L&Q Weekly

The greatest album cover of 2025, hyperpop trio Harry the Nightgown, Is WU LYF's return the most perfectly timed in indie history?

Mar 28, 2025

Albums for your diary announced this week:

CMAT – Euro-Country (29 Aug, AWAL): Behold the greatest album cover of 2025, for the Irish alt. country musician’s third album in almost as many years.

Cosey Fanni Tutti – 2t2 (13 June, Conspiracy International): Behold the most enjoyable album title to say aloud of 2025, from the Throbbing Gristle legend.

Most Things – Bigtime (23 May, So Young): No ‘behold’, but the debut album from the London drums and bass duo is going to be one to pass around between friends. Especially friends who are fans of minimal, clunky post-punk with a sweet heart.

Track of the Week

‘Bell Boy’ will be the opening track on a new album by LA electronic avant-pop trio Harry the Nightgown, called Ugh (coming on local label Leaving Records). Somewhere between a Flying Lotus-ish lounge jazz scuttle and lo-fi hyperpop with a softer edge, it’s hard to pin down exactly what this maximalist reintroduction to the group is. And just as you think you’re figuring it out, it’s over. But it certainly serves as an intriguing taster menu.

Essays & Opinion

Luke Cartledge asks if the return of his beloved cult band WU LYF is the most perfectly timed in indie history, or are they better off staying where they belong, in 2012 as a band who left us wanting more? Read now

Investigation

How much is the Gene Simmons' personal assistant VIP experience really worth? I've run the numbers, and $12,495.00 seems a little high. Read now

Gardening

This week has marked the 10-year anniversary of piano man Tobias Jesso Jr’s debut (and only) album, Goon, and with it has come news that he might in fact follow it up after all. In 2015, I flew to LA to meet Jesso Jr for a cover feature in which he told me he was done being a front-facing artist, and that all he really wanted to do was write songs for other people. And that’s exactly what he’s done, writing hits with and for Adele, Sia, Harry Styles and others since, winning a bunch of Grammys along the way. But in an interview with Vulture this week he’s suggested he’s written Goon 2. With his ex-wife’s gardener. Who he has a puppet of. Which he had made. This is a guy who does have a surreal sense of humour, and who likes to take the piss, but there’s something in the natural way the conversation developed and ended up at this point that makes me think he might be for real. Read the interview in full