10 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.
THE STREETS – “END OF THE QUEUE”
Mike Skinner has made the latest entry in fabric’s mix series which will be out July 5. The 31-track mix album is bookended by new The Streets songs, and this one closes it.
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NICOLAI DUNGER – “MELODY RULES”
Swedish singer-songwriter Nicolai Dunger recorded new single “Melody Rules” with producer Jari Haapalainen (Camera Obscura, The Bear Quartet, The Concretes) and is a nice relaxing listen on a warm summer day. He says it’s “about making things good again and being where should be, where you’re meant to be. In the flow.”
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HIFI SEAN & DAVID MCALMONT – “SAD BANGER”
HiFi Sean (former Soup Dragons frontman Sean Dickson) and onetime Bernard Butler collaborator David McAlmont will release their second duo album, Daylight, on August 16 via Plastique Recordings. Sweetly nostalgic and lightly melancholic “Sad Banger” is the first single.
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TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD – “FERCH GYDA’R LLYGAID DU”
Welsh group Tristwch Y Fenywod make music that sounds like a lost 4AD album from 1986, hazy, spectral and ethereal. Don’t let the language barrier stop you — you didn’t know what Cocteau Twins were singing either.
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LA FEMME – “CIAO PARIS!”
Parisian band La Femme are one of the few Francophone bands to have made a splash in America while staying very, very French. The band have been expanding their geography lately, though. They released all-Spanish album a few years ago, and are now looking to the USA — and singing mostly in English — on their new single “Ciao Paris!”
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DEARY – “THE MOTH”
London band deary have a clear affinity for the time, around 1990, when the original UK shoegazers and the rave/Madchester crowd were at the same party. “The Moth” lays down the beat first, a syncopated groove right out of Stetsasonic’s “Talking All That Jazz,” and then comes Ben Easton’s gauzy washes of guitar and Dottie Cockram’s ethereal vocals. It’s bliss.
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SELF ESTEEM & MOONCHILD SANELLY – “BIG MAN”
“Me and Moon wrote a song from the perspective of a good boyfriend,” says Self Esteem’s Rebecca Taylor. “The ones that are just chill and secure so they just leave you to it. The ones that don’t want a medal for doing the bins.”
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MAVI – “DRUNK PRAYER”
MAVI announced his third album, Shadow Box, and shared the first single, which you can read more about here.
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137 (PORTISHEAD’S ADRIAN UTLEY & MORE) – “FIRST IDEA PART ONE”
137 are a jazz quartet with a formidable lineup: Portishead’s Adrian Utley; saxophonist and flutist Larry Stabbins, who was a member of post-Young Marble Giants group Weekend, has played with Robert Wyatt, Tracy Thorn and as part of Jerry Dammers’ Spatial AKA Orchestra; drummer Sebastian Rochford, who was a founding member of Sons of Kemet and leads UK jazz group Polar Bear; and bassist Jim Barr, who played in Portishead’s live band. This is the lead track off 137’s debut album.
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MOURNING [A] BLKSTAR – “LITERARY WITCHES”
Afrofuturist collective Mourning [A] BLKstar shared “Literary Witches,” the first single off their new album Ancient//Future, and you can read more about it here.
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