7 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 Paul McCartney, Boards of Canada, Pozer, Iceage, Static Dress, SISTRA and Casey Lowery.

Paul McCartney – The Boys of Dungeon Lane

Paul McCartney’s latest sees the venerable Beatles don looking back at his storied past and in the process proving he’s never been more alive. It’s shown on the lead single ‘Days We Left Behind’, a wistful ballad which sees him gently reflect on his earliest meetings with John Lennon. Elsewhere, ‘As You Lie There’ is a slinking and sexy reflection on a childhood crush and ‘Salesman Saint’ is a powerful ode to his own parents. Fabs fanatics will lap it up.

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Boards of Canada – Inferno

The mystique and interest around Boards of Canada has only increased in the 13 years since the release of their last album, Tomorrow’s Harvest. Its long-awaited follow-up, Inferno, is a mammoth and deeply immersive listen that doesn’t do things by halves. Using analogue equipment and deliberately embracing its flaws, it’s a record that feels brilliantly human and open to interpretation, as the pair say: “If we were to explain all the tracks and their meanings… it would ruin them for a lot of people. It’s more like viewing something through the bottom of a murky glass, and that’s the beauty of it.”

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Pozer – Crossroads

“I’ve never heard anyone else do my sound. Jersey drill is already its own thing, but UK Jersey drill is mine,” Pozer told Rolling Stone UK in his 2025 Future of Music cover feature. “Drill is one of the foundations of my category, but I’m too outside of the box — you couldn’t call my music just one sound.” On his debut mixtape, Crossroads, the Croydon rapper has come good on this promise, stepping even further outside defined boxes to make a record that shows where he’s going next. He explains: “I’m at a crossroads between my life before music and my life going forward. I want the listeners to listen to it and feel motivated to chase their dreams through hearing me talk about all of the hurdles before me getting to where I am.”

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Iceage – For Love of Grace & the Hereafter

After releasing two solo LPs in quick succession, the enigmatic Elias Ronnenfelt returns to his band Iceage for their sixth album, For Love of Grace & the Hereafter. It’s as grand an album as the band – once murky post-punks and then anthemic, baggy rockers – have become known for, and dips back into their aggressive beginnings. Ronnenfelt says: “Having had an outlet for stripped-back balladry, it felt like the right thing to channel a more ferocious side of ourselves for the band’s next step.”

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Static Dress – Injury Episode

The second album from Leeds band Static Band isn’t shy on ambition. In the run-up to its release, they bridged the gap between their debut and this sophomore effort by releasing a genuinely terrifying horror game. Appropriate then, that this sense of ambition effortlessly translates to a record which veers thrillingly between moments of post-hardcore and all-out rock across fifteen tracks. The pounding ‘Nostalgia Kills’ feels like a wallop in the face, while ‘Questioning’ will make you contemplate the possibility of starting a circle pit in your front room. It all makes for a huge step forward.

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SISTRA – She Won’t Let Go

Sisters Sasha and Sylvie Briggs deal in the kind of life-affirming hyper-pop that could well soundtrack a night out of reckless abandon. “Once upon a time, two sisters grew up in a house…how are we still here?! We want to spit out this album before we destroy each other,” they say of their debut album. “These songs tell our story of being stuck together for our whole lives, and of our deepest fears and loves. We’re figuring out whether or not we can survive each other, and make it out of this godforsaken house.”

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Casey Lowery – Lekkerland 2

Having raised an impressive £26k through kickstarter, Casey Lowery shows the fruits of those efforts on Lekkerland 2, the sequel to 2025’s Lekkerland. Though sonically varied and flicked with flavours of early Coldplay and Snow Patrol, these tracks see the UK/LA based singer delve into his own realities of growing up chronically online, and the battle to mind connection in a noisy, fast-moving life that doesn’t stop moving.

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