New Music This Week: April 25
- BLIGATORY
- 4 days ago
- 6 min read
highlighting new music by Fib, Model/Actriz, Squid, Adrianne Lenker, Wishy, Viagra Boys, PinkPantheress, & MORE
An overwhelming amount of music is released daily, and we're here to help you weed through it all. Every week, we share select releases we are all looking forward to and personalized picks from a few of our editors.
Welcome to our new releases guide featuring the most notable music released the week of April 25.
BLIGATORY Picks
Fib - Heavy Lifting
Post-Punk, Indie Rock
via Julia's War Recordings
Model/Actriz - "Diva"
Industrial Rock, Dance-Punk
via True Panther / Dirty Hit
write-up by Peter Doherty
If you didn't already know, we're well on the way to Model/Actriz's sophomore album, Pirouette. With the third single, Model/Actriz fully satisfy that desire-filled side of the psyche, and the near-sadistic, misaligned mind warms up to the sounds of “Diva.”
Via the band’s Instagram, vocalist Cole Haden had this to say:
“The writing on Pirouette feels more conversational that anything we've done before[.....] the song takes place on a date, and the song references many of the real ones that I've been on while on tour. Specifically, I'm remembering the times where frivolity shifted to mourning as we both realized we may never see each other again once the night is over. What I've learned is in order to be 'that bitch' one must make use of the melancholia.”
They're the finest band (in Peter's estimations) to fill the industrial shoes that Nine Inch Nails put in place.
Pirouette is set to release this coming Friday, May 2.
Squid - "The Hearth And Circle Round Fire"
Art Punk, Post-Rock, Experimental Rock
via Warp Records
write-up by Peter Doherty
Two months removed from Squid's third project, Cowards, we are again on the receiving end of new material courtesy of the London-via-Brighton five-piece. Now, it's not new to those that bought the deluxe edition of the albums LP or to those who got their mitts on the Japanese edition of the CD.
Step inside Squid's asylum of sonic savagery. An unhinged sphere is set out upon. The world flips from side to side, flinging off those that don't have a firm grip. Six minutes featuring some of the most deranged feats that Squid have released to date await you.
“The Hearth and Circle Round Fire” is out now via Warp.
Atticus' Picks
Salami Rose Joe - Lorings
Neo-Psychedelia, Indietronica, Art Pop
via Brainfeeder
Tennis - Face Down in the Garden
Indie Pop, Dream Pop
Self-Released
Wishy - Planet Popstar
Indie Rock, Dream Pop
via Winspear
Friendship - "Resident Evil"
Alt-Country, Country Rock
via Merge Records
Maggie Rogers & Sylvan Esso - "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl"
Indietronica
via Debay Sounds / Arts & Crafts
PinkPantheress - "Stateside"
Breakbeat, Dance
via Warner Records UK
Dominick's Picks
Colin Miller - Losin'
Alt-Country, Indie Folk
via Mtn Laurel Recording Co.
Recommended if you like: MJ Lenderman, Merce Lemon, Florry
Jerry Big's World Famous Band - JBWFB
Garage Rock, Garage Punk
via Say No Records
Recommended if you like: Friend, The Men, Pissed Jeans
Um, Jennifer - Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark
Slacker Rock, Indie Pop
via Final Girl Records
Recommended if you like: cootie catcher, Speedy Ortiz, Washer
Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys
Dance-Punk, Art Punk
via Shrimptech Enterprises
Recommended if you like: Shame, Snapped Ankles, Tropical Fuck Storm
8485 & Danny Brown - "G.I.R.L."
Electroclash, Glitch Pop
Self-Released
Continuing a streak of somewhat unexpected features that has seen Danny Brown link up with IDLES, Frost Children, Alice Longyu Gao, and Femtanyl in the last several months, the rapper’s latest collab is alongside Toronto-based artist 8485.
Buzzing, rhythmic, and mechanical, the beat on “G.I.R.L.” (prod. by Doin’ Fine) is, simply, bonkers. Brown’s verse is a key component, but 8485 and her semi-robotic delivery shine over bursting electroclash sounds.
Alien Nosejob - "Family Dinner" / "S-o-S 75"
Garage Punk
via Agitated Records / Anti Fade Records
Australian musician Jake Roberston has been relentless in his solo work as Alien Nosejob. Since 2018, Robertson has released seven albums in just as many years, with September’s Turns the Colour of Bad Shit the most recent.
