New Music Friday: Listen to 17 Fresh Tracks

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.

ELANOR MOSS – “SARAH WAITING IN THE CAR”

London-based singer songwriter Elanor Moss announced her debut album, The Knife, The Needle , due out August 21 via Merge. The first single is “Sarah Waiting in the Car,” a delicate folk song with gentle orchestration. “‘Sarah Waiting in the Car’ broke an almost year-long drought of writing songs,” she says. “It reignited that spark in me around songwriting, and felt like a breakthrough into something new and intriguing that I wanted to follow. It served as a bit of a guiding light as I re-entered a more consistent relationship with songwriting again; the north star of the album in a way.”

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TRICKY – “STILL SEE ME THERE” FT MITCH SANDERS

This is the second single from Tricky’s upcoming album Different When It’s Silent and this one features vocals from Bristol singer-songwriter Mitch Sanders.

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PENELOPE ISLES – “THINKING SEAT”

Brighton-based indie pop band Penelope Isles are back with a new album, 3 , due out September 25 via Bella Union, and they’ve shared the first single is “Thinking Seat.”

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SHEARWATER – “SLUGS IN THE MARIGOLDS” FT DOUG WIESELMAN

Doug Wieselman’s distinctive saxophone enlivens this latest single from Shearwater’s upcoming The New World . “This was a band favorite on The New World,” Meiburg says.”We liked how its loose, sunny feeling plays against the lyric–and we loved how Doug’s sax slithers up beside you.”

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THE MENZINGERS – “BETTER ANGELS”

“We tried to make ‘Better Angels’ the song version of those late-night conversations with an old friend, the kind where you sit around a kitchen table and solve all of the world’s problems,” Vocalist Tom May says of the latest single off The Menzingers’ new album Everything I Ever Saw . “It feels like we’re being torn apart. The country is run by monsters and money, and there are plenty of people who benefit from keeping us at each other’s throats. ’Better Angels’ is a message about what we’re doing, what responsibility we have to become better versions of ourselves, and that we’re not alone or powerless. It’s a push against the cynicism that’s so easy to embrace and a reminder that the world we want starts with how we treat ourselves and each other.”

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ROBYN HITCHCOCK – “HOW TO FEEL ALRIGHT”

“I love to rock out my feelings – all of my feelings: up and down, positive and negative, flaming and sombre. It’s what music is for, after all: to unleash your desires, frustrations, anguish and delight in three minute bursts that some people can even dance to,” says Robyn Hitchcock of “How to Feel Alright” from his upcoming album The Confuser . This one features guitar from Robyn’s former Soft Boys bandmate Kimberly Rew.

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SHOW ME THE BODY – “EAT FOR PEACE”

Show Me The Body have given us another taste of their new album Alone Together with the frenetic “Eat for Peace”

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MARY IN THE JUNKYARD – “MOUSE”

“I went to Iceland and became obsessed with the ocean,” says mary in the junkyard’s Clari Freeman-Taylor of this song. “I remembered I was a fisherman in a former life with a mouse in my pocket, lost in a storm. It is about me reconnecting with the mouse when they have taken on a human form in this life.” The band’s debut album Role Model Hermit , is out July 3.

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HARMONY TIVIDAD – “BEST DRESSED”

“Caroline and I were inspired by vintage bandstand videos and wanted to capture the energy of those old performances,” Harmony Tividad says of the video for “Best Dressed,” the latest single off her new album Lifetime . “The 1960s television stage becomes a metaphor for the performance of femininity, existing in a world built around spectacle and perception.”

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ART FEYNMAN – “PLASTIC FLOWERS”

Luke Temple is back with a new Art Feynman album, Orphans , which will be out August 7 via Western Vinyl. Where 2023’s fantastic Be Good the Crazy Boys was a full-band studio affair, on this one Temple goes back to the four-track for an album full of “music to do other things by.”

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BONOBO – “ME AND YOU”

Bonobo (Simon Green) has announced a new album, Distance and Static , which will be out September 11 via Ninja Tune. It features quite a few collaborators: Arooj Aftab, Nilüfer Yanya, Nicole Miglis, Joy Crookes, Aanya Martin, and Ichiko Aoba. This is the guest-free first single.

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CHAT PILE – “DEEP BLUE”

Chat Pile announced a new album, Who Loves the Sun , and shared the first single, which you can read more about here .

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WISHY – “LOVESICK”

The first single from Wishy’s upcoming album is “Lovesick” which gives off strong ’80s alt-rock vibes. “There’s not much more that needs to be said about yearning in 2026, but here it is anyway,” singer-guitarist Nina Pitchkites says. “Kevin and I are stupidly romantic people who like twee pop.”

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TY SEGALL – “BLACK PAINT”

Ty Segall has announced new album Chrome which will be out August 28 via Drag City. It was mostly recorded live with help from Bitchin Bajas’ Cooper Crain and Ty’s band of Ben Boye, Evan Burrows, Mikal Cronin, and Emmett Kelly. First single rips.

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SOFT CELL – “DANCETERIA”

Here’s the title track from Soft Cell’s final album which is an ode to early-’80s NYC club culture.

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INTERPOL – “THIS MIRROR WEIGHS A TON” & “SEE OUT LOUD”

Interpol announced new album This Mirror Weighs a Ton today and shared two songs from it: the dreamy title track which incorporates atmospheric sound design elements, and “See Out Loud” which is a more traditional Interpop rock song but does features dueling lead vocals from Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler.

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_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/17-new-songs-out-today-62/)._