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.
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – “ROCK ‘N’ ROLL FLU”
Super Furry Animals, who are back, have shared one of the bonus tracks from their upcoming 20th anniversary edition of Love Kraft. “It’s a song about one of the very worst hangovers I have ever had,” says drummer Daf Ieuan. “We were on our way to Tokyo, and I took in some refreshments before taking off and topped up during the flight. Arriving in a totally different time zone and being unable to sleep, we took off into the night when we got there. The perfect conditions for absolute dehydration. Which tour was it? Well, your guess is as good as mine.”
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DANNY L HARLE – “AZIMUTH” FT. CAROLINE POLACHEK
“‘Azimuth’ felt like the finalisation of an approach that Caroline and I had been orbiting for some time as a way of putting her voice into my music – I sometimes call it the ‘trance siren.'” Danny L Harle says. “You can hear manifestations of it in tracks like ‘Insomnia’ from Pang and ‘On The Beach’ from Death Stranding 2, but this was the first time I managed to translate it into my style of dance music. Azimuth’s melody could only have been sung by Caroline, it is designed around her voice, I couldn’t imagine anyone else singing it or giving a performance like that. It also allowed us to play with scale, space and quietness in a way I’ve never done before. For me, ‘Azimuth’ is a trance ballad, despairing but hopeful, best heard in a in club in a sunken cathedral.”
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MOMMA – “CROSS YOUR HEART”
Momma announced a deluxe edition of their great 2025 album Welcome To My Blue Sky, due out November 14 via Polyvinyl/Lucky Number. It features four b-sides, and they’ve shared one of them, “Cross Your Heart.” The band say, “We actually were messing around with this one during soundchecks while we were still touring Household Name. We always knew it had potential but we could never fully crack it, and this was one of the first songs we started working on in the writing process for Welcome to My Blue Sky. It’s about a forbidden romance and sneaking around with another person.”
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BEN QUAD – “PAINLESS”
We just named Ben Quad’s “It’s Just A Title” one of the best punk/emo songs of September, and now we get the second taste of Wisher. The band cites Taking Back Sunday as a big influence on this one, and I’d add that I hear more than a little of Hawthorne Heights’ “Ohio Is For Lovers” in the vocal melody. And Ben Quad make it sound as good in 2025 as it would have 20 years ago.
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LAMB OF GOD – “SEPSIS”
Lamb of God have shared their first new music since their 2022 album Omens. It was produced by their regular collaborator Josh Wilbur, and Mark Morton says, “’Sepsis’ is a celebration of the very underground local bands here in Richmond that we really admired when we were just forming Burn the Priest. Bands like Breadwinner, Sliang Laos, and Ladyfinger—though they never got widespread attention outside of Richmond, those were the bands we listened to all the time. The song references that stuff in a way that’s a direct line to where we were coming from when we were in the basement writing our earliest material together.”
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HEALTH – “VIBE COP”
HEALTH’s sixth album, CONFLICT DLC, is out in December (pre-order our exclusive coke bottle clear vinyl variant) and they’ve given us another preview with the pounding, pulsating “Vibe Cop,” which features Lamb of God’s Willie Adler.
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JUST MUSTARD – “ENDLESS DEATHLESS”
Irish band Just Mustard, who have been tapped by The Cure to open for them next year, have released a new song from their upcoming album We Were Just Here. “I wrote the lyrics for this song by imagining myself on a dance floor,” says the band’s Katie Bell. “We wanted to write more songs that suited places like that. I suppose i would describe it as an existential love song but you can hear it and feel it anyway you like.”
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DIRT BUYER – “BETCHU WON’T”
“This as well as some others on this record were written with the intention of keeping it simple and keeping from overthinking the form,” Dirt Buyer says of his new single “Betchu Won’t.” “It’s just verse/chorus. It was originally acoustic, classic singer-songwriter vibe with no drums. I felt it needed the full treatment so I made it a rock song like the rest. I wrote the lyrics after the music when I was initially demoing the song and they obviously come from a place of hurt. I feel like the words are very specific to my situation, but can be interpreted in a number of ways and are applicable to all kinds of people.”
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EMPRESS OF – “BLASTING THROUGH THE SPEAKERS”
Ahead of her shows supporting Lorde, Empress Of shared a new single that she co-produced with Mike Sabath. “I’m very excited to share this song with the world,” she says. “This year I learned a lot about the things that matter. Music has always been one of those things. After the fires in Altadena, I couldn’t make music for some time. I was afraid to go there. When I made this song, it felt like music was a friend I hadn’t talked to in a while, but was always there to pick up the phone. Thank you for listening to me all these years. Thank you music for always being there.”
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A LOT LIKE BIRDS – “WHEN IN LOVE” (ft. GEOFF RICKLY)
The Kurt Travis-led A Lot Like Birds are back with their first new single in 8 years, and it’s an energetic post-hardcore song that features Thursday’s Geoff Rickly singing the bridge.
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SEAROWS – “DEARLY MISSED”
Alec Duckart announced a new album as Searows, Death in the Business of Whaling, due out January 23 via Last Recordings on Earth. The lead single is “Dearly Missed,” which Duckart calls “my contribution to the so-called ‘good for her’ horror genre. I’m an avid horror lover for many reasons, but I appreciate it in particular for the ability of the genre to explore societal issues without reading as too preachy. The reality of this world for marginalized people gets bleaker by the day and watching someone on screen who you can relate to fighting back and winning and taking back their dignity can be an extremely cathartic and empowering experience. I wrote this song for the part of me that desires retribution for all the ways I and every marginalized person has been harmed and betrayed by society. I had a lot of fun writing this song and exploring a musical genre that I don’t often write in, but enjoy listening to.”
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YOUNG MIKO – “MEIOMI”
Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko has confirmed her sophomore album, and while most details are TBA, she did just share this Afrobeats-tinged new single.
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BOYS LIFE – “ORDINARY WAR”
Kansas City emo veterans Boys Life released their first new song in 29 years and announced a new EP. Read more about it a href=”https://www.brooklynvegan.com/boys-life-share-first-new-song-in-29-years-announce-ordinary-wars-ep/”>here.
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