{"id":2475221,"date":"2026-06-25T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2475221"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:36:46","slug":"new-music-friday-sombr-muse-katy-perry-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-friday-sombr-muse-katy-perry-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Friday: sombr, Muse, Katy Perry and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>What&#8217;s on this week&#8217;s New Music Friday playlists?<\/h2>\n<h2>New Music Friday albums \ud83d\udcbf<\/h2>\n<p paraeid=\"{da16f0b1-2b55-4868-9cdc-60d347831bc5}{3}\" paraid=\"1673421335\">English rock veterans\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/4712\/muse\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muse<\/a>\u00a0unleash their 10th\u00a0studio set The Wow! Signal. To date, the band have racked up an impressive seven Official Number 1 albums, including their last studio release, 2022\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/albums\/muse-will-of-the-people\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Of The People<\/a>. Is an eighth chart-topper on the horizon?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{da16f0b1-2b55-4868-9cdc-60d347831bc5}{6}\" paraid=\"1151864060\">Catch Muse on\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/muse-tour-2026-uk-european-dates-tickets-venues\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Wow! Signal European tour<\/a>, which touches down in the UK this November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{da16f0b1-2b55-4868-9cdc-60d347831bc5}{8}\" paraid=\"1257424167\">East London\u00a0multihyphenate\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/kwn\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kwn<\/a>\u00a0returns with her third EP\u00a0and\u00a0all pride aside,\u00a0putting her pen\u00a0to themes of grief,\u00a0loss\u00a0and healing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{da16f0b1-2b55-4868-9cdc-60d347831bc5}{10}\" paraid=\"1885344640\">Kettering-formed four-piece\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/28613\/temples\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Temples<\/a>\u00a0deliver\u00a0BLISS. Their fifth full length project, it fuses\u00a0the melancholic melodies of the late \u201890s rave scene with\u00a0psych-flecked riffs to level up the band\u2019s signature sound.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{da16f0b1-2b55-4868-9cdc-60d347831bc5}{12}\" paraid=\"626249623\">Soulful South London singer-songwriter\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/64795\/sekou\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sekou<\/a>\u00a0serves\u00a0the second part of his In\u00a0A\u00a0World We\u00a0Don\u2019t\u00a0Belong mixtape, including\u00a0recent\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/charts\/singles-sales-chart\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Official Singles Sales Chart<\/a>\u00a0entry\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/sekou-dangerous-lover\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dangerous Lover<\/a>.\u00a0If\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0liking what you hear, Sekou headlines London\u2019s KOKO on December 14 &#8211; but\u00a0you\u2019ll\u00a0have to get yourself on the wait list,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a\u00a0hot\u00a0ticket!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{da16f0b1-2b55-4868-9cdc-60d347831bc5}{14}\" paraid=\"1612485714\">New York rock outfit\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/6259\/pretty-reckless\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Pretty Reckless<\/a>\u00a0are back with their fifth studio LP Dear God,\u00a0as\u00a0British-Ghanian Nectar Woode presents her journey to acceptance\u00a0on new mixtape Naturally.\u00a0\u201cThis project explores mistakes, frustration, a noisy brain, being in love and self-love,\u201d explains Nectar.\u00a0\u201cNaturally feels like an honest title for all these themes.\u201d\u00a0Nectar will bring her Naturally Tour to the UK\u00a0this autumn, kicking off at The Deaf Institute, Manchester on October 13.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{da16f0b1-2b55-4868-9cdc-60d347831bc5}{16}\" paraid=\"1192097834\">Look out for more big new album releases from the likes of Downtown Boys (Public Luxury), Madeon (Victory), Truck Violence (The weathervane is my body) and Girl Trouble (As Is).<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{da16f0b1-2b55-4868-9cdc-60d347831bc5}{16}\" paraid=\"1192097834\">Now, let&#8217;s take a snoop at your singles.<\/p>\n<h2>New Music Friday singles \ud83c\udfb6<\/h2>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/sombr\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sombr<\/a> summer? Now six Official Top 40 singles deep, the artist sometimes known as Shane Boose drops his latest single My Body Isn&#8217;t Ready. Ours neither, mate.<\/p>\n<p>Teasing an upcoming six-track project on socials, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/50641\/cruz-beckham\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cruz Beckham <\/a>and his band The Breakers release Wear &amp; Tear.<\/p>\n<p>As he announces his first solo album in 11 years <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/brandon-flowers-the-killers-new-album-thrasher-release-date-pre-order\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THRASHER<\/a>, due August 21, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/6426\/brandon-flowers\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Flowers<\/a> teases the record with its first cut Plans. On his upcoming third LP, Brandon says: &#8220;As I&#8217;ve gotten older, I&#8217;ve found my way back to my father&#8217;s music &#8211; &#8216;Country-Western&#8217; (as he called it) &#8211; and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the skin of this beautiful American tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brandon will play the UK and Ireland, including a night at London&#8217;s iconic Royal Albert Hall, this October.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets<\/a> go on general sale on Friday July 3 at 10am BST, with pre-sale tickets available to fans pre-ordering the LP from Wednesday July 1 at 10am BST.<\/p>\n<p>Picking up where her last single <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/katy-perry-bandaids\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bandaids<\/a> left off, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/5088\/katy-perry\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katy Perry<\/a> leans into her pop-rock roots on Watch It Burn. Can it earn the California Gurl a 29th UK Top 40 single?