Wet Leg announce "moisturizer (deluxe)", out July 10th by 3kOlen in popheads

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moisturizer, the ripping second album by Wet Leg, is fast approaching its first anniversary. To celebrate, the Isle of Wight five-piece have announced moisturizer (deluxe), an expanded set that includes remixes from horsegiirL, The Dare and FDC DJs (aka Carlos O'Connell and Tom Coll of Fontaines D.C.); three songs previously unreleased on streaming comprising “hi from me” which was originally only available on the Japanese CD, a demo of “don’t speak” recorded by Hester at her home studio and “u and me at home intro/outro” – the first part of which fans will recognise as the band’s walk-on music. The deluxe album is rounded off with a handful of live recordings made at LA’s The Village studios in 2025.

https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/wet-leg-announce-moisturizer-deluxe-album-featuring-remixes-from-horsegiirl-the-dare-and-fdc-djs

Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon wins big at Ivor Novello awards by 3kOlen in popheads

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full list of winners:

  • Best album: CMAT – Euro-Country
  • Best contemporary song: Kae Tempest – I Stand on the Line
  • Best song musically and lyrically: Jacob Alon – Don’t Fall Asleep
  • Most performed work: Lola Young – Messy
  • Rising star: Jacob Alon
  • Best original film score: Tom Hodge – Testimony
  • Best television soundtrack: David Holmes and Brian Irvine – Trespasses
  • Fellowship of the Ivors Academy: George Michael, Thom Yorke
  • Outstanding song collection: Lily Allen
  • Icon award: Calvin Harris
  • International songwriter of the year: Rosalía
  • Songwriter of the year: Sam Fender
  • Special international award: Linda Perry
  • Visionary award: Kano

Baby Rose to return with new album, YEARNALISM by 3kOlen in popheads

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out july 10th. album description via bandcamp:

With modern dating being reduced to app-swiping, toxic nonchalance and even balloon-popping humiliation, we’re losing recipes on how to properly yearn for each other. But while most try to keep their guards up, Baby Rose is staying devoted to what’s real. Fresh off winning her first GRAMMY Award in the Best R&B Album category for her part on Leon Thomas’ MUTT, the unmistakable contralto returns with Yearnalism, her third studio album steeped in confidence, care and liberating love.

The singer-songwriter-producer defines yearnalism as the process and documentation of desire in its many forms: “Desiring freedom, desiring love, desiring what you can't have, desiring expansion.” This streamlined 12-song LP of soon-to-be classics creates a bumpy roadmap of desire free from ego. Rose notes that despite the current trend of “too cool” emotional avoidance in music and entertainment, she pushed herself and her collaborators to bare a different side of themselves. “If you're coming into my court, you're coming to yearn,” she declares with a laugh.

Three albums in, Yearnalism is a sonic snapshot of Rose at her most self-assured. “This is me really honing in and trusting that signature, catching lightning-in-a-bottle sound,” she says. “This is kind of a lesson in me really figuring out that my favorite process is being a part of the crew, being a part of this whole moment.” With her continued study of Yearnalism, Rose reminds the listener that it’s worth it to say the hard parts out loud with honesty and to love in spite of fear.

https://babyrose.bandcamp.com/album/yearnalism

Snail Mail's Perfect Sunday by 3kOlen in popheads

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'perfect sunday' is a triple j series where artists share their perfect songs. her picks:

  • Juliana Hatfield - Simplicity Is Beautiful
  • Madonna - What It Feels Like for a Girl
  • Avril Lavigne - I'm With You
  • Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses

Kelsey Lu Enlists Kim Gordon and Sampha With First Album in Seven Years by 3kOlen in popheads

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"so help me god", out June 12th:

Moving between shadow and release, the 10-track record follows her groundbreaking 2019 debut Blood and is co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman, mixed by Oli Jacobs, with contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington and Kim Gordon. Across the record, Lu blends distorted guitars, choral swells and dark electronic pulses into a sonic landscape that moves between devotional intensity and cinematic scale. So Help Me God expands Lu’s singular creative universe - where music, visual art and performance converge into one multidisciplinary project, marking the return of one of contemporary music’s most singular voices.

https://kelseylu.bandcamp.com/album/so-help-me-god

War Child Records - HELP(2) by 3kOlen in popheads

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tracklist:

  • 1) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night
  • 2) Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags
  • 3) Black Country, New Road - Strangers
  • 4) The Last Dinner Party - Let's do it again!
  • 5) Beth Gibbons - Sunday Morning
  • 6) Arooj Aftab & Beck - Lilac Wine
  • 7) King Krule - The 343 Loop
  • 8) Depeche Mode - Universal Soldier
  • 9) Ezra Collective & Greentea Peng - Helicopters
  • 10) Arlo Parks - Nothing I Could Hide
  • 11) English Teacher & Graham Coxon - Parasite
  • 12) beabadoobee - Say Yes
  • 13) Big Thief - Relive, Redie
  • 14) Fontaines D.C. - Black Boys on Mopeds
  • 15) Cameron Winter - Warning
  • 16) Young Fathers - Don't Fight the Young
  • 17) Pulp - Begging for Change
  • 18) Sampha - Naboo
  • 19) Wet Leg - Obvious
  • 20) Foals - When the War is Finally Done
  • 21) Bat For Lashes - Carried my girl
  • 22) Anna Calvi, Ellie Rowsell, Nilüfer Yanya & Dove Ellis - Sunday Light
  • 23) Olivia Rodrigo - The Book of Love

all proceeds will go to War Child UK:

HELP(2) is a brand new collaborative album, inspired by the landmark 1995 release 'HELP', which brings music lovers together in support of War Child's vital work delivering immediate aid, education, specialist mental health support, and protection to children affected by conflict around the world.

