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25 New Songs Out Today

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.

ROGER TAYLOR (QUEEN) – “ISOLATION”

Roger Taylor of Queen (and not Roger Taylor of Duran Duran) has released this new single which he made during COVID-19 lockdown about COVID-19 lockdown. “Strange times indeed” he sings in the chorus. We’re right there with ya, Rog.

A. SWAYZE & THE GHOSTS – “CANCER”

Tasmania’s A. Swayze & the Ghosts will release their debut album, Paid Salvation, on September 18. With this announcement comes the sharing on synthy new single “I love this track’s elements of early house music in its Oberheim DMX drum machine, repetitive bass-line and guitar silence in sections,” says Andrew Swayze. “The images came to me in a dream. As soon as I woke I briefed Olivia and we took it from there. We were locked up at home so had been forced to make it entirely on our own from inside a little makeshift cupboard come production office we’d created. Clown paint doesn’t dry which is surprising.”

RITUALS OF MINE – “COME AROUND ME”

Rituals of Mine will release Hype Nostalgia on September 25 via Carpark. The first single is “Come Around Me,” which puts a gothic tinge on R&B pop.

JESS CORNELIUS – “BODY MEMORY”

LA based Australian artist Jess Cornelius is gearing up to release Distance, her debut album, on July 24 via Loantaka Records (US) and Part Time Records (AU/NZ). Set to a vintage drum machine beat, “Body Memory” is slyly seductive, drawing you further in with each chorus. If you like Alex Cameron, there’s some connective tissue here.

ANTELOPER (JAIMIE BRANCH + JASON NAZARY) – “BUBBLE UNDER”

Anteloper is the duo of modern-day jazz great Jaimie Branch and prolific session drummer Jason Nazary (who’s also been in Bear In Heaven for a while), and they’re releasing Tour Beats Vol. 1 on July 1 via International Anthem. The first taste is opening track “Bubble Under,” a psychedelic blend of classic jazz and modern electronics.

SKEE MASK – ISS005 & ISS006

Berlin ambient techno musician Skee Mask was met with a lot of love for his 2018 sophomore album Compro, and this week he followed that with two new EPs, both of which sound like he’s got a lot more to say.

THE STREETS – “FALLING DOWN” (ft. HAK BAKER)

The Streets (Mike Skinner) has shared another single off his upcoming None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive (due 7/10 via Island), and this one features self-proclaimed “G-folk” singer Hak Baker.

NADINE SHAH – “CLUB COUGAR”

Genre-defying UK artist Nadine Shah releases her new album Kitchen Sink this Friday, June 26 via Infectious Music/BMG, and here’s a horn-fueled new single from it. “There’s many names for a woman who dates a younger man. Can you think of any examples of names given to men that date younger women? (Without listing off reams of Hollywood actors!). Much of this album is about contradiction. This song is especially,” she writes.

KELEKETLA! – “INTERNATIONAL LOVE AFFAIR”

Keleketla! is the project of Ninja Tune cofounders Coldcut “and a cadre of South African musicians,” and their upcoming self-titled album album comes out July 3 via Ninja Tune/Ahead of Our Time. This jazz/Afrobeat-blending song from it features vocals by Nono Nkoane and Tubatsi Molo, and contributions from the late Tony Allen, Shabaka Hutchings, Dele Sosimi, Tamar Osborn, Miles James, Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne, Afla Sackey and Antibalas.

WIDOWSPEAK – “MONEY”

Widowspeak returned with their first single since 2017, “Breadwinner,” in May, and now they’ve announced a new album, Plum, due out August 28 via Captured Tracks. They’ve shared another new single, “Money,” about which singer songwriter Molly Hamilton says, “I’ve been thinking a lot about the things we tell ourselves in order to ‘forget’ the toll of our collective actions: whatever makes it easier to forgive what we’re complicit in. Some of that is related to the environment and how people have trained themselves to tune out ‘environmentalist propaganda’. We made part of the video at a park in Kingston, NY and the archival footage is mostly pulled from films aimed at employees or shareholders of various industries. The narration for many of them (forestry, agriculture, mining, energy) was surprisingly concerned with the dangers of an environment out of balance… Shows you that we haven’t learned much in the last 70 years. On the other hand, the lyrics are also about capitalism and how it trains us to see everything in terms of value, even our experiences, and we get so caught up in seeking some sort of return on investment that we ignore the damage we inflict (on people, on ourselves, on the planet).”

THE RENTALS – “SHAKE YOUR DIAMONDS”

The Rentals’ had been rolling out their new album Q36 song by song, and now the entire thing is here. The final track to be released is the triumphant, uplifting “Shake Your Diamonds.”

