New Music Friday: 23 Releases From FKA twigs, Eddie Vedder, Lil Yachty, 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.

FKA TWIGS – “ON YOUR MIND” (FT. LIL YACHTY)

“I wrote this song with Yachty in the evening after a long dance rehearsal when I had found out that my previous manager and production team had not got me visas in time to go to Coachella and complete my headline EUSEXUA USA tour,” FKA twigs says of her new collaboration with Lil Yachty. “I stayed late in the dance studio manically practicing in the hopes that the news was not true, and in denial that somehow I would still make it across the sea to perform for my amazing and loyal fans if I just practiced a bit more. It never ceases to amaze me how pain can manifest into the hardest and most euphoric sonics. I think making songs like this keeps me on my toes and reminds me that I am not in control.”

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MAN/WOMAN/CHAINSAW – “GET UP AND DANCE”

“In my mind it’s set in a club, where you spot someone who’s been trying their luck with different people all night and decide to turn the game back on them,” says Man/Woman/Chainsaw’s Emmie-Mae Avery of the band’s new single. “It starts playful but then takes a forceful approach, as you push them to prove their interest and test how far they’ll go, aiming to have them make a fool of themselves.” Debut album Cannonball is out August 7.

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SOAK – “DEATH VALLEY FRIDGE MAGNET”

SOAK are going on tour with The Barr Brothers this fall and ahead of that they’ve shared their first new music in four years. “When I wrote ‘death valley fridge magnet’, I was feeling incredibly lost in my life. I’d started having vocal issues and thought my time in music was coming to an end. I think I was trying to make sense of myself and the direction I was headed by painting a picture of the world from where I was standing. In doing so I realised how precious and treasured my friendships are and how my friends remind me of who I am faster than anything else. Even if that’s a two minute long conversation at a truck stop in the middle of nowhere, America, it doesn’t take much and it all adds up.”

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PARTS & LABOR – “SEAMRIPPER”

“‘Seamripper’ is probably Parts & Labor’s heaviest song,” says Dan Friel. “With two drummers, and Chris Weingarten back in the band, I was excited to do something inspired by the Melvins/Big Business albums, but the sludgy dungeon synth riff became something else entirely. I don’t think it sounds much like anything else we’ve done, and I like to think it doesn’t sound much like anyone else either.” Parts & Labor’s new album Set Of All Sets is out July 10.

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WILD PINK – “BOX STORE”

“This was one of the last songs I wrote for the album and it immediately felt like the opener when I started on it,” says Wild Pink’s John Ross of “Box Store.” “It kind of reminded me of Warren Zevon so I leaned into that direction with it.” New Wild Pink album Still Coming Down is out August 21.

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BAXTER DURY – “ALPHA DOG (PAUL EPWORTH EXTENDED VERSION)”

Five tracks from Baxter Dury’s great 2025 Allbarone are getting old-school 12″ extended mixes by producer Paul Epworth built specifically for the dancefloor. Check out “Alpha Dog” which puts extra emphasis on the bassline (and the congas). Allbarone Versions will be out July 24.

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SARI LIGHTMAN (AUSTRA, TASSEOMANCY) – “THE PRIZE” AND “GIRL BITTEN BY A LIZARD”

Sari Lightman, one half of sibling duo Tasseomancy (and onetime member of Austra), will release her full-length solo debut, The Way I Saw You , this Friday. Here are two more early tastes.

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DESIRE – “SUMMER SKIN”

Desire, the duo of Johnny Jewel and Megan Louise, are back with this lightly balearic new single that comes just in time for the official start of summer.

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SYD – “2 MANY DAYS”

Syd gives us another preview of Beard , her first album in 4 years, with the dreamy, woozy “2 Many Days.”

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LOCUST – “SOUL SKY”

Electronic artist Mark Van Hoen announced a new album as Locust, Spectrial+ , due out September 11 via TODO Records. It includes May’s “Long Distance Lover,” and the new single is “Soul Sky,” featuring Griff Spex and Olive Kimoto. “Griff contacted me because he was a fan of my earlier (pre- Morning Light ) Locust material,” Mark says. “So I decided to make a track using the sonic makeup of those records. I used a couple of the same synths that I’ve still got since the early 90’s. The beat was made on the sampler I used on my album Truth Is Born of Arguments (1995). It was my first time working directly with a rapper, I’m very happy it was Griff!”

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BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND – “LIGHT OF THE HEAVENS”

Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s new single is a recently discovered track recorded not long after 1986’s Keyboard Fantasies . “We are so pleased to share this nearly-lost song & video,” Glenn says. “Credit to my friend and publisher Jeff Waye who uncovered this forgotten song while looking through old tapes in my archive. It was recorded around the time of Keyboard Fantasies and I was so thrilled to be brought back to that moment. Unearthing the video was especially meaningful to me for two reasons: dance has always been my favourite artform, and Susan McNaughton’s choreography and performance are deeply moving; plus I recorded this on my favourite place on the Earth, the Canadian Shield where I lived in hermit-like splendour for many years. This song feels like a gift from my past, and all of us hope that you enjoy revisiting this era of the work so generously sent to me by the Universal Broadcasting System.”

