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Releases to look forward to this New Music Friday

New Music Friday is quite the phenomenon. If you, like me, subscribe to a number of musician mailing lists, you’ve no doubt seen the deluge of emails hitting your inbox informing you of various releases going out into the world, accompanied often by images of happy band members delighted to be seeing years of labour finally realised in a finished project, holding up the CDs, the vinyl sleeves, the physical manifestations of their souls being poured out and presented for the whole world to judge, often with a twang of relief too, to finally see their work come to fruition.

Personally, it always brightened up a dull morning/afternoon routine work meeting to have a quick, cheeky scroll through all the music I can look forward to sinking my teeth into post-work, and in my case, given that I present a new music show on Sunday evenings, properly get the ball rolling on preparing the material for my show.

Throw in the added excitement of events like the (sort of) bimonthly Bandcamp Fridays, where Bandcamp waives the 10-15% cut of sales made through their platform on artists’ music or merch, and the coordinated weekly music release calendar begins to feel like one of the last few pieces of shared culture in an online environment that can find you the niche-est interest your heart desires, but at the cost of splintering us into a thousand fragmented sub communities that have no idea what is going on with each other.

A fact that might seem surprising is that Friday being the chosen day for releases is a relatively recent phenomenon, in fact, the practice of having releases all over the world on a Friday just turned 10 years old this week. It is also a whole separate article going into the mechanics of record shops, the music charts and patterns in how we listen to music, and is one I will dedicate a future article to.

In the meanwhile, to make sure you aren’t missing the flood of excited Bandcamp and mailing list emails cascading out of your inbox, here are some releases we are looking forward to this Friday, 11 July 2025. These aren’t reviews, per se. I’m writing this stupidly late on a Thursday night.

Wet Leg – moisturizer

Isle of Wight indie rockers Wet Leg became one of the most celebrated causes of indie music’s rise in cultural significance when their self-titled debut album became one of the most successful independent albums of 2022, appearing on the Billboard charts in the US and topping the UK albums charts for months, winning multiple Grammys and BRIT awards. The days of ‘landfill indie’ were truly over when their debut single ‘Chaise Longue’ enchanted first YouTube and then took the music world by storm. The curse of the sophomore album looms large over most artists even when they don’t release one of the biggest albums of the decade, and no doubt the pressure was on Wet Leg. Three years from their debut album, the band launched their comeback single in the only way Wet Leg could have: with playful, catchy absurdist indie in the form of ‘catch these fists’. The band were barrelling forward from their mega-hit debut by not taking themselves too seriously. But latest single ‘davina mccall’ and the song ‘11:21’ performed during their NPR Tiny Desk set revealed an underlying depth of sincerity, love and hope over sweet indie guitars, which promises to make moisturizer an interesting, three-dimensional, fully fleshed out indie delight.

Read further: Wet Leg make Tiny Desk debut ahead of Moisturizer

Kokoroko – Tuff Times Never Last

The London jazz outfit have been releasing singles that blend summery jazz and RnB and revel in joy, collaboration and celebration, all in the lead up to their next album, Tuff Times Never Last. Perhaps a much-needed ray of sunshine and carefreeness in today’s world.

Wolf Alice – ‘The Sofa’

This is the second single from the band’s upcoming album The Clearing, following on from ‘Bloom, Baby Bloom’, which revealed the band’s sharp change in direction towards a bolder, superstar image and a much more extroverted sound than their last album Blue Weekend. But first singles are meant to shock us into registering an act’s return. Perhaps ‘The Sofa’ will tell us what the new album will truly sound like.

Calva Louise – Edge of the Abyss

The Manchester-based multilingual hard rock trio comprised of members from countries all over the world are releasing their sixth studio album on Friday, co-produced by Australian electronic group Pendulum’s Gareth McGrillen, promising to lend a glitzy electro touch to the band’s riffs and chugging, as seen on the last single off the album, ‘Impeccable’. Further, the trio have taken a conceptual approach to the album, with the video to ‘Impeccable’ set in 1994 and being a horror sequel to the previous single, ‘W.T.F.’.

Africa Express – Africa Express Presents… Bahidorá

The Damon Albarn-led collective return with their first new music since 2019 album Egoli. The latest effort from the global musical congregation takes them to Mexico’s Bahidorá festival, and working with the Mexico Institute of Sound. This time, Africa Express’ signature genre-transcending collaborative spirit combines Afrobeats, traditional singing, Spanish laments, ballads, pop, rock, jazz, rave, electronic, hip hop, dance music and much more in delightfully catchy songs.

Singles have been dropping since May of this year, bringing together familiar faces and past collaborators in both Africa Express and Gorillaz like Fatoumata Diawara, Moonchild Sanelly, Seye Adelekan, Bootie Brown, Joan as Policewoman, and bringing in new faces from the world of pop music, like Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, renown DJ Bonobo, Mexican indie artist Louisa Almaguer and Tom Excell of UK funk jazz outfit Nubiyan Twist and London/Ghana Afrofuturist project Onipa, amongst many, many others.

Bahidorá promises to be a journey for the ears, and Africa Express have recently been on tour supporting the album that comes out this Friday.

JayWood – SUN BABY

The Manitoban multigenre artist Jeremy Haywood-Smith, known professionally as JayWood began his musical journey writing ‘sad songs’ before discovering funk music, which led to delightfully catchy, synth-layered albums like his 2019 debut Time and 2022 album Slingshot, which was long listed for the Polaris Music Prize the following year. In the intervening time since his last album, Jeremy has moved base from Winnipeg to Montreal and is busy with his third album Leo Negro, set for release on 5 September. The album is to take a much more expansive and experimental approach to his music, lyrically a journal exploring the different sides to himself, and musically drawing from some of the softer influences on his past work. After releasing ‘BIG TINGS’ with the band Tune-Yards, JayWood released the latest single from the upcoming album on Thursday, ‘SUN BABY’. It is the most spacey and experimental of the album so far, drenched in layered harmonies, acoustic guitars and pianos. “It’s me at my most honest,” Jeremy says. “But to approach the album like this I needed to write from different versions of myself. I’ve intentionally split the brain through each song which has made it more cohesive than my scatterbrain music mentality of just writing everything I’m into and expecting it to make sense.”

