17 New Songs Released Today Include The Tallest Man on Earth, Downtown Boys, and Jungle

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.

HOLY WAVE – “S33.U.IN/HAL”

Texas psych vets Holy Wave will release new album i’m DADA on July 10 via Suicide Squeeze. This is the first single. “‘s33.u.in/HAL’ is like a prayer to the God of shortcomings, a child God that we are raising to one day be our savior,” says the band’s Ryan Fuson. “It was one of the first ideas we worked on for the album, but also one of the last songs we finished. I was listening to a lot of Wagon Christ at the time and wanted the song to basically be a Wagon Christ rip-off, but it just didn’t feel right. Big surprise, that was a tall order. So the song was shelved to the ‘maybe the next album’ part of the new song catalog. Then, late in our demoing phase, Joey and Julian showed up to practice with some ideas for it. We played around with them, and the song literally just started to write itself. We finished that day with essentially the song done, sans lyrics and some finishing details, and it instantly became one of our favorites. I still hope we put out the other version some day, but this is by far the better of the two.”

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HEW – “RECONCILIATION”

Hew have given us another taste of their debut album Your Version with the soaring “Reconciliation.”

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LUCIA & THE BEST BOYS FT. THE LAST DINNER PARTY’S ABIGAIL MORRIS – “BIG ROMANCE”

Lucia & The Best Boys release their new album Picking Petals on July 31 via Communion, and they’ve shared a new single, “Big Romance,” featuring Abigail Morris of The Last Dinner Party. Morris played keyboards with Lucia & The Best Boys at a few of their Scottish shows, and Lucia Fairfull says Morris was “the one who pushed me to keep going with the song. I started writing that when I was 22. It’s lived through so many different lives.”

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LAPTOP – “LIVING ON THE CEILING” (BLANCMANGE COVER)

NYC synthpop group Laptop, who are back in action after 20 years, have covered Blancmange’s 1982 classic “Living on the Ceiling” in very faithful fashion perhaps as a return-the-favor move as Doublespeak, the UK trio that includes Blancmange’s Neil Arthur and Erasure’s Vince Clarke, covered Laptop’s “Outgoing Message” on their debut album that’s out this week.

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AMY ROSE MILLS – “A LITTLE TREAT”

Amy Rose Mills (Couch Slut, Adult Human Females) has shared the first single from her new solo album, which is out on June 26 via Fiadh Productions. “A Little Treat” features violin from more eaze.

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PRELOVED – “MOTORCYCLE”

fanclubwallet drummer Michael (Miki) Watson has announced their debut LP as Preloved, due out on October 24 via Lauren Records. The first sing is “Motorcycle,” and they say, “it’s about me wanting a dirtbike as much as I did when I was 12.”

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THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH – “COLORS”

The Tallest Man on Earth is back with his first new music in three years, “Colors,” a stirring folk song.

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JUNGLE – “THE WAVE”

UK dance group Jungle have shared a new single from their upcoming album Sunshine (out August 14). The video, as usual, comes with some pretty stunning choreography.

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LORG (SALES) – “MARATHONIA”

Lauren Morgan of SALES has shared a new single as Lorg, “Marathonia.” “My closest friend was moving away to NYC around the time my relationship was feeling out of reach/doomed,” Morgan says. “I felt like the two people I really wanted around were not there anymore. Brings a little tear to my eye even now. I wrote this song for Daniel — athletic, self-assured, a beam of light. For the lyrics, I imagined going on a run with him. I’ve never been a great runner and I hope when I die whoever is on the other side gives me a good reason for that. Ever since we met, Daniel and I were fast friends and this song came out of me 100 percent complete. Songs like these give me energy for 10 more.”

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DOWNTOWN BOYS – “SIRENA”

Downtown Boys have given us another early taste of their first album in nine years, Public Luxury , with “Sirena.” Vocalist Victoria Marie says, “‘Sirena’ brings together both earthly and divine concepts of what drives, moves, and calls us to action bigger than ourselves. Sirena is often translated from Spanish into English as “mermaid”. The idea of a sirena as a guiding body essentially bending gravity and drawing one to the liminal space, whether it is where water meets sand or where our desire for a world where we are all free meets the reality that we have a lot of work to do. We are honored to have a video by Sarah Elawad that takes sublime archival footage that beautifully bends the mundanity of the time it takes for a flower to grow or a horse to race. We envision this song as a reminder that all of us have that siren in the form of a person, idea, dream, or gem that reflects light in darkness.”

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KNITTING – “I WASN’T FULLY COOKED”

Montreal band knitting’s new album Souvenir arrives next month, and they’ve given us another preview with “I Wasn’t Fully Cooked.” Frontperson Mischa Dempsey says, “I was on tour in early 2020 and got really scared that I would die in a freak accident and would be mourned as a girl, as my old name (this fear was eventually a big impetus for me coming out to people as non-binary and changing my name). ‘I Wasn’t Fully Cooked’ was a way for me to think about what death interrupts and what gets remembered…It might be our favourite knitting song yet.”

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SOLEX – “MR CROCKPOT”

Solex’s 2001 album Low Kick and Hard Bop is getting its first ever vinyl release as part of Matador’s Revisionist History series. It’s an expanded edition comes with a few bonus tracks including this one, “Mr. Crockpot.”

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GRACE CUMMINGS – “MY GOD”

Australian singer-songwriter Grace Cummings announced a new album, Bloodhorse! , due out August 14 via ATO. About the first single, “My God,” she says, “Lyrically, this song is about hatred, jealousy, rage. The God here is the dark forces that are wrapping around us, that we scroll through, the toxic energy that binds us together in this modern world, and the fear we feed it every day.”

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GILLA BAND – “GIRAFFE”

It’s Gilla Band’s first new music in four years .

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WILD PINK – “ROUND OF APPLAUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD”

Wild Pink announced their sixth album, Still Coming Down , and shared the first single. Read more about that here .

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KNEECAP FT KILLER MIKE – “SMUGGLERS & SCHOLARS”

Kneecap have released a new version of “Smugglers & Scholars” from their great new album FENIAN. This redux features a verse from Killer Mike where he wages war on on colonialism and racism.

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DAYDREAM PLUS – “SPEED LIMIT”

Daydream Plus, the math rock/city pop project of three members of Tomb Mold, will release their debut album in July via Run for Cover, and they’ve shared the first single, which you can read more about here .

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_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/17-new-songs-out-today-61/)._