More new music variety: EWAH, Brett Dennen, Amy Helm, Sadie Campbell, The Harbours

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EWAH: Touch The Light

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We reach all the way around the globe from the Birch Street Studios to pick up music by this artist based in Tasmania. The frontperson of EWAH & The Vision of Paradise will release her first solo album in 14 years, Souvenir, next month, and we're pleased to have early access to this single. The LP is billed as being "full of cautionary tales, struggle and self-discovery." This song advises: "Keep the people close who don’t bring you down / Hold onto the ones who pull you up." Photo by Bree Sanders

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Brett Dennen: Careful What You Wish For

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The California singer-songwriter just issued his eighth LP, If It Takes Forever. This track has a slinky, Tom Petty-ish sound as Dennan cautions, "I may be your guardian angel / I may be the devil too." The album is dedicated to and inspired by Dennan's father, who passed last year. "This album is about life and how I look at it now. ... Ultimately it's about love. It's meant to be a celebration."

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Amy Helm: Money On 7

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We previously featured "Baby Come Back" from the new album, Silver City, and now we dip back in to feature another selection. Americana Highways calls this song "Helm’s ode to shunting away the fears of the night with each sunrise," adding: "the harmonies bring an almost gospel feel to the song." We'll add that the woodwinds and horns bring great depth to the track.

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Sadie Campbell: Metamorphosis

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This is the title track from the first full-length album by a Canadian-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter. Campbell mixes strands of country, rock, and soul in her songs about sadness, discovery and joy. “I wanted this record to have songs about these totally polar opposite topics, because that’s life,” says Campbell. “Songs about anxiety and hopelessness can live on the same record as love songs and hopeful songs.”

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The Harbours: Live It Up

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Although this band was formed just this year, the outfit from Leicestershire, UK, has already released six singles. We previously featured "So Sweet," and now liven up our New Music bin with this new party-time track. We're in good company - it was a recent song-of-the-week on BBC Introducing.

New Music from JD McPherson, Belfountain, Carnival Xhibition, Never the Name, The Cure

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JD McPherson: I Can't Go Anywhere with You (feat. Bloodshot Bill)

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We previously featured the single "Sunshine Getaway," which previewed Nite Owls, the new album from this Oklahoma-born, Nashville-based singer and guitarist best known for a 60s-style rock 'n' roll sound. On the new collection, writes No Depression, "He’s smoothed out the rootsy edges and incorporated a slew of pop influences, from The Beach Boys to girl groups to New Wave, while retaining the gusto that’s always informed his music." This track is perhaps the closest to his previous style, and he's joined by Montreal-born rocker Bloodshot Bill.

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Belfountain: Give It Up

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We're dipping back into Some Hearts, the debut album from this indie-folk-rock project fronted by Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Chris Graham. Canadian Beats calls the LP "an authentic, roots-inspired collection that provides an earthy mix of old and new, always familiar yet full of surprises."

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Carnival Xhibition: The Simulator

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From Florida comes the rock'n'soul duo of Lashawn Bowens and Daniel Edell, who combine various blues, rock and folk influences. They cite influences including Tina Turner, Mumford and Sons and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "We are bringing back an old feeling that has a new sound," says Edell. This single arrives ahead of their first full-length album, due in February.

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Never the Name: Quasimodo's Love Note

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This is the debut release from a New Jersey indie-rock group headed by bassist Will Blakey, also a mainstay of the Bryan Hansen Band. We look forward to hearing more soon as the new outfit prepares its debut album for release next year.

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The Cure: All I Ever Am

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Pulling out another track from Songs of a Lost World - one that Billboard points out features bassist Simon Gallup, the longest-tenured Cure member besides Robert Smith. "Gallup’s rumbling bass lines have always been a major component of the Cure’s signature sound, but his highly distorted bass is front and center in the mix on Songs of a Lost World like never before. That’s really hammered home on 'All I Ever Am,' which features Gallup playing a very catchy melody that probably would’ve been played on piano on an '80s Cure album."

What's new: Spun Out, Autopilot, Tunde Adebimpe, The Far Out, Kathleen Edwards

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Spun Out: Paranoia

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More than 40 years after The Kinks sang about it in "The Destroyer," this Chicago band gives us a fresh take on unsettling fear. They even include a line saying "don't let it destroy you." This is the lead single the group's just-released second LP, Dream Noise. Singer/guitarist Michael Wells says, "I got taken out by a rip tide in the Pacific a few years back, and that feeling of trying to remain calm physically while not being in control of your surroundings definitely informed the psychology of the tune." Although technically, paranoia is an unfounded fear - while rip-tide danger is real!

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Autopilot: Here Comes the Pressure

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From a song about paranoia we go to one about "the anxieties we experience in a world full of pressures, and how we do our best to handle it," according to Marlon Harder, lead vocalist/guitarist of this three-piece band from Saskatoon. We've featured them previously, most recently in May with the single "Say Something."

