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.
SAUL WILLIAMS – “ROBOT SLAVE” & “MAZAHUA” (FT. AZTLAN UNDERGROUND)
Saul Williams has shared two more songs off his upcoming album Leap Life. n this song I weigh the possibility of communicating with our ancestors whose land and fossils power our technology and how they might aid us in our revolt,” he says of “Robot Slave” and as for “Mazahuah,” he says, “In playing my part in our mobilization against oppressive systems, music is my weapon of choice.”
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HARRISON GORDON – “LIKE ME LESS”
Normal, IL emo band Harrison Gordon release their second album, BLISS, in September, and they’ve given us another preview with the spiky “Like Me Less.” They say it’s “about having issues with yourself, and projecting those problems on to other people. ‘Whatever black mold breeding and spreading over your soul needs to stay dormant and unaddressed if you hope to keep anyone around.’ It was written about how it felt to go through a depressive episode while living with another person who was operating completely fine, ‘No one knows me, I barely know me, and that’s the way it oughta be.'”
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RIP MAGIC – “LIGHT OVER THERE”
The mercurial London group RIP Magic‘s third single is the darkest, dubbiest yet. They have yet to repeat themselves and it will be exciting to hear what comes next.
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RENNY CONTI – “IMPOSSIBLE TRUTH”
Brooklyn-based artist Renny Conti announced his second album, Split Second, due out September 25 via Mom + Pop. “On Split Second, I’m writing about things that get at the root of who I am, of the me I no longer am,” he says. “It’s why we are who we are now.” He’s shared the lead single, “Impossible Truth.”
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EYEDRESS – “MISS UNIVERSE”
Eyedress dives into the sociopolitical on this new protest single.
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EELS – “ALL FORGOTTEN” & “I’M ON STANDBY”
“You can find the idea of your existence ending troubling or comforting. I try to lean towards the comforting take whenever possible: For thousands, millions of years you didn’t exist, and you and the world were fine,” says Eels founder E of “All Forgotten,” one of two new songs from Cookie Happens released today. “You’ll be fine not existing again. This is what hit songs are written about, right?”
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DENT MAY – “SECOND WIND”
Says Dent: “I wrote ‘Second Wind’ very quickly one late afternoon when I was feeling low. My friend invited me to do something fun, but I wasn’t up for it. The song is quite literally a live narration of me catching a second wind and deciding to go out and give it a try. We recorded the entire album live to tape with the band playing unrehearsed, and this arrangement is the epitome of my desire to break of out of the grid and let the tempo ebb and flow with the emotions of the song.” New album The Big One is out August 14.
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THE AVALANCHES – “BLUE SHADOWS” FT KAREN O
It’s the third new single from The Avalanches this year.
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TEENAGE FANCLUB – “DAY IN THE SUN”
It’s the first single from Teenage Fanclub’s 13th album.
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JOHN PRINE – “WORLD WITHOUT LOVE”
A new archival release celebrates the 30th anniversary of the late John Prince’s twelfth album, Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings, and it includes five previously unreleased tracks. One of them is out now, and you can read more about Found Dogs here.
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EMMA RUTH RUNDLE – “ENOUGH”
Emma Ruth Rundle gave us a second taste of her sixth album with “Enough,” which you can read more about here.
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STEF CHURA – “DANNY”
Stef Chura announced her first album in 7 years and unveiled the first single, “Danny,” which Peter Buck and Mike Mills play on. Read more about it here.
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