4 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 Mandy, Indiana, Daphni, ATEEZ and Puma Blue.

Mandy, Indiana – URGH

You’ll have to speak French to understand first-hand most of what Valentine Caulfield says across Mandy, Indiana’s stunning new album, but its razor-sharp delivery and frantic energy makes it abundantly clear, through any language barrier, that her life depends on it. Across URGH, Mandy, Indiana can feel like five bands at once, like when Caulfield bursts past an ear-splitting barrage of bass to speak her truth with a wildly Auto-Tuned vocal on opener ‘Sevastopol’, or when ‘Magazine’ turns on a sixpence from a wailing noisy rock song into a dirty, thumping techno track. The juxtapositions are never less than thrilling.

Read our full five-star review of URGH here.

Listen on: Spotify | ‎Apple Music | TIDAL | Amazon Music

Daphni – Butterfly

Across the last two decades, Dan Snaith has been at the forefront of electronic music with both his Caribou and Daphni projects. On Butterfly, the latest album from the latter, they finally collide on the song ‘Waiting So Long’. “I think there have been times where the music I’ve made under the two aliases has been farther apart and times – eg right now – where they’re closer together,” Snaith said, with the caveat: “I’m not in the midst of some existential crisis; I haven’t, hopefully, slipped too deep into the welcoming waters of the pool of Narcissus; I don’t agonise about what track ends up under what alias – in fact the opposite. I worry about it less than ever and just go with my gut instinct.”

Listen on: Spotify | ‎Apple Music | TIDAL | Amazon Music

ATEEZ – GOLDEN HOUR : Part.4

Speaking to Rolling Stone UK about the third part of their GOLDEN HOUR series, ATEEZ said: “The world and themes are already established, so the challenge becomes keeping things fresh and impactful while staying true to the foundation we’ve built.” That world is further fleshed out on the five-track, fourth part of the series, led by new single ‘Ghost’. It furthers the K-pop band’s excellence at world building and narrative throughlines.

Listen on: Spotify | ‎Apple Music | TIDAL | Amazon Music

Puma Blue – Croak Dream

A weighty theme and question lies at the heart of Puma Blue’s new album Croak Dream: “What would you do if you knew exactly when you were going to die?” Would it change how you lived the time you had left? With that backbone, the London-based songwriter Jacob Allen hones in on what’s important, removing all the fat both thematically and sonically to leave an album strong in its convictions and beautiful in its presentation.

Listen on: Spotify | ‎Apple Music | TIDAL | Amazon Music