Koreless, The Early November, Amen Dunes, 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.

RICO NASTY – BLEACH BROWS”

Rico Nasty follows her recent collab EP with Boys Noize and her standout appearance on the great new ScHoolboy Q album with a new solo single, an abrasive rap song called “Bleach Brows.”

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PRONOUN – “I HAVEN’T FELT LIKE ME”

Alyse Vellturo is back with her first new Pronoun music of the year. “I wrote this on a drive back to Brooklyn from the holiday break in winter 2023/2024,” she says. “It’s about messing something up before it even started and feeling in limbo.”

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MAS AYA – “TÚ Y YO” (ft. LIDO PIMIENTA)

Mas Aya (aka Brandon Miguel Valdivia) has announced a new album, Coming and Going, due July 12 via Telephone Explosion, and its lead single “Tú y Yo” is a spacious, orchestral art pop song featuring Brandon’s partner Lido Pimienta.

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LUCIUS – “GO HOME” (THE NEW RECORDING, FT. MARCUS MUMFORD)

Lucius are releasing a rerecorded and expanded version of their second album, Wildewoman, due out on May 31 via Fantasy Records. The new version of “Go Home” features Marcus Mumford, and Jess Wolfe says, “When getting ready to record this record, we wanted to include some friends who inspired us along our journey the last 10 years. We’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Marcus both in Joni’s living room & on many a summer festival jam, so this felt like such a natural pairing. His beautifully distinct and soulful voice shines so brightly on this song, and it was such a treat to have him be a part of it.”

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ANNABEL – “DOG”

Annabel have shared the third single off their first album in nine years, Worldviews. It’s a sunny, breezy indie rock song with serious themes that Ben Hendricks tells Paste were at least partially inspired by the dog in burning house meme.

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EELS – “IF I’M GONNA GO ANYWHERE”

Eels’ fifteenth album, EELS Time!, is out next month, and they’ve given us a third early taste with “If I’m Gonna Go Anywhere.” Of the song, Mark Oliver Everett says, “If you’re gonna make a choice, why not make the nice choice?”

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THE EARLY NOVEMBER – “TIRED OF LYING”

Emo-pop vets The Early November have shared another taste of their upcoming self-titled album, and this one finds them utilizing some electronic elements, some heavy parts, some soaring hooks, and more.

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CRYPT SERMON – “GLIMMERS IN THE UNDERWORLD”

Philly doomers Crypt Sermon have shared the second taste of Stygian Rose, and it’s an eight-minute song with a whole lot of shreddy guitar heroism.

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VILLAGERS – “I WANT WHAT I DON’T NEED”

Villagers’ new album The Golden Time is out this Friday, and he’s shared a final advance single, “I Want What I Don’t Need.” Conor O’Brien calls it “a little tragicomedy about the concept of free will, intellectual humility and the commodification of sacred things. As with all the songs from the album, a yearning for transcendence at the dawn of the internet age is at its core. We’re constantly being bombarded by ideas, images and products telling us that our internal directives are insufficient; that we need external support or validation in order to become whole beings. The song pokes fun at this: And I’ll wed myself to my beliefs / And they’ll harden like my arteries / And I’ll take myself so seriously / And I’ll want what I don’t need.”

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ABIGAIL LAPELL – “ANNIVERSARY SONG,” “COUNT ON ME” (ft. GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS) & “RATTLESNAKE”

Toronto indie folk singer Abigail Lapell is following last year’s Stolen Time with new album Anniversary this Friday (5/10). Great Lake Swimmers appear on three songs, including one of the singles that’s out now.

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AMEN DUNES – “RUGBY CHILD”

Damon McMahon says “Rugby Child” was written in April 2020 and “flips between memories of touring, and that present moment of spring.” He adds, “A musician from New York I had known had just overdosed. He wasn’t named Annie, but she stands in for him out of respect.” Amen Dunes new album Death Jokes is out Friday.

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COLA – “ALBATROSS”

“This song had a few lives before it took its final form,” says Cola’s Tim Darcy of “Albatros,” the new single off the band’s upcoming album The Gloss. “We played a much faster version on some later Deep in View tours with different lyrics. When we eventually got to the studio we revisited Ben’s original demo and decided to slow it down and re-introduce a heavier feeling. I then had a spark of inspiration and completely rewrote the lyrics, which center around “an albatross”–something that greatly hinders accomplishment. From there I started thinking about a horse race and perhaps some trainer watching a slow motion replay to try identify what’s wrong with an animal’s stride, hence the chorus.”

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BIBI CLUB – “SHLOSHLO”

Montreal duo Bibi Club release their second album this Friday and they’ve shared one last early taste. “For us, ‘Shloshlo’ is about parenthood, the anxiety of being a parent—or of needing to take care of the strength that children give us, the strength of the feminine, and determination,” they say. On that note, the video features Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque’s son Noé.

