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.
HEEMS – “DAME”
Heems has shared the second single from his second album of 2024, VEENA LP, and this one shows off a more lighthearted single after the very heavy lead single.
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WENDY EISENBERG – “LASIK”
Wendy Eisenberg (Editrix) announced a new album, Viewfinder, due out September 13 via American Dreams. The lead single is “Lasik;” in the accomapnying video, Richard Lenz “used lensless and pinhole photography techniques to explore how optics mediate our experience of reality in life and art.”
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OVERMONO – “GEM LINGO (OVR NOW)” FEATURING RUTHVEN
UK dance duo Overmono (Tom and Ed Russell) are spending the summer on the festival circuit and if you’ve seen them lately you may have already heard this banger featuring Paul Institute-founding artist Ruthven. (Before that you have heard it on Overmono’s Lot Radio set with Fred again..) It’s finally out on streaming services.
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WE ARE WOLVES – “SÚPER NORMAL”
Montreal indie vets We Are Wolves will release their new album in November and here’s a dancable early taste.
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ALICE LONGYU GAO – “DETECTIVE ALICE神探埃粒司”
Alice Longyu Gao has a new mini album coming out this fall, and ahead of that xe shared vibrant electro track “Detective Alice神探埃粒司,” which introduces a new character in xer AGL World.
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BIG BEND – “WHEELING” FT SHAHZAD ISMAILY
Nathan Phillips will release Last Circle in a Slowdown, his new album as Big Bend, on September 13 via Shimmy-Disc. It was co-produced by Shahzad Ismaily. “This song went through several iterations,” Nathan says of “Wheeling,” the album’s first single which namechecks the WV city near where his grandmother was from. “At one point it drudged along at half tempo before a very late night when Shahzad was in and out of sleep at the drum set, where he came up with this propulsive brushed beat. Out of that subconscious land came a backbone that made the other instrumentation come alive. There were about two years of listening to the piano, bass and guitar parts without a decisive rhythm! My friend Craig and I were ecstatic sitting in the control room.”
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LIAM BENZVI – “OTHER GUYS” FT. BLOOD ORANGE
Liam Benzvi of Strange Names releases his new solo album, …And His Splash Band, in September, and Dev Hynes of Blood Orange features on the new single. “Dev is one of my good friends,” Benzvi says, “and I already knew our voices sounded nice together, so having his vocals on the song added the most perfect texture, and I’m so beyond content with how it all came out.”
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COLD GAWD – “GORGEOUS”
Cold Gawd have shared another taste of their upcoming album for Dais Records, I’ll Drown On This Earth, and it’s a sludgy shoegaze song of the Nothing/Hum/etc variety.
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THOTCRIME – “GARDEN COURT” (ft. BAGEL RABBIT)
Genre-blurring band Thotcrime have shared another taste of Connection Anxiety, and this one’s a thrilling hyperpop/post-hardcore fusion.
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LITTLE BIT – “LEAD YOU ON”
Hannah Liuzzo, formerly of Lilith, will release her debut EP as Little Bit, talk a blue streak, on September 20 via Hit the North Records. The opening track is “lead you on,” and Hannah says, “This song explores the power dynamic that comes from playing games with someone who’s playing games with you, and the delusion of thinking you hold power from meddling in the dark magic of manipulating a manipulator. In the end, no one holds power, no one wins.”
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HAR – “SUBMERGED IN CACOPHONY” & “INVOKING EVIL SPIRIT”
HAR are a Berlin-based black/death metal band of Israeli descent, and they’re following two EPs and a demo with their debut album Cursed Creation on August 23 via Dark Descent. The first two tracks are out now, and they’re pretty gnarly.
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DRUG CHURCH – “DEMOLITION MAN”
Drug Church have announced their fifth album, PRUDE, along with the release of new single “Demolition Man.” Read more here and pick up our exclusive neon violet vinyl variant in the BV shop.
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GREAT GRANDPA – “KID”
Great Grandpa are back with their first new new song in five years (and first for Run For Cover), and it’s no exaggeration to call this an epic return. Read more about it here.
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JAPANDROIDS – “CHICAGO”
Break out the blood, sweat, and beer ’cause Japandroids are back with last album and lead single “Chicago” finds them sounding as explosive as ever. Read more about it here.
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PRIMAL SCREAM – “LOVE INSURRECTION”
Primal Scream made their 12th album with David Holmes which is a good match as you can hear on first single “Love Insurrection.”
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FANTASY OF A BROKEN HEART – “LOSS”
fantasy of a broken heart shared another new track off their anticipated debut album Feats of Engineering, and you can read more about it here.
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TROPICAL FUCK STORM – “ANTIMATTER ANIMALS”
Aussie band Tropical Fuck Storm are a feirce live act and have finally made a live album that will be out in September.
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JOHNNY MARR & THE HEALERS – “ALL OUT ATTACK”
Johnny Marr is an established solo artist now but he first dipped a toe in the waters back in 2003 with his group Johnny Marr & The Healers and their album Boomslang. Out of print and never on streaming, the record is getting reissued this fall with a bunch of previously unreleased songs, including this one.
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DAWES – “HOUSE PARTIES”
Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith says “House Parties” is about “how true cultural experiences aren’t in the tourist traps but within human connections among specific communities. It’s a goofy lyric but the sentiment is not.” It’s the first single from their new album Oh Brother.
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GULFER – LIGHTS OUT EP
Montreal indie/emo band Gulfer are calling it quits after two final shows this weekend, and they just released one last EP. Read about it here.
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