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So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. We update a playlist weekly of some of our current favorite tracks. Here’s a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.
NIA ARCHIVES – “VERTICAL”
Nia Archives released new album Emotional Junglist in July and here’s another preview of that. She says, “There’s this one synth that kind of beeps, and it just makes you feel a bit dissociative. That’s what I enjoy about production – how can you say something without the lyrics? I wanted it to feel like December in London.”
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PROTEST THE HERO – “MOUTHPIECE”
Canadian progressive post-hardcore band Protest the Hero release a new album, Within, on July 17. About new single “Mouthpiece,” vocalist Rody Walker says, “On the record focused on the micro, ‘Mouthpiece’ is the only song from a macro perspective. This is not without reason. It is about the controlling powers that have convinced us that everything needs to be divided into binaries despite the fact that very few things truly exist within them. It describes a world of brilliant colour reduced to black and white by charlatans like podcasters and corporate media. It suggests the only true binary we should pay attention to is the very wealthy and everyone else.”
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MADONNA – “LOVE SENSATION”
Madonna debuted “Love Senation” at her surprise Times Square performance on Thursday, and now here’s the studio version. New album Confessions II is out July 3.
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FUMING MOUTH – “A BLAZE OF NIHILISM”
Fuming Mouth release their new album The Ringing Bell on July 17 via Triple B, and they’ve shared the first single, which is also their first music with their new drummer Jay Weinberg, formerly of Slipknot.
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BRUTALISMUS 3000 – “GORE LOUVRE”
German duo Brutalismus 3000 have shared a second single from their upcoming album Harmony. “Gore Louvre” is another punishing banger and comes with a creepy/cool video.
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PATRICK WOLF – “THE LAUGHING DOVE”
As he begins his US tour, and following last week’s “The Beast,” Patrick Wolf has shared “The Laughing Dove.” He says it’s “a song I wrote in the desert this February standing on a distance enough back from the world to gather a perspective on its spin and return with this message from the dove – visiting me the morning a sandstorm was making its way in – the video, compiled in part with my footage from my yearly journeys is yours to disappear into too.”
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FLOATING POINTS – “HER GIFT”
Floating Points’ new album, Mere Mortals, is a bit of a departure for the dance music producer — an orchestral score for “a futuristic retelling of the myth of Pandora” that will be out August 28 via esteemed classical label Deutsche Grammophon.
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FLO – “DON’T BREAK HER HEART”
FLO’s sophomore LP is out next month, and the new single is “Don’t Break Her Heart,” which trio says is their “favourite sisterhood anthem! It really encapsulates our love for each other and the lengths we are willing to go to protect the hearts of our sisters.”
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SHE’S GREEN – “CLOSE YOUR EYES”
Like Cocteau Twins? Close your eyes and you might think this song by she’s green was them. New EP Swallowtail is out July 10.
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BIG FREEDIA & SOPHIE – “GO DOWN”
Big Freedia has shared another track from her EP with the late SOPHIE, the bold “Go Down.”
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TAYLOR SWIFT – “I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU”
“Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time,” Taylor Swift says of her new song, which was written for Pixar’s Toy Story 5. “Creating something for Jessie was a new challenge and also felt like second nature all at once. And being a Toy Story kid from the age of 5 til now… is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond. Thank you to the brilliant Andrew Stanton for imagining me for this, all those years ago when you wrote this newest film. Thank you to the incomparable Randy Newman for the gorgeous sonic tapestry of songs and scores you’ve meticulously woven over the years. You created the Toy Story musical world, and we are lucky to get to live in it.”
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TINASHE – “TOO EASY”
Tinashe is back with her first new music in two years. Kimj and Zack Sekoff produced the song that got its live debut at Coachella.
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THE OFFSPRING & ELECTRIC CALLBOY – “LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL”
The Offspring and Electric Callboy teamed up for a new single, “Let the Good Times Roll,” from Electric Callboy’s newa lbum TANZNEID. “”When Electric Callboy sent us the track, it immediately put a grin on our faces,” Dexter Holland says. “It’s energetic, unpredictable and doesn’t take itself too seriously — exactly the kind of spirit we’ve always loved about punk and rock music.”
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LAURA MARLING – LAURA SINGS RAFFI
“Laura Sings Raffi marks a logical next step for me,” Laura Marling says, “but it’s not only a desire for tolerable children’s music that landed me here. Having discovered Canadian songwriter and children’s entertainer, Raffi, while living in North America, I developed a love for his sincere, dead pan renditions of both his original songs for the very young and those plucked from the canon – all before I even had children of my own. These covers, though not all Raffi originals, are delivered in homage to his style and ethos, that being not only a respect for children and his expert attendance to what entertains them, but also to his wider audience – the parents whom he has blissfully attended also.”
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IBEYI – “OFFERINGS”
Ibeyi have given us another taste of their new album Offering with the whispery, mystical title track.
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CMAT – “WHEN A GOOD MAN CRIES”
Just days after Olivia Rodrigo covered CMAT’s “When A Good Man Cries,” CMAT herself has released video of the song, which was on last year’s great EURO-COUNTRY.
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OSEES – ‘OFF COURSE’
We went back to an older method of writing for this one,” OSEES frontman John Dwyer says of the band’s new album that dropped out of nowhere today. “We jammed and jammed and jammed.
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STEVE LACY – “THE FEELING”
Steve Lacy announced his third album, Oh yeah?, and gave us a preview with “The Feeling,” which you can read more about here.
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TIERRA WHACK – “WAX PAPER”
It’s the first single from WHACK’S MUSEUM and of course it’s got an amazing video.
