New Music Friday – September 20, 2024

September 20, 2024 Ben Pagani

Today is a New Music Friday with auto-tune, electropop and DJ mixes. Scroll down to see a list of new singles and albums to check out this week. First, here’s a deeper look at one of the most discussed releases this week.

The Best of New Music Friday:

The Voidz – Like All Before You

It should be no surprise that the first vocal lines Julian Casablancas lays down on The Voidz new record Like All Before You are drenched in auto-tune. Casablancas previously touted that his voice is an additional instrument to the bands he plays with. That’s certainly the case on video-game-soundtrack turned band The Voidz latest record. On Casablancas’ spin-off band’s first album since 2018’s Virtue, the group duets soft ghoulish guitars and synths with quick, paranoid sounds. They deliver on a record with extreme soft tracks like “Square Wave” and the pretty futuristic sounds of “Spectral Analysis,” plus raucous tunes such as “Prophecy of the Dragon.”

Like All Before You centers around “7 Horses,” where Casablancas showcases those vocal effects that only Voidz records allow (The Strokes would probably never allow this much distortion on a single record). They’re gorgeous on some dreamy moments and over the top on others. The individual songs on this record stand well on their own. Overall though, many of the tunes are far apart on a broad spectrum with little middle ground between the slow tracks and chaotic ones. That means listening to the full album at once could be a challenge for listeners, depending on the mood they want. However, listening to The Voidz probably means someone is moody enough already.

All that’s left to do is sit back hope The Voidz put on more promotional Like All Before You shows than the three currently slated for New York City and Los Angeles. The rest of the world would really like to hear space rock from a different world, Julian.

New Music Friday Top Picks:

Bishop Briggs – “Good For Me”

Bright Eyes – Five Dice, All Threes [Dead Oceans]

FIDLAR – SURVIVING THE DREAM [SELF-RELEASED]

Fleetwood Mac – Mirage Tour ’82 (Live) [Rhino]

Future – Mixtape Pluto [Epic]

Jamie xx – In Waves [Young]

Joan as Police Woman – Lemons, Limes and Orchids [Play It Again Sam]

Katy J Pearson – Someday, Now [Heavenly]

Katy Perry – 143 [Capitol]

Manu Chao – Viva Tu [Radio Bemba]

Nubya Garcia – Odyssey [Concord Jazz]

Thurston Moore – Flow Critical Lucidity [Daydream Library Series]

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.