It's Friday, and it's time for new music! A fresh selection of #newtunes songs is upon us and will resonate over the weekend and beyond.
Anyway, I'm no longer under the illusion that I'm keeping up with modern music trends. A couple of days ago, I came across an article from 2023, which states that 120,000 new songs are released on streaming services every day.
I don't think even AI can index it all yet...
Regardless, here are eight songs from different genres to brighten up your weekend. Maybe you'll like something and dig deeper.
But if you don't like them, skip it!
Music4life!
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Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto, from the UK, is a collaboration between Little Barrie, most known for the theme for Better Call Saul. And drummer/producer Malcolm Catto. They released six albums, the latest, Electric War, last week.
It's a mix of genres, from rock and psychedelia on one side to funk and blues on the other. Smooth and precise guitar riffs, reliable drumming, and calm vocals create a post-apocalyptic soundscape that is both chaotic and harmonious. It's very smooth. I recommend the whole album.
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Mien is a band from Austin, Texas. They have been active since 2018; last week, they released their second album, MIIEN.
Modern post-rock sounds and the use of synths can't hide the influence of sixties psychedelia and krautrock that they experiment with.
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Femi Kuti from Lagos, Nigeria, a legend of Afrobeat music, has just released his 11th album, Journey Through Life. As an activist and musician, he says the album is more personal, "sweet music with a bitter message," with reflections on his personal growth.
I watched him live in concert two months ago. Anyone who likes Afrobeat is in for it.
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Emma-Jean Thackray is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and trained jazz musician and singer from Leeds, UK. She has a strong inclination towards DIY (Do-It-Yourself) creativity. Her first album, Yellow Album, was released in 2021 and reached number one on the UK Jazz Albums Chart, and her second, Weirdo, is out today.
The song "Maybe Nowhere" is the lead single from the new album, and we hear pop, funk, nu-jazz, indie, and soul all in one person. It is the perfect DIY and symbol of her own, perhaps eccentric, individuality.
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Sacco Di Tempo is a Slovenian band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, or rather the project of the bassist of Carnaval. Their debut album, Tempo Di Saco, was released in April this year. Knowing the band Carnaval (with a stoner psychedelic grunge sound), I was expecting something similar, but it wasn't.
The music successfully navigates the border between alternative and mainstream.
The song "Domov" (Home in English) is an atmospheric, calm, and melancholic guitar ballad.
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Corpus Offal is a band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I've never heard of them before; they claim to be the successors of Cerebral Rot, which I also didn't know.
Their debut album, also named after them, is on the way. It's brutal old-school American death metal with guttural vocals that take the sound even further into brutality and pathology.
I'm sure the genre's followers (of which there are not a few) will be impressed.
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Kamasi Washington, an American saxophonist, provides the soundtrack for Lazarus, a new anime series created by the renowned Shinichirō Watanabe, featuring the song "Vortex."
Lazarus is a science-fiction anime set in 2052. A neuroscientist discovers a cure, an analgesic that saves you from all pain. Naturally, it all gets very complicated. If you're an anime fan, check it out. The music is excellent, and Kamasi, with his futuristic jazz, which he blends with other modern genres (including contributions from Floating Points and Bonobo), fits right in with the story.
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Mick Harvey, singer-songwriter and sideman of Nick Cave of the Bad Seeds, and Mexican singer Amanda Acevedo have released their second album together, ‘Golden Mirrors - The Uncovered Sessions Vol.1. On it they cover songs by American folk singer-songwriter Jackson C. Frank, who rose to fame in the 1960s. The original was recorded in 1968 but never released.
This is not their first cover, but judging by the reactions, there will probably be more.
🎶That's all for today, and enjoy your weekend with new songs!
#newtunes this year:
18.4.2025, 11.4.2025, 4.4.2025, 28.3.2025, 21.3.2025, 14.3.2025, 7.3.2025, 28.2.2025, 21.2.2025, 14.2.2025, 7.2.2025, 31.1.2025, 24.1.2025, 17.1.2025, 10.1.2025.
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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