IDLES, Yard Act, Playboi Carti & more

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.

IDLES – “GIFT HORSE”

IDLES new album TANGK is out in one month and the band have shared one of the best songs from it, the subtly explosive “Gift Horse.” Says frontman Joe Talbot, “Look at us go! Music and movement for you and yours. Be bold and ride us like the disco donkeys we are.”

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FRIKO – “WHERE WE’VE BEEN”

“‘Where We’ve Been’ has sort of become the Friko theme song for the band,” vocalist and guitarist Niko Kapetan says of their new single. “Recording it was kind of the moment where it felt like the band really took on what it represents to all of us now.” It’s from their anticipated new album Where we’ve been, Where we go from here.

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YARD ACT – “WE MAKE HITS”

“We Make Hits’ started like most Yard Act songs do these days, in Ryan’s spare bedroom,” says Yard Act frontman James Smith of the band’s latest single from their upcoming second album. “He’d recorded a couple of basslines and I went round to throw some words on top just to see what might happen. I was reflecting on how things had changed so much for us over the last few years when I realised that sat round a laptop trying to make each other laugh, necking black coffee and craneing our heads out of the window to smoke cigs every hour or so, all that had really changed within the writing process was that, thanks to my baby, we were at Ryan’s house rather than mine and that Ryan had a place of his own now, which was nice. Despite the outside blowing up, behind closed doors, we were the same, and I’m grateful for that. You can see the cynicism and the silliness on the surface of ‘We Make Hits’ without much effort, but at its core, for me, it’s really an ode to friendship and the unfiltered joy you feel when you’re making music with the people you hold dear in your life. Meanwhile back in the Yardiverse, we’re getting the origin story of the hitmen Dynamite Dave and Dudley Sunglasses. A valid parable about the trappings of late capitalism, and the compromises we have to make to survive sometimes.”

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MADI DIAZ – “EVERYTHING ALMOST”

“Everything Almost,” the third single off Madi Diaz’s anticipated new album Weird Faith, is “about my constant wondering within a relationship,” she says. “How much should I be saying things out loud or am I saying too much out loud? What should I keep for myself? What’s mine that could become ours, that should become ours? What dreams are just mine that I could share with you only to discover they’re your dreams too? It’s an investigation of the depth of how far this thing could go. Am I allowed to keep some of me for me? Saying all of this out loud feels important. It is about realizing I can’t ever be everything for someone but maybe I can be almost everything.”

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CELL – “CERTAIN DEATH”

Oklahoma metalcore band Cell have announced a new EP, The Unbearable Form, due February 9 via Unbeaten Records. Along with the announcement comes the absurdly heavy new single “Certain Death.”

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WHORES. – “QUITTER’S FIGHT SONG”

Whores. have announced a new album, War, due April 16 via The Ghost Is Clear Records. Before that, you can hear the sludgy, abrasive post-hardcore of “Quitter’s Fight Song.”

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EARLY DAY MINERS – “ALONG THE RAMPARTS”

Following seven albums with both Secretly Canadian and Western Vinyl Records, indie rock vets Early Day Miners are gearing up for a new album, Outside Lies Magic, due March 22 via Solid Brass Records. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared the sprawled-out, six-minute single “Along the Ramparts.”

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HULDER – “HEARKEN THE END”

Portland black metal act Hulder has shared another taste of Verse In Oath, and this one’s a seven-minute song that goes in a hauntingly melodic, clean-vocal-infused direction.

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BRODEQUIN – “OF PILLARS AND TREES”

Knoxville brutal death metal vets Brodequin will follow their 2021 Perpetuation of Suffering EP with their first full-length album in 20 years, Harbinger of Woe, due March 22 via Season of Mist. Lead single “Of Pillars of Trees” finds them sounding a little more polished than they did two decades ago, but no less brutal.

