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THIS WEEK’S TEN
The latest Friday Edition, updated every Friday. Each title links to the post, where you will find the listening link and why it made the Ten.
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R&B HotSpot: DaniLeigh – With Love, From Dani
This is a comeback and a reset. With Love, From Dani, DaniLeigh’s 13-track album released October 2, 2026, on Rebellion Records, trades the toxic-romance energy of the “Easy” and “Lil Bebe” era for something steadier, warmer and more grown. Built around faith, motherhood and healing after losing her father, it sounds like an artist clearing…
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Tuesday Hot Track: Being Dead — ‘Man or Myth’
Austin trio Being Dead mark their Polyvinyl signing with “Man or Myth” — a taut, jangly ode to freestyle-canoeing legend Marc Ornstein, and the sharpest two minutes of their new chapter.
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Weekend Hot Track: K.Flay — ‘Blood Cells’
K.Flay turns twenty years of holding back into a full-throated release on “Blood Cells” — a coming-out anthem shot by 23 fans, and the most alive she’s sounded in years.
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BLUEGIRL — ‘Look At All the Happy People’ is the week’s best debut
The London producer’s official debut single — out today on Capitol UK/Darkroom — turned a solar-eclipse snippet into one of the week’s most undeniable pop moments.
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BODYWASH — ‘La Renommée’ is Sonic Youth devotion with bossa-nova drums
The Montreal duo’s third single from November’s ‘Laughing At Noise’ pairs EVOL-era noise with lyrics about a real Montreal statue.
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PUBLIC ACID — ‘Pay No More’ is six tracks of violent hardcore catharsis
The Richmond-via-Raleigh crew’s new EP on Beach Impediment is 11 minutes of seething, twin-guitar torment. We will pay no more.
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GABRIEL JACOBY — ‘let’s talk about it’ makes vulnerability danceable
The South Carolina singer’s new single pairs a nasty bassline with one of the year’s most disarming messages: talk it out.
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ALPHABET — ‘Into The Blur’ is shoegaze-leaning post-punk done right
London’s four-piece channels early-2000s critical-favorite post-punk on a broody, itchy new single about the years you can’t get back.
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THEA MAY — ‘High Street’ replays a breakup with total control
The Anishinaabe singer-songwriter’s ‘Living with It’ is out — and ‘High Street’ is a Hole-indebted blast with a voice the conversation has been waiting for.
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WORLD NEWS — ‘Vinegar Swimming Pool’ is the darkest single from a debut worth the wait
London’s jangle-pop quartet finally releases its debut album — and the final single shows they can do heavy, too.
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Friday Featured Artist: Radio Free Alice — What’s In Between Is the Debut That Makes the Hype Look Cautious
Radio Free Alice’s debut album What’s In Between, out today on Atlantic, is eleven tracks of wry, restless guitar pop — Clash gave it 9/10, and the hype looks cautious.
