13 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.

KAKTUS EINARSSON – “FOLLOW” (FT. JOHN GRANT)

Iceland artist Kaktus Einarsson will release Factoid Happiness on September 18 via One Little Independent and it’s a record that features a number of guests, including John Grant who is on new single “Follow.”

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HEY, NOTHING – “LONG TIME LEAVER” (FT. BEA PORGES)

“‘Long Time Leaver’ pokes fun at the strange nature of touring or traveling,” hey, nothing say of “Long Time LEaver,” the new single off their upcoming album Hound. “It is about the internal guilt we feel every time we leave home for extended periods of time. Through this song, we look through the eyes of our parents and how it must seem for them when we miss holidays or certain major life moments – there’s a loneliness for both those who leave and those who have been left. But it’s also about letting go of that shame in order to grasp the privilege in reach and use it for good rather than wasting it.”

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CARLY RAE JEPSEN – “AFTER ALL”

Carly Rae Jepsen’s new double album Day and Night arrives in September, and she’s given us another taste of the Day side with “After All,” which she co-wrote with Kyle Shearer and Nate Cyphert.

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MALLORY HAWK – “FOUR O’CLOCKS”

Philadelphia songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mallory Hawk (Customer, Trace Mountains) will release her debut solo album, Chinook, on July 31, and the new single is “Four O’Clocks.” “This song is about the house I lived in from ages 6 to 16 in Fayetteville, North Carolina,” she says. “It was eventually demolished by the city so they could build a highway that made it easier to get to the Fort Bragg military base from residential areas. Shortly after we moved, a tornado came through and damaged the house, which was really jarring and made us grateful to have left even though we never wanted to. I tried driving back there and got far enough to remember that it’s not even possible to visit or really identify where the house was—it’s a highway exit ramp now. ‘Four o’clocks’ are the flowers that lined the walkway to our front steps. They’re fragrant and magenta, and only bloom from 4 to 8 pm. They were always fresh when I got home from school and the smell just transports me there—it’s such a vivid memory for me, down to the sounds, colors, and textures. I really wanted to just feel the winds and smell the smells of my home and reflect on how far I’d come since then, but the reality is quite drab and anti-climactic.”

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LAVA LA RUE – “PRINCE OF BOLOGNA”

British musician and filmmaker Lava La Rue has a new song out via Speedy Wunderground’s Singles Series. It was produced by label head Dan Carey alongside Tommaso Medico, and Lava directed the parkour-heavy, AI-free video. Don’t try this at home!

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HOVVDY – “YOU WILL GO FAR”

Here’s another preview of Hovvdy’s new album Big World.

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SILT. – “TRAUMA PORN”

silt., which a press release says is “neither a traditional band nor solo alias,” has shared a new single, “trauma porn.” They say it’s “about how hard it is to be alone – and the lengths people will go to to avoid sitting with themselves. It’s interested in the realities we build, the emotional loops we trap ourselves inside. It embodies the volatility that comes from flicking through your own emotions and realities as if they’re pieces of content.”

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PONS – “CITY SLICKER”

NYC artist PONS are back with a new single on Eugene Hutz’s Casa Gogol Records. “City Slicker” is half rock and half rave. Says PONS, “I wanted to make dance music for the future while paying homage to the angular and idiosyncratic music of the 1970’s that shaped me. It’s dark, it’s dangerous, it’s paranoid, and it nightmarishly reflects the crushing weight and constant overstimulation of living in a place like New York City.”

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HANA STRETTON – “SEAGULL THEORY II” & “AS IT WAS BEFORE THIS”

Australian ambient/folk artist Hana Stretton will release a new album, tiarn, on August 7. She’s shared two new singles, “Seagull Theory II” and “As It Was Before This,” and says, “It’s not an accident that both of these songs are choral exercises and need many voices and bodies to work. I had been isolated for a longer time than was good for me and was being gently nudged by my songs to move out into the world. In order to finish the songs, I knew I had to find people… I started tentatively with my dad playing harmonica on a drive, then my best friends and their band Woom giggling and singing along on a hot day in London, Paddy Keenan playing the pipes in Cork, Evie Hilyer-Ziegler improvising on her fiddle, my friend Nick Huggins beautiful low voice, Hannah McKittrick and Isobel Caldwell gathered around the tape machine in Melbourne and finally the Forest Creek Folk Choir in Castlemaine. Once I started, it cascaded… and now, the songs hold over 50 voices. Without knowing it, I was trying to remind myself of the beauty and abundance that was available if I just took a few steps in the right direction.”