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Freya Skye's Debut Single Finally Lands, Miley Reintroduces Herself, Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book Returns

Plus Emma Ruth Rundle's most defiant record yet, Hilary Duff's comeback single, and a genuinely stacked week from Carly Rae Jepsen, Beck, Orville Peck, and more.

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Some weeks a store just gets lucky with the calendar. This is one of them: a debut single two years and 62 tour dates in the making, a pop icon reintroducing herself by dropping her own last name, a mixtape that broke the industry's rules coming back on wax, and one of heavy music's most vital voices answering a fractured world with a record built for community instead of despair. Twenty-one new titles land this week. Here's where to start.

Just Dropped

Freya Skye — bad taste [7" Translucent Red Vinyl]
Skylights, the wait is finally over. "bad taste" has been a phantom presence in Freya Skye's catalog for the better part of a year — first played live at an acoustic show at New York's Gramercy Theatre back in December 2025, long before anyone outside that room had heard a note of it. From there it became something closer to myth: a song that existed only as fan-recorded phone footage, performed night after night across the 62-date, three-continent Stars Align Tour that turned the young English singer-songwriter into one of pop's most closely watched rising acts. Crowds sang along to a song that had never been officially released, word for word, in Portland and Melbourne and everywhere in between.

Now it's real. "bad taste" is the lead single from Skye's forthcoming debut studio album, arriving through Hollywood Records as a proper, produced recording for the first time — no longer a bootleg, no longer a rumor. This 7" pressing on translucent red vinyl is a limited run, and it's already moving fast enough that we started shipping copies before this email even went out. If you've been waiting since that first grainy Gramercy clip, don't wait any longer.

Miley — Bass Persuades [LP]
Two days before announcing this album, Miley Cyrus dropped her last name. Not legally, not permanently as far as anyone can confirm, but everywhere it counts: her Instagram handle, her website, her official rollout. It's the kind of move that reads as either a marketing flourish or a genuine reset, and going by Bass Persuades, it's probably both. This is her tenth studio album and her first for Atlantic Records after fourteen years on Sony's Columbia imprint, and the title track makes the new era's intentions clear from the first bar: a dirty, '80s-coded synth line, a spoken-word verse, and a chorus that argues, bluntly, that the kids don't want to dance anymore and that they should.

The album follows 2025's Something Beautiful and is shaped, by her own account, around love found with partner Maxx Morando — "powerful, vulnerable, sweet and strong," as she put it announcing the record, arriving just after the death of her godmother Dolly Parton. Model/Actriz and Miike Snow's Andrew Wyatt both show up across the ten tracks. Whether the mononym sticks or fades by the next cycle, this is Miley treating a label jump as an actual creative reset rather than another line in an already restless discography. Gatefold with poster, on standard black or Indie Exclusive apple vinyl.

Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book (10th Anniversary) [Deluxe Gold Vinyl]
A full decade later, the mixtape that changed the industry's own rules returns to vinyl — and there's a plot twist worth flagging before you order. The pink pressing announced earlier this year has been canceled outright, which makes this deluxe gold edition the only version anyone's getting for this anniversary run. Coloring Book became the first streaming-only project ever to chart on the Billboard 200, forcing the Recording Industry Association of America to change how it counted streaming-exclusive releases, and it did it without a label, on Chance's own terms, built entirely around the Chicago gospel-rap sound nobody else was making in 2016. It went on to win three Grammy Awards.

The tape still plays like a Sunday morning with the windows down: Kanye West and the Chicago Children's Choir trading verses on "All We Got," Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz on "No Problem," Justin Bieber turning up unannounced on "Juke Jam." This isn't a routine repress. It's genuinely limited, timed to a full anniversary tour, and once this specific run sells out, there's no pink backup plan waiting in the wings.

Emma Ruth Rundle — These Killing Times [LP Transparent Blue Smoke Colored Vinyl]
Emma Rundle's sixth full-length is a direct answer to a genuinely fractured moment, and she said as much herself: where the world's current chaos might have pushed her toward isolation, These Killing Times reaches outward instead, toward community and resistance rather than retreat. Opener "Powerless" was reportedly written in the wake of her own disappointment discovering troubling history behind a public intellectual she'd once admired — a very specific, very current kind of heartbreak — and it sets the tone for an album Rundle and longtime collaborator Sonny Diperri (My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails) built as a return to a full-band setup after the stark, stripped-down Engine of Hell.

The result has been called, credibly, one of the best records of her career: electrifying, charged with feminine rage, and closing on a question she leaves genuinely open — what do we live for, beyond fear. It's a heavy record that refuses to be a hopeless one. Released via her own imprint, Errant Child.

Hilary Duff — Weather for Tennis [7" Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl]
The opening track from Hilary Duff's first album in eleven years gets a collectible 7" of its own. Co-written and produced with husband Matthew Koma, "Weather for Tennis" is shimmering pop-rock about turning a relationship's arguments into the long game — includes both the original and a mellow version, limited to just 3,000 copies, an indie-store exclusive.

Also New This Week

• Orville Peck — Mule [Tan Translucent Vinyl] — the masked crooner's rawest chapter, addiction, sobriety, and hard-won rebirth.
• Beabadoobee — Pylon [Sea Foam Green Vinyl] — grunge and Midwest emo collide, with Hayley Williams and Chino Moreno.
• Tove Lo — Estrus [Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl] — "emo chic" euphoria and melancholy, pop's messiest feelings, all at once.
• Five Finger Death Punch — Legacy [Clear Vinyl] — arena metal titans return, ten tracks of heavy riffs and melodic fury.
• DJ Shadow — Endtroducing... (30th Anniversary) — the first all-sample album at 30, instrumental hip-hop's sacred text.
• Slow Pulp — Melodie [Blue Vinyl] — shoegaze grows up, pop hooks and '90s alt-rock heart.
• Charley Crockett — Clovis [Red Vinyl] — recorded where Buddy Holly cut his hits, his 17th album in a decade.
• Chelsea Wolfe — The Dark [Translucent Dark Green Grass Vinyl] — sobriety and shadow made heavy, doom-folk's high priestess sharpens her blade.
• Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats — Shapes Of Midnight [Purple Opaque Vinyl] — "evil Beatles" doom cut live at Abbey Road, fuzzed-out paperback horror.
• Beck — Ride Lonesome [Green Vinyl] — his most intimate since Sea Change, cinematic folk mixed by Nigel Godrich.
• Hole — Pretty On The Inside [LP] — their incendiary 1991 debut remastered, noise-punk fury, Kim Gordon-produced.
• Lizzy McAlpine — Angel [2LP Maiden Fair Vinyl] — her most ambitious yet, folk-pop's rising voice reaches for something bigger.
• Ken Carson — xperiment [2LP Clearwater Blue Vinyl] — rage rap's futurist pushes louder, high-energy trap chaos, Opium-style.
• Boy Harsher — Get Mean [Blue Marble Vinyl] — darkwave grief and survival, the duo's redemption record pulses with pain.
• Air — Love 2 [2LP] — French electronic dreamweavers, lush, cosmic, effortlessly cool.
• Carly Rae Jepsen — Day and Night [Green Vinyl] — 24 tracks split day and night, sun-drenched chamber pop meets synth-driven dance.
• Danzig — Deth Red Sabaoth [Vinyl Box Set] — blues-soaked evil metal reissued, Glenn's highest-charting since Danzig 4.

A tour-only rumor finally made real, a pop icon dropping her own name to find a new one, and a mixtape that changed an industry's rules coming home. Twenty-one titles, several genuinely limited — get your orders in before this week's gone.

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