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Tunde Adebimpe: Magnetic

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Even as TV On The Radio is touring to mark the 20th anniversary of its debut album, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, its frontman makes his solo debut with this new single and an album coming next year. Adebimpe is also an actor, animator, director and visual artist, and has been a musical collaborator with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Massive Attack and Run The Jewels, among others.

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The Far Out: Packed to Go

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Here's a funk-soul-pop band from the north shore of Massachusetts whose six members have been playing together since they were kids, through genres including jazz, theater and orchestral music. They've put out a couple of EPs, but this new single is the first to reach our ears. Glad it did!

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Kathleen Edwards: Crawling Back To You

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We're told she has a new album on its way, produced by Jason Isbell, but in the meantime the Ottawa-based singer-songwriter just released this cover of a Tom Petty song from his album Wildflowers, which came out exactly 30 years ago. Edwards says that album "is unquestionably one of the finest albums of [Petty's] career and remains one of my favourite recordings of all time." She was working with producer and engineer Jim Scott, who also worked on that album, when she "mustered up a bit of courage" and asked to try this song. "The track feels like an old friend sitting next to me on a comfy sofa reminiscing about teenage memories."

The Head And The Heart, Lilly Hiatt, Lost Leaders, Phantogram, 311 - Variety in our New Music bin

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The Head And The Heart: Arrow

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Here's the first sample of an upcoming album to be announced shortly, on which the band returns to self-producing and something closer to their early folky sound. "We really wanted to make our next music our own way, and it was a lot of fun to have all of us in a room together again," says vocalist/guitarist Jonathan Russell. This song, he says, is "very self-empowering ... It’s nice to know that you have your own way of providing yourself with confidence when you're out there in the dark.”

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Lilly Hiatt: Shouldn't Be

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The upcoming album Forever was written and recorded by Hiatt and her husband, Coley Hinson, in their home outside Nashville. Hiatt calls this first single "a song about standing in your truth" and not needing validation from others. "I hate when you leave me on my own / I start spinning now - but I shouldn't be." 

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Lost Leaders: Cookie Jar

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We're catching up with the recently released Hungry Ghosts, an 8-song collection (is that a short album or a long EP?). The title refers to a Buddhist concept about people searching to fill the void. The duo of Byron Isaacs and Peter Cole says the album captures them "in all of our moods: pointedly snarky, whimsical and outlandish, reflective and confessional. It starts very worldly getting caught up in the surge, moves to psychedelia, then the journey ends with getting yourself back home. In the end things are alright."

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Phantogram: Running Through Colors

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The duo of Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter just released their fifth studio album, Memory of a Day. The AU Review writes: "The album creates a rich, atmospheric soundscape that feels incredibly cinematic and immersive." This track is one of several highlights, with "a bold, confident sound."

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311: Full Bloom

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The title track of the Omaha, Nebraska band's 14th (!) album is "about maintaining some innocence and sense of wonder and not becoming jaded," says lead singer/guitarist Nick Hexum. "One can decide that they’re in the prime of their life and choose to live in full bloom."

Maggie Rogers, Dawes, The Cure, Bottlemoth, Sapling

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Maggie Rogers: In The Living Room

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Just six months after her Don't Forget Me album, the singer-songwriter releases another track that could easily have fit in that collection. (We're guessing it's destined for a "deluxe edition.") "Like so much of the album, it’s a song about the beauty and pain of memory, and the way that interweaves with reality when you’re processing the exit of a person in your life," Rogers says.

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Dawes: Front Row Seat

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We've previously featured a couple of its singles, and with the full release of Oh Brother, we're picking this track for our New Music bin. It's a rocker that takes a break midway for a jam-band interlude. The lyric suggests anxiety about the U.S. political situation, then takes a fatalistic attitude: "But if that’s the ball game / If the experiment’s complete / And we both stand around / To watch it all come down / At least we got a front row seat."

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The Cure: A Fragile Thing

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Robert Smith & Co. are back with Songs of a Lost World, sounding as cheery as ever. Billboard says of this track: "The swirling, midtempo rocker is classic Cure, with a morose, nearly minute-long instrumental intro that sets up a most on-brand tale of devastating love." Smith says the song "is driven by the difficulties we face in choosing between mutually exclusive needs and how we deal with the futile regret that can follow these choices.”

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Bottlemoth: Everything Works Out in the End

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How about we inject some optimism into the mix? The debut album by this indie-folk quintet from the UK, Even Us Ghosts, comes out this week. Singer-songwriter Ethan Proctor says of this song's title and key lyric: "I can’t recall who said it first to me, perhaps my parents or grandma said a lot when I was growing up. It’s a sentiment that has stuck; our biggest problems now won’t matter in 6 months, and that is a calming ideal. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end yet."

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Sapling: Rabbit Hole

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This synthy and very catch single is first we've heard from Sapling, a native of Dumfries, Scotland, now based in Glasgow. "Having been influenced by early folk and protest music growing up, she now turns to her own expression of emotion and protest mixed with the inspiration of dance, pop and soul," per her Bandcamp page.