8 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 The Big Moon, Moses Boyd, Chloe Qisha, Queens of the Stone Age, The Snuts, Ex:Re, RIP Magic and DIIV.

The Big Moon – Forever

The latest album from The Big Moon sees the band navigating the aftermath of major surgery after doctors found a benign cyst in the ear of frontwoman Juliette Jackson. It required immediate surgery – but it also meant Jackson would permanently lose some of her hearing.  The result is a band looking at the bigger picture of life, with an intentional focus on the joyful parts. The heartwarming ‘Sounds’, for instance, sees Jackson explore the most important sounds in her life, including her son’s voice. It’s a wonderful capsule of life from one of Britain’s most consistently joyous bands.

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Moses Boyd – Songs for Sinners

In a new interview with Rolling Stone UK, Moses Boyd discussed how he swerved from being a darling of the UK jazz scene to making a divine and personal gospel record on Songs for Sinners. Featuring his family as a kitchen sink choir singing versions of gospel tunes they grew up with, it’s a record of faith and of remoulding it in your own image. “It’s telling the story of me growing up in a Caribbean church, very religious family,” Boyd explained. “I grow up, I get into jazz and sound-system music. It’s bringing all of that in. There are conversations around faith and interacting with other people also on that journey of their relationship with faith. It’s a very, very real album to me.”

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Chloe Qisha – Fantasize

When Rolling Stone UK put Chloe Qisha on the cover of our Future of Music issue in 2025, she emphasised that she feels most authentically herself when making music that covers every corner of pop. “I think most people would think the opposite,” she said then, in a comment that marked her out as a left-of-centre pop voice. “They’d be like, ‘Oh, if your music is super concise and everything sounds the same, that’s more authentic and shows the clear direction of what you like to listen to.’ But for me, I’ve always listened to every strand of pop, and it will always sound like me.”

The sentiment still rings true on debut mixtape Fantasize, a grab bag of Qisha’s influences – basically every pop great of the past 40 years, from ABBA to Charli xcx, Madonna to Taylor Swift – with a lyrical throughline of being, well, damn horny.

Read our new interview with Chloe Qisha about ‘Fantasize’ here.

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Queens of the Stone Age – Perfecth

“I throw myself upon the tracks.” John Homme sings at the top of the ninth Queens of the Stone Age album. It comes after a challenging few years, including a messy divorce played out in public, a custody battle and a recent brush with cancer. On this record, Homme tries to make sense of it all and deliver a sound that transcends the wreckage. ‘Where The Goth Girls At…’ is a resounding rocker, while ‘From The Cliff’ opts for softer, lullaby moments. It’s not quite perfect (h), but it’s a band escaping the darkness to sound truly energised.

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The Snuts – Joy in Short Moments

On their fourth album, The Snuts offer a much needed antidote to the drudgery of everyday life. The soaring ‘Defibrillator’ encourages us all to take joy in the things that really matter, while the lead track ‘Joy In Short Moments’ employs a similar mantra. It’s reliably great stuff from one of Scotland’s sunniest bands.

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Ex:Re – Save As

Daughter singer Elena Tonra created her solo Ex:Re moniker for a debut album in 2018. Eight years later, it returns with follow-up record Save As, which arrived as somewhat of an accident. Rather than a coherent and interconnected statement, it brings together fragments of disparate new material that tracks the ups and downs of life with openness and curiosity. “My memory is not always very good,” the singer says, with these songs serving as a preservation of this growth and change. It is, she says, “like travelling back in time”.

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RIP Magic – 1,2,3

London quartet RIP Magic – Marco Pini, Felix Bayley-Higgins, Beth Boswell-Knight and Pedro Takahashi – have become a buzzy name on the small venue circuit over the last year, and solidify that hype on their superb debut album. 1,2,3 manages to sound like a modern and exciting rock album without containing a single guitar – instead, bass, drums and synth collide chaotically to create an album that uses unusual ingredients to reach a brilliantly satisfying conclusion.

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DIIV – ZIRP!

DIIV have led the way in forward-thinking indie-rock music for over a decade now, and recruit A. G. Cook to produce their latest record. ZIRP! sees the band lift the fog that has sat over their last few records, instead letting melody and singer Zachary Cole Smith’s vocals shine. Splashed with Auto-Tune in the signature Cook style, the album feels in conversation with Charli XCX’s rock turn on Music, Fashion, Film, with Charli personally name-checking DIIV as an influence on ‘Rock Music’. Here, the LA band stay at the sharp edge of the genre’s evolution.

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