Consumer Guide: October, 2025

Nearly half an hour of covers that qualify as beautiful, a remarkably warm and rich love album, a perky bad-ass faces down this grim moment, and amorous vulnerability intensified by a croak.

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Bright Eyes: Kids Table (Dead Oceans)

Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend (Island)

CMAT: Euro-Country (AWAL)

Bobby Conn: Bobby's Place (Tapete)

Margaret Glaspy: The Golden Heart Protector (AT0)

Hamell on Trial: Harp (For Harry) (Saustex)

Joseph Kamaru: Heavy Combination 1996-2007 (Disciples)

Jens Lekman: Songs for Other People's Weddings (Secretly Canadian)

Rhett Miller: A Lifetime of Riding by Night (ATO)

Margo Price: Hard Headed Woman (Loma Vista)

Bill Scorzari: Sidereal Days (Day 1) (self-released)

Water From Your Eyes: It's a Beautiful Place (Matador)

Billy Woods: Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz)

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