New Music Friday – October 17, 2025

October 17, 2025 Ben Pagani

It’s New Music Friday and this week is headlined by one of music’s modern superstars. Read on to view a complete list of the most highly-anticipated EPs and albums out now. First, here’s an in-depth look at the new Tame Impala record.

The Best of New Music Friday:

Tame Impala – Deadbeat

Tame Impala fans can breathe. For the first time in nearly six years, Kevin Parker has shared a full length LP. Deadbeat is about drugs, desperation and a being on a bender of an endless bummer. When Parker isn’t exploring raves to learn more about himself or namedropping Family Guy in 2025, he’s trying to inspire listeners to dance along to euphoric rhythms. Parker claims he wasn’t trying to release a perfect Tame Impala album while writing and recording Deadbeat. What he’s released is a record filled with few choruses, but plenty of catchy brain scratching earworms. It’s a rewarding listen for fans who want vibes to sway to more than they want to sing along.

Parker prefers to work alone. (Did you know Tame Impala is only one guy?). He often rents a home close to the beach, bringing any studio equipment with him. For “Deadbeat,” Parker largely produced between his hometown of Fremantle and his studio, Wave House, in Injidup, Western Australia. The record was made during the first six months of 2025.

You could read the first Tame Impala album in over half a decade as a balancing act between fame and domesticity and parenthood. On “Dracula,” Parker battles with self-loathing for enjoying himself like “fucking Pablo Escobar” when he knows should be at home caring for his kids. On “Piece of Heaven,” he expresses being away from his children so often. “I don’t know if I’ll be here, I guess that depends.”

“Waking in time to catch the last hours of sunlight, people walking home go by,” he sings on Not My World, one the year’s most headbopping experimental tracks. But if that sounds like the young spiritualized dream of freeing oneself from the nine-to-five-grind and living in the woods, he doesn’t seem to be enjoying it much: “Must be nice,” he sputters sadly. “Makes me realise it’s not my world.”

There’s a number of emotions Parker reckons with throughout the record. Take the title of lead single “Loser,” where he feels like a dark, twisted and unpretty fool. There’s also plenty of grooving he wants to get done, like on “End of Summer,” his recent comeback track that divided fans with its long run time and modern pop instrumental sound.

Parker is walking through his own life, making tunes to fit his personal soundtrack. If that fits fan’s fancies, cool. If it doesn’t, Parker will still see you at his largely sold-out world tour dates, and continue wrestling with the emotions that decades of Tame Impala fame have brought.

New Music Friday Top Picks:

Bar Italia – Some Like It Hot [Matador]

Carly Rae Jepsen – Emotion (10th Anniversary Edition) [Interscope]

Elias Rønnenfelt – Speak Daggers [Escho]

Militarie Gun – God Save the Gun [Loma Vista]

Skullcrusher – And Your Song Is Like a Circle [Dirty Hit]

Soulwax – All Systems Are Lying [Deewee/Because Music]

They Are Gutting a Body of Water – Lotto [Julia’s War/Smoking Room/ATO]

Ty Dolla $ign – Tycoon [Atlantic]

Which of these tracks from New Music Friday will you add to your favorite playlists today? Any we missed? Let us know in the comments or on Instagram!

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Ben Pagani

Music Projects Manager at Beyond The Stage Magazine

Ben is a music journalist living and working in Chicago. They joined Beyond The Stage as an intern and have stayed on the staff for several years. Now serving on the editorial board, Ben is proud to be BTS' Music Projects Manager, coordinating coverage between international record labels and our staff. Ben has interviewed, photographed and written about bands from across the world. Ben has lived all over the United States working in television and media. They are an Emmy Award-winning writer. Ben can be found spinning records as 'DJ Wearing Sunglasses' in clubs and basements across the US.