So many artists, 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. In these concertless times, that includes daily livestreams and live concert videos we love. We publish a monthly playlist of some of our favorite tracks. Here's a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.
WASHED OUT - "TIME TO WALK AWAY"
Back on Sub Pop, Ernest Greene is set to release new Washed Out album, Purple Noon, on August 7. First single "Time to Walk Away" is set to a dubby, tropical beat.
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CARIBOU - "NEVER COME BACK" & "SISTER" (FLOATING POINTS REMIXES)
Floating Points has remixed two tracks off Caribou's recent album Suddenly. Says Dan Snaith: "At first Sam asked for the parts for 'Sister' – the most intimate and personal track off my album Suddenly – and reworked it using the voices of my mother and my sister that I sampled from an old cassette for my childhood – but having turned that into a hypnotic, meditative beautiful thing, he came back and asked for the parts for 'Never Come Back' and sent me a WhatsApp of him working on the track in his studio with the caption 'Bass drum Making my lights dim!' and turned in a certified banger of a remix."
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FONTAINES DC - "TELEVISED MIND"
"This song is about the echo chamber, and how personality gets stripped away by surrounding approval," says Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten of the group's droney, groovy new single. "People’s opinions get reinforced by constant agreement, and we’re robbed of our ability to feel wrong. We’re never really given the education of our own fallibility. People feign these great beliefs in order to appear trendy, as opposed to independently arriving at their own thoughts." He adds that they were listening to "a lot of The Prodigy and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, specifically their song 'Open Heart Surgery.' I was interested in extrapolating those types of chord progressions and capturing this droning, hypnotic feel. That last line repeated over and over ['What ya call it'] is a buffer expression that people used here in Dublin. It’s sort of like 'umm' or 'well...' – it’s what people say when they’re distracted.” Fontaines DC's new album, A Hero's Death, is out July 31.
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HOLD DOWN THE OCEAN (ex-ALL ELSE FAILED) - "THE GRAVITY OF THINGS"
Hold Down the Ocean (featuring former members of Philly hardcore vets All Else Failed) are releasing the Sidereal Month EP this Friday (7/3) and the Sidereal Year LP this fall, and today they're streaming new single "The Gravity Of Things," a soaring, triumphant dose of atmospheric post-hardcore. The song "is really about my fear of flying, but when I dug deeper, it was like, ‘ok is being scared of flying really a metaphor for other issues in my life?’," guitarist/vocalist Patrick Shannon told IDIOTEQ. "Then a “story” just grew out of that."
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DEATH BELLS - "NEW SIGNS OF LIFE"
LA-via-Australia post-punks Death Bells are releasing their new album New Signs of Life on September 25 via Dais Records, and the title track is out now. It's very much cut from the Joy Division cloth, and the band says, "More than anything, the song is about resilience in the face of change. It's a very deliberate statement and sets the tone for what's to come musically from us."
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COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS - "HOW YOU GET HURT"
"How You Get Hurt" is the fourth single from Courtney Marie Andrews' anticipated new album Old Flowers and it's a gorgeously melancholic Americana ballad.
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TRANSIT METHOD - "DRAG THE GHOULS"
Austin's Transit Method are releasing their sophomore album The Madness this Friday (7/3) via Brutal Panda, and you can get a taste of their post-hardcore/alternative rock fusion from new single "Drag the Ghouls."
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MUSTAFA - "COME BACK" (ft. JAMES BLAKE)
Two days after releasing a Nirvana cover, James Blake aided Mustafa on piano and backing vocals in this Nabil-directed performance video for Mustafa's lush new single "Come Back."
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MONEYBAGG YO - "SAID SUM"
Moneybagg Yo follows his recent album Time Served (and the deluxe edition's seven bonus tracks) with yet another new single, the subwoofer-rattling trap-pop anthem "Said Sum."