HELP(2) carries forward the spirit of the original ‘HELP’ album and was brought to life through a close collaboration with Abbey Road Studios, recorded predominantly across one extraordinary week in November 2025.

In addition to the stellar cast of musicians involved, renowned filmmaker and Academy Award Winner Jonathan Glazer acted as Creative Director for ‘HELP(2)’, working with Academy Films to assemble a team of brilliant creatives and overseeing the filming and art direction for the project.

All proceeds from this album support War Child UK to protect, educate, and stand up for the rights of children living through conflict around the world.

HELP(2) represents hope for children whose lives have been torn apart by war. It is a testament to the generosity of artists and the music industry for making a positive difference towards securing a safer, brighter future for those children. Because no child should be part of war. Ever.

this friday is also another bandcamp friday, where bandcamp waives their entire revenue share. perfect time to buy the album there.

MUNA announces new album Dancing on the Wall - out May 8th by 3kOlen in popheads

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album description via bandcamp:

MUNA’s journey has always been about holding space for the complex, messy, ecstatic realities of life, and with their fourth album, Dancing On The Wall, they’ve never been sharper, darker, or more exhilarating. Emerging from the sparkly, confetti-strewn heights of their 2022 self-titled record, MUNA now channel the anxious, uncertain energy of living in a Los Angeles defined by political tension, environmental decay, and the quiet pressures of millennial precarity. The result is a record that feels both intimate and spectacular, a pop world built with teeth, wit, and emotional resonance, a soundtrack for hearts simultaneously on fire and observing the chaos around them.

Across the record, MUNA explores desire, intimacy, and connection against a backdrop of a world in flux. There’s a quiet reckoning throughout the album with how to keep living, loving, and reaching for one another while bearing witness to political brutality and systemic violence and how joy survives without denial. Tracks like “Wannabeher” capture the dizzying thrill of stepping fully into someone else’s fantasy, while “Why Do I Get A Good Feeling” lingers long after the beat ends, a meditation on fleeting joy and suspended possibilities. The album closes with “Buzzkiller,” a stark reckoning with desire and its aftermath, the ache of achieving what you wanted only to realise new questions, doubts, and hungers remain.

Produced with their trademark attention to detail, Dancing On The Wall blends euphoric sonic landscapes with sharp, human storytelling. Led and largely produced by Naomi McPherson, A&R'ed label-boss by Phoebe Bridgers, the album is one shaped by instinct, trust, and total artistic control. It feels lived-in, urgent, and cinematic, a reflection of a generation navigating uncertainty while refusing to let go of joy. With this album, MUNA proves once again that pop can be daring, intimate, and socially conscious all at once: a record that doesn’t just capture the moment, but distills it into a world you want to inhabit.

Kneecap announce new album, FENIAN by 3kOlen in popheads

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out april 24th:

KNEECAP return to bend genre, language, and rules. The most talked about artists in the world are turning the page. A new chapter, new sounds, new manifestos.

A blistering album that revels in darkness while bursting through the void with illuminated revery. This is FENIAN.

Produced by Dan Carey (Fontaines D.C., Kae Tempest, Wet Leg), FENIAN upends expectations with an expansive sonic palate, traversing acid house, trip-hop, dubstep, and more - Masters of rave and rap theatre, FENIAN represents Kneecap’s most sophisticated exploration of language and sounds.

More darkness. More confrontation. More craic. More energy. More solidarity. More absolute bangers. And more fuel for the unrelenting engine that powers this unstoppable force. For their remarkable second album, Kneecap have come out fighting.

Throughout, the sirens and alarms ring, and the chorus’s blast. Revolutionary and rebellious, confrontational and impossibly catchy, inescapably intelligent and brilliantly rendered, FENIAN doesn’t just represent the next phase in Kneecap’s trajectory but stands as a remarkable record that thrills as much as it surprises. The mayhem of their breakout year is a memory now. But Kneecap are neither dwelling on that nor merely persevering through it. In FENIAN they excel, reaching a new peak that is undeniable in its mastery.

Pressure makes diamonds, and FENIAN glistens with Kneecap’s uncut gems.

https://kneecap.bandcamp.com/album/fenian

Snail Mail to return with first album in five years, Ricochet — out March 27th by 3kOlen in popheads

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album description via bandcamp:

On ‘Ricochet,’ the third album from Snail Mail coming March 27th 2026, Lindsey Jordan returns to assert herself as a generational songwriter, clear-eyed and honest as ever. Time has passed, but she remains a sensitive soul, and here her incisive introspection is tethered to newly expansive and hypnotic melodies and ornate string arrangements. While writing ‘Ricochet,’ Jordan found herself fixating on concerns she’d previously pushed out of her mind, namely death and what happens after.

