This week’s NMF is led by full-album moments. Effin turns love and memory into his sharpest world-building yet on Heartbeats, Kid Francescoli opens a sunlit new chapter with A Kind Wave, Danielle Ponder makes a striking label debut with Everything Has Changed, and Troye Sivan returns with the dreamlike pull of She’s the Best. Across dance, pop, soul, and alternative sounds, this week feels less like a singles rush and more like artists stepping fully into new eras.
#NMF Dance: Our Picks For The Week
New music from Effin, Kid Francescoli, Eli Brown & Dimension, and more on New Music Friday.
1. Effin – Heartbeats
Effin makes his most focused statement yet with Heartbeats, a 12-track album built around love, memory, and sonic reinvention. Blending inventive sampling, nostalgic textures, hip-hop influence, house experimentation, and emotional songwriting, the project turns archival fragments into something vivid and modern. More than a concept album, Heartbeats feels like Effin pushing his world-building into its sharpest, most personal form.
2. Dillon Francis – “Fall”
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Dillon Francis returns with “Fall,” an uplifting melodic release out via Monstercat and Broke Records. Built around an expressive vocal top line, soaring melodies, and festival-ready production, the track turns surrender into something freeing, emotional, and built for the dancefloor. “Fall” captures Dillon Francis at his most open while keeping his genre-bending momentum moving forward.
3. Kid Francescoli – “Summer Days”
Kid Francescoli brings French summer romance to the dancefloor with “Summer Days,” a sleek standout from his seventh studio album A Kind Wave. Built on vintage synths, breezy vocals, and clean indie-electro-pop warmth, the track captures the fresh air of an easy South of France afternoon while still carrying a retro electronic pulse. As A Kind Wave opens a warmer, more organic chapter for him, “Summer Days” feels like its sunlit center, arriving ahead of his Spring 2027 U.S. tour.
4. Eli Brown & Dimension – “Frequency”
Eli Brown and Dimension join forces on “Frequency,” a massive mainstage anthem from Brown’s upcoming album Panic Attack. Following “It’s Like That,” previously highlighted in NMF HERE for its raw, acid-soaked techno attack, “Frequency” shows a different power. The different power built on emotional lift, cinematic tension, and cross-genre velocity. Threading a vocal hook through driving techno, an expansive melodic bridge, and a pulse-raising drum & bass second half, the track connects Brown’s past, present, and future while letting Dimension’s crossover energy push it into full festival force.
5. CH@NC3, JEZZ – “Mode Vision”
CH@NC3 and JEZZ link up on “Mode Vision,” the first-ever joint release from Insomniac Records and Disorder Records. Washington D.C., and Mexico City’s rising underground energy are brought together in the track, which locks into a sleek, minimal tech groove built for late-night rooms. Undoubtedly, with its weighty basslines, tightly woven drums, euphoric synth leads, and dusky atmospherics, “Mode Vision” captures club-forward house music at its most focused, infectious, and transatlantic.
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#NewMusicFriday: Our Picks for the Week
New music from girl in red, Danielle Ponder, Troye Sivan, and more on New Music Friday.
1. girl in red – “blue”
girl in red returns with a reflective new single, “blue.” This single turns a quiet color shift into the start of a new chapter. After teasing the release through subtle visual change such as @girlinblue, Marie Ulven leans into uncertainty, transition, and emotional openness. Meanwhile, airy guitars paired with poetic vocals, “blue” gives the color its own sonic shape, transforming change into something delicate, intimate, and quietly haunting.
2. Danielle Ponder – “Open Windows”
Danielle Ponder makes a striking label debut with Everything Has Changed. This album is led by “Open Windows,” one of the album’s most devastating emotional peaks. Powered by Ponder’s commanding voice, the track captures the panic of wondering whether love will ever return. It successfully turns heartbreak into something open, cinematic, and strangely forward-looking.
3. EASYKID – “Untitled Song”
EASYKID kicks off his Soy Un Fatalista era with “Untitled Song,” a gritty return to his roots. Built around a dark guitar riff, the track pulls from late-’90s, early-Y2K rock and metal before crashing into experimental trap. While the lines move between Spanish and English, EASYKID successfully turns nostalgia, emo tension, and urban edge into a raw new chapter. This makes “Untitled Song” feel like both an ending and a rebirth.
4. femtanyl – “ALL THE TIME”
femtanyl make their Columbia Records debut with “ALL THE TIME,” a chaotic new single that throws everyone straight into their electronic world. Opening with a bold rush of glitch before spiraling into a postmodern wasteland of distortion, speed, and raw digital force. Visceral, abrasive, and impossible to ignore, “ALL THE TIME” kicks off femtanyl’s next chapter with the kind of explosive energy that has made Noelle and Juno such a singular force.
5. Troye Sivan – “FF”
Troye Sivan drops“FF,” The latest track on his fourth studio album, She’s the Best. This dreamlike love song was written for someone who has not arrived yet. Languid, intimate, and quietly euphoric, the track turns loneliness into anticipation. At the same time, it also lets Sivan’s textured voice shape a world built on longing, fantasy, and future devotion.