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\n\tBillboard<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0Friday Music Guide<\/a>\u00a0serves as a handy guide to this Friday\u2019s most essential releases \u2014 the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n\tThis week: Everyone\u2019s favorite super-ambitious Australian indie slacker returns with his first new album in five years, Joji shakes the block with long-distance romantic frustration and 5SOS finally address the \u201cboy band\u201d question (but not really). <\/p>\n \n\tTame Impala, Deadbeat<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tLord forgive Kevin Parker, but it\u2019s time for him to go back to the old Tame Impala<\/a>. Well, not really: When Parker sings about being \u201cback into my old ways again\u201d on the first track of new album Deadbeat<\/em> he\u2019s more talking about getting caught in old behavioral spirals (and perhaps about writing and singing about them)\u00a0than he is about returning to the psychedelic indie rock that first defined the outfit, before a late-2010s pivot to more of a pulsing (though still plenty trippy) blue-eyed soul sound. There\u2019s probably no turning back from the latter at this point \u2014 especially now that Tame\u2019s scored its first Hot 100 hit with the club-ready \u201cDracula\u201d \u2014\u00a0but Deadbeat<\/em> hits hard enough with its relatable ruminations, arresting soundscapes and heavier-than-usual beats that you won\u2019t find much fault with Parker staying exactly where he is.<\/p>\n \n\tJoji, \u201cPixelated Kisses\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tOver earthquaking bass, Joji<\/a> sings plaintively about trying to love from afar: \u201cPixelated kisses got me goin\u2019 insane\/ Replicate this moment from a million miles away.\u201d Fans might be frustrated by the 1:50 runtime and relatively truncated structuring of the alt-R&B star\u2019s first new song in three years, but \u201cPixelated Kisses\u201d also has both the emotional connection and the head-turning sonics to make them remember why Joji was worth missing in the first place, and to get them excited for more to come. <\/p>\n \n\t5 Seconds of Summer, \u201cBoyband\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tShould 5 Seconds of Summer<\/a>, the pop-rock group of young Australian heartthrobs, be considered a boy band? The question has surrounded 5SOS for its decade-long career \u2014\u00a0no doubt to its significant irritation \u2014 but now the band is winking at its reputation with new single \u201cBoyband.\u201d \u201cBoy in a boy band\/ Imaginary boyfriend\/ Irritates the metalheads\/ It\u2019s your favorite boy band\u201d goes the tongue-in-cheek chorus, as the group simultaneously leans into the title status and distances itself from it. Does it solve the debate? Not really, but the 5SOS faithful should have a ton of fun singing along to it anyway.<\/p>\n \n\tCharlie Puth, \u201cChanges\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThere\u2019s been some changes in our life\/ I can feel the distance, space and time\u201d Charlie Puth<\/a> sings on the chorus to the new single \u201cChanges,\u201d whose exuberant melodies stand in stark contrast to the melancholy subject of the relationship-grown-apart lyrics. From the sound of \u201cChanges,\u201d what Puth has really been drifting towards is Steve Winwood\u2019s \u201cHigher Love,\u201d filtered in through the modern-retro production of George Daniel from The 1975. But as always, Puth is well-studied: in a final tribute to the late-\u201980s pop-rock sonics he seems to be playing with, he even offers a pre-bridge piano solo worthy of Bruce Hornsby. <\/p>\n \n\tTeddy Swims, \u201cYou\u2019ve Got Another Thing Coming\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n