New Music Friday: 15 Tracks from Eartheater, Nick Hakim, The Mountain Goats, and 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.

EARTHEATER – “CROWN JEWEL”

“I wrote this love song for my baby girl but I guess it’s subplot is about good posture,” Eartheater says of this new single. “I was very tall at a young age — taller than all the boys and sometimes taller than grown ups. My girl is probably going to be taller than me and I just want her to shine as bright as she can and not feel self conscious about it. One of my retorts when people would feel the need to remark on my hight was ‘it’s like I’m in a penthouse in Dubai’ — hence the Dubai line.” New album Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message is out July 14.

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PROUN – “WALL”

Austin, TX band proun will release their debut album, Maybe Luck , on June 26 and here’s an early taste. ““The chorus harps on the idea that attempting to come to terms with your trauma can bring you closer to a version of yourself that existed before those things happened, returning to an almost idealistic sense of self that experiencing trauma can destroy and the nearly impossible nature of radical acceptance and moving forward,” says the band’s Jamie Weed.

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MARCI – “BUTTERFLY STICKER”

Marta Cikojevic, who has played in TOPS, will release her second album as Marci, Mask Lady and Late Night Girl , on August 28 via Arbutus Records. The album was co-produced and co-written by TOPS guitarist David Carriere and this is the very catchy, very ’80s first single.

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GRAHAM HUNT – “WAITING FOR YOU TO COME HOME”

Wisconsinite Graham Hunt has announced new album American Pyramid which will be out August 28 via Run for Cover. It was made at legendary Pachyderm Studio (Nirvana’s In Uetero) with a eight-piece band and this is the first single.

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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS – “SHALLOW GRAVE”

“I got the idea for Shallow Grave at a stoplight and recorded the first bits of it a capella into my phone,” says John Darnielle. “Came home and blazed through the rest old school style. Got very excited! Sent it to friends! Everybody bopped! Carrie White’s mom, or Carrie White’s arm? The jury is still out! Poetic license strikes again! Please enjoy what has already been called, by me, ‘the song of the summer’: Shallow Grave! Shallow Grave! Shallow Grave!” New album Days is out August 7.

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NICK HAKIM – “I CAN SEE”

Nick Hakim will release new album I Can See on July 24 and he’s shared the title track. Nick says, “I can’t imagine beginning this album without this track. It’s the entry point of this collection of songs. This took 4 years to finish. It felt like an experiment of how time moves, and we change, but how you can retain a feeling from the sound or tone of music you’ve made or love. The initial demo of this song took 20 minutes to make, but the patience and time it took to “finish” was worth every moment.”

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MORGAN NOISE (MEM FAT DOG) – “SILLY ME”

Fat Dog’s Morgan Wallace leads Morgan Noise who will release their debut album Something built, Something remembered on August 28. She says of this song: “Silly me started with an overlapping scale going up and up. I remember trying to sing it in the shower and not being able to pitch it quite right and having to run to the piano. I wanted it to have an almost nursery rhyme feel, especially with the doo doos in the chorus. A nursery rhyme turned heavy.”

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MO TROPER – “LET’S GET BACK TO MUSIC”

“This song was partially the response to a prompt Kitty of Teen Suicide et al. gave me when I was at my absolute lowest–to try and write a yacht rock song,” Mo says. “It was tracked with Dan and Jon from the Father John Misty band at New Monkey in Los Angeles, and Jon’s arrangement ended up sounding like Abba meets Doobie Brothers meets Randy Newman, per my request.”

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GB – “STARSOUND”

GB, aka Copenhagen artist and musician Gustav Berntsen, will release new album Herzsprung on August 12 via AD 93. First single “Starsound” lightly trippy guitar pop served with a side of soft rock.

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THAO – “FOSSILS”

Produced by Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus, “ Fossils ” is slinky funk, in an indie rock kind of way, with a very positive message in the face of insane times. It’s her first new music in six years.

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SLOW PULP – “BETTER MAN”

Slow Pulp’s third album Melodie is out September 18. This is the first single.

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OPEN MIKE EAGLE & KENNY SEGAL – “UNFINISHED CONCRETE INITIALS” FT HEMLOCK ERNST

Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal have collaborated on new album DOOMED! which will be out August 14. This first single features Hemlock Ernst, aka Samuel T Herring of Future Islands.

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BRIAN FALLON – “PEARLS”

The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon has announced new album Not Bad for New Jersey which will be out physically September 10 and on streaming services the next day. “Pearls” is the latest single.

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L’RAIN – “SOULLESS CYCLE”

L’Rain has announced new album fata morgana which will be out August 14 via Mexican summer. Billed as the final piece of a quadrilogy — preceded by 2017’s L’Rain , 2021’s Fatigue , and 2023’s I Killed Your Dog — and was made with regular collaborators Ben Chapoteau-Katz and Andrew Lappin. The first single is an awesome, searing, hazy rock song.

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RODRIGO Y GABRIELA – “MONSTER”

Rodrigo y Gabriela have announced new album OurHome which will be out September 18. The first single from the album is “Monster,” which comes with a video made by famed manga artist Naoki Urasawa.

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_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/15-new-songs-out-today-75/)._