Gracie Abrams and Drake lead Billboard's new music guide this week, along with Tove Lo, Jorja Smith and more artists across all genres.
serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
Drake Returns With Three New Albums as 'Iceman,' 'Maid of Honour' & 'Habibti' Arrive: Stream Them Now; and Tove Lo previews her upcoming sixth album … plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below:Gracie Abrams’ now longtime collaborator Aaron Dessner wasn’t playing when he spoke about the singer’s upcoming album in an Instagram caption earlier this week: “You’ll hear us expanding our musical vocabulary and pushing into uncharted waters sonically…it feels elevated in every way.
” Lead single “Hit the Wall” is an airy and lyrically loaded track, with lines like, “A room full of doctors and an inkblot/ I’m drawn into headlights, have a blind spot” or, “I live in a pattern of breakdowns/ You’ll bend to my silence, it’s so loud. ” The track arrives as the perfect connector for where Abrams has been and where she is heading — and proves that if this is her starting point,on Friday.
In all, the three releases total 43 new tracks and nearly two-and-a-half hours of listening . Needless to say, the artist had a lot to get off his chest since hisfocus track, “Ran To Atlanta,” features Future and Molly Santana and is one of just two tracks on the project that taps guests.
Meanwhile,are a bit more feature-packed, with artists including Sexxy Red, Central Cee, PARTYNEXTDOOR and others appearing across the tracklists. So, roll your sleeves up and get to listening. ) and new single “I’m Your Girl Right? ” reminds listeners of what we’ve been missing.
The track finds a sweet spot between mid-tempo pop and full-blown dance banger — exactly what Tove Lo has always done best. The track serves as the lead single for her upcoming sixth album,, out Sept. 18. As the artist shared in a statement: “I know you’ve been waiting a long time and I hope it’s worth the wait. It was for me!
”, arrived in 2021) and that he still has that magic touch. Standout track “Hardy” opens unexpectedly with jittery, gorgeous strings that subtly fade into piano chords — only to return again halfway through for an instrumental interlude that also features trumpet to introduce Clairo’s verse.
The song then ends with the chorus that’s all about acceptance: “Some things you said to me have stuck in my mind/ And though I’ll never have the chance to say why/ Maybe the greatest art is never completed/ We only have to leave it knowing we tried. ”Jorja Smith’s sultry, silky vocals are an expected, welcomed component of all her songs — and while they do their thing on “What’s Done Is Done,” the production comes as a surprise.
Loaded with heart-pounding synth and bass, there’s a creeping, electric backbone to the track that perfectly soundtracks the basement club energy Smith channels in its music video. Drake Returns With Three New Albums as ‘Iceman,’ ‘Maid of Honour’ & ‘Habibti’ Arrive: Stream Them Now. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. // This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google
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