New Music Friday: The best albums out Dec. 5
5 December 2025 - 38 minsDove Ellis. Melody's Echo Chamber. Editors' Tom Smith. Erin Wolf of Radio Milwaukee joins Stephen Thompson to discuss those albums and more on our last episode of New Music Friday this year.
The Starting 5:
Dove Ellis, Blizzard
Melody's Echo Chamber, Unclouded
Tom Smith, There Is Nothing In The Dark That Isn’t There In The Light
TEED, Always With Me
Voices from the Lake, II
The Lightning Round:
HTRK, String of Hearts (Songs of HTRK)
Ben Marc, Who Cares Wins
Isobel Waller-Bridge, Objects
Mother Soki, Fantasy EP
Prins Thomas, Thomas Moen Hermansen
See our long list of albums out December 5 and sample dozens of them via our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org.
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