24 New Songs Out Today
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.
JOE GODDARD (HOT CHIP) – “ONE WORLD (FLOW)” FT FLORIOUS
Hot Chip co-founder Joe Goddard has released a new solo single featuring singer-songwriter Florius on lead vocals. “When I wrote the chords for this song, I was aiming for something with the power of a hymn,” says Goddard. “Without discussing this concept, Fiorious added words that have a kind of atheistic spiritual quality that I always love in house music.”
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LAWRENCE ROTHMAN FT AMANDA SHIRES – “LAX”
Lawrence Rothman’s new album The Plow That Broke the Plains is out April 26 and here’s their collaboration with Amanda Shires. “Amanda and I have been working together the last 3 years, I produced her album Take It Like A Man and ‘Loving You’ with Bobbie Nelson,” says Lawrence. “We have a great musical bond and wonderful friendship. It made sense to have a close friend lend their voice to such a vulnerable song. Plus, I’m a huge fan of her delicate but powerful voice!”
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ARAB STRAP – “ALLATONCENESS”
Arab Strap have released a second single from their upcoming album I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍. Says Aidan Moffat: “Lyrically it’s about being addicted to the endless stream of online lunacy and bullshit – constant bad news, disinformation and conspiracy theories, abuse and threats etc. – when I know I should be out engaging with the world in a more physical, meaningful way. But I can’t stop scrolling, because I’ve been conditioned to constantly seek and consume information, which perpetuates the tide of misery and makes me part of the problem … The title came from Marshall McLuhan’s terrifyingly relevant 1967 book The Medium is the Massage; he also coined the phrase ‘global village,’ and that’s where the ‘village hall’s on fire all day’ line comes from. Long story short: I need to get out more.”
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JANE WEAVER – “ROMANTIC WORLDS”
“I wanted to write a really over the top love song, it’s kind of tongue in cheek and about romance and brief encounters with a wonky synth,” says Jane Weaver of the latest single from upcoming album Love In Constant Spectacle (4/5 via Fire). “It’s based on a ‘real life’ date after meeting online, how this changes from generation to generation and how romance is perceived now.”
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BNNY – “CRAZY, BABY”
Chicago’s Bnny will release One Million Love Songs on April 5 and here’s from which the album gets its title. “‘Crazy, Baby’ is about recognizing patterns in your romantic history and yourself,” says bandleader Jessica Viscius.
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LATRALA (KENNY WOLLESEN) – “AGORA”
Master drummer, percussionist and longtime downtown NYC scene-stealer Kenny Wollesen (John Zorn, Sex Mob), has announced the debut album from his new group LATRALA which includes drummer Nasheet Waits, guitarist Tony Scherr, bassist Christopher Thomas, and “surreal synths” builder Michael Coleman. The album’s out May 3 and this is the whallop of a first single.
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HOVVDY – “MEANT”
Hovvdy’s new self-titled double album is out in April, and the latest single is “Meant,” which Will Taylor says “reflects on how the most impactful love one can offer is consistency; particularly when life is complicated or derailed. It’s a song of gratitude for receiving that kind of love.”
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FRAIL BODY – “DEVOTION”
Illinois screamo band Frail Body have shared the second taste of their anticipated new album Artificial Bouquet. “Devotion” is a six-minute, post-rock-infused screamo song that finds Frail Body at their most intense.
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FANCLUBWALLET – “EASY”
“‘Easy’ is all about growing pains,” fanclubwallet’s Hannah Judge says of the band’s new single. “I had been thinking about my younger self, who was so debilitatingly shy, and wondering what she’d think about me now playing music on a stage in front of so many people. It kind of bounces back and forth between me and the perspective of my younger self; contemplating the differences and wondering how things have changed as I’ve grown up. I think a lot of people wonder how their younger self would feel about them now. I think the chorus guitar swells on this song sound like a rusty swing set dug up from the past.” It’s from fanclubwallet’s new EP, Our Bodies Paint Traffic Lines, out next month.
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PERENNIAL – LEMON ON PLASTIC EP
Perennial make a surprise return with a four-song EP that ranges from fiery dance-punk/post-hardcore to pulsating synth music.
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ROSIE TUCKER – “PAPERCLIP MAXIMIZER”
According to a press release, “Paperclip Maximizer,” the latest single off Rosie Tucker’s new album UTOPIA NOW!, “references a Swedish thought experiment designed to illustrate how an artificial general intelligence could destroy humanity while pursuing seemingly harmless goals.”
