Consumer Guide: September, 2025

Soul jingles meet ad jingles, "Dumb Luck" rhymes with "IDGAF," three L.A. sisters savor sex and tunes, and the Mahotella Queens shine on their own.

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Amaarae: Blackstar (Golden Angel/Interscope)

Body Type: Expired Candy (Poison City, '23)

Chance the Rapper: Starline (self-released)

Marshall Crenshaw: From the Hellhole (Yep Roc)

Charley Crockett: Dollar a Day (Island)

From the Dirt: Colored Edge of Memory (Partial Lyrics)

S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs (Slough Gates/Thirty Tigers)

Haim: I Quit (Columbia)

Mahotella Queens: Buya Buya Come Back (Umsakazo)

The Oxys: Casting Pearls Before Swine (Cleopatra)

Panic Shack: Panic Shack (Brace Yourself)

Peter Stampfel, Friends & Daughters: Song Shards (Jalopy)

William Elliott Whitmore: Kilonova (Bloodshot '16)

Jubal Lee Young: Squirrels (Reconstruction)

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