21 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.
MT. ORIANDER / TOPIARY CREATURES / SUPERDESTROYER / HEY, ILY! – JEFF
Mt. Oriander (Keith Latinen of Empire! Empire!/Count Your Lucky Stars) has teamed with three newer emo bands for a new split EP on CYLS called JEFF with one song from each band. It’s great stuff, with a very musically-varied, open-minded definition to “emo.”
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CERES – “WANT/NEED”
Melbourne band Ceres are back with their first new music since 2019, the euphoric “Want/Need,”
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WHITE HILLS – “KILLING CRIMSON”
NYC’s noisy rock duo White Hills have announced a new LP, Beyond This Fiction, due August 23 via Heads On Fire Records, and here’s lead single “Killing Crimson.”
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THE WAR ON DRUGS – “DRY LIGHTNING” & “HIGHWAY 29” (BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN COVERS)
The War on Drugs covered two Springsteen tracks for Amazon Music, in celebration of their The Ivor awards. Springsteen was inducted into Fellowship of The Ivors Academy at the ceremony, and Adam Granduciel says, “His songs are uniquely American, but the stories are fairly universal – families trying to make it work, people trying to get up in the morning, and go to work, and have a full life – I think that’s why he’s been embraced for so long all over the world.”
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DEAN BLUNT – “DOWNER” (ft. PANDA BEAR & VEGYN)
Panda Bear lends his iconic voice to a trip-hoppy Dean Blunt song, and Vegyn is along for the ride too.
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SMERZ & GAEA – “DET SOM KOM”
Smerz wrote and produced a new choir piece for eight voices, Tidligere den dagen, which a press release describes as “a meeting between choral music, trap and footwork.” It’s performed by GAEA, and the first single is “Det som kom.”
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END GAME – “BIG SHOT”
Canadian hardcore band End Game have dropped their first track since 2022’s “Devil In Disguise” (ft. Scowl’s Kat Moss). It’s 64 seconds of rage, and it’s a good one.
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BAT FOR LASHES – “AT YOUR FEET”
“I improvised this song, all the piano and vocoder parts, from start to finish,” Bat for Lashes says of the latest single from her new album The Dream of Delphi. “The words are all about the hallucinatory state of being sleep deprived in the night, breastfeeding, rocking the baby: so tired, so aware that I almost have no say in this devotional nocturnal practice of caring for my child.”
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WORMWITCH – “THE HELM AND THE BOW” (ft. ex-KVELERTAK’s ERLEND HJELVIK)
Canadian black metallers Wormwitch have announced their self-titled fourth album, due July 26 via Profound Lore, and lead single “The Helm and the Bow” is an evil ripper that gets an assist from the iconic former Kvelertak vocalist Erlend Hjelvik.
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OKAY KAYA – “THE GROKE”
Okay Kaya has unveiled her first new music since 2022. “I was thinking about The Groke as an apt lore of the Nordic countries brutal seasons, and about how climates around the world are getting more temperamental,” she says. “The chorus end sentence is borrowed from Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology.”
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SLEATER-KINNEY – “CRUSADER” (SPECIAL INTEREST REMIX)
Sleater-Kinney have handed their song “Crusader” over to New Orleans synth-punks Special Interest who give it an electro-disco makeover.
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LOU HAYTER – “FREQUENCY”
Lou Hayter, who you may remember from New Young Pony Club (or her excellent 2021 solo debut), has signed to Greco Roman, the label run by Joe from Hot Chip. Her first single for them is a sleek banger.
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CORNELIUS – “TOO MUCH LOVE FOR SAUNA (FALLING DEEP)”
Keigo Oyamada is back with a new Cornelius single. “Too Much Love For Sauna (Falling Deep)” sounds like drifting off in a relaxing bath.
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MOBY – “WHERE IS YOUR PRIDE?” FT BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
Here’s another song from Moby’s upcoming album Always Centered at Night and this one features the late Benjamin Zephaniah. “As a vegan activist, and as a wise and compassionate man, Benjamin inspired me for many years,” Moby says. “I hope that ‘where is your pride?’ honors his legacy and also draws people’s attention to his life, work, and principles.”
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RUI GABRIEL – “CHURCH OF NASHVILLE”
Lawn’s Rui Gabriel will release his solo debut, Compassion, on June 21 and here’s another single from it. “I have nothing against Nashville and the lyrics are mostly supposed to be a character assassination of a certain type of person one can always find in a mid-sized to large metro area,” Gabriel says. “There is a bit of myself in there too, especially as a transplant to New Orleans who grew up fairly privileged and decided to try out as a musician.”
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BIZHIKI – “GIGAWAABAMIN (COME THROUGH)” (FEAT. MIKE SULLIVAN)
Bizhiki, the Minneapolis trio of Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, pow-wow innovator Joe Rainey Sr. and Bon Iver collaborator Sean Carey (S. Carey), will release their debut album in July. Here’s the first single.
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BLOOD – “ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN”
Philly-by-way-of-Austin band Blood will release their debut album, Loving You Backwards, on August 2 via Ramp Local. First single “One Dimensional Man” is a surging, slow-build indie rock churner.
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LEIF VOLLEBEKK – “MOONDOG”
Montreal folk artist Leif Vollebekk has announce new album Revelation on September 27. “During the pandemic lockdown, I was drawn to biographies and books about science. I guess I was looking for something to ground me,” says Vollebekk. “When I read Carl Jung’s ‘Dreams, Memories, Reflections,’ I was taken aback that he wrote so freely of having premonitions in his dreams and by his fascination with alchemy. When I read about Isaac Newton’s life, I discovered that this man of science secretly practiced alchemy in his own laboratory and looked for signs of the apocalypse. The more I read, the more otherworldly all these great scientists were. Dmitri Mendeleev said his breakthrough for the arrangement of the elements came to him in a dream. Is it really that different from Paul McCartney hearing ‘Yesterday’ in a dream?”
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OK COWGIRL – “LITTLE SPLINTERS”
Brooklyn’s OK Cowgirl are saddling up to release their debut album, Couldn’t Save Us From My Gut, on August 16 and this is the latest single.
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CLAIRO – “SEXY TO SOMEONE”
Clairo has announced a new album, Charm, which was co-produced by soul revivalist Leon Michels of El Michels Affair. Read more about lead single “Sexy to Someone” here.
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