9 albums you need to hear this week

In the age of streaming, it’s never been easier to listen to new music — but with over 60,000 new songs added to Spotify every day, it’s also never been harder to know what to put on. Every week, the team at Rolling Stone UK will run down some of the best new releases that have been added to streaming services.

This week, we’ve highlighted records by Florence + The Machine, Cat Burns, Luvcat, Creeper, The Charlatans, Daniel Avery, Snocaps, Eleni Drake and keiyaA.

Florence + The Machine – Everybody Scream

Florence Welch describes the making of new album Everybody Scream as a coping mechanism. Specifically, she was coping with suffering a miscarriage from an ectopic pregnancy while on tour in 2023. “The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death,” she told The Guardian. On Everybody Scream, feelings and exorcisms around the event come out in a biblically powerful noise, lead by its stunning title track.

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Cat Burns – How to be Human

Cat Burns may currently be showing off her treacherous side on The Celebrity Traitors, but this second album goes far in showing that the real Cat couldn’t be more different. It’s an album rich with humanity, whether that’s lamenting the loss of her grandfather on the emotional opener ‘Come Home’, or aiming for gospel-flecked anthems on ‘All This Love’. It’s a perfect portrait of processing grief.

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Luvcat – Vicious Delicious

Luvcat’s debut album is the kind of record you’d expect to hear in a smoky jazz bar of questionable repute, the sort of place where the opening hours are as long as the drinks. It’s a reflection of the retro-tinged mystique that Liverpool-born Sophie Howarth has developed. There’s sultry love songs like ‘Matador’, alongside murder ballads such as ‘He’s My Man’. Here’s an artist who knows exactly what she wants to be.

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Creeper – Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death

Creeper have always dealt in mythology, and new album Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death sees listeners plunged into the fictional story of a British band on an American tour during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. It’s as immersive and fantastical as the band have ever sounded, and the weirder and more outlandish they get, the more thrilling it sounds.

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The Charlatans – We Are Love

Now a remarkable fourteen albums in, The Charlatans show no signs of going anywhere soon on their first record for eight years. ‘We Are Love’ has everything from the psych-driven ‘Now Everything’ to the panoramic title track. It’s a huge return.  

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Daniel Avery – Tremor

After taking five years to follow up his game-changing debut album Drone Logic, Daniel Avery has been on a hot streak, releasing six albums in the seven years since he returned. The latest, Tremor, sees the electronic artist return to the blackened rock music that he grew up on, from Deftones to Nine Inch Nails and beyond. Along for the ride are the likes of NewDad’s Julie Dawson and bdrmm, two of the artists bringing those kinds of sounds into the 2020s.

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Snocaps – Snocaps

The last time the Crutchfield twins were in a band together – the excellent P. S. Eliot – was over a decade ago. Since then, they’ve been leading lights of the US indie rock scene – Katie as Waxahatchee and Alison with Swearin’ and under her own name. Now, they come back together as Snocaps for a debut album alongside MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook. The record is a brilliant meshing of Katie’s latter-day country music and the fuzzy, crunchy indie-rock they made their name on. A real treat of a Friday surprise.

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Eleni Drake – Chuck

Though previously a self-produced and self-releasing artist, Eleni Drake’s debut album sees the British/Greek star steam up with producer Frank Colucci (Ashnikko, Ethel Cain) for a tender folk record which ruminates on the reality of growing free from a previous relationship and learning how to pick yourself up again. The haunting ‘Afterlife’ will stop you in your tracks.

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keiyaA – hooke’s law

US singer-songwriter keiyaA describes her new album hooke’s law, out on XL Recordings, as “an album about the journey of self love, from an angle that isn’t all affirmations and capitalistic self-care. it’s not a linear story with a moral at the end. It’s more of a cycle, a spiral.” In the five years since debut album Forever, Ya Girl, the singer worked on a stage play titled milk thot, which has now evolved again to become the new album, a whirlwind of feeling and boundary-pushing sonic experimentation.

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