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.
LA DISPUTE – “16” & “REFORMATION”
La Dispute have shared two singles originally released via Patreon over the last two years. “’16’ is the most recently completed track from the ongoing Here, Hear series, a supplementary songwriting project that started in 2008 and migrated online during the early months of COVID shutdown,” the band says. “Beginning with a creative prompt from Adam called ‘This Song Will Self-Destruct,’ participating members were asked to ‘break’ something over the course of the parts they contributed. The result is a song that both does and does not fall apart entirely itself, or at least we feel it does both things. Give it a listen yourself and decide. ‘Reformation’ is the most recent installment of a new alternate writing endeavor, titled ‘MEANTIME,’ in which songs are built words first, beginning with an audio recording from Jordan before being sent to one instrumentalist in the band to flesh the track out musically (in this song’s case, one Corey Stroffolino).”
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LAMPLIGHT – “LAMPLIGHT”
Lamplight has released the song Lamplight from the album Lamplight. It’s a lovely indie folk song, and the LP comes out this Friday (3/8). Lamplight also plays a hometown release show on Tuesday (3/5) at Mercury Lounge with Fraternal Twin and Mike Etten.
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SHABAZZ PALACES – “TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER” FT. LAVARR THE STARR
Ishmael Butler’s alter ego Lavarr the Starr features on “Take Me To Your Leader,” the closing track and latest single off Shabazz Palaces’ new album Exotic Birds of Prey.
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THIS IS LORELEI – “DANCING IN THE CLUB”
Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos announced a new album as This Is Lorelei and shared the lead single, which you can read more about here.
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OREN AMBARCHI / JOHAN BERTHLING / ANDREAS WERLIIN – “TRE”
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin follow up 2021’s Ghosted with Ghosted II which is out April 26 via Drag City. First single “Tre” is all complex rhythms and gorgeous atmosphere.
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PORIJ – “UNPREDICTABLE”
“These lyrics came from a poem I wrote in November,” Porij’s Egg says of this new single from their upcoming debut album. “It was fairly bleak, but in essence was all about missing the simplicity of my early life but craving the complexity of the life that could come. In that period of time everything felt quite up and down and I didn’t really know how I was going to feel from one day to the next.” Teething is out April 26 via [PIAS].
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AUTOHEART – “SECRET DIARY”
UK queer alt-pop trio Autoheart are heading across the pond for a sold-out tour on the US and are also celebrating the 10th anniversary of their debut, Punch, with an album of demos, alternate takes and never-before released songs. In the latter category there is “Secret Diary” which has long been a live staple.
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MACHINEDRUM – “ZOOM”
Machinedrum’s new album 3FOR82 features collaborations with Jesse Boykins III, KUČKA, Duckwrth, AKTHESAVIOR, Mick Jenkins, Ezri, Tanerélle, Deniro Farrar, Topaz Jones, deem spencer, aja monet, ROZET, Will Johnson, Ian Maciak, and on skittering first single “ZOOM,” Tinashe.
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MEAGRE MARTIN – “MALCOLM”
Berlin’s Meagre Martin are back with their first new music since releasing their debut album last year. “Malcolm” is a hazy dreampop earworm inspired by 2000s-era FOX family comedy Malcolm in the Middle that has a little more crunch than what we’re used to from the band.
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AMERICAN CULTURE – “LET IT GO” FT MIDWIFE
Denver’s American Culture have announced their fourth album, Hey Brother, It’s Been A While, which will be out May 3 via Convulse Records. It was produced by Beach House drummer James Barone, who has worked on records by Hatchie and Nathaniel Rateliff.
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SINAI VESSEL – “HOW”
Sinai Vessel has signed to Keeled Scales and shared his first new music for the label, which you can read more about here.
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