A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, May 12–18, 2025.

Vidna Obmana – Twilight of Perception Redux, Volume One: 1990-1998 (Zoharum; 2024)

Ash Fure – ANIMAL (Smalltown Supersound; 2025)

Joshua Fried – phse 4 (phse; 2025)

Vidna Obmana – Twilight of Perception Redux, Volume Two: 1995-2002 (Zoharum; 2025)

Marcus Gilmore – Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams; 2025)

Fred Hersch – The Surrounding Green (ECM; due June 27, 2025)

Matthew Shipp – The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music; due June 20, 2025)

Adam O’Farrill – For These Streets (Out of Your Head; 2025)

Anthony Braxton – 12 Comp (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12; 2021)

Claude Debussy – Images; Jeux; Nocturnes; La Mer; Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune; Marche ecossaise sur un theme populare; Printemps; Two movements from L’Enfant prodigue; Berceuse heroique – Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Stéphane Denève (Chandos; 2012)

Claude Debussy – String Quartet in G minor; Benjamin Attahir – Al’ Asr; Maurice Ravel – String Quartet in F – Quatuor Arod (Erato; 2023)

Remembrance Quintet – Do You Remember? (Sonboy; 2023)

Shelley Burgon – The In Between (Thin Wrist; due July 25, 2025)

claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo – quilted lament (Mappa; due May 27, 2025)

Fuubutsushi – Columbia Deluxe (American Dreams; due July 11, 2025)

Patrick Shiroishi & Dylan Fujioka – Left up on the Tree (self-released; 2025)

Corima – Amaterasu (Soleil Zeuhl; 2016)

John Butcher & Sophie Agnel – RARE (Les Disques Victo; 2025)

Derek Bailey & John Butcher – Playing (Incus; 1993)

Sergei Rachmaninoff – The Bells; Symphonic Dances – Kristina Mkhitaryan, Dmytro Popov, Kostas Smoriginas, London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Gardner (LPO; due May 23, 2025)

John Adams – My Father Knew Charles Ives; Harmonielehre – Nashville Symphony/Giancarlo Guerrero (Naxos; 2021)

John Adams  – Naïve and Sentimental Music – Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Nonesuch; 2002)

John Adams – The Dharma at Big Sur; My Father Knew Charles Ives – Tracy Silverman, BBC Symphony Orchestra/John Adams (Nonesuch; 2006)

Anthony Braxton – 2 comp (2023) (Schott Musik; 2025)

Dave Harrington/Max Jaffe/Patrick Shiroishi – Zebulon! (Maximum Overdub; 2024)

Thor & Friends – Heathen Spirituals (Joyful Noise; 2025)

Blood Monolith – The Calling of Fire (Profound Lore; 2025)

John Coltrane – Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse!/Resonance; 2014, recorded 1966)

Bob Dylan – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA, May 15, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

New Art Jazz Quartet + Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith Yo Miles! Ensemble – San Francisco Jazz Festival, The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA (Archive.org; 1999)

Black Flag – Live ’84 (SST; 1984)

Suffocation – Live in North America (Nuclear Blast; 2021)

Morbid Angel – Entangled in Chaos (Earache; 1996)

Mazuku – Erosive Peristaltic Atrocity (New Standard Elite; 2025)

Mortuary Punishment – Pride.Power.Punishment (Transylvanian Recordings; 2021, recorded 2018)

Mortuary Punishment – Brotherhood & Genocide (Transylvanian Recordings; 2021)

Evulse – Call of the Void (Transylvanian Recordings; 2018)

Evulse – Pustulant Spawn (Transylvanian Recordings; 2020)

Malignant – Reign of Decrepitude (Transylvanian Recordings; 2022)

Tentacult – Untamed Revulsion (Transylvanian Recordings; 2025)

Tentacult – Lacerating Patterns (Transylvanian Recordings; 2023)

Vakker – What Will Become of Our Pain (Transylvanian Recordings; 2025)

Outer Graves – Outer Graves (Transylvanian Recordings; 2024)

Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley – Flashing Spirits (Burning Ambulance Music; due July 11, 2025, recorded 1988)