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FLIGHT MODE – “SURPRISED AT ALL”

Oslo, Norway’s Flight Mode are gearing up for a release in February via Tiny Engines The Three Times, which collects three EPs, including their upcoming EP Tøyen, ‘13 (which comes out on its own via Tiny Engines’ sister label Sound As Language). If you miss early 2000s Death Cab, check out “Surprised At All.”

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PLAYBOI CARTI – “EVILJ0RDAN”

As Playboi Carti gears up for his new album I AM MUSIC, he’s shared another single, “EVILJ0RDAN.”

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GREG PUCIATO – FC5N EP

Former Dillinger Escape Plan and current Better Lovers vocalist Greg Puciato has digitally released a new EP with new material from his 2020 solo album Fuck Content.

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ENSLAVED – “GANGANDI”

Norwegian extreme metal vets Enslaved are putting out a deluxe edition of last year’s Heimdal with three bonus tracks, including the newly-released “Gangandi.” The band says that it felt “a little bit to the left of the rest of the material” on the album, but “that doesn’t mean that we don’t enjoy the song! Quite the contrary! We love this odd little hybrid of folk rock, early Mayhem, and King Crimson! It just ended up being the weird cousin of the rest of the songs.”

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LORD DYING – “THE UNIVERSE IS WEEPING”

Lord Dying’s new album Clandestine Transcendence comes out this Friday (1/19), and ahead of its release comes new single “The Universe Is Weeping.” The band says, “This song picks up directly where our previous album leaves off. Post death. Blazing beyond the cosmos and outside the realms of consciousness. Total dissolution of the self. Into Clandestine Transcendence.”

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NOUVELLE VAGUE – “SHOUT” (TEARS FOR FEARS COVER) FT. BIJOU & MARINE QUÉMÉRÉ

Nouvelle Vague’s new album Should I Stay or Should I Go will be out February 16 via PIAS and here’s another track from it, their cover of Tears for Fears’ classic, “Shout,” done in their signature loungey style

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PSYMON SPINE – “WIZARD ACID”

Brooklyn band Psymon Spine have announced new album Head Body Connector which will be out February 23 via Northern Spy Records. “It’s more unhinged than anything we’ve made before,” says the band’s Noah Prebish, “Throughout the writing process, we were always asking ourselves how we could make it really fun to play live.” This is the synthy new single from the LP.

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THE DANDY WARHOLS – “DANZIG WITH MYSELF” FT BLACK FRANCIS

This new Dandys song featuring Black Francis announces their new album ROCKMAKER. “Over time, it became the working title that was just too good to replace,” says Courtney Taylor-Taylor of “Danzig With Myself.”

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LIP CRITIC – “THE HEART”

Lip Critic shared their second single for Partisan Records, which you can read more about here.

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PORIJ – “MY ONLY LOVE”

Manchester, UK band Porij have been honing their particular blend of poppy dance music since 2020 with a string of EPs and singles. They have now announced their full-length debut album, Teething, which will be out April 26 via [PIAS]. This is the new single.

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NO WINDOWS – “SONG 01”

Edinburgh duo No Windows signed to Fat Possum and announced a new EP for the label; the first single is “Song 01,” which you can read more about here.

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KHRUANGBIN – “A LOVE INTERNATIONAL”

This is the first single from Khruangbin’s fourth studio album.

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DEVON WELSH – “YOU CAN DO ANYTHING”

Devon Welsh announced his first solo album since 2019, and shared the first single, which you can read more about here.

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HOLIDAY GHOSTS – “SUBLIME DISCONNECT”

UK group Holiday Ghosts will release new album Coat of Arms on March 29 via FatCat. This is the jangly, appealing first single.

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LOUISA STANCIOFF – “GOLD”

Louisa Stancioff signed to Yep Roc and announced her debut album. Read more about the first single, “Gold,” here.

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JANE WEAVER – “PERFECT STORM”

Jane Weaver has announced a new album, Love In Constant Spectacle, which will be out April 5 via Fire Records. It’s her 12th and she made it with producer John Parish (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding) at Rockfield Studios in Wales and at Geoff Barrow’s Invada studio in Bristol.