Consumer Guide: July, 2025

Quiet music that's anything but insubstantial, Chuck D in conversational-philosophical mode, Chuck & Flav in politically conscious mode, and idiosyncratic protest songs about poverty and sexuality.

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Backxwash: Only Dust Remains (Grimalkin)

Willi Carlisle: Winged Victory (Signature Sounds)

Hayes Carll: We're Only Human (Thirty Tigers)

Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon (Def Jam)

Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias: Chip Off the Old Block (Strong Place)

Peter Holsapple: The Face of 68 (Label 51)

Kadef: Kadef (RR Gems)

Adrianne Lenker: Live at Revolution Hall (4AD)

Loveseat: Our Way (Reckless Pedestrian)

PinkPantheress: Fancy That (Parlophone)

Grace Potter: Medicine (Hollywood)

Public Enemy: Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 (Enemy)

Dlala Thukzin: 031 Studio Camp 2.0 (Dlala)

Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts: Talkin to the Trees (Reprise)

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