Daily Newsletter, January 28, 2024

The new albums from Eliza McLamb and Sleater-Kinney should be at the top of your queue today. Tap in and find a new obsession.

Stream new releases from the Smile, Ty Segall, Evilgiane, Torres, Astrid Sonne, Angry Blackmen, Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel, and Office Dog

This week's Notable Releases include Radiohead offshoot The Smile, Torres in fiery art rock mode, Katy Kirby's ANTI- debut, and more.

Atwood's staff share the music they've been listening to: This week's roundup includes Good Morning, Loukeman, Amanda Palmer, Marlon Funaki, Emma Ayzenberg, J Duran, LØLØ, Memorial, Ceara Cavalieri, Conscious Pilot, Hunter Daily, Cooper Phillip, Natalie Shay, & Jenny Stenger!

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

Our guide to the outer limits of Bandcamp.

Hot Air Balloon continues Pile’s mastery of intricate post-hardcore, animating a skeleton of sludge with the weeping flesh of psychedelic folk. Off the heels of their latest album All Fiction , the EP is composed of songs left off the final cut. Far from scraps, each song on Hot Air Balloon is s

Brilliant film director Peter Strickland has long flown the flag for psychedelic, eccentric and disconcerting European music but on latest film Flux Gourmet he put his money where his mouth was by including his own very curious group, The Sonic Catering Band. Will Salmon celebrates a singular soundtrack and vision

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2024.

This week's playlist includes Shannon & The Clams, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Rosie Tucker, Arab Strap, SDRE, The Smile, and more.