New Music
Fresh Grooves for September 11
This week's drops worth your ears — pop provocateurs, electronic veterans and a legend returning from silence. Nine releases landing September 11, with a quick word on each.
Slayyyter's follow-up to WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA is an 'evil flip' of its predecessor, riding Jersey club beats and led by 'brand new chanel$' and the title track — the video for which she directed herself. St. Louis' pop provocateur at her most club-ready.
The 13th studio album from Craig and Charlie Reid and their first since 2022's Dentures Out, produced by Dave Eringa across 12 tracks. The twins take aim at free speech, the militarisation of Britain's children and Western hypocrisy, led by the title track and 'But It Is'.
French multi-instrumentalist FKJ's third album, written across six countries including the UK, Brazil and Mexico. The fluid 12-track set features a wide cast of guests — Baby Rose, Bas, Eryn Allen Kane and Labrinth among them.
Simon Green marks 25 years of Bonobo with an album partly recorded at Neil Young's Broken Arrow Ranch, balancing introspective depth with club-tested cuts like 'Drift'. Arooj Aftab guests on 'Fire on the Water'.
Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn's first LP since No Rules Sandy (2022) — and their first on their own Psychic Hotline label — led by 'Hot Slob' and 'Concrete Glen'. Electronic pop laced with environmental dread that still wants you to dance, with help from BJ Burton, Glenn Kotche and Jenn Wasner.
Her fourth studio album and first since 2020's Chilombo ends the six-year wait with 20 tracks inspired by Nineties music, California car culture, surfing and road trips. Kendrick Lamar stops by on 'So Good', with Larry June, Tyga, Ab-Soul and OHMA also featuring.
The indie veterans' seventh album chronicles 'the rise and fall of a year-long fling'. Kele Okereke sharpens the heartbreak into Bloc Party's most focused set in years.
The solo project of Water From Your Eyes' Nate Amos, now signed to Matador. An 'on-the-road beatnik' record he engineered, produced and performed almost entirely himself — 10 tracks led by 'Billy Came Back', with banjo from his father, bluegrass musician Bob Amos.
At 78, the Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder breaks a seven-year silence with his 23rd album — tender psych-folk and bubbling avant-pop contemplating the maternal force that envelops the Earth.