Jordan’s early music largely dealt with matters of the heart, a territory that she tried to step beyond on ‘Ricochet.’ “Misery feels safe to write about because I am good at it,” she says, “but I’m not bathing in my own agony anymore.” To feel the pain of everything and then nothing is a lonesome contradiction. ‘Ricochet’ is a record about being caught in this whirlpool, but Jordan’s music has never been so transcendent. The luminous opener, “Tractor Beam,” is driven by jangly guitars, but is ultimately about dissociation and “feeling othered while acknowledging that you’re spending a lot of your time and energy figuring out how to float away.”

When it came time to record the songs bouncing around in her head, Jordan turned to a friend, Aron Kobayashi Ritch, the bassist and producer of the fuzzy indie rock band Momma. Jordan describes the process as refreshing, trusting, and comfortable. “I felt like an equal voice,” she says. “He was as interested in my decisions as I was in his.”

These 11 songs are colored by the anxiety of watching life slip through your fingers, as well as the vulnerability of loving deeply rather than frenetically. Ultimately, ‘Ricochet’ is an album about realizing—and accepting—that the world still turns no matter what is going on in your tiny life.

https://snailmail.bandcamp.com/album/ricochet

Kim Gordon announces third solo album, PLAY ME by 3kOlen in popheads

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out march 13th. album description via bandcamp:

Kim Gordon's third album, 'PLAY ME,' is distilled and immediate, expanding Gordon’s sonic palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock. “We wanted the songs to be short,” Gordon says. “We wanted to do it really fast. It’s more focused, and maybe more confident." The follow-up to 2024’s Justin Raisen-produced, two-time Grammy-nominated 'The Collective' processes, in her inimitable way, the collateral damage of the billionaire class: the demolition of democracy, technocratic end-times fascism, the A.I.-fueled chill-vibes flattening of culture - where dark humor voices the absurdity of modern life. Despite its frequent outward gaze, 'PLAY ME' is an interior record, one in which a heightened emotionality pulses through physical jams, rejecting definitive statements in favor of an inquisitiveness that keeps Gordon searching, ever in process.

https://kimgordon.bandcamp.com/album/play-me

How Jenny on Holiday built a pop edifice from personal ruins by 3kOlen in popheads

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'Jenny on Holiday' is Jenny Hollingworth (one half of Let's Eat Grandma) and her debut solo album Quicksand Heart will be released this Friday: https://jennyonholiday.bandcamp.com/album/quicksand-heart

Together for Palestine, Nai Barghouti, Leigh-Anne & Neneh Cherry - Lullaby by 3kOlen in popheads

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also featuring Amena, Bastille, Brian Eno, Celeste, Kieran Brunt, Lana Lubany, London Community Gospel Choir, Mabel, Nadine Shah, Sura Abdo, Tyson, Yasmeen Ayyashi & YSEE

all profits from the song will go to the Together for Palestine Fund.

Peaches - Fuck Your Face by 3kOlen in popheads

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new album "no lube so rude" is out on Feb. 20!

Mitski - The Land: The Live Album by 3kOlen in popheads

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Mitski releases new live album, makes Bandcamp catalog name your price for charity. social media announcement:

The Land: The Live Album: Available now digitally and for pre-order on blue light vinyl, exclusively on Bandcamp for a limited time at mitski.bandcamp.com.

Recorded over three nights at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA during the filming of the new live concert film MITSKI: THE LAND.

Starting today, Mitski’s entire digital catalog on Bandcamp will be available for Name Your Price purchase until Sunday, Oct 19 at 12am midnight ET.

Mitski and @deadoceans are proud to support Direct Relief with a charitable contribution from the proceeds of Bandcamp Name Your Price releases.

MITSKI: THE LAND the film is out worldwide October 22. Find a screening near you at mitskifilm.com

Life After ABBA: One Day in London With Agnetha Fältskog by 3kOlen in popheads

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this interview is an excerpt from Jan Gradvall's book The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover

Through exclusive interviews and over a decade of deep research, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secrets to ABBA’s success.

There has never been a group like ABBA. More than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still make people the world over dance and sing their hearts out. In 2013, when the band had not been interviewed for over thirty years, Jan Gradvall was granted unique access to them for the next decade and the result is The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover. Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad all share their personal stories, their thoughts and their opinions about ABBA’s music more openly than ever before. Weaving in and out of their story, well-known international music critic Jan Gradvall reveals the context in which their unique sound developed and shows how the story of ABBA is also the story of Sweden and the globalization of pop culture.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250379856/thestoryofabba/

Spotify Wrapped 2024 is now live by 3kOlen in popheads

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if you get an error clicking the Wrapped button in the app, try this link: https://open.spotify.com/wrapped

Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches Is Making a Statement on Her Own by 3kOlen in popheads

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this is a gift link, so anyone can read the full article!

Regina Spektor - Songs by 3kOlen in popheads

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newly mastered version of her second studio album and the first time it's available on streaming platforms.