Gwenno – Utopia

Cornish-Welsh musician Gwenno has almost singlehandedly been reviving and modernising the canon of Cornish-language music with her synth pop, post punk work on solo albums Y Dydd Olaf (The Last Day in Welsh) (2015), Le Kov (The Place of Memory in Cornish) (2018) and 2022’s Mercury Prize-nominated Tresor (Treasure, Cornish), the last being the first and so far only Cornish language album to be nominated for the prestigious British music award. But when the pioneering Cardiff-based musician began her career as a teenager, it wasn’t as a musician at all: she was an Irish dancer in Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance production, which took her out to Las Vegas for two years as a seventeen-year-old. Then followed a stint in the wildly popular 00s girl group The Pipettes. All these experiences, particularly her stint in Vegas, where her group of dancers would frequent a nightclub called Utopia and where Gwenno got into techno music for the first time, form the basis for Gwenno’s fourth solo studio album Utopia. Her first English language venture in her solo discography, this is an album telling a 25-year story of Gwenno’s journey to today: North America, Irish dancing, the London music industry, returning to Wales, Cornish music, motherhood and more. It’s driven by more traditional instruments: pianos, harps and guitars shine on tracks like the latest single and title track ‘Utopia’, although her trademark synths are ever-present, for an album of ballads and beautiful pop songs like ‘Dancing On Volcanoes’.

Barry Can’t Swim – Loner

Edinburgh producer and DJ Barry Can’t Swim first rose to fame for his infectious blend of house music and various other genres like RnB and pop music throughout lockdown. His debut album When Will We Land? was released in 2023 and saw Barry, real name Joshua Mainnie, grow as an enthralling live act, bringing along a live band including a drummer, synth player and strings, offering up a unique show somewhere between the work of Jungle, jazz and dance music, and was nominated for the 2024 Mercury Prize, becoming one of the key artists placing electronic music at the centre of the award last year, with Nia Archives reintroducing jungle music to the awards for the first time in nearly three decades, and Charli XCX bringing dance music into both the critical focus and the mainstream.

Barry Can’t Swim’s second album Loner promises to push the boundaries of electronic music further. The five singles released so far have incorporated elements of soul, gospel, RnB, rave, rap and even indie, while still being perfectly capable of moving large festival crowds in unison to the beat. Paving the way forward for IDM, Barry says Loner, out this Friday, is “the most authentic expression I could offer of myself and my life over the past year”.

DC Dolls – ‘Blame Me’

DC Dolls are an emerging punk rock spark in the Dublin music scene. Their debut EP Into The Empty Blue came out last June, touching on feminist themes and history. After taking some time off to sit their school leaving exams, the five piece are back and fierce as ever on their comeback single ‘Blame Me’, a charged up punk rock tracker sure to generate moshpits. (This one I have actually had a chance to hear already because I spoke to the band for radio recently— and you can hear that this Sunday.)

Read also: Releases you may have missed this month

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One of the things I like most about collecting is discovering items that you had no idea existed and in some cases shouldn’t.

This figure falls under the strange but true it’s a Mera Figure from 1967.

The “Posin’ Doll is 12.5” tall and it was one of four DC Super Queens dolls made for girls by Ideal.

The line also included Batgirl, Supergirl and Wonder Woman.

Mera who is Aquamans wife comes w/trident and crown in addition to her comics-accurate outfit.

Box features die-cut image of Mera w/her and Aquaman's son Arthur Jr. (Aqualad is seen in foreground and Aquaman waves from bkg.) at bottom left-hand corner.

"The "Super Queens" line sold poorly and was canceled after just one series, making them quite rare. Mera being the rarest of the four.

This particular one was sold recently at auction by Hale’s. It comes from the Gary Keller Collection. Final price was over $4,500.

I could see many collectors not even knowing what this was if they saw it. Basically they are the earliest line of DC Super hero girls.

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New Music Friday

DC Dolls – ‘Blame Me’

More releases from that week (cut up into smaller posts bc everyone complains about scrolling long posts)

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HELLO

First Friday post, kinda nervous-

Anyway! This week I'd like to turn you onto a band I've loved for around 2 years now! The DC Dolls!

Alice Blue is a fun punky song about Teddy Roosevelts famed daughter Alice. Though the song is about an american president, it is actually by the Irish band the DC Dolls.

Dc dolls (or Dublin City Dolls) have loads of other cool music, and are playing a festival this summer in Ireland!

Anywho, thats enough from Blue!

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Heloo welcome to my Blog I'm DollCollectorPoet I would be posting my doll collection and I would also be posting peom

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Wonder pals!

*Finally* got around to buying these two! I’ve loved all things Wonder Woman since I was little (had the underoos!) so Wonder Girl was a must and I fell in love with Bumblebee in Teen Titans. It’s funny I didn’t realize her doll is only half rooted, the left has molded cornrows! Need to paint them at some point so it looks a bit more realistic. Despite how cheap the toy companies have been lately I do feel like these are complete dolls at least with full outfits, cute shoes and at least some accessories. I love how you can have WG’s rope just hang off her belt or look like she’s about to lasso someone and VERY glad that Bee’s wings are attached to her backpack and NOT her.