Welcome back to Happy Mag’s Staff Picks, where every week we highlight our favourite new music releases.
Another week comes to pass and the weekend awaits, we’ve made it friends! Before we clock off and crack a cold one, we have got another week’s worth of amazing new music releases to share with you.
From the highly anticipated releases from Bring Me The Horizon, RANY and Press Club to the debut album ‘Random Person’ by Burner Herzog, we have got some real treats for you today; so without further ado, let’s get into that sweet sweet music.
Touch Sensitive – Telephone Line
For his first release of 2023, Touch Sensitive brings in Your Smith to hook listeners in with her buttery vocals, detailing the exciting but gut-wrenching feeling of waiting for your lover to call back. His signature silky synths solidify Telephone Line as one of the hottest songs of the summer.
Blue Vedder – Leather
Leather immediately launches you into a Matrix, dream-pop, alternate universe. The song is based on the euphoric feeling of a safe relationship with the underlying fear of losing that relationship. The two juxtaposing emotions are demonstrated through the interweaving synth and guitar.
A. Savage – Several Songs About Fire
Savage’s latest release brings forth a crisp and clear voice conversing with a playful instrumental approach. This is highlighted in David’s Dead, with the addition of vibraphone alongside the message about losing his friend, David, reminding listeners that death is made of life.
Press Club – No Pressure
All outcomes are better when you don’t take yourself too seriously, as seen in Press Club’s most recent single No Pressure, which is dedicated to the concept. All-round, the song is fun, carefree and lives up to its name.
Burner Herzog – Random Person
Random Person is comfortingly folky, curiously indie and delightfully fun. While there is a consistent theme in the album, each individual song takes you to a different place, different genre, and different vibe.
Department – Dumb Angel
Dumb Angel is a compilation of everything Department loves. There are elements of underground electronic, R&B, and even classical music within the album, all wrapped up together by production that sounds inspired by 2000s rap.
RANY – Losing Patience
RANY’s latest release details a one-sided relationship and the emotional and mental toll it takes on a person. The heavy subject is only more impactful with the fluid synth and beats, which demonstrates the emptiness you’re left feeling.
Bring Me The Horizon – DArkSide
Everyone’s favourite emo-pop band, Bring Me The Horizon is back with a new anthem, DArkSide. This marks the fifth and final single for their upcoming album, POST HUMAN: NeX GEn.
Reily Pearce – How Will I Know
Maintaining the theme of comfort and calm in his music, both musically and lyrically, Reily Pearce’s latest single reminds us that no one really has their shit together. We are all floating on a rock through space, we don’t know what will happen next and that can be exciting!
Hungry – On Sight
Where fury meets fun; On Sight makes you want to dance, spit on someone, and continue dancing. Combining funk and punk, the song attempts to ‘paint the character of those who turn against their moral views for profit’.
Elluna – Mind Is A Menace
Fiercely independent, Elluna continues to push the boundaries of pop music with their latest release. Mind Is A Menace maintains the celestial, alien-like energy they give for all their songs, drowning in a dark hyper-pop.
Arthington Stack – Wicked Speaker
Ahead of his debut album, Arthington Stack releases his latest single, Wicked Speaker. The track, while living in the indie pop realm, has a psychedelic fog over it, reminiscent of that very specific genre of 1980s psychedelic rock.
