27 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.
KHRUANGBIN – “PON PÓN”
Here’s another enjoyable, lightly funky jam from Khruangbin’s upcoming album A LA SALA.
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METZ – “LIGHT YOUR WAY HOME” FT AMBER WEBBER OF BLACK MOUNTAIN
“’Light Your Way Home’ is definitely one of our favorites from Up On Gravity Hill,” METZ’s Alex Edkins says of the new single from his band’s upcoming album. “I was listening to lots of Jesu and Low (as I do most winters) when writing this one. Lyrically, it’s about missing your loved ones to the point of losing your grip on reality. We distorted and added a mechanical slap back to the drums to create a wild and huge sound. I love how big we got the production on this one. It’s like nothing we’ve ever made before, sonically or lyrically. Amber Webber (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust) was so great to work with, and her voice just takes this song to another stratosphere. I think the video by Colin Medley perfectly captures the vibe and intent of the song.”
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CLAIRE ROUSAY – “IT COULD BE ANYTHING”
claire rousay calls “it could be anything” “the story of a lover out with someone else while you’re already involved with them… the anxiety that comes from sitting around knowing what could be happening with them while one is not there. Just sitting at home freakin’ out. Kinda a cheating song, kinda a jealousy song, kinda an apology.” It’s from her new album sentiment, out next month on Thrill Jockey.
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EFTERKLANG – “GETTING REMINDERS” FT ZACH CONDON
Efterklang have shared this new single featuring Beirut’s Zach Condon to coincide with the release of their new documentary, Efterklang: The Makedonium Band. “To me, ‘Getting Reminders’ is a flash of light, a domino effect of feelings from a simple reminder, like a photo, a word, or when we encounter love, that suddenly sets our minds free,” says the band’s Casper Clausen. “In reality, I feel a dark and highly politicized force tearing us apart, across land and culture. I feel like reminding myself that there’s a landscape that lives beyond and between us all, where we are free to cross and meet one another.”
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JADE HAIRPINS – “UNRELIABLE”
Jonah Falco and Mike Haliechuk from Fucked Up have shared a new Jade Hairpins single ahead of their UK tour. Falco says “Unreliable” is “about living up to the ideals and expectations of an ever changing brain, will, body, and world.”
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DESIRE – “DARKSIDE”
Desire has announced new album Games People Play which will be out later this year via Italian Do it Better. Details are still to come but the announcement comes with this new single. Desire says: “The song is about the invisible line we draw between our outer reality & our inner world. The darkside is a meatphor for the unmasked internal space that we rarely share with strangers. A secret realm that never sees the light of day. On the endless hunt for love, we crave a deeper connection that can only come with truth. The mirror sees you…on the darkside. Crash into the starlight.”
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TWO SHELL & FKA TWIGS – “TALK TO ME”
Two Shell and FKA twigs have teamed up for “Talk to Me,” which Two Shell led up to with what they describe as “a karaoke version and multiple iterations featuring vocal lines from recognisable voices” on Bandcamp (all of which are no longer available). This version with twigs’ vocals is an ecstatic electro-pop jam.
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BODEGA – “CULTURAL CONSUMER III”
“The ‘cultural consumer’ is a character who has become essential to my songwriting for BODEGA,” says Bodega’s Ben Hozie. “‘Cultural Consumer I’ was the first song I wrote where I feel like I found the songwriting voice for the band and the ‘cultural consumer’ showed up in the first BODEGA single ‘How Did This Happen?!’ in 2018. The cultural consumer is a middle class bohemian who is addicted to studying culture (both high art and pop culture) and is thus oppressed by it. In ‘Cultural Consumer III’ he has become a new ager who is blasting a killer curated playlist in his car on the way to the airport to fly to a meditation retreat in Taiwan. Despite all of his consuming and questing for self-help, unlike Bob Dylan, he has never once ‘gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.’ He is just buying crap.” Bodega’s new album, Our Brand Could Be Yr Life, will be out April 12 via Chrysalis.
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NO WINDOWS – “ZODIAC 13”
“This song is written about the isolation I felt as the winter months started, it is about friendships ending and changing and coming to terms with their being a constant doubt when it comes to people near to you,” Verity Slangen says of No Windows’ new single. “Lyrically this is the oldest song on the EP, and I was much more unsure of my feelings back then, it’s nice to have something to look back on and see how my writing has changed.” Point Nemo comes out in May on Fat Possum.
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CLOUD NOTHINGS – “I’D GET ALONG”
Nobody does big, slightly-off-kilter, hooky guitar rock quite like Cloud Nothings, and their upcoming LP Final Summer is shaping up to be another good one. Here’s the latest single, with a video featuring footage of the band’s killer live show.
