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Presenting our 2025 Release Round Up! We are so proud of our artists and their releases this year. We’ve had the privilege of working with these folks from the very beginnings of these projects, and watching them work with such purpose and thoughtfulness has been incredibly inspiring.

Offering a little challenge this new year: pick out a a record from this graphic, or another release from this year that you’ve been meaning to listen to, and take a listen. Uninterrupted and maybe even reading through the lyrics! Better yet, purchase a record or CD from us or your local record store and pour over the packaging while listening. Truly engaging with a record is one of the most rewarding experiences as a music fan, one that we don’t indulge in nearly enough.

Happy new year to you all ❤️ excited to share lots of new music with you in 2026!

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Saddle Creek Release Round Up 2025:

Big Harp - “Boys Don’t Cry”
Release date: December 17, 2025

“The original is perfect as it is, but it’s such a solid song that it can work in a lot of contexts. And like any really well put-together piece, it doesn’t need a lot of decoration. We’ve been playing exclusively as a true two-piece these days, without overdubs or additional musicians, because there’s so much space for lyrics and melodies to breathe that way.” - Stefanie Drootin-Senseney (Big Harp)

Listen: bigharp.scfm.me/boysdontcry

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Saddle Creek Release Round Up 2025:

The Rural Alberta Advantage - “Falling Apart”
Release date: October 15, 2025

“It’s raw and immediate, built from the same fire they bring onstage.” - The Fire Note

Listen: scfm.me/raa_fallingapart

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Saddle Creek Release Round Up 2025:

Neva Dinova - “Alone”
Release date: October 29, 2025

"Songs can come from a lot of places, but this one came from nowhere, emptiness. In a change of pace we had the privilege to record three songs with local legend and dear friend Vic Padios at his elegant home studio. This is one of those recordings. We love how they turned out." - Jake Bellows (Neva Dina)

Listen: neva.scfm.me/alone

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Saddle Creek Release Round Up 2025:

Whitmer Thomas - Tilt
Release date: September 5th, 2025

“Thomas’ musical talent shines just as brightly as his winning comedy.” -Paste

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Saddle Creek Release Round Up 2025:

Algernon Cadwallader - Trying Not to Have a Thought
Release date: September 12th, 2025

“Trying Not to Have a Thought doesn’t pick up where Algernon left off on 2011’s underappreciated Parrot Flies. It imagines an alternate history where all of the members channeled their artistic evolution from their many, many projects right back into Algernon Cadwallader, as if that had been the plan all along.” - Pitchfork

Listen: algernoncadwallader.scfm.me/tryingnottohaveathough…

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Saddle Creek Release Round Up 2025:

Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends
Release date: August 22nd, 2025

“On his Saddle Creek Records debut, it feels as though Seattle’s Dean Johnson is opening a long-lost time capsule. With his compelling yodel, melodic guitars, timeless song structures, and earnest lyricism, I Hope We Can Still Be Friends positions Johnson as a gentle giant in the contemporary alt-country landscape.” - KEXP

Listen: deanjohnson.scfm.me/friends

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Dean Johnson - Blue Moon b/w Lake Charles
Release date: April 11th, 2025

"A wrinkle of ornery pedal steel weeps beneath Johnson’s chugging acoustic guitar. “Blue Moon” is a doo-wop track colored by the chords of a gentle cowboy’s aching six-string and memories of an anxious joy and young, wayfaring love." - Paste

Listen: deanjohnson.scfm.me/bluemoon

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Saddle Creek Release Round Up 2025:

Ada Lea - when I paint my masterpiece
Release date: August 8th, 2025

“Her new album is clearly the work of a lively mind that's always forward-thinking, but also richly aware of the folk music legacy that precedes her.” — Stephen Thompson, NPR Music

Listen: adalea.scfm.me/masterpiece

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Saddle Creek Release Round Up 2025:

Rilo Kiley - That’s How We Choose to Remember It
Release date: May 9th, 2025

“Serving as a refresher course alongside the band’s reunion, this quasi-greatest-hits collection cements Jenny Lewis’ status as an indispensable figure in the lineage of indie-rock songwriters.” - Flood Magazine

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Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things (Frozen Lake Edition)
Reissue release date: April 25th, 2025
Original release date: October 1st, 2002
“Indie Legends” - Rolling Stone

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Saddle Creek Release Round Up 2025:

The Faint - Wet From Birth (Deluxe Edition)
Deluxe Edition release date: March 14th, 2025
Original release date: September 14th, 2004

“I think the mindset, for me at least, was to escape indie rock, find what’s happening in the future and go there.” - Todd Fink via Stereogum

Listen: thefaint.scfm.me/bwa-wfb

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The Faint - Blank Wave Arcade (Deluxe Edition)
Deluxe Edition release date: March 14th, 2025
Original release date: November 1st, 1999

“1999’s Blank-Wave Arcade, The Faint had transformed into a spiky, synthy, danceable brand of indie rock that would catapult their success and anticipated the post-punk revival that would hit just a couple years later.” - Brooklyn Vegan

Listen: thefaint.scfm.me/blankwavearcade

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