LANTERN – “BEINGS”

Finnish death/black/thrashers Lantern have debuted the second single off Dimensions, which drops this week via Dark Descent. It’s another rager, and you can hear it at Decibel. Previous single below.

PURE BATHING CULTURE – “SOMETHING SILVER”

Pure Bathing Culture released Night Pass last year, and now they’re following it with a new EP, Carrido. It’s due out via Infinite Companion on July 3, the two year anniversary of Richard Swift’s death, and the EP is a tribute to him, who the duo credit as “a catalyst for the last decade of our lives, spent creating music as Pure Bathing Culture.” They recorded it over four days at his studio, National Freedom, which they were invited to by his wife Shealynn, and the first single is the shimmery “Something Silver.”

MORTALITY RATE – “VEINS” (ft. JUDICIARY’s JAKE COLLINSON) (remixed/remastered)

Calgary modern-day hardcore greats Mortality Rate are putting out a remixed, remastered reissue of 2016’s Sleep Deprivation with the songs from their split with Judiciary tacked on. The first song to be released is “Veins” from the Judiciary split (and which also features Judiciary’s Jake Collinson).

ENTRY – “SELECTIVE EMPATHY”

Entry (who share guitarrist Clayton Stevens with Touche Amore) released the second single from their upcoming debut album Detriment (due 7/17 via Southern Lord). Vocalist Sara G tells Revolver the song is about “the struggle many of us have with our parents who once told us to be kind and accepting to everyone, but now support ideas contrary to that. I think this issue has been exacerbated by the widespread use of social media for news and information sharing.” Listen here and stream the previous single below.

HUM – “STEP INTO YOU”

Hum surprise-released their first new album in 22 years, Inlet, on Bandcamp today (physical copies are coming out August 31 via Polyvinyl), and while we’ll write more about the album after we take it in more, we reviewed one of the clear highlights, “Step Into You,” here.

CONSTANT ELEVATION – “BOB X. CURSION”

Constant Elevation, first the duo of Vinnie Caruana (The Movielife) and Sammy Siegler (Youth of Today) but now a five-piece band with members of Caspian, American Nightmare, and more, announced a new EP and released this new song. You can read more about it here.

STRIKE ANYWHERE – “FRONTIER GLITCH”

Strike Anywhere’s first new EP in 11 years comes out in July, and you can read more about this new song and video from it here.

INTER ARMA – “PURPLE RAIN” (PRINCE COVER)

Inter Arma have released the Prince cover off their upcoming covers album, and you can read more about it here.

HUMAN IMPACT – “TRANSIST” & “SUBVERSION”

Human Impact — aka former Unsane frontman Chris Spencer plus Phil Puleo (Cop Shoot Cop, Swans), Jim Coleman (Cop Shoot Cop), and Chris Provdica (Swans) — released their great self-titled debut album earlier this year, followed by the standalone single “Contact,” and they promised more standalone singles would be on the way. Here are two more. “Transist” is cut from the same psychedelic post-hardcore cloth as the album, while “Subversion” is much more out-there.

SUN RA ARKESTRA – “SEDUCTIVE FANTASY”

Led by the great Marshall Allen (who just turned 96 last month), jazz greats the Sun Ra Arkestra have announced their first album in 20 years, which will be released later this year on Strut Records. While details are scant, they have just released the first single from the record, a new version of “Seductive Fantasy” (originally from Sun Ra’s 1979 album Seductive Fantasy from On Jupiter). The video was directed and animated by Chad Vangaalen.

OLD 97’S – “TURN OFF THE TV”

Here’s the first single from Old 97’s 12th album, Twelfth. “Turn Off the TV” juxtaposes the allure of a free cable hookup (“They’re running a marathon of Kids in the Hall“) with more carnal pleasures. The video, directed by Liam Lynch, makes good use of a pile of old school TVs and quarantined performances, and features cameos from Puddles Pity Party, Jenna Fischer, Janeane Garofalo, Paul F Tompkins, Dave Hill, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen and more.

FLOCK OF DIMES (JENN OF WYE OAK) – LIKE SO MUCH DESIRE EP

Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner has signed to Sub Pop for her Flock of Dimes solo project. With that news comes the release of the Like So Much Desire EP, the first Flock of Dimes record in four years. The five atmospheric songs on the EP are a gorgeous showcase for Wasner’s songwriting and vocal abilities, with some spine-tingling harmonies and string arrangements.

FENNE LILY – “ALAPATHY”

UK artist Fenne Lily will release BREACH, her sophomore album, on September 18 via Dead Oceans. She made the album at Chicago’s Narwhal Studios with Brian Deck, with additional recording with Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studios. First single “Alapathy,” is a nice dose of driving, melodic indie rock which she says is about how she started “smoking weed to switch off [her] brain.”

For even more new songs, browse the ‘New Songs’ archive.