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H. PRUZ – “DAWN”
Hannah Pruzinsky’s debut album as h. pruz, No Glory, is out on March 29 via Mtn Laurel Recording Co, and the latest single, “Dawn,” is bare-bones folk sweetened by piano, cello, and clarinet. “‘Dawn’ intends to capture that transition point between utter naive infatuation and falling into trusting a person,” Pruzinsky says. “That in-between ‘point’ of love seems to be more of a dragging ellipsis for me. I initially wanted to play with space and silence in this song to underline that, but then the instrumental chorus became just as full of longing and doubt as any words or space.”
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ONE STEP CLOSER – “GIANT’S DESPAIR”
One Step Closer have shared the second single from their upcoming album All You Embrace, and like lead single “Leap Years,” “Giant’s Despair” finds OSC branching out from their hardcore roots and going more into emo-grunge territory.
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MAGGIE ROGERS – “SICK OF DREAMING”
The easygoing “Sick of Dreaming” is the latest single from Maggie Rogers’ third album, Don’t Forget Me.
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DANA GAVANSKI – “SONG FOR RACHEL”
“Song for Rachel” is a gently thumping art pop song dedicated to Dana’s Gavanski childhood best friend who passed away in 2022. Her new album LATE SLAP comes out in April.
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ALENA SPANGER – “STEADY SONG”
Alena Spanger, formerly of Tiny Hazard, is releasing a new solo album, Fire Escape, due out this Friday (3/22) via Ruination Record Co. Ahead of that she’s shared “Steady Song,” a spare, fragile folk track.
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FRESH – “MERCH GIRL”
UK indie-punks Fresh will release a new EP, Merch Girl, on April 19 via Specialist Subject Records, and the just-released title track is a rippin’ anthem “about living in that space between wanting something and achieving something. It’s kind of a character song, about somebody that is involved in music – but not in the way that they want to be, and they’re frustrated by that.”
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SIERRA FERRELL – “AMERICAN DREAMING”
Sierra Ferrell’s new album Trail of Flowers comes out this Friday, and here’s one more single from it, a gripping indie-country song called “American Dreaming.”
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NECROT – “DRILL THE SKULL”
Oakland death metallers Necrot slow things down a bit with this chunky, riffy new taste of Lifeless Birth.
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FRAIL BODY – “HORIZON LINE”
Frail Body offer up some chaotic, fast-paced, punky screamo with the latest taste of Artificial Bouquet.
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CHRIS BROACH – “ROCK HAS A SHELF LIFE”
Braid’s Chris Broach returns to the guitar (and his own name) for a new series of singles and splits, the first of which is “Rock Has A Shelf Life.” Read more here.
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PARSNIP – “TURN TO LOVE”
Australian band Parsnip are gearing up to release new album Behold on April 26 and they’ve just released this harmony-laden, sweetly psychedelic new single from it, along with its very cool video directed by Alex McLaren. The band’s Paris Rebel Richens says: “Imagine what the world would be like if everyone stopped for a moment or two every day and fixed their attention on the heart. All anyone really wants is love. This song is a plea, for everything that you do in the outer, the most profound changes must be made within. It is not a weakness, if anything, choosing love is courageous and wise.”
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OBEY COBRA – “TEN OF WANDS”
Welsh heavy psych band Obey Cobra have signed with Rocket Recordings (home to GOAT, among others) who will release their second album, Mwg Drwg, on May 3. “The Mari Lwyd – a horse skeleton dressed in white sheets and adorned with ribbons – is a Welsh folkloric custom. In both history and the present day, for Wassail, the Mari Lwyd leads a procession, knocking on the doors of local houses trying to gain entry through song,” say the band of the story behind the album’s first single and video. “The people who live in the houses deny the Mari Lwyd from entering, again through song, and the two sides continue this call and response until either the householders eventually relent, and the Mari Lwyd is allowed in and given food and drink… Or must continue without on their journey. In the music video for ‘Ten of Wands’ we follow the Mari Lwyd. An outsider and outcast from the edges of the earth, wandering through historical spaces void of humans, eventually ending at the open sea. Ten of Wands tells of a reading and premonition, given to lead singer K Wood, taken with a pinch of salt.”
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LIGHTNING BUG — “OPUS”
Here’s the bewitching second single from Lightning Bug’s upcoming album No Paradise.
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A CERTAIN RATIO – “KEEP IT REAL”
“Keep It Real” comes packed with serious post-punk muscle. It’s from A Certain Ratio’s upcoming album It All Comes Down to This.
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THE DECEMBERISTS – “JOAN IN THE GARDEN”
This 19-minute songs about Joan of Arc closes The Decemberists’ new album As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again.
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JOHN GRANT – “IT’S A BITCH”
“It was a blast making this track which is just about having fun with words, synths and dope rhythms and bass lines and also making fun of post-COVID malaise,” says John Grant of the first single from his upcoming sixth studio album.
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MOBY – “DARK DAYS” FT LADY BLACKBIRD
It’s the first single from Moby’s forthcoming album always centered at night where every track is a collaboration.
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