It's Friday again, and a new dose of fresh music for all music lovers!
A #newtunes selection where everyone can find a genre and a song for the weekend and beyond!
Eight songs are in different genres; if you have a few minutes, you can support the artists by listening. Every listening counts; we already know that, don't we?
If you don't like something, skip it.
Music4life!
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We'll start with the well-known rock band Manic Street Preachers from Welsh, UK. They've been performing since 1986 and managed to record 15 albums, most recently Critical Thinking, at the end of January this year. With their guitar-pop sound and melodic vocals, they have attracted enough loyal followers to still follow and listen to them now after all these years. To be honest, some of their albums have been an absolute flop, but this year's sounds very good; they are returning to their roots and are not trying to become the new ABBA anymore, as one of them put it.
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Cutouts is the 2016 solo project of multi-instrumentalist Alex McKay, a New Yorker who plays bass in the band Nation of Language. In nearly a decade of work, he has released two EPs and numerous singles, and in early February, his first solo album, Snakeskin, was released.
The main characteristics of the sound are dark wave and industrial, which belong to darkened dance clubs. Hypnotic and dark melodies, programmed drums, and varied synth interludes dominate.
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Shego is a female trio from Madrid, Spain. After the pandemic shutdown, they entered the music scene and released a couple of singles, an EP in 2021, and an album, No lo volverƩ a hacer (in English - I will not do it again) in February. The single fumas? was featured in the Netflix series Valeria.
The music is a mix of lo-fi pop and indie rock, with bits of punk and electronica. The tension and energy are given by the lyricism of the personal confession and the multi-part vocals singing about heartache, suffering, and the healing of love's wounds. That sounds good in Spanish.
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ProleteR is an artist from Toulouse, France, producing music and sampling for over a decade. He released eight EPs and five albums, most recently, Temperamental Cats, a week ago. It combines sample jazz with electro-swing in an underground beat-making manner.
It's jazzy and danceable for fans.
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Courting is an English band from Liverpool that was formed in 2019. They've released three studio albums, the latest of which was released last week under the slightly long name "Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story'.
Don't let the long album name fool you; the music is incisive and direct, with punchy guitars and catchy melodies.
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Young Widdows is a band from Louisville, Kentucky. They've been making music since 2014, and for over a decade, they've been treading the path of post-punk and noise with sizzling guitars, growling bass, and lock-tight drums. Their latest album, Power Sucker, was just released yesterday, and The Darkest Side is the title track.
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Raul Monsalve is a percussionist from Caracas, Venezuela. He has been working and creating in Paris for the last decade. There, he met Los Forajidos, with whom he recorded his previous album, SOL. Their music is based on solid Venezuelan rhythms intertwined with psychedelic funk, futuristic jazz, experimental electronica, and afrobeat to create a new and exciting sonic experience for the listener.
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Cradle of Filth, the extreme metal veterans who have been shocking their audiences with energetic, fast, and brutal music for over thirty-five years, strike again with their fourteenth studio album, The Screaming of the Valkyries, released today.
They haven't moved a millimeter out of the genre, with influences from horror films present in their performances' videos, lyrics, and stage design.
This is also the case with the song "To Live Deliciously," inspired by the 2015 Robert Eggers film "The Witch." It's for fans of the genre, of course.
š¶That's all for today, and enjoy your weekend with new songs!
#newtunes this year:
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If you're interested in #newtunes suggestions from the past six years, you can listen to them at these links - there are Spotify playlists for each year:
newtunes2019
newtunes2020
newtunes2021
newtunes2022
newtunes2023
newtunes2024
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