Welcome to our weekly music post, where we spotlight our favorite new songs and albums. Hop in the comments and tell us: What new music are you listening to?<\/p>\n
In June, Animal Collective released the standalone single \u201cLove On The Big Screen.\u201d \u201cBuddies On The Blackboard\u201d is the B-side to the \u201cLove On The Big Screen\u201d 7-inch (available August 1). \u201cBuddies\u201d is a nostalgic throwback that feels inspired by the Beach Boys, particularly during the three-part harmonies in the chorus. It\u2019s been a few years since the last Animal Collective album (their last was 2023\u2019s Isn\u2019t It Now?), so it\u2019s hard not to read into what these singles might portend. But even if there isn\u2019t a new album on the way, \u201cLove On The Big Screen\u201d and \u201cBuddies On The Blackboard\u201d are still refreshing summer treats.<\/p>\n
Experimental musician Yves Tumor teamed up with NINA (Nina Cristante of London-based band bar italia) for their new single, \u201cWE DONT COUNT.\u201d Their voices are a beautiful complement to one another as they trade off lines throughout the song. This is Yves Tumor\u2019s first new release since their critically acclaimed 2023 album Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds). No word on a new album yet, but \u201cWE DONT COUNT\u201d is an exciting new direction for the artist.<\/p>\n
Fleshwater, \u201cJetpack\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cJetpack\u201d is the first single from Fleshwater\u2019s newly announced sophomore album, 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky (out September 5). The genre-bending heavy shoegaze band\u2014which guitarist and vocalist Anthony DiDio started as a side project from his main gig in metalcore act Vein.fm<\/a>\u2014made their mark with their 2022 debut album, We\u2019re Not Here To Be Loved. In a press release, DiDio said \u201cJetpack\u201d is \u201c\u2026a really special song that takes me on an adventure every time I hear it. It was the main source of inspiration for this album and really encapsulates the entire vibe of it. I\u2019m excited for people to finally hear it and have it take them on their own personal journey.\u201d<\/p>\n The Armed, THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED<\/p>\n \ufeff<\/p>\n Breaking down the mythology of The Armed would be a relatively useless endeavor, since the hardcore band seems to delight in obfuscation. It remains unclear who, exactly, is behind all the chaos; the official lineup might be just a list of pseudonyms. Or it could be genuine. It\u2019s hard to tell what\u2019s real and what\u2019s not with The Armed. (\u201cIronically, the more we tell the truth, the more people think we\u2019re lying,\u201d a band member told Revolver<\/a> in 2021.) The one thing that\u2019s not in question is that their music goes hard. Their new album, THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED, is particularly blunt. \u201cIt\u2019s music for a statistically wealthy population that somehow can\u2019t afford food or medicine\u2014endlessly scrolling past vacation photos, gym selfies, and images of child amputees in the same feed. It reflects the dissociation required just to exist in that reality,\u201d frontman Tony Wolski explained in a press release.<\/p>\n Wisp, If Not Winter<\/p>\n \ufeff<\/p>\n If Not Winter is the debut LP from 20-year-old shoegaze wunderkind Natalie Lu, a.k.a. Wisp. After her first single, \u201cYour Face,\u201d went viral on TikTok, she quickly signed to Interscope and released an EP, Pandora. If Not Winter gives Wisp the space to fully define her sound, which she says is informed by bands like Whirr and Cocteau Twins. Wisp\u2019s sound leans toward the heavier side of shoegaze, with driving guitars that underscore her emotional lyrics.<\/p>\n Rene\u00e9 Rapp, Bite Me<\/p>\n \ufeff<\/p>\n Rene\u00e9 Rapp\u2019s sophomore album, Bite Me, is the queer mainstream pop album we\u2019ve been waiting for all summer. Rapp puts all her cards on the table with her honest, straightforward lyrics, calling out bad exes and embracing over-the-top party culture. Rapp proved she had no filter on the Mean Girls musical<\/a> publicity tour, and it\u2019s refreshing to see that attitude carry through to her music, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to our weekly music post, where we spotlight our favorite new songs and albums. Hop in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,975,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-111518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114956135943044827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}