New Releases

Welcome to New Music Friday, your one place to discover the biggest new song, album and DVD releases.

Let's dive straight into singles with the return of one of Britain's most beloved pop duos (move aside, Cheeky Girls).

Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding have proved time and time again that they're a musical dream team, having scored one of the biggest hits of both of their careers last year when divine trance banger Miracle hit Number 1 in the UK for eight weeks.

Now, they're back again, issuing the breezy Free as their fourth official collaboration together. It's a tune that will no doubt soundtrack so many Ibiza days (and nights!) in the weeks to come.

Halsey is one of the most chameleonic pop stars of her generation, with each album always offering a different sonic palate to enjoy (just take her last record, 2021's classic in the making If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power which churned up industrial-rock scuzz courtesy of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) and always managing to feel distinctly true to who she is in that moment.

So, from the darkness of her last record (which was in many ways, her magnum opus) we now reach the light. The wistful Lucky (which samples Britney Spears' 2000 single of the same name) acts, then, as something of a reset for Halsey's next album, her first under label Columbia and the beginning of an entirely new world to enjoy.

Elsewhere, we have brand new single drops from songwriter to the stars and now pop star in her own right Kamille (Freak), MUNA frontwoman Katie Gavin, who starts her solo career with a debut Michelle Branch would be proud of (Aftertaste) and Kacey Musgraves (Irish Goodbye).

As for albums this week, internet sensation Ice Spice finally issues her debut album Y2K! complete with visuals shot by none other than David LaChapelle (Britney, Travis Scott) and includes link-ups with Travis Scott, Gunna and Central Cee - who guested on recent Top 20 single Did It First.

British singer-songwriter Sam Tompkins has really put in the work and graft from the start of his career, and it's with a sense of hard-won determination that his debut album, Hi, My Name Is Insecure, arrives as a love letter to all the roads that lead him to this moment. 

Other LPs also dropping on this New Music Friday include records from Porter Robinson (Smile), Empire Of The Sun (Ask That God) and Joshua Bassett (The Golden Years). 

New Music Friday releases: songs, albums and DVDs for 26th July 2024