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The members of the East London trio Envie (pronounced on-vee) have been friends since school. They've been at it for a while — their Bandcamp page under former band name Dystopia was last active in 2020, and they featured on FKA twigs' Caprisongs track " Which Way " — but it looks like they're ready to reintroduce themselves. The first upload on a fresh YouTube account is a practice-space recording of "Violently Friendly," a rock song with a bright, melodic immediacy.

See the photo credit up there? "Martin Sorrondeguy" — the same Martin Sorrondeguy, presumably, from Los Crudos and Limp Wrist. (I don't think there's two Martin Sorrondeguys.) That means that Ceremony got a DIY punk legend to take their press pictures. That's fucking sick. It also makes perfect sense, since Ceremony are DIY punk legends themselves.

In 1983, Ozzy Osbourne released Bark At The Moon , the album where he's on the cover looking like a werewolf. That was awesome, and you couldn't ask for a better twist on the whole Ozzy thing. Yesterday, the Montreal fuzz-pop auteur No Joy dropped a new track called "Barking At The Sun." I don't think she was necessarily trying to flip that Ozzy title, but the inversion still makes sense, at least to me.

Texas duo Will Taylor and Charlie Martin, aka Hovvdy, don't make nostalgic music, but there's a sentimental time-shiftiness that runs through their songwriting. Their latest singles, " Blast " and " Try Try Try, " from the forthcoming album Big World , are especially adept at keeping the atmosphere light and groovy even as they tussle with weightier emotions. Their newest single "You Will Go Far" is no different.

Around the time that this summer draws to an end, cult-pop overlord Carly Rae Jepsen will return with , a new 24-song double album divided into two distinct and self-explanatory halves. Jepsen has already shared lead single " On Wires ," which comes from the daytime half of the record. Now, she's got another new one, and it's also from the day disc. She's really leaning into the sunniness right now.

Not that long ago, Tinashe was a cult-beloved singer who was stuck in seemingly endless major-label purgatory, despite obvious talent and charisma, as well as a pretty decent little run of hits. Ever since she finally went independent a few years ago, she's been thriving. She scored a couple of excellent viral hits on her 2024 album, 2024's

The latest artist to contribute to Speedy Wunderground's singles series is London's Lava La Rue. For the new single "Prince Of Bologna," Lava La Rue was influenced by fragments of conversation overheard at the smoking area of a London venue. Taken out of context, these shards of convo become uniquely iridescent, beautiful and batshit crazy. The track was written and co-produced with Tomasso Medica (Husky Loops).

Back in May, Petey USA continued to explore his mix of emo, heartland rock, and electronics on the new single " Kiss The City ." He's since given us the bummed-out synth-pop slow-build "Like A Mantra," and now there's a third new self-produced track.

The British-Australian musical artist Hana Stretton specializes in ambient folk, seemingly merging samples, field recordings, and original tracks into soft smears of emotion. Her songs inspire warm comparisons to geniuses like Grouper and Claire Rousay, and she's gained a fervent supporter in Phil Elverum, who reissued her 2023 album

This year's FIFA Men's World Cup took place in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and it's been Americanized to an unprecedented extent. No, I'm not talking about Donald Trump's meddling with Folarin Balogun's red card suspension; FIFA was already quite corrupt before our corrupt president got involved. But I am referring to the hydration breaks during each half that somehow became ad breaks. And then there's the halftime show.