This week brings two “new” Alien Nosejob tracks alongside the announcement of a 23-track compilation. Pulling from five different EPs/7” releases and scattered singles—recorded between 2017 and 2022—Forced Communal Existence packages the rarest Alien Nosejob offerings into one. It’s out June 6 via Agitated Records and Anti Fade Records.
Dummy & Insides - "Sudden Flutes (Insides Remix)"
Neo-Psychedelia, Avant-Pop
via Dummy Records
Last month, Los Angeles’s Dummy announced Bubbelibrium DLC, a companion piece to their masterful sophomore album, Free Energy. Following GMO’s remix of “Unshaped Road,” the second DLC offering is a remix of Dummy’s “Sudden Flutes.” This one is crafted by English duo Insides, who stretch the track into further abstraction.
Out on June 11, Bubbelibrium DLC features additional remixes from Wishy, The Mall, and more.
Bruiser Wolf & Nicholas Craven - "Beat The Charge"
Chipmunk Soul, Gangsta Rap
via Fake Shore Drive / Bruiser House
Fine - "I could"
Slacker Rock, Dream Pop, Trip-Hop
via escho
Full Of Hell - "Knight's Oath"
Black 'n' Roll, Death Metal
via Closed Casket Activities
Legss - "Gloss"
Post-Punk, Art Rock
Self-Released
Peter's Picks
Adrianne Lenker - Live At Revolution Hall
Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter
via 4AD
Amelia's Best Friend - Amelia's Best Friend
Indie Rock, Slacker Rock, Slowcore
Self-Released
Austin, Texas-based band Amelia's Best Friend release their debut album. Of Alex G lineage—somewhat folk-y, somewhat slacker—Amelia's Best Friend reside in that space between existential and comforting. The hug that you needed exists between the start and endpoint of this album. Maybe it's just the one big continuous hold of the hand or rub of the back that you required.
The album features a complimentary sweep of acoustic and electric guitar. A breezy feel is soothingly set out upon.
Amelia's Best Friend's self-titled debut album was written, recorded and mixed at Arbor Audio in Austin, Texas, and is out now!
Motorsports - "dial tone - Live" / "darryl strawberry - Live"
Post-Punk
Self-Released
Texas post-punkers Motorsports return to the scene with some live recordings recorded in June of 2024 at the now-defunct Andy's in Denton, Texas. Motorsports supply those jittery danceables through “dial tone” and “darryl strawberry,” shortened to “dt//ds live.” With aphorisms of modern times—positive function of meaningful work, of paying my cheque—the spirit of Remain in Light-era David Byrne comes through in “darryl strawberry.” An air of Modest Mouse is conveyed through “dial tone.”
The jangly one-two of “dial tone” and “darryl strawberry” is out now.
Plusser - "old car"
Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Math Pop
via pck
Philly three-piece Plusser release their latest single, “old car,” which is set to be the final song on the band's upcoming citrine EP. Running back through an old memory, “old car” bolsters a high-speed set of raucous sonics—the memory comes flooding back. The sweet and somewhat apathetic vocals add a cool steadiness to the fiery mix of sticky guitars, thick bass, and snappy drums. A twinkly turn is taken as it comes to its closing stages - the memory fades from mind.
Plusser's citrine EP releases May 23.
Taxidermy - "You Are Here Now"
Noise Rock, Post-Rock
via Pink Cotton Candy Records
Taxidermy follow-up the stellar single of “Impending” with their latest serving of impending doom. “You Are Here Now” eerily opens like fog on a far away field. The drift hovers thick like a sinister cloud over the land. It takes an active twist as it bursts into life, and in turn, slowly descends into somewhere akin to chaos. The beings of said land are sent manic through some sort of environmental shift and they are no longer the people they once were.
“Everything set in motion; moving up and down.”
“You Are Here Now” is out now via Pink Cotton Candy Records, and Taxidermy's upcoming EP, Let Go, releases May 16.
Ugly - "Next To Die"
Art Rock
Self-Released
Six-piece Ugly rear their heads with “Next to Die.” Ugly's 2024 debut EP Twice Around the Sun turned one year old this month. Ugly now set free their first single since said EP's release. “Next to Die” is home to similar ethereal theatrics that swept through Twice Around the Sun. The splendors of bucolic beauty come to mind.
“Next to Die” is out now via state51.
Ugly have a handful of live dates around the UK And Europe in the coming months: they play Yes in Manchester on May 7, The Village Underground in London on May 8, and Leeds' Brudenell Social Club on May 9 before festival dates at The Great Escape and Wiide Awake Festival. They then head into Europe for another handful of dates, including Pohoda Festival in Slovakia and Maifeld Derby in Mannheim, Germany.
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