<\/p>\n<p>With his debut album set to land this autumn, Haiden Henderson delivers NSFW, while soul singer Olympia Vitalis unveils Baby Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Rising Bath-based artist Ruby Roberts releases Bad Girl July, saying:\u00a0&#8220;I wrote Bad Girl July about female rage and the urge to destruct when your feelings are hurt. It was inspired and written from the perspective of a female assassin, however she realises in the chorus that she doesn\u2019t want to kill and doesn\u2019t want to be a &#8216;bad girl.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/7347\/carly-rae-jepsen\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carly Rae Jepsen<\/a> ushers in a new era with The Wire, the first single lifted from her upcoming 24-track double album Day And Night, yours on September 18.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/51969\/tyler%2C-the-creator\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler, The Creator<\/a> has put THAT GUY, his 2024 track onto streaming services, while <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/7693\/tame-impala\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tame Impala<\/a> cover <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/28056\/smashing-pumpkins\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Smashing Pumpkins<\/a>&#8216; Hummer as part of a tribute album for the Chicago three-piece called Sending Hearts To All My Dearies, out Friday, 14 August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aussie <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/news\/eurovision\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eurovision<\/a> 2026 representative <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/13453\/delta-goodrem\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Delta Goodrem<\/a> delivers Hologram, the latest taste of her forthcoming eighth studio album <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/delta-goodrem-pure-album-release-date-pre-order\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pure<\/a>, coming November 6. On the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/8604\/abba\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABBA<\/a>-inspired track, Delta explains: &#8220;What I love about Hologram is that it came from a place of spontaneity. There was no overthinking, just musicians in a room chasing a feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/sydnie-christmas\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydnie Christmas<\/a> unveils feel-good pop bop Lean On You, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/50112\/marshmello\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marshmello<\/a> recruits\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/52395\/kelsea-ballerini\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsea Ballerini<\/a> on summer-ready tune Another Drink and rising electro-pop artist SOPHIE GREY. unleashes Lunar Highs (Hands Go Up).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, it wouldn&#8217;t be summer without a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/55799\/joel-corry\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Corry<\/a> banger. This time, Joel joins forces with West London rapper Scrufizzer on SIMPLES, working the Compare The Market meerkat&#8217;s iconic (and we don&#8217;t use that word lightly) catchphrase into a proper Ibiza anthem. Yup.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the release of their seventh studio project Karaoke Bar, set for release September 4, Aussie duo Angus &amp; Julia Stone reveal its latest single, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/18993\/angus-and-julia-stone\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monroe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>England may not have put on the performance people were expecting against Ghana on Tuesday, but Southampton rockers Regent aren&#8217;t letting that dampen their spirits. The south coast four-piece The Best of Things, with vocalist Ben Rooke explaining: &#8220;I wrote the song for England and the World Cup. I didn\u2019t want it to be cheesy, I wanted it to be punk, rock and pop. A cheeky, naughty version of an anthem as opposed to the typical <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/songs\/baddielskinnerlightning-seed-three-lions\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Three Lions<\/a>-type track.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Announcing her new album Mammoth, landing October 16, London-born, Paris-based singer-songwriter Flora Hibberd releases Ache, featuring vocals from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/6527\/sufjan-stevens\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sufjan Stevens<\/a>. We also find new music from Django Django (Cameos), Opus Kink (Will It Come For You?), Abbie Ozard (Baby I&#8217;m Your Star), Makeshift Art Bar (Servant), Madra Salach (The Man Who Seeks Pleasure (Live From London)) and M. Woodroe (Sweetness, Sweetness).<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, expect more big new releases from Montana folk duo Buffalo Traffic Jam (Too Young to Die), <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/51333\/lp\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LP<\/a> (Love Is All I Have), ISHMAEL (New Picasso), Joe James (Papercuts), Amy Shark (It&#8217;s Kinda Hot), <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/348\/backstreet-boys\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Backstreet Boys<\/a>&#8216; Howie D (Coqu\u00ed), Cassidy Daniels (Crazy Love), Gabby Barrett (In On It), Matt Hansen (THINKIN BOUT ME), Tyler Braden (Horses &amp; Hand Grenades), taves (Uche Jumbo) and Magdalene (Sexual Relations with a Wall Street Banker).<\/p>\n<h2>New Music Friday song, album and DVD releases for June 26 2026:<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.officialcharts.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s on this week&#8217;s New Music Friday playlists? New Music Friday albums \ud83d\udcbf English rock veterans\u00a0Muse\u00a0unleash their 10th\u00a0studio set The Wow! Signal. To date, the band have racked up an impressive seven Official Number 1 albums, including their last studio release, 2022\u2019s\u00a0Will Of The People. Is an eighth chart-topper on the horizon?\u00a0 Catch Muse on\u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2475222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22027,452973,24049,342933],"class_list":["post-2475221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-katy-perry","tag-muse","tag-new-releases","tag-sombr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/New-Music-Friday-sombr-Muse-Katy-Perry-and-more.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475223,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475221\/revisions\/2475223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2475222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}