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CASH LANSKY – “NO HEART IN THE ART”
Tucson, Arizona rapper Cash Lansky has announced a new project, Man of the House, due April 26 via Mello Music Group. Lead single “No Heart In the Art” finds Cash in infectious indie-rap territory.
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ANNA TIVEL – “DISPOSABLE CAMERA”
Portland-based folk singer Anna Tivel announced her sixth album, Living Thing, due out May 31 via Fluff & Gravy Records. Of lead single “Disposable Camera,” she says, “A song for the everything of it all. For the wild science fiction of coming into the world. For the way it will break your heart. For the way it will make it race. Sometimes songs are slow and archeological, and sometimes they come busting out in one furious motion, just a potent feeling needing to come alive in language. I guess I wrote ‘disposable camera’ in this frame of mind, trying to get at the chaos and the meaning, the roulette wheel of places and situations to be born into, and the deep human urge to find beauty in the struggle.”
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ARMAND HAMMER – “DOVES” (ft. BENJAMIN BOOKER)
Armand Hammer (aka billy woods and ELUCID) have just released “Doves,” a bonus track from last year’s excellent We Buy Diabetic Test Strips. It’s a collaboration with Benjamin Booker, who begins the nearly-nine-minute song on his own with his delicate guitar playing and soulful vocals, and eventually woods and ELUCID add in their own iconic rapping styles, without ever bringing in a drum beat. Read more about the song and its video here.
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REAL BAD MAN x LUKAH – “THE INITIATES PIECE” (ft. BILLY WOODS)
billy woods also guests on a new song that just came out from Real Bad Man and Lukah‘s new album Temple Needs Water. Village Needs Peace, which arrives March 29.
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ANI DIFRANCO – “BABY ROE”
“The song ‘Baby Roe’ is a direct descendent of the book The Family Roe by Joshua Prager,” Ani DiFranco says. “This finely researched and grippingly told work chronicles the unfolding of events surrounding the 1972 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. Prager lets you way behind the curtain to meet all the characters involved, including the adult child of Norma McCorvey (aka Jane Roe), born and adopted-off in the course of her mother’s quest for the right to a legal abortion. Baby Roe, unaware of her role in history until she was an adult, remains, nonetheless, in support of a woman’s right to choose. As I would be.”
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KELSEY WALDON – “HELLO STRANGER” (ft. S.G. GOODMAN)
Country singer Kelsey Waldon has announced a new album, There’s Always a Song, and the first single is a rendition of the bluegrass standard “Hello Stranger” featuring S.G. Goodman.
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INTER ARMA – “NEW HEAVEN”
Inter Arma have finally announced their new album New Heaven, and the seven-and-a-half minute title track is here. Read about it here.
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KNOCKED LOOSE – “BLINDING FAITH”
Knocked Loose have announced a new album, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To, along with the killer lead single “Blinding Faith.” Read about it here.
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JANE PENNY (TOPS) – “WEAR YOU OUT”
TOPS singer Jane Penny will release her solo debut, the Surfacing EP, on April 5 via Luminelle Recordings. New single “Wear You Out” is not miles away from what Penny does in TOPS and comes with a video directed by OTIUM.
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ANASTASIA COOPE – “HE IS ON HIS WAY HOME, WE DON’T LIVE TOGETHER”
Here’s the opening track from Anastasia Coope’s debut album, which will be out May 24 via Jagjaguwar.
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MO TROPER – “BILLY JOEL FANCLUB”
The first single from Mo Troper’s upcoming album Svengali is “Billy Joel Fanclub,” which might be the only love song to ever reference The Piano Man’s The Nylon Curtain epic “Goodnight Saigon.”
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OISIN LEECH – “ONE HILL FURTHER”
The Lost Brothers‘ Oisin Leech will release his debut solo album, Cold Sea, ont March 10 via Outside Music & Tremone Records. The record was produced by Steve Gunn and features contributions from M. Ward, Bob Dylan collaborator Tony Garnier, Irish folk legend Dónal Lunny, and Róisín McGrory.
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LES SAVY FAV – “GUZZLE BLOOD”
“As the first song on OUI, LSF “Guzzle Blood” drops you into the bottom of a dark well,” says Les Savy Fav’s Tim Harrington. “In a lot of ways the rest of the record is about the things we do to climb back out.”
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