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.
COHEED AND CAMBRIA – “BLIND SIDE SONNY”
Coheed get screamier than they’ve been in a while on this heavy new single, which Claudio Sanchez says is “about revenge. What may seem like an innocent choice to someone could be the breeding ground of another’s malicious misunderstanding. Perception can be your worst enemy.”
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RACHEL CHINOURIRI – “EVEN” FT. CAT BURNS
“‘Even’ is about the injustice black and POC people feel with identity in a world that can treat them foreign,” Rachel Chinouriri says of her new single, which follows her 2024 debut album What a Devastating Turn of Events and features Cat Burns. “Sometimes it feels like no matter what we do to fit in, we have to work twice as hard to take one step forward. The limitations that black people have had to go through are something every black person has to accept at some point but this song questions how far we need to take it and it questions why these things happen to us.”
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BOYSCOTT – “LIMA”
Boyscott’s new album Spellbound (their first since their 2015 debut LP Goose Bumps) comes out later this month (10/16) via Topshelf, and today they’ve shared another new single. It’s a bouncy indie art pop song with some echoes of the late 2000s Animal Collective/Grizzly Bear/Dirty Projectors era.
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ANNA MCCLELLAN – “PAPER ALLEY”
“I started ‘Paper Alley’ with the word ‘And’ like it had already been going and the listener is tuning in mid-thought,” Anna McClellan says of the latest single off her new album Electric Bouquet. “It’s a song of yearning. Yearning mostly to stop yearning… No luck yet, stay tuned!”
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CLOUD NOTHINGS – HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE (10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
Cloud Nothings’ great 2014 album Here and Nowhere Else turns 10 this year, and the band is about to be playing it in full on tour. They also just released a 10th anniversary edition that features live recordings of every song on the album, plus remixes of two songs by Outer Space and Bee Mask.
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SARAH NEUFELD/RICHARD REED PARRY/REBECCA FOON – “CIRCULAR”
Violin player Sarah Neufeld, multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry, and cellist Rebecca Foon have shared another new track from their upcoming trio album, First Sounds, the foreboding, anxious “Circular.” Neufeld says that it’s about “plaintive ghosts. Three rivers of subconscious thought weaving through one another, picking up and leaving off, through a dense fog and the long reeds. We search for hidden answers in the muck and the morning air. Bows gently scrape strings, round and round and round.”
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NAP EYES – “DARK MYSTERY ENIGMA BIRD”
Nap Eyes have shared the video for “Dark Mystery Enigma Bird,” from his forthcoming album The Neon Gate. It was hand-animated by Dr. Cool who says: “All my vids are first inspired by the song. I knew as soon as I heard this squiggly, blissed-out summer jam that it was gonna be fun to animate to and match the vibe. It was actually the perfect song to hear for three months straight, so thanks, Nap Eyes! I think that if you’re in the right state of mind, this song could make you shed a single tear, so I hoped to make a video that would get someone to shed a second one. Not like a sad tear, but the kind that you get from staring into the sun on the last day of spring break. With that in mind I decided to focus on animating blasts of sunlight and depicting what a day feels like when it all goes your way despite a few twists in the road.”
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SAM SMITH & BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND – “EVER NEW”
Red Hot has unveiled another track from their ambitious TRAИƧA compilation, a new recording of Glen-Copeland’s “Ever New” featuring Sam Smith. ““When I wrote ‘Ever New’ I had no idea it would touch so many hearts over so many decades,” Glenn says. “I cried last year when a fan wrote to tell me that they played ‘Ever New’ for the birth of their child. Now, this collaboration with the genius that is Sam Smith is actual proof that our lives are, indeed, made ever new.” Smith adds, “It was a true honour and privilege to be in a room with such a beautiful soul in Glenn to record this legendary and very special song with him. It’s a moment in time I will never forget and I am so happy to have been a part of this wonderful project.”
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THUS LOVE – “ALL PLEASURE”
THUS LOVE have shared the title track to their upcoming album All Pleasure. The band say: “It’s no accident that we named the album after this song,” says singer/guitarist Echo Mars. “‘All Pleasure’ is the very first song we wrote collectively as a quartet and I think that collaborative spirit really comes through. The addition of Ally’s vocals as a counterpoint gives the song a very different energy and feel to it. I remember when we all listened back for the first time — it was one of those eureka moments when we all realized how special this new incarnation of Thus Love could be.”
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FAYE WEBSTER – “AFTER THE FIRST KISS”
Faye Webster follows this year’s Underdressed at the Symphony with a new single, the jazzy, string-laden “After the First Kiss.” The accompanying video, directed by Kyle Ng, features Webster and Deb Never.