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SALLY ANNE MORGAN - "GARDEN SONG"
Sally Anne Morgan (House and Land, Black Twig Pickers) is releasing her debut solo album Thread on August 21 via Thrill Jockey, and its newest single is the breathtaking, string-laden psychedelic folk of "Garden Song." "I wrote this song on a really beautiful June day out in my backyard," Sally says. "I love the summer, love when plants are growing so lush, the days are so long and full - that’s my season."
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PINK SIIFU & SHUNGU - "CEMENT"
Avant-rapper Pink Siifu and Brussels DJ/producer teamed up for this dose of psychedelic rap, as part of Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass digital singles series. "This song like a gospel song to me," Siifu said. "Eye don’t even know what [Shungu] sampled but tha shit hit right to my core when eye heard it."
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PLANNINGTOROCK - "JAM FAM"
Planningtorock, aka Jam Roston (who has recorded for DFA in the past), will release the PlanningtoChanel EP on July 22 via Human Level. It's a collaboration with Chanel sound director Michel Gaubert, and here's the first single. “With ‘Jam Fam’ I wanted to create an authentic 1980’s sound so no big kick or bass and plenty of high swimming synths,” Jam says. “I recorded my voice and sung lots of ‘Ohs’ and ‘Ahs’ and then pitched them each individually create a vocal melody. I wanted the track to be super up in feeling and fun and classic sounding.” Mission accomplished.
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LUCRECIA DALT - "DISUELTA"
Colombian artist Lucrecia Dalt is releasing her new album No era sólida on September 11 via RVNG Intl, and new single "Disuelta" is a compelling offering of experimental pop that comes with a well-matched, psychedelic video (directed by Pedro Maia).
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DEAFKIDS & PETBRICK - "FORCA BRUTA"
Neurosis-cosigned Brazilian psych-punks Deafkids and industrial duo Petbrick (featuring original Sepultura drummer Iggor Cavalera) are releasing a collaborative album, Deafbrick, on September 4 via Neurot Recordings, and the first taste is the absolutely pummeling "Força Bruta."
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MAGGOT HEART - "GUTTER FEELING"
Maggot Heart -- the project of Linnéa Olsson (who also played in Beastmilk, Grave Pleasures, Sonic Ritual, and The Oath) -- are releasing their new album Mercy Machine next week (7/10) and new single "Gutter Feeling" finds their unique brand of dark rock in fine form.
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COREY FLOOD - "HEAVEN OR"
Philly band Corey Flood will release their debut album, Hanging Garden, on September 4 via Fire Talk. First single is the grey-hued "Heaven Or." "This song touches on themes that ripple throughout the album, like getting stuck in cyclical thoughts and struggling to articulate emotions," says the band's Ivy Gray-Klein. "There was a period when I was disassociating a lot and just felt so numb and passive to everything happening around me. To try and counteract this I experimented with reckless choices just to try and feel something or 'wake myself up,' which was really at odds with my natural inclination towards caution. The refrain 'I know what I saw' is a sort of an internal monologue in the face of others' shifting narratives. It's an affirmation to myself that my experience is real, my knowledge can be trusted, I know what I saw."
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ARS MAGNA UMBRAE - "ORACLE OF LUMINOUS DARK"
Polish black metallers Ars Magna Umbrae are releasing their new album Apotheosis on August 21 via I, Voidhanger Records, and first single "Oracle of Luminous Dark" is a punishing blend of venomous screams and dark, psychedelic atmosphere.
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DISCLOSURE - "MY HIGH" (ft. AMINE & SLOWTHAI)
Disclosure have revealed the Aminé and slowthai collab off their upcoming album Energy, and it's a pounding dose of hip house.
