Nearly halfway through October, this week’s batch of new music is filled with major, unexpected collaborations, surprise comebacks, anniversary celebrations and new albums and singles galore.
The Format launches their long-awaited reunion with “Holy Roller,” the lead single off their just-announced comeback album, Boycott Heaven, and Maisie Peters kicks off the roll-out for her own upcoming third studio set with a double dose of “You You You” and “Audrey Hepburn.” Plus, Towa Bird contributes to the Season 2 soundtrack of Netflix’s hit rom-com “Nobody Wants This” with “Your Girl,” and Queen Naija delivers “put it on (eat)…”
New albums released this week include Daya‘s Til Every Petal Drops, Princess Nokia‘s GIRLS, Yellowcard’s Better Days, Jay Som‘s Belong, Lauren Watkins‘ In a Perfect World, TiaCorine‘s CORINIAN, and Hunter Metts’ A Crater Wide. Elsewhere, PLUTO blasts off to PLUTO WORLD, RADWIMPS begins Anew, Saint Motel basks in Afterglow, Amber Mark comes up with a Pretty Idea, Madi Diaz sees the good side on Fatal Optimist, and Sigma takes it back to DAY ONE.
Meanwhile, Michael Bublé marks the 20th anniversary of his hit 2005 album, It’s Time, with a new deluxe edition that includes remixes, live recordings and two previously unreleased bonus cuts, “Just Like You” and “I’ll Be Seeing You.” And Southall celebrates the 10th anniversary of their debut album, 2015’s Six String Sorrow, with the newly released The Six String Sorrow Sessions.
Below, press play on 11 other new releases to soundtrack your weekend, including high-profile collaborations between JISOO and ZAYN, Alameda and Doechii and David Guetta, Teddy Swims and Tones And I and new albums from TWICE, Priscilla Block, Mobb Deep and more.
JISOO & ZAYN — “EYES CLOSED”
JISOO and ZAYN find themselves lost in space in the music video for their romantically charged new single, “EYES CLOSED.”
Rather than simply trading verses, the collaboration acts as a true duet between the BLACKPINK member and one-time One Direction heartthrob as they match each other line for line aboard a futuristic spaceship. “Said, oh, we should fall in love with our eyes closed/ Better if we keep it where we don’t know/ The beds we’ve been in, the names and the faces of who we were with/ And, oh, ain’t nobody perfect, but it’s all good,” they croon together on the chorus.
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TWICE — ‘TEN: The Story Goes On’
TWICE celebrate a decade at the top of the K-pop game with their new album TEN: The Story Goes On. Along with opener “ME + YOU,” the full-length gives each member of the girl group her own well-deserved time in the spotlight with a solo track — from NAYEON’s irresistible “MEEEEEE” and SANA’s buzzy “DECAFFEINATED” to the bedroom pop of CHAEYOUNG’s “IN MY ROOM” and TZUYU’s closer “DIVE IN.”
Later this month, the girl group’s anniversary festivities will continue as their new documentary film, , is slated to hit theaters around the world starting Oct. 20.
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Kodak Black feat. Chance The Rapper — “Still Get Chanel”
Virlán García’s new album, Mi Entorno, marks his first full-length after going independent a decade into his career, with the entire project written, produced and arranged completely by the Mexican music star himself.
On the album, García blends traditional Mexican corrido with hip-hop, contemporary balladry and vibrant strings for a genre-melding sound all his own on standouts like “Nuevo Milenio,” “Grado 33,” “Dices” and “Vendetta.”
Mobb Deep — ‘Infinite’
Alemeda is the queen of the high seas in the music video for “Beat A B!tch Up,” her deliriously fun new collaboration with Doechii.
Both artists are ready to throw down (and throw a punch if necessary) on the pop-punk-leaning single, as a sword-wielding Alemeda forces some unlucky schlub to walk the plank as she promises, “‘Cause I really would, I really would/ Beat a b—h up!” Meanwhile, Doechii cruises by on a jetski with her own set of demands: “Die for me or die with that other b—/ You pick.”
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Priscilla Block — ‘Things You Didn’t See’
Priscilla Block gives fans a vulnerable peek behind the facade of a country star on her sophomore album, Things You Didn’t See.
Across the 14-track collection, Block tackles vulnerable topics like struggles with body image, mental health and criticism from online trolls, as well as the pressure to meet Nashville’s expectations. On the title track alone, she opens up about her parent’s divorce, experiencing body dysmorphia as a teenager and “selling dumpster-diving treasures just to make it” as she sings, “You think that you know me/ But how ’bout all the things you didn’t see?”
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BABYMONSTER — ‘WE GO UP’
BABYMONSTER‘s second mini-album, WE GO UP, may contain just four tracks, but the K-pop girl group demonstrates a versatile skill in crisscrossing genres at every turn.
Kicking off with the hard-hitting title track, the EP goes for broke on “PSYCHO” and slows things down for the hip-hop-inflected “SUPA DUPA LUV” before delivering a twangy, country-inspired left hook with closer “WILD.”
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Madison Cunningham — ‘Ace’
On their sixth album, Soft, LANY is all about duality — exploring the contrasts between a hard exterior and exposed, lyrical honesty.
The pop duo follow infectious lead single “Know You Naked” with heartfelt expressions of devotion like the floaty, head-in-the-clouds “Why,” the soft rock groove of “Stuck,” synth-drenched slow jam “Good Parts” and more.
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