New Releases

#NewMusicFriday is jam-packed this week with some HUGE new singles. The full list of this week's new single, album and DVD/Blu-ray releases is at the bottom of the page, but first, here are a few highlights.

• Sam Smith hits re-start on their third album this week with new single My Oasis, a collaboration with Nigerian Afro-fusion/dancehall artist Burna Boy. A collabs go it’s a pretty unexpected one from both sides; being Burna’s most pop-leaning and Sam’s least pop-leaning yet.

• ASMR icon Billie Eilish returns with a new track this week, titled My Future. It’s a potential superstar-cementing moment, so no pressure, Billie.

• Beyoncé’s Black Is King visual album debuts on Disney Plus on July 31 - a feature film composed of music videos for songs from her Lion King remake companion album The Gift. Aside from a couple of trailers the whole thing has been top secret, but expect the visual to cover themes of suppression and the horrors of colonialism, as well as being a celebration of women with a strong message of Black pride.

• McFly are BACK and have successfully hauled their jaunty pop-rock sound into 2020 with new single Happiness. In fact, even as upbeat McFly songs go, this one is especially chipper – and we didn’t realise how much we needed it.

• Just over a year after taking the world by storm with their debut album Dogrel, Dublin band Fontaines D.C. return with their second effort, titled A Hero’s Death. Rather than taking the obvious more-of-the-same approach, the record is more like post-mortem of the debut album that almost destroyed them. Expect something darker, slower and more inward looking. 

• Alanis Morissette releases her new album Such Pretty Forks In The Road this week - her first record in eight years. It’s easily her darkest album yet and also her strongest in years, offering frank takes on becoming a mum, relationships, insecurities and depression.

Check out and preview this week's new singles, albums and DVD/Blu-ray releases below: