A very exciting New Music Friday this week featuring new drops from Lana Del Rey, The Last Dinner Party, Just A Gent, and more!
NMF Dance: Our Picks For The Week
New dance drops from IVORY, MUERTE, Charlie Sparks, and more on NMF Dance!
1. Charlie Sparks, AZYR – “Power”
“Power” is the kind of hard techno weapon that hijacks the room within seconds, all concrete-crushing kicks and scorched-earth percussion built for strobe-lit peak hours. Charlie Sparks and AZYR lean into their industrial, schranz-rooted instincts here, stacking distorted sirens, corrosive arps, and white-hot acid lines into a relentless wall of pressure.
2. IVORY – “DUBST3P”
“DUBST3P” is IVORY at his most unhinged and cinematic, opening with a horror-score piano motif before detonating into full-throttle controlled chaos. As the standout track of IVORY’s new EP AXIS 01, the production of the track feels surgically placed yet wildly feral, nodding to his early sound while weaponizing a decade of production refinement.
3. MUERTE – “HALO SCAR”
MUERTE’s “HALO SCAR” plays like a tension-soaked overture before plunging into serrated, cinematic dubstep. It’s a gripping showcase of MUERTE’s signature duality, tailor-made for bass fans who want their breakdowns to feel like an orchestral film score.
4. Just A Gent, Nevve – “Stardust”
“Stardust” is a starry-eyed dance-pop rush that lands somewhere between festival-size catharsis and afterglow nostalgia, with Nevve’s featherlight vocal floating over gleaming, melodic house production. Just A Gent leans into retro-future euphoria here, folding in ‘90s trance sparkles. It’s exactly the kind of track you can imagine echoing through a night drive, a festival field, or, as he puts it, a dance floor in deep space.
5. Steller – “Frames of Infinity”
Steller’s “Frames of Infinity” centers spoken-word affirmations and Taylr Renee’s emotive topline, with the track gliding between downtempo introspection and psychedelic, dubstep-laced drops that feel as meditative as they are heavy. It’s bass music that resists the swipe-and-skip era, immersing listeners in the world of the new EP, Shifting The Lens.
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#NewMusicFriday: Our Picks for the Week
Lana Del Rey, Genesis Owusu, Ally Evenson, and more featured on this week’s New Music Friday!
1. The Last Dinner Party – “Let’s Do It Again!”
Taken from the forthcoming charity album HELP(2), “Let’s Do It Again!” from The Last Dinner Party is exactly the kind of theatrical, high-intensity pop they’ve made their signature over the past five years. Produced by James Ford at Angel Studios, the track wrestles with the push-pull of a relationship you know you should leave but keep returning to anyway.
2. Ally Evenson – “Blame It On You”
The focus track from Ally Evenson’s sophomore album Speed Kills (out today) finds the Detroit-born, LA-based singer-songwriter leaning hard into the nineties alt influence that runs through the whole record. The album channels Sheryl Crow and Liz Phair into something bracingly her own. “Blame It On You” only proves Ally’s meteoric rise to stardom to accelerate even more.
3. Avalon Emerson & the Charm – “Written into Changes”
The title track from Avalon Emerson & the Charm’s forthcoming Written into Changes (due March 20) is a groove-heavy meditation on upheaval and acceptance. Co-written in London with Bullion alongside collaborators Hunter Lombard and Keivon Mehdi Hobeheidar, the track finds Emerson threading her dance music instincts into something warmer and more band-driven than her debut.
4. Genesis Owusu – “STAMPEDE”
Genesis Owusu’s latest release “STAMPEDE” is a full-throttle rally cry that opens up into something melodic and galvanizing. Filmed on the streets of Accra, his first time back in Ghana in eleven years, the video matches the track’s energy beat for beat, motorcycles and horses in tow. Following “PIRATE RADIO” and “DEATH CULT ZOMBIE,” “STAMPEDE” cements this as his most urgent, community-focused project yet.
5. Lana Del Rey – “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter”
Lana Del Rey’s first offering ahead of her forthcoming album (due in approximately three months, per her own announcement) is a family affair: co-written with her sister Chuck Grant, brother-in-law Jason Pickens, and husband Jeremy Dufrene. Produced alongside longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff, with co-production and strings from Drew Erickson, the track carries the lush, layered sound fans have come to expect while hinting at wherever she’s headed next.
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