Yahoo News 6 albums you need to hear this week
In the age of streaming, it’s never been easier to listen to new music — but with over 60,000 new songs added to Spotify every day, it’s also never been harder to know what to put on. Every week, the team at Rolling Stone UK will run down some of the best new releases that have been added to streaming services.
This week, we’ve highlighted records by Bring Me The Horizon, Twenty One Pilots, Vince Staples, Paul Weller, DIIV and mui zyu.
Bring Me The Horizon – POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
After what has felt like years of waiting, Bring Me The Horizon flipped the script and gave fans less than 12 hours’ notice for the release of long-awaited new album POST HUMAN: NeX GEn. The record is the next step in what was intended to be as a series of EPs, beginning in 2020 with Survival Horror. With the departure of key member and songwriter Jordan Fish, it now serves as a fresh start for the UK’s biggest rock band, and sees them team up with Aurora, Lil Uzi Vert and more.
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Twenty One Pilots – Clancy
The sixth album from Twenty One Pilots sees the duo offer up a strangely subdued and, at times, mature offering. It’s evident on moody opener ‘Overcompensate’, while ‘Backslide’ and ‘Vignette’ are the perfect reflection of what this record is all about. It’s a far cry, in some ways, from the radio-friendly rock of their previous work, but die-hard fans will lap it up.
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Vince Staples – Dark Times
Vince Staples’ new album Dark Times is his last for Def Jam, and thus signals the end of an era that begin in 2015 with his debut album Summertime ’06. The new record, his first since 2022’s Ramona Park Broke My Heart, is led by single ‘Shame on the Devil’, a track of languid beats and equally laid-back lyricism. “Eleven years ago, a young, uncertain version of myself was given an opportunity with Def Jam Recordings,” Staples said. Now, with his own Netflix comedy show and a top-tier discography, he leaves the label as a self-sure and still thrilling rapper.
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Paul Weller – 66
Ohis latest album, Paul Weller takes the record’s title, 66, from the age that he is set to reach just a day after the arrival of his 17th solo record. It’s of little surprise, then, to report that soul-searching
and questioning one’s place in the universe after a life well lived are at the centre of this consistently varied and surprising new album from a legendary elder statesman of British rock.
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DIIV – Frog in Boiling Water
DIIV’s last album, 2019’s Deceiver, saw the 2010s indie shoegaze darlings turn their eye towards darker and more foreboding sounds. It was a new texture that suited the band well, and its follow-up, Frog in Boiling Water, sees them slowly and gently evolve again, mixing this darker sound with their dreamier earlier work.
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mui zyu – nothing or something to die for
mui zyu, aka the London-based singer Eva Liu, made waves with her debut album Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century as she explored her heritage and emerged as a special and affecting songwriter. Its follow-up, nothing or something to die for, sees her sound evolve further. While the bedroom quality of mui zyu’s early recordings can still be felt here, there’s an extra sheen and warmth to the sound from working in an actual studio for the first time.
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