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We checked in with Globe critics over the summer to find out which albums had already impressed them this year. Here are 30 more from 2025 you won’t want to miss.

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The Western Mass experimental psych-folk rockers make their way through the dark through a new phase of being.

Now operating as a four-piece, Stephen Pierce talks us through the band’s latest release.

8 track album

Psychedelic plucking a go-go on mesmerising collection with special guests. You’ve got to be a respected musician if you can have Dinosaur Jr supremo J Mascis guest on your new album – and when he does so it’s on electric sitar. Yet that’s exactly what Western Massachusetts musician Stephen Pierce has managed to achieve with his third album – his first fronting a four piece band.

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A spiritual communion with some of the realest weird Western Massachusetts vibrations flowing through the air from the psychedelic folk rock band’s new album, ‘In the Shade of the Livin…

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