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ROYEL OTIS – “IF OUR LOVE IS DEAD”
Aussie band Royel Otis have released a deluxe edition of their debut album PRATTS & PAIN that comes with this new single. The band say: “‘If Our Love Is Dead’ was born out of that feeling when you’ve been with someone for a while and you’re not sure if the spark is still there. You’re like… If it’s dead and it’s not there, then what are we holding on to? What are we doing it for? Are we doing it for the sake of just sticking it out, or do we actually just want to cut paths and move on with things?”
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AUTRE NE VEUT – “ITCHY BLOOD” FT. JESSICA ZAMBRI
Autre Ne Veut’s first new album in nine years, Love, Guess Who??, is out next month, and he’s shared another track from it, “Itchy Blood.” It features Jessica Zambria, who also stars in the phantasmagoric video, which was directed by Max Lakner.
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KIANA LEDÉ – “NATURAL” & “SPACE AND PUSSY”
Kiana Ledé is preparing to release her third album, Cut Times. It’s still to be announced, but she’s shared two new tracks to “set the stage” for the album, according to a press release: R&B tracks “Space & Pussy” and “Natural,” which she she describes as “a sensual song about the only person that gets to see the sexiest side of you. You will try anything with them because no matter what you do, it feels natural.”
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MADI DIAZ – “WORST CASE SCENARIO”
Madi Diaz announced a deluxe edition of this year’s Weird Faith, due out on October 25 via ANTI-, and shared a new track that appears on it, “Worst Case Scenario.” “Sometimes when I’m afraid, I test out a theory I’ve made up in the last few years: Life has never completely gone the way I imagined it would go (for better or worse),” she says. “From time to time, I find myself daydreaming up scenes and playing them out in my mind, thinking if can get ahead of it all by thinking of the worst and how I’d survive it, then maybe it won’t actually happen. This song was my prevention plan against what I imagined would be the worst possibilities playing out.”
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CHEEKFACE – “FLIES” FT. JEFF ROSENSTOCK
“This song is about living the dream in a room full of flies,” Cheekface vocalist and guitarist Greg Katz says of their new single, which features Jeff Rosenstock on baritone sax. “Me and [bassist Amanda] Mandy [Tannen] wrote this song in our practice space a few months ago, but the title lyric was literally written in a room full of flies. Unfortunately, the lyric about not being able to do a kickflip is also literally true.”
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DEAN & BRITTA & SONIC BOOM – “PRETTY PAPER” (WILLIE NELSON COVER)
Dean Wareham, his partner Britta Phillips, and frequent collaborator Sonic Boom have teamed up to make a holiday album. It’s titled A Peace of Us and will be out November 22 via Carpark. They made the album at Sonic Boom’s studio in Portugal: all three sang, Dean played guitar, Britta played bass and keyboards, and Sonic provided the psychedelic effects and mixed the album. Britta says it’s “like Bing Crosby…on acid,” which means a little more when you’re talking about something involving Sonic Boom.
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THE SMILE – “BODIES LAUGHING”
The Smile gave us one more early taste of their new album Cutouts, which you can read more about here.
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ELA MINUS – “BROKEN”
Electronic artist Ela Minus has announced DIA, the follow-up to her 2020 debut, which will be released January 17 via Domino. DIA includes this summer’s terrific single “COMBAT” and she’s just shared “BROKEN,” a swaying, cathartic dance anthem to which she comments, “I started writing this thinking I was perfectly fine and finished writing knowing I was not.”
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THE HORRORS – “THE SILENCE THAT REMAINS”
The Horrors are back with a new album, Night Life, that will be out March 21 via Fiction. They worked with producer Yves Rothman on this one, their first album in eight years, and it features a new lineup of the group with original members Faris Badwan and Rhys Webb joined by new drummer Jordan Cook (of Telegram) and keyboardist/singer Amelia Kidd.
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MDOU MOCTAR – “IMAJIGHEN (INJUSTICE VERSION)”
Mdou Moctar have announced Tears of Injustice, which is a full rerecording of 2023’s Funeral for Justice using acoustic and traditional instruments.
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THE WEATHER STATION – “NEON SIGNS”
Here’s the first single from The Weather Station’s forthcoming album Humanhood.
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HEMLOCK ERNST – “OLD DEAD DOGS” (ft. BEANS & FATBOI SHARIF)
Hemlock Ernst, the rap alter-ego of Future Islands singer Samuel T. Herring, has shared the Beans and Fatboi Sharif collab from his upcoming LP Studying Absence. Read more here.
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