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JENSEN MCRAE – “JUST LIKE YOU”

Jensen McRae announced a deluxe edition of her 2025 album I Don’t Know How But They Found Me! . I Don’t Know How But They Found Me…Again! is due out July 24 (digitally) and October 9 (vinyl) via Dead Oceans, and it includes 12 new tracks, including “Just Like You.” “There were so many songs I wrote after writing but before we finished recording the second album that still felt like they lived in this world–very much coming to terms with the reality that no one was going to save me from myself, and that healing is something I would ultimately have to do on my own,” McRae says. “I think the sparseness aptly reflects the solitude that is required of that kind of healing–although there are of course a couple songs that required a team to put together and feel right.”

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DAYDREAM PLUS – “MORE TIME ALONE”

Payson Power, drummer Max Klebanoff, and Kevin Sia of Tomb Mold have given us another taste of their new math rock/city pop album as Daydream Plus, Second Last Day of Summer , with “More Time Alone.”

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BIG BENNY BAILEY – “AIN’T GETTIN RID OF ME YET”

Shamir and Ben Pierce (Roger Harvey, I Am Your Captain) announced their debut bluegrass album as Big Benny Bailey, Business Spice , due out September 18 via Thirty Tigers. It features Reed Stutz, Sami Braman, and Morgan Blaney, and they’ve given us a preview with, “Ain’t Gettin Rid of Me Yet.”

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EDDIE VEDDER – “BETTER BELIEVE”

Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder debuted a new song, “Better Believe,” in partnership with Guitars Over Guns, at the Obama Center dedication , and it’s now available on streaming services to benefit the Chicago-based youth development organization.

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SUNDAYCLUB – “SAD SUMMER”

Winnipeg dream poppers sundayclub have given us another taste of their self-titled debut with “Sad Summer.” “‘Sad Summer’ came about as a result of feeling extremely unmotivated, both to create and to socialise,” vocalist Courtney Carmichael says. “The chorus just kept repeating itself: ‘Sad summer, it’s a sad summer.’ Everything about the song felt candid because we didn’t shy away from exposing that inner dialogue of feeling tired, down and disconnected. There’s something freeing about being that direct.”

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ALLISON RUSSELL – “BLACK LAVENDER” (FT. BRITTNEY SPENCER)

“We are swimming in rivers – flash floods! – of adrenaline right now,” Allison Russell says of the latest preview of her new album In The Hour of Chaos . “‘Black Lavender’ is a song about extending grace and soothing comfort to a chosen sister… the kind I have trouble extending to myself… But the beautiful thing is, she’s the same way – and she gives it all back and some. Brittney Spencer is a voice for all the ages who we NEED right now. We saved this song for Juneteenth for a reason. Black women have been showing up for each other in this way as long as we’ve been here, and we can’t stop won’t stop now! Incomparable. That’s what we all are, you know? Precious, Magical.”

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ALEX CAMERON – “JESUS NEVER HAD NO PORNO”

“‘Jesus Never Had No Porno’ is a song that happened to three men in a room,” Alex Cameron says of the latest single off his new album Late to Set . “Afterwards there was a loud bang. The next day LA caught on fire.”

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BODY TYPE – “SICK BAG”

Australian band Body Type release their new album Tally on July 24 via King Gizzard’s p(doom) Records, and the new single is “Sick Bag,” which vocalist and guitarist Sophie McComish says is “Our first ever song to feature a mellotron — a true Stella moment. This one just poured out of me like ink in a broken biro.”

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DANIELLE PONDER – “POWER”

Rochester, NY artist Danielle Ponder has signed to Dead Oceans in partnership with Phoebe Bridgers, and shared her first single for the label, “Power,” which was inspired by travelling to Dakar, Senegal for the first time when she was 17. “In Dakar, I witnessed an expansion of the Black experience and longed to reclaim what my ancestors were forced to leave behind,” she says. “I’m excited to release this song just days before Juneteenth as a love letter to my people who survived the unimaginable and to the Black diaspora.”

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TEAM DRESCH – “ONE SONG”

It’s the first single from the first Team Dresch album in 30 years .

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SAM AND LOUISE SULLIVAN – “DOWN ON LOVE”

Philly-based sibling duo Sam and Louise Sullivan have announced their third album, Love & Devotion , which will be out July 24 via Historic New Jersey Recordings. The album was made with Kevin Basko of Rubber Band Gun, who produced the record, Emily Moales of Star Moles on keyboards and additional vocals, and Jem Seidel on drums (Kevin and Jem also play on this year’s Star Moles album).

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_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/23-new-songs-out-today-103/)._