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DISQ - "I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE" (JEFF TWEEDY COVER)
Wisconsin's Disq shared a cover from Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy's 2018 solo album WARM. "I’ve been a big Wilco fan for the past few years and picked up Jeff Tweedy’s album WARM after Brendan had played it in the car a few times- 'I Know What It’s Like' really stood out to me as a great pop/rock song that I could put my own spin on - the minimal structure of the original gave room for creative license," the band's Isaac deBroux-Slone said. "I sped up the original recording a decent amount so I’d have something to play along to and off I went. We decided it’d be fun to present the finished product as an interim release; post-Collector and pre-whatever's next. We always love throwing a fun cover or two in the set, and we're gearing up to learn this one as a band so we could play it on our Collector release tour, but we all know what happened to that. My hope is that somebody who is a fan of Disq or Wilco (or both, or neither) could find some comfort in our version of this song (I know I’ve found comfort in Mister Tweedy’s original)."
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SOKO - “OH TO BE A RAINBOW”
Soko says: “This is my gay anthem! Let it be known! It’s about turning all of my very straight girlfriends not so straight anymore! And about not wanting to be saved through a relationship but really wanting someone equal.” Soko's new album, Feel Feelings, is out next Friday (7/10).
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U.S. GIRLS - "OVERTIME" (ALEX FRANKEL REMIX)
Holy Ghost!'s Alex Frankel has remixed U.S. Girl's "Overtime" (from this year's Heavy Light. He takes the original, with its dark, tribal beat, and transforms it into a disco banger circa 1980.
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EVEN AS WE SPEAK - "UNKNOWN"
Long-running Australian indiepop band Even As We Speak -- who've released records on Sarah and Shelflife -- have a new album, Adelphi, and the is the dreamy, gorgeous new single which comes with a decidedly spacy video.
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ROUND EYE - "SMOKESTACK" (PRODUCED BY MIKE WATT)
Shanghai based punks Round Eye worked will release new album Culture Shock Treatment on Friday, July 3 via Paper + Plastick Records. The album was produced by Mike Watt (Minutemen/fIREHOSE) and here's the saxxy, ripping "Smokestack."
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MADELINE KENNEY - "DOUBLE HEARTED"
Madeline Kenney's new album Sucker's Lunch is due out on July 31 via Carpark, and the latest single is "Double Hearted," which she told Consequence of Sound "is about feeling fucking crazy."
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KANYE WEST - "WASH US IN THE BLOOD" (ft. TRAVIS SCOTT)
Kanye has released the first single off his upcoming album God's Country, and it seems like somewhat a return to form following the super religious music he put out last year. You can read more about it here.
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ELLIOTT SMITH - "SOME SONG" (LIVE)
Elliott Smith's classic 1995 self-titled sophomore album is getting a 25th anniversary reissue on August 28 via Kill Rock Stars, and it's coming packaged with a live album recorded on September 17, 1994 at Portland’s Umbra Penumbra, which is apparently the earliest known recording of Elliott performing entirely solo. Here's a newly released, devastating recording from the live album. Read more here.
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THIS IS THE KIT - "THIS IS WHAT YOU DID"
This Is The Kit (Kate Stables) will release her new album Off Off On on October 23 via Rough Trade, and you can read more about the very good lead single "This Is What You Did" here.
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CHARLEY CROCKETT - "RUN HORSE RUN"
Texas country-blues singer Charley Crockett releases his new album Welcome To Hard Times on 7/31 via Thirty Tigers, and you can read more about the dark, outlaw country-leaning single "Run Horse Run" here.
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THOMAS BARTLETT (DOVEMAN) - "LUCINDA"
Thomas Bartlett, who records and and performs as Doveman, will release Shelter, his first album under his own name, on July 24 via Modern Recordings/BMG. The album was made during lockdown and features eight piano nocturnes, all named after roses. Here's the opening nocturne.
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SAD13 - "GHOST (OF A GOOD TIME)"
“I worked on Haunted Painting throughout 2019, writing, arranging and recording from home, then finishing the songs in studios around the country in between Speedy's fly-in dates,” says Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis of her new Sad13 album. “It's maximalist, and more true to me and my tastes than any record I've done.”
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A CERTAIN RATIO - "ALWAYS IN LOVE"
Manchester scene / Factory Records vets A Certain Ratio will release ACR Loco, the group's first album in 12 years, on September 25 via Mute. This is the first single.
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