What’s on this week’s New Music Friday playlists?<\/p>\n
New Music Friday albums \ud83d\udcbf<\/p>\n
Luton-born singer-songwriter\u00a0Myles Smith<\/a>\u00a0delivers his debut album My Mess, My Heart, My Life. The record already boasts five Official Top 40 singles: Stargazing<\/a> (4), Nice To Meet You<\/a> (6), Gold<\/a> (32), Stay (If You Wanna Dance)<\/a>)\u00a0(32) and Niall Horan<\/a> collab Drive Safe<\/a> (27).<\/p>\n English rockers\u00a0Hard-Fi<\/a> make their long-awaited return with fourth studio record Sweating Someone Else’s Fever. Can Richard, Steve, Kai and Ross’s first full-length release in 15 years join 2005 debut Stars of CCTV<\/a> and 2007’s Once Upon a Time in the West<\/a> to earn them a hat-trick of chart-toppers? Check out our exclusive chat about the record with frontman Richard Archer\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s a big week for UK rap, with\u00a0Fredo<\/a>\u2019s Motion Sickness and M Huncho<\/a>\u2019s THE WIZARD both releasing.<\/p>\n Californian rapper\u00a0YG<\/a>\u00a0serves up his seventh studio set THE GENTLEMEN’S CLUB, while Essex rockers Warning<\/a> return with Rituals of Shame, their first full-length release in 20 years.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, you’ll find big new releases from\u00a0K-pop outfit RIIZE<\/a> (II – The 2nd Mini Album), D3LTA (Mad About It), Jejune (Wait a Lifetime),\u00a0Tucker Zimmerman<\/a>\u00a0(Dream Me a Dream),\u00a0Billy Ray Cyrus<\/a>\u00a0(THE HILL), Chl\u00f6e<\/a> and Timbaland<\/a> (Resurrection) and a double album courtesy of Alex Zhang Hungtai (Orion\/Mother).<\/p>\n New Music Friday singles \ud83c\udfb6<\/p>\n Blossoms<\/a>\u00a0are back with brand-new tune Meet Me In Love. The follow-up to Joke About Divorce<\/a> features vocals from the band’s pal and longtime collaborator Declan McKenna<\/a>, with the video starring none other than Maya Jama. It serves as the latest track from the forthcoming sixth LP from the Stockport five-piece, titled Songs From The Wedding Cake<\/a>, yours on October 2.<\/p>\n Sam Ryder<\/a>\u00a0returns with his second recording from the highly anticipated West End revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, coming to London Palladium for 11 weeks from Saturday June 20. What\u2019s The Buzz was produced by Fraser T Smith, and recorded live on tape at\u00a0British Grove Studios.<\/p>\n Natalie Imbruglia<\/a> unveils the title track to her forthcoming seventh studio LP Algorithm, due September 4. On the single, which Natalie co-wrote and co-produced alongside MyRiot (London Grammar, Primal Scream), she says: “It\u2019s like you\u2019ve opened one trapdoor and you\u2019re falling endlessly through one after another. I\u2019m a deeply spiritual person, so the title comes from a place of real concern for the world we\u2019re living in.<\/p>\n “We\u2019re in a dark place and psychological warfare is being waged upon us. We need to talk about that and where our thoughts are going. This is about sparking that conversation.”<\/p>\n Summer jams incoming! \ud83c\udf1e As she announces details of her debut album Peace & Patience, landing October 23, Irish dance star\u00a0Jazzy<\/a>\u00a0recruits house royalty\u00a0Chris Lorenzo<\/a>\u00a0on Invisible. Elsewhere,\u00a0Jax Jones<\/a>\u00a0drops latest cut Pulling Me Back, co-written alongside Clementine Douglas<\/a>.<\/p>\n Expect an iconic link-up as FKA twigs<\/a> teams with Lil Yachty<\/a> for fresh hit On Your Mind, as\u00a0Jodie Harsh<\/a> shares euphoric dance bop I Feel It, the latest taste of her upcoming EP The Dance Floor, coming September 18.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Blackburn-born singer-songwriter Charlotte OC is back with bittersweet offering Start of Summer. On the track, she explains: “This song is about the ever-present longing I have for my father. He absolutely loved being in the sun and being as tanned as humanly possible. Whenever I picture him, he’s in the garden, covered in factor 15, with a glass of whiskey by his feet and a border collie by his side.”<\/p>\n If you came to party, they came to party \ud83e\udea9\ud83d\udd7a. It’s a team-up for the ages, as the iconic Chaka Khan<\/a> and Snoop Dogg<\/a>\u00a0join forces on Boogie’s In My Soul.<\/p>\n Dance fans can also expect new tunes from D.O.D<\/a> and niina (Feel For You) and Layton Giordani and Patrick Topping (Tonight).<\/p>\n Elsewhere, to celebrate the launch of ethical AI company Artists Included, and Boy George<\/a>‘s 65th birthday, a brand-new version of Culture Club<\/a>‘s 1983 Number 1 Karma Chameleon<\/a>\u00a0is released.<\/p>\n In partnership with BMG, this 2026 take on the ’80s classic saw Boy George perform a new vocal in studio,\u00a0with artist-approved and ethical technology used to support the final recording without replacing the artist.<\/p>\n With the announcement of his\u00a0fifth\u00a0studio set\u00a0The Age Of Everything<\/a>, due\u00a0October 2, the legendary\u00a0Johnny Marr<\/a>\u00a0unveils its first single, Spin.\u00a0Marr will mark the LP\u2019s release with a special, one-off show at London\u2019s OVO Arena Wembley\u00a0on Saturday October 24.<\/p>\n The Snuts<\/a> continue to tease their forthcoming full-length project Joy In Short Moments (due October 23) with Defibrillator, while Jack Savoretti<\/a> links up with KT Tunstall<\/a>\u00a0on Tempting Fate, lifted from his recent Top 5 album We Will Always Be The Way We Were<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fresh off the back of his set at The Great Escape, New Zealand-born, London-based singer-songwriter Luca George releases brand-new single Grow Down.”Grow Down is really just me wishing I could hold onto that freedom, imagination, and innocence for a little longer,” Luca says.<\/p>\n Call it Uzo reverse! Off the back of his GRAMMY nomination for Zara Larsson<\/a>‘s Midnight Sun<\/a>, and ahead of his headline slot at Pride In London on July 4,\u00a0MNEK<\/a>\u00a0marks a whole new era with REVERSE!!.\u00a0<\/p>\n Joe Jonas releases The Cozy Anthem, his take on the theme song from iconic farming game Hay Day, as\u00a0Clean Bandit<\/a> recruit\u00a0Biig Piig<\/a>\u00a0for the first release on their own new CBX label, I Don’t Wanna Hurt You.<\/p>\n Two of Jamaica’s biggest exports link up as Original Koffee recruits Skillibeng<\/a> on RAPID FYAH, while enigmatic duo holybones deliver a restless stream of consciousness on did you ask for this.<\/p>\n Look out for more new releases from the likes of Jael<\/a> (Hallowed Ground), N\u00d8ELLE (Crush),\u00a0Joe McElderry<\/a> (Love Me Out Loud), KILIMANJARO ft. RAHH (Stumble), RAEGAN (CRYING IS A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND),\u00a0Kojo Funds<\/a> (Ready), Kelela ft. A. K. 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