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14 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.
SQUAREPUSHER – “K7 MUSEUM”
Squarepusher’s new album, Kammerkonzert, will be out April 10 on Warp, and here’s a second song from it. Says Squarepusher: “Kammerkonzert is a riot of onyx-hard, hyperfast riffs. It is a riot of fiendish orchestral themes. It is a riot of handbrake turns through varieties of progressive, ambient, electronic and experimental music. But more than all of this, it is a riot of synapse-zapping, nerve-tingling fun.” You can watch the “score video” which is the instrumental equivalent of a lyric video, we guess.
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YAYA BEY – “EGYPTIAN MUSK” (FT. NESTA)
Yaya Bey’s new album Fidelity arrives in April, and she’s given us another preview with “Egyptian Musk,” which features NESTA. “I ran into NESTA at an event the night before and invited him to a session,” Yaya says. “We had this really dreamy reggae track that sounds like something old with a fresh spin. I named it ‘Egyptian Musk.’”
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WHITE FENCE – “UNREAD BOOKS”
Here’s another song from White Fence’s upcoming Ty Segall-produced album, Orange. “Unread Books” features Wand’s Dylan Hadley on drums and former La Luz member Alice Sandahl on keyboards.
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GEM CLUB – “GARLANDS”
Gem Club’s first album since 2014, Emerald Press, arrives next month, and he’s shared the second single, “Garlands.” “‘Garlands’ came out of witnessing the slow dissolution of a close friend’s relationship,” he says. “Being close to that process made me think about how many of the small gestures that hold intimacy together can get lost in translation, and how much uncertainty we sometimes tolerate just to remain connected. I watched one person in the relationship lay offering after offering at the feet of the other — over and over — and it struck me how much time, labor, and emotional effort goes into making those garlands. Part of me wanted to step in and say: what about you? where are you in all of this?”
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DEARY – “ALMA”
“I see Alma as an embodiment of our band,” says Dottie Cockram of London shoegazers deary. “It has been with us for a long time and changed with us along the way. In the past 4 years, we have grown into ourselves and have a much clearer idea of what deary is. In this song, I am talking to my younger self who made the decision to look after us and become a better person.” deary’s debut album, Birding, is out April 3 via Bella Union.
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NATALIE WILDGOOSE – “RIVER DAYS”
Yorkshire folk artist Natalie Wildgoose will release a new EP, Rural Hours, on April 15 via State 51, and the new single is the beautiful, pared-back “River Days.” “This song is a record of a single day, written that same evening, capturing the events and feelings of an early-summer day when Matt and I spent every hour by the river,” she says. “We lit fires and made black coffee in the naturally worn rockpools of the stone, in the evening we cooked fresh trout and lay in the grass beds where the deer had slept the night before. I fell asleep to the sounds of the waterfalls we had stumbled across on our wanderings, and then later, in the shower, I noticed my shoulders were burned, not badly, just a small sting. Proof I had lived a little, but that would fade in a week.”
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GLEN HANSARD – “MY LITTLE RUIN” (LIVE)
I wrote ‘My Little Ruin’ for a close friend who was going through a precarious self-destruct period. Someone who is blessed with the greatest of gifts, and who just couldn’t see how they were letting folks walk all over them. It was a sort of intervention song. A friend who will risk being honest might save you years of slow figuring it out by yourself. Gotta tread lightly though.” This is from Glen’s new live album Don+t Settle – Transmissions East & West which is out April 24.
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LAURA MISCH – “KAIROS” & “SCROLLS”
Laura Misch shared two more tracks off her second album, Lithic. “Kairos” and “Scrolls” have her voice and saxophone augmented by cello and violin, synths, a lithophone, and field recordings.
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SOME VELVET SIDEWALK – “DON’T FUCK WITH YOUR LUCK”
Olympia, WA “love rock” scene pioneers Some Velvet Sidewalk will release Critters Encore, their first album in 29 years, on June 26 via K Recs. Here’s the first single.
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WILLIE NELSON – “DREAM CHASER”
Willie Nelson announced his 156th album (and 79th solo studio album) Dream Chaser, and shared the title track, which you can read more about here.
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SLIPPERS – “WANTS FOR EVERYONE”
Slippers is the solo project of Madeline Babuka Black, who has played in Yucky Duster, Beverly and Le Pain. Her first album for K is out June 5 and this is the terrific first single.
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KELSEY LU – “RUNNING TO PAIN”
Kelsey Lu announced her first album in 7 years, and gave us a first preview with the cinematic “Running to Pain.” Read more about it here.
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COLA – “CONFLAGRATION MINDSET”
Canadian trio Cola’s third album Cost of Living Adjustment is out May 8 and they’ve just shared a new song from it, “Conflagration Mindset,” which was inspired by the LA wildfires.
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