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KOKOKO! – “BAZA BANGA”

“‘Bazo Bango’ means ‘they are scared’, a chant sung in crowds to let go of frustration,” KOKOKO! say of their new single. “A loopy driving electric bass line carries the heavy electronic rhythm foundation to support the chant.” The group’s upcoming album BUTU is out July 5.

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KORELESS – “SEVEN”

Lewis Roberts aka FKA twigs collaborator Koreless has shared a new version of his track “Seven” which featured on HAAi’s DJ Kicks compilation in 2023. This is his first solo release in two years.

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CMAT – “AW, SHOOT!”

Irish iconoclast CMAT is back with this very catchy new single. “So there I was, in Paris, France, in a rented flat,” CMAT says. “I was trying to write songs but it wasn’t going very well at all. I was drinking three bottles of wine a day (Cote du Provence) and I didn’t have any human contact for maybe two weeks, and I was going a little bit crazy, voices in my head etc etc. One evening there was a knock at the door. Who could it be?! I opened the door to find an American girl, who said the following: “Oh! You’re not my friend!” and then turned and walked away. Turns out she got the floors mixed-up, American system vs European flooring system. This was actually a seminal plot point in my favourite tv show Emily in Paris. And then? Well, I properly lost my mind. But on the bright side, I got a banger out of it!”

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FALTYDL – “MINDS PROTECTION”

Drew Lustman has announced new FaltyDL album In the Wake of Wolves which will be out June 7 via Central Processing Unit. “It came to me in a revelation after rediscovering classic Squarepusher cuts like ‘Theme From Ernest Borgnine’ and ‘Tundra.’ Songs from my youth,” Lustman says of the album’s skittering first single. “It came together really quickly in the studio with lots of send FX automation and general pulverization on the master channel. Fuck it up! Play with the excess area over %100 wet on FX and manipulate the feedback. That’s what Squarepusher told me when we met in 2015.”

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LOVE FIEND – “HARD FEELINGS”

There are serious Devo vibes on “Hard Feelings,” the new single from L.A. band Love Fiend’s new album Handle With Care. That’s out July 12 via In the Red.

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LAME DRIVERS – “SPRING”

NYC band Lame Drivers have shared a second single from their upcoming album Become an Island.

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WAND – “SMILE”

It’s the first single from Wand’s first album in five years.

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GHOSTFACE KILLAH – “SCAR TISSUE” FT. NAS

Ghostface Killah’s new album Set The Tone is out this Friday, and he’s shared the Nas-featuring “Scar Tissue,” which you can read more about here.

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AROOJ AFTAB – “WHISKEY”

“‘Whiskey’ is about being out at night with someone you like, but the evening gets a little carried away,” Arooj Aftab says of her new single. “My friend has had too much, now I am tired, and I need to figure out how to get us both home. But overall somehow the night and the interaction is still pretty cute.” New album Night Reign is out May 31.

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GUM / AMBROSE KENNY-SMITH (KING GIZZARD / TAME IMPALA) – “ILL TIMES”

King Gizzard’s Ambrose Kenny-Smith and GUM (aka Jay Watson of Pond and Tame Impala) have announced collaborative album Ill Times which is out on July 19 via King Gizzard’s just-launched label, p(doom). “I was excited to explore stuff our other bands hadn’t really touched on before,” Watson says. “Funk, soul…groove-based music.” The album’s out July 19.

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HINDS – “BOOM BOOM BACK” FT BECK

Hinds enlisted Beck for a bridge on their infectious new single.

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QUIVERS – “APPARITION”

Australian band Quivers have signed to Merge and announced their first album for the label, Oyster Cuts, which will be out August 9. Here’s the first single which owes a little bit to both Rolling Stones and Pavement.

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MERMAID CHUNKY – “CÉILÍ”

Quirky/arty UK duo Mermaid Chunky have signed to DFA and shared their first single for the label. “Céilí” is a slowly building jam involving recorders, chanting and tribal rhythms that really blooms as it goes along.

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ARMLOCK – “ICE COLD”

Run For Cover‘s newest signing is Armlock, the Australian duo of Simon Lam and Hamish Mitchell. The duo’s bio makes references to Pinback, Alex G, and Boards of Canada, and you can hear those vibes coming through in the chill, slow-paced indie rock of new single “Ice Cold.” Read more here.

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FCUKERS – “BON BON”

NYC ’90s-inspired dance trio Fcukers have signed to Ninja Tune’s Technicolour imprint and released their third proper single, “Bon Bon.” Read about it here.

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MACKLEMORE – “HIND’S HALL”

Macklemore has released a pro-Palestine protest song, and you can read about it here.

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