Best New Tracks: Clipse, Miley Cyrus, Ovrkast., and More
Albums land fromMiley Cyrus,Ovrkast.,Obongjayar,Aesop Rock,GoldLink,PlaqueBoyMaxand Benji Blue Bills xBNYX, withLeon Thomasexpanding on hisMUTTalbum with its deluxe edition.
Singles, on the other hand, come fromMAVIxEarl Sweatshirt,XXXTentacionxJuice WRLD,BasxThe HicsxSaba,Lorde,Samara CynxSmino,Clipse,IDKxNo ID,Lil Tecca,LUCKI,girl in redandJustine SkyexKaytranada.
Miley Cyrus has lifted the veil on her latest longform release – an audiovisual offering entitledSomething Beautiful. Bolstered by its strong high-fashion component and imminentTribeca Film Festivalpremiere, the project is an immersive look into the versatile artist's latest sonic era.
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Oakland's Ovrkast. has offered up his sophomore studio project:While The Iron Is Hot.The project hears Kast asserting his most honed-in vision yet, while tapping heavyweight features includingVince Staples,MAVIandSamara Cyn.
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Clipse is back with its first new music in almost 16 years. The duo ofPusha TandNo Maliceis back with the lead single from the follow-up to December 2009'sTil the Casket Drops, dubbedLet God Sort Em Out, which drops in July.
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Reuniting for their first new music since 'EL TORO COMBO MEAL' is MAVI x Earl Sweatshirt. MAVI taps his mentor for his first-ever feature on 'Landgrab.'
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Obongjayar's sophomore album has surfaced.Paradise Nowfeatures 15 tracks – 14 of which are solo songs and one of which features Obongjayar's past collaboratorLittle Simz.
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Lorde has shared the second single from her anticipated studio projectVirgin.Arriving after 'What Was That' comes the more introspective 'Man Of The Year,' alongside the full tracklist reveal.
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As his acclaimedMUTTturns one in September, Leon Thomas has unveiled the stacked deluxe version of the project, formally entitledHEEL.Big Sean, Halle andKehlaniall feature amongst the nine new tracks tacked onto the end of the OG tracklist.
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Rapper/producer duo Benji Blue Bill and BNYX have honed in on their collaborative sound on full-length projectOut The Blue.The nine-track LP comes fully produced by BNYX, with additional lyrical features landing fromDukiand YourRAGE.
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'whoa (mind in awe)' has been a fan-favorite XXXTentacion cut since it surfaced. The track now gets an official remix, with a verse from Juice WRLD added on.
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Marking his second studio release sincePLAN A,Lil Tecca has lifted the veil on 'OWA OWA.'
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Bas and The Hics continue their run, revealing another single. The latest is dubbed 'Erewhon' and features bars fromSaba.
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Arriving alongside a corresponding gaming experience comes Aesop Rock's latest solo projectBlack Hole Superette.The expansive 18-song record includes features from Lupe Fiasco,Homeboy Sandman,Open Mike Eagleandbilly woods.
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Shortly after announcing the release, GoldLink has droppedENOCH. 'MEGATRON' lands as track 10 of 12.
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For their first-ever collaborative release, Justine Skye and Kaytranada have revealed 'Oh Lala,' which arrives along with a music video shot at Brooklyn's Paragon club before it closed its doors.
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Signalling his fourth studio release of 2025, LUCKI has dropped off two-and-a-half-minute-long 'Diamond Stiching.'
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After teasing the track on TikTok for a few weeks, girl in red has offically shared 'Hemmingway.'
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Landing in the middle of theirKountry Kousinstour, Samara Cyn has tapped Smino for 'brand new teeth.'
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Another week, another project from PlaqueBoyMax – this one, however, is a fully solo one, entitledFive Forever.
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Equipped with production from No ID, IDK has dropped off 'WiNSTON WOLF.'
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The control that you have over a radio station even before it starts is another big reason to look into YouTube Music. The service includes a feature called the music tuner that, like Pandora, lets you blend artists and genres. But not just that, it lets you decide how adventurous you want to be with your music. There's an option to adjust the artist variety to pull in a wider range of acts, a music discovery option that lets you switch between discovery and familiarity depending on how you're feeling. YouTube Music even gives you the option to filter your radio experience further by choosing between popular tracks, deep cuts, new releases, and many more options. Spotify gives you nowhere close to that level of input. You can give YouTube Music's DJ a very specific set of instructions and leave it to figure out the rest. Usually, accurately. Another YouTube Music exclusive that I have my eye on is the new AI-enhanced Ask Music feature. Google tends to do staggered rollouts across geographies and accounts, so I'm still waiting for it to show up, but what I've seen so far looks extremely promising. Positioned as an enhancement of the current radio feature, it lets you create a radio station just by describing what you want to listen to. So, for example, you can type something like 'moody ambient, dark academia-inspired playlist for a rainy night when I'm reading a classic gothic horror book,' and it'll create a playlist fine-tuned exactly for that. If that prompt sounds oddly specific, it is. I've previously used ChatGPT to come up with playlist suggestions like the one I mentioned above, and having a tool like that deeply integrated into the music listening experience sounds fantastic. Most services already include mood-based playlists, but those tend to be fairly static collections that don't adapt to specific tastes. Ask Music takes a conversational, hyper-tuned experience, which is something I'm looking forward to testing out. There's something to be said about YouTube Music's integrated approach to music listening and discovery. Because it's tied to my Google account and a decade or more of YouTube history, it's working with years of implicit data that doesn't just include manually tapped likes or dislikes, but also how long I listened to something, how quickly I moved back or changed to the next track. That's data no other service has, or can have. To give you an example, I recently popped open YouTube Music and started a late-night play of atmospheric music by an Icelandic artist. No, not Bjork. Over the next hour or so, the station automatically introduced me to Scandinavian folk, minimalist piano pieces, and slow-paced electronic ambient tracks that fit the vibe, but not necessarily the genre. It encourages discovery, and by the end of my listening session ,I'd saved half a dozen tracks to my late-night playlist. Discovery meets comfort Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Of course, YouTube Music isn't perfect either. The app can come across as a bit clunky, downloading music offline is way slower, and the sound quality can vary quite a bit depending on the source of the file. And if you're coming back to the app after a while, YouTube Music too can be guilty of repeating tracks. But it's rare, and it gives you the tools to avoid that. I'm not canceling my other subscriptions just yet. Be it Spotify's collaborative playlists or Jam, Apple Music's elite-tier human-curated playlists, or Tidal's unbeatable sound quality, every app has a cool trick that keeps me coming back for more. But YouTube Music gets a lot of playtime from me for its ability to curate the perfect playlist for what I'm feeling. It's the only streaming service that values my love for music, keeps me listening, discovering, and curious. And that's honestly the best thing a music streaming service can do. Follow