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Looking for even more new songs? Browse the New Songs archive
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NIA ARCHIVES – “VERTICAL”
Nia Archives released new album Emotional Junglist in July and here’s another preview of that. She says, “There’s this one synth that kind of beeps, and it just makes you feel a bit dissociative. That’s what I enjoy about production – how can you say something without the lyrics? I wanted it to feel like December in London.”
—
PROTEST THE HERO – “MOUTHPIECE”
Canadian progressive post-hardcore band Protest the Hero release a new album, Within, on July 17. About new single “Mouthpiece,” vocalist Rody Walker says, “On the record focused on the micro, ‘Mouthpiece’ is the only song from a macro perspective. This is not without reason. It is about the controlling powers that have convinced us that everything needs to be divided into binaries despite the fact that very few things truly exist within them. It describes a world of brilliant colour reduced to black and white by charlatans like podcasters and corporate media. It suggests the only true binary we should pay attention to is the very wealthy and everyone else.”
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MADONNA – “LOVE SENSATION”
Madonna debuted “Love Senation” at her surprise Times Square performance on Thursday, and now here’s the studio version. New album Confessions II is out July 3.
—
FUMING MOUTH – “A BLAZE OF NIHILISM”
Fuming Mouth release their new album The Ringing Bell on July 17 via Triple B, and they’ve shared the first single, which is also their first music with their new drummer Jay Weinberg, formerly of Slipknot.
—
BRUTALISMUS 3000 – “GORE LOUVRE”
German duo Brutalismus 3000 have shared a second single from their upcoming album Harmony. “Gore Louvre” is another punishing banger and comes with a creepy/cool video.
—
PATRICK WOLF – “THE LAUGHING DOVE”
As he begins his US tour, and following last week’s “The Beast,” Patrick Wolf has shared “The Laughing Dove.” He says it’s “a song I wrote in the desert this February standing on a distance enough back from the world to gather a perspective on its spin and return with this message from the dove – visiting me the morning a sandstorm was making its way in – the video, compiled in part with my footage from my yearly journeys is yours to disappear into too.”
—
FLOATING POINTS – “HER GIFT”
Floating Points’ new album, Mere Mortals, is a bit of a departure for the dance music producer — an orchestral score for “a futuristic retelling of the myth of Pandora” that will be out August 28 via esteemed classical label Deutsche Grammophon.
—
FLO – “DON’T BREAK HER HEART”
FLO’s sophomore LP is out next month, and the new single is “Don’t Break Her Heart,” which trio says is their “favourite sisterhood anthem! It really encapsulates our love for each other and the lengths we are willing to go to protect the hearts of our sisters.”
—
SHE’S GREEN – “CLOSE YOUR EYES”
Like Cocteau Twins? Close your eyes and you might think this song by she’s green was them. New EP Swallowtail is out July 10.
—
BIG FREEDIA & SOPHIE – “GO DOWN”
Big Freedia has shared another track from her EP with the late SOPHIE, the bold “Go Down.”
—
TAYLOR SWIFT – “I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU”
“Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time,” Taylor Swift says of her new song, which was written for Pixar’s Toy Story 5. “Creating something for Jessie was a new challenge and also felt like second nature all at once. And being a Toy Story kid from the age of 5 til now… is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond. Thank you to the brilliant Andrew Stanton for imagining me for this, all those years ago when you wrote this newest film. Thank you to the incomparable Randy Newman for the gorgeous sonic tapestry of songs and scores you’ve meticulously woven over the years. You created the Toy Story musical world, and we are lucky to get to live in it.”
—
TINASHE – “TOO EASY”
Tinashe is back with her first new music in two years. Kimj and Zack Sekoff produced the song that got its live debut at Coachella.
—
THE OFFSPRING & ELECTRIC CALLBOY – “LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL”
The Offspring and Electric Callboy teamed up for a new single, “Let the Good Times Roll,” from Electric Callboy’s newa lbum TANZNEID. “”When Electric Callboy sent us the track, it immediately put a grin on our faces,” Dexter Holland says. “It’s energetic, unpredictable and doesn’t take itself too seriously — exactly the kind of spirit we’ve always loved about punk and rock music.”
—
LAURA MARLING – LAURA SINGS RAFFI
“Laura Sings Raffi marks a logical next step for me,” Laura Marling says, “but it’s not only a desire for tolerable children’s music that landed me here. Having discovered Canadian songwriter and children’s entertainer, Raffi, while living in North America, I developed a love for his sincere, dead pan renditions of both his original songs for the very young and those plucked from the canon – all before I even had children of my own. These covers, though not all Raffi originals, are delivered in homage to his style and ethos, that being not only a respect for children and his expert attendance to what entertains them, but also to his wider audience – the parents whom he has blissfully attended also.”
—
IBEYI – “OFFERINGS”
Ibeyi have given us another taste of their new album Offering with the whispery, mystical title track.
—
CMAT – “WHEN A GOOD MAN CRIES”
Just days after Olivia Rodrigo covered CMAT’s “When A Good Man Cries,” CMAT herself has released video of the song, which was on last year’s great EURO-COUNTRY.
—
OSEES – ‘OFF COURSE’
We went back to an older method of writing for this one,” OSEES frontman John Dwyer says of the band’s new album that dropped out of nowhere today. “We jammed and jammed and jammed.
—
STEVE LACY – “THE FEELING”
Steve Lacy announced his third album, Oh yeah?, and gave us a preview with “The Feeling,” which you can read more about here.
—
TIERRA WHACK – “WAX PAPER”
It’s the first single from WHACK’S MUSEUM and of course it’s got an amazing video.
—
Looking for even more new songs? Browse the New Songs archive
Continue reading...