Welcome to the best new songs, videos and more from the last seven days – in our opinion! There’s pop, rock, alt, dance and a fair few other genres in the mix. Be sure to link to the artists pages and drop them a like, buy ant new releases and support them all fully. Thanks
First is the return of the Arctic Monkeys who have released their first new song “Opening Night” in almost four years (eek) and join a sprawling cast of artists who have come together for Warchild’s HELP(2), a fast-moving, globally minded charity that reaches far beyond what’s on this tracklist.
One of the most stacked moments arrives on “Flags,” a collaboration led by Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten, and Kae Tempest that quietly expands into a full-blown super-group. The track also features Johnny Marr, Dave Okumu of The Invisible, and Portishead’s Adrian Utley all on guitar, with Gorillaz bassist Seye Adelekan, Ezra Collective drummer Femi Koleoso, and an all-star choir including Jarvis Cocker, Marr, Carl Barat, Declan McKenna, English Teacher, Black Country, New Road, Marika Hackman, Rosa Walton, and Nadia Kadek.
Elsewhere, Olivia Rodrigo closes the album with a cover of The Magnetic Fields’ “The Book of Love,” backed by Graham Coxon on guitar. Coxon also appears on “Parasite,” collaborating with English Teacher, while new track “Sunday Light” brings together Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell, Anna Calvi, Nilüfer Yanya, and Dove Ellis.
The album was produced by in-demand producer James Ford, who recorded it largely over the course of a single week last November at Abbey Road Studios — a nod to the original HELP album, which was famously recorded in one day across studios around the world and released just a week later.
Read more about Warchild and the album and Donate
Harry Styles has been teasing his new album “Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally” in the past week and dropped the video for moody, self reflective, but still quite danceable, track “Aperture”
Savages celebrate the 10 year anniversary of their critically acclaimed album “Adore Life” with a brace of previously unreleased tracks the original song “Player” and a piano-lead cover of Black Sabbath’s iconic “Paranoid,” the latter of which has a video below.
James Blake teams up with a London Welsh male voice choir for a live video of his latest song “Death Of Love”. It’s the first single from his new album “Trying Times” out in March.
Brighton’s Lime Garden are stoking the fires in the build up to their new album release too. The viciously bouncy, future-retro, indie pop sounding “23” is the first taste from ”Maybe Not Tonight” out in April – forget Brat Summer 2026 will be a Lime Summer with more bangers like this!
“Ricochet,” out March 27th sees the swooping, swooning welcome return of Snail Mail with the first track “Dead End” steering us all in the direction of the album’s overall sound.
Other highlights out this week – A$AP Rocky, Dan Toliver, Joji, Holly Humberstone, XG, Poppy and Exo