notes and rare photos. It can also be purchased as a 2-CD highlight version, a 4-LP highlight version, or a digital download.

Florence + The Machine — Everybody Scream (Polydor)

Florence + The Machine return Friday with their sixth studio album. Everybody Scream comes after singer Florence Welch underwent life-saving surgery while the band was touring in support of their previous album, Dance Fever. The resulting new album explores themes like mortality, aging, mysticism, judgment, and womanhood. The title track was released in late August and feels like a dark, witchy, empowering coven anthem, which comes through loud and clear in the song’s eerie video.

The Charlatans UK — We Are Love (BMG)

After their first 13 studio albums all charted in the UK Top 40, three of them landing at the top, The Charlatans return with a new album. The English alt-rockers’ first album in eight years pays homage to their 37-year legacy while showing that they still have something new and meaningful to say. The album has all their trademark psychedelic grooves that long-time fans are used to, while offering something new for those who may be discovering them for the first time. The first two singles, the title track and “Deeper and Deeper,” have already been released.

Greensky Bluegrass — XXV (Big Blue Zoo Records)

Greensky Bluegrass will release their new album XXV this Friday, on the 25th anniversary of the band’s founding. The band is celebrating with a two-night concert event in their hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan, that includes a listening party and signing event. The bluegrass and Americana veterans brought in many of the musicians they have collaborated with through the years to feature on the album, including Sam Bush, Billy Strings, Lindsay Lou, Nathaniel Rateliff, Aoife O’Donovan, Holly Bowling, and more.

Witch Fever — Fevereaten (Music For Nations/Sony)

Witch Fever returns with their sophomore effort this Friday, entitled Fevereaten. The new album is a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows that touches on mental health issues, religious trauma, aging, and relationships. It alternates between horror and joy, all the while asking one to find excitement in these difficult times. The English rockers mix shoegaze, doom punk, metal, hardcore, and alternative in their cauldron and come up with an album that is sure to please fans of their debut album, Congregation.

The Best of the Rest

If none of the above releases fit your musical tastes, here are some of the other new albums and re-releases due out on October 31:

• Anna von Hausswolff —Iconoclasts (YEAR0001)
• The Belair Lip Bombs — Again (Third Man Records)
• Better Joy — At Dusk EP (Better Joy)
• Big L — Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King (Mass Appeal)
• Big Moochie Grape — Nightmare On AB (Paper Route Empire)
• Blood on the Dance Floor — Epidemic (Dark Fantasy Records)
• Caged Animals — Make Strange Friends (You’ve Changed Records)
• Cat Burns — How To Be Human (Since 93/RCA)
• Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo — In the Earth Again (Computer Students/Modulor)
• Claire Rousay — A Little Death (Thrill Jockey)
• Danheim — Heimferd (Season of Mist)
• Daniel Avery — Tremor (Domino)
• Despised Icon — Shadow Work (Nuclear Blast)
• Eleni Drake — Chuck (MNRK Records)
• Eliza McLamb — Good Story (Royal Mountain)
• Guided By Voices — Thick Rich And Delicious (GBV Inc)
• Holy Sons — Puritan Themes (Thrill Jockey)
• Howling Giant — Crucible & Ruin (Magnetic Eye Records)
• KeiyaA — Hooke’s Law (XL Recordings)
• Luvcat — Vicious Delicious (AWAL Recordings)
• Lydia Luce — Mammoth (Tone Tree Music/Lydia Luce)
• Makaya McCraven — Techno Logic EP (International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL)
• Maps — Welcome To The Tudor Gate (Mute)
• Mohinder Kaur Bhamra — Punjabi Disco (Naya Beat)
• Primitive Man — Observance (Relapse)
• Roger Eno — Without Wind/Without Air (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Shad — Start Anew (Secret City)
• Ship Sket — InitiatriX (Planet Mu)
• Shlohmo — Repulsor (R&R)
• Trivium — Struck Dead EP (Roadrunner)
• Zach Hill and Lucas Abela — Bag of Max Bag of Cass (Warp)