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.
CUT WORMS – “EVIL TWIN” (PROD. JEFF TWEEDY)
Cut Worms is back with his first new music in two years, “Evil Twin,” which was produced by Jeff Tweedy and recorded at his Loft Studio in Chicago. “I think [the song] is equal parts city and suburban, and has something to do with public lives and secret selves,” says Cut Worms’ Max Clarke. “I recorded a full version of it at home and then re-did it at the Loft with Jeff [Tweedy] who encouraged me to cut out some verses, which was a good thing because I can tend to over-write sometimes. The main parts of the track were all done live with me singing and playing guitar, Jeff on guitar and Glenn Kotche on drums. I think it has a really good loose yet tight feel… pairs of opposites seeming to be a theme here.”
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PURITY RING – “IMANOCEAN”
Purity Ring’s new self-titled album is out next month, and they’ve given us another preview with “imanocean.” “We had a really nice time playing songs on the beach and getting washed away,” mj says. “This song is a sweet current of fog drifting over the ocean, a wave away from all the things we’ve made, yet still thoroughly us. There is a place in us we wanted this song to fill and it took a few iterations before it fell to this one, but the satisfaction we get from it is reminiscent of the hazy memory of songs from our past. Off all the places we’ve seen the sun set, of all the times we felt ourselves getting carried away in the rush. A foggy dream of emotion that surrounds us in a gentle chaos of moving water, the euphoria and contentment of knowing we are the same thing. I’m just a body, holding water, making heat.”
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TESTAMENT – “INFANTICIDE A.I”
Thrash legends Testament have announced a new album, Para Bellum, due October 10 via Nuclear Blast. Here’s the whiplash-inducing lead single.
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KING HÜSKY – “DON’T LET IT BRING YOU DOWN”
King Hüsky, aka Kvelertak’s Vidar Landa in indiepop guise, follows up this year’s Heads Above Water with this new single indebted to groups like Teenage Fanclub.
Don’t Let it Bring You Down by King Hüsky
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OURI – “BEHAVE! (FT. CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON)”
“In the middle of last year, after a few months of touring together, I played Charlotte [Day Wilson] a couple demos I had been working on,” Ouri says of her new single. “I had been spending more time creating loops of voice and harp that I kept raw, unfiltered, sharpening the contours of my presence. The song starts to shape up instinctually, like a kid that is being ordered to stay in one place but the young mind starts to wander and soon enough, the body follows. We ended up toying with this classic R’nB feel but kept it confrontational in the approach, leaning towards this hyperreal sense that surrounds my world.”
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ANNIE-CLAUDE DESCHÊNES – “MAIN DE FER” (SHIT ROBOT REMIX)
Annie-Claude Deschênes (Duchess Says) has handed recent single “Main de Fer” over to Shit Robot (Marcus Lambkin) who transforms the skipping original into more of an acid house banger.
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AVERY TUCKER – “MALIBU”
Avery Tucker, formerly of Girlpool, releases his new solo album Paw on October 10, and the latest single is “Malibu,” which he says is “about the journey of being a mirror to someone—how, at first, they love the version of themself that they see reflected in you. But as that image sharpens, the reflection starts to feel confrontational. It becomes harder for them to look at, and they begin to pull away—resisting the feeling of being truly witnessed.”
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BEEN STELLAR – “ALWAYS ON MY MIND”
NYC band Been Stellar will release the Breakaway EP on September 22 and have shared this new single from it. “We were really drawn to the circular logic of the lyric: ‘I need you, I want you because you’re always on my mind,’” says vocalist Sam Slocum. “My favorite love songs can be read a few different ways. I think it’s great when there’s a tinge of sadness or anxiety— it just feels more accurate to me.”
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TORO Y MOI – “CD-R (UNERTHED)”
Toro y Moi announced a country version of his 2024 album Hole Erth. Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged is due out September 19 via Dead Oceans, and he says, “The idea to begin this project came while listening to Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged record. I love how the rearrangement brought out so many intricacies of their songwriting and gave context to the original recordings and the decisions made… Americana has always been a major theme in my music. I asked myself what could be more edgy than Rap-Rock turned Alt-Country? Hole Erth and Unerthed was meant to be a dual album from the beginning, the vision is complete. Enjoy…”
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OMNI – “HIGH CEILINGS”
Here’s another standalone single from Atlanta’s Omni that finds their angular ricochet guitar pop still sharp.
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ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – “THE WHOLE WOMAN” FT. IGGY POP & “STARDUST”
Anna von Hausswolff announced a new album, ICONOCLASTS, and shared the first two singles, which you can read more about here.
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