Welcome to another installment of Today's Release Highlights, where the TND writers room gathers up some brand new projects they want to draw your eyes and ears to.

This week, we have new eight releases we'd like to key you into as you head into the weekend. Check them all out below.

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Beabadoobee - Pylon [Dirty Hit / Interscope Records]

Bedroom-pop singer-songwriter Beabadoobee (I will never not struggle with saying this out loud) returns with LP number four, Pylon, her heaviest and most low-key pop-emo album to date. Written primarily on the road while touring, the album centers around homesickness and that feeling of distance between you and the people you love. Early singles “Memories,” “Switchblade,” and “Sun Has Set” carry many of the same indie DIY tones she’s explored previously, but there’s something a little more downtrodden, grungy, and guitar-forward this time around, with lyrics to match the new headspace. Notably, Hayley Williams (Paramore), Brendan Yates (Turnstile), and Chino Moreno (Deftones) all make appearances on the album, alongside writing contributions from Shane Moran (Title Fight) and Evan Stephens Hall (Pinegrove), which pretty much sums up the vibe this Beabadoobee album is going for. I'm here for it. – Ricky Adams

Carly Rae Jepsen - Day and Night [Interscope]

For the last decade of her career, pop's cult favorite Carly Rae Jepsen has released full length B-sides albums that often match up to the quality of their respective A sides. On Day and Night, Jepsen embraces her prolificness as her superpower with a 24-track double album that celebrates the life of domesticity she's built since we last heard from her. The conceit of the discs separating themselves by night and day allow her to explore romance from all sides, be it the desire of opener "After All" or the euphoric security of "Patience Power Passion." More than anything, Day and Night sees Jepsen demonstrate that stability doesn't neuter her creativity, it just rewires it a bit. – Leah Bess

Echo & the Bunnymen - Apples For Isaac [BMG]

Echo & the Bunnymen, the Liverpool new wave/post-punk legends forever associated with Donnie Darko (at least in my mind), return with Apples For Isaac, their first album of newly written material in 12 years. Lead single “Brussels Is Haunted” showcases a band that has so thoroughly mastered its own sound that it somehow manages to encapsulate the feeling of fall itself. The timing of this album is pretty interesting, too. With the long-awaited Donnie Darko “epic” sequel being announced in the form of a thick-ass book, and Echo & the Bunnymen opening for My Chemical Romance earlier this year, it feels like a newer generation is being introduced to the Bunnymen through emo’s newfound popularity and its renewed obsession with the bands that helped build the genre’s musical DNA. Not that Echo & the Bunnymen need that endorsement. Their atmospheric guitars, dramatic vocals, melancholic melodies, and moody post-punk songwriting helped establish a sonic landscape that countless modern emo and alternative bands continue to explore. – Ricky Adams

Grote Geelstaart - Wij Zinken [KERNCENTRALE]

The Dutch band Grote Geelstaart are nothing short of tremendous. Emerging last year with the feverish, synth-tinged avant-prog EP Van Reijnst, the five-piece ran at breakneck speed with free jazz compositions layered over two, massive drum kits, needling guitar lines, and incessant bass, nimbly waltzing over a time signature only they could follow. Now with Wij Zinken, a conceptual story of a drunken sailor who sinks beneath the haunted waters of the seaside town of Zeeland, they dive headfirst into bigger numbers. The first single "Vraacht 7" is consumed by cymbals, percussion, guitar tones, and electronic taps, cut by visceral, chant-like, gravely vocals. "Nat Zeil" is, likewise, a manic masterpiece — a violent battle between man and the ocean, brought to life with sharp woodwind passages and a current of electricity in the guitars. Thankfully, at least in experimental rock music, there is a future, and Grote Geelstaart promise an exciting one at that. – Victoria Borlando

Lizzy McAlpine - Angel [RCA]

On her fourth album Angel, singer-songwriter Lizzy Mcalpine keeps her instrumentation contained, but no less intricate and ornate. The sprawling, hour-long exploration of love, identity, and fame pays homage to singer-songwriters' past. McAlpine tries out the compositional and vocal gymnastics on songs like "The moon" and "A car wash and a new pair of pants." Fleet Foxes' feature on "Soldier of the road" sounds like they took the record captive for those four minutes. For one of TikTok's biggest success stories, it's refreshing to see McAlpine continue to make music that rewards patience and close listening, proving she's truly in it for the long haul. – Leah Bess

Miley – Bass Persuades [Atlantic Records]

Miley follows up 2025's Something Beautiful with Bass Persuades, which features Model/Actriz on the track "Different Religion" and Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow on the song "Neon Signs." This is the first record for Miley under her new mononymous moniker along with it being her first under Atlantic Records. According to Miley, Bass Persuades will explore themes of self love and how the album is a "love story." What is striking about this album is the electronic direction Miley has decided to take her career at this point. It feels less like a radio top 40 record and more of an experimental pop album that is very catchy. This is especially telling on "Bass Persuades Remix" which sounds like a Charli XCX song. – Ian Ward

Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts – Second Song [Reprise]

On the 11-minute title track of Neil Young’s 50th(!) studio album, he sings almost by way of self-explanation: “When I woke up this morning, I heard a melody and a rhyme / I knew the song was over, but I couldn't find the time / The words just tumbled forward in this second song of mine.” In other words: the 80-year-old can’t stop won’t stop. Not only does he still make good music but he’s still trying to do the right thing; this year’s live album As Time Explodes includes the Elon-damning “Big Crime.” Second Song is sparse and delicate where last year’s Chrome Hearts debut Talkin’ to the Trees rocked like Crazy Horse (who still made miracles backing him on a 2024 tour cut short). But the plaintive drollness of new epics like “Soon I Might Be Going” finds room for both mortality meditation and indicting Trump’s ballroom. And “I’ll Love You Forever” finds room for those beautiful “Harvest Moon” chords. — Daniel Aaron

Team Dresch – Furthermore [Jealous Butcher]

Contemporaries of Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney in the ‘90s — Donna Dresch’s Chainsaw Records put out the latter’s first two albums — Team Dresch were key exponents of “queercore,” a tag that might sound quaint now but played a massive part in transforming the lives of LGBTQ+ ‘90s youth. They only made two albums, but 1995’s Personal Best had raw feeling in spades (first two tracks: “Fagetarian and Dyke” and “Hate the Christian Right!”) and 1996’s Captain My Captain honed their punk tunes with more craft (and no loss of principle on burners like “I’m Illegal”). This long-awaited third album comes 30 years later after a surprisingly good b-sides comp and some even better one-offs (“Your Hands, My Pockets”) without losing a step even if the riffs are subtler and melodies more complex. That’s how you’re supposed to do it 30 years later anyway, and they never stopped “Growing Underground.” — Daniel Aaron