Charli xcx, MUNA, Kelela & More: New Music Friday Guide
Categoria: Musica
Check out the must-hear releases of the week.
Por Billboard | 08/05/2026
Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. Last week , we featured Madonna with Sabrina Carpenter, Kacey Musgraves and Zara Larsson. This week, Charli xcx kicks off her next chapter with “Rock Music,” MUNA releases its punchy fourth album and Lykki Li drops her sixth and final career project… plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below: Charli xcx, “Rock Music” Soon after Charli’s management teased to Billboard in April that she was working on her forthcoming eighth album, she started dropping hints about what that would sound like, including telling British Vogue there may would be some rock inspiration. Sure enough, her new single is aptly titled “Rock Music,” and includes the hotly contested lyric: “I think the dance floor is dead, so now we’re making rock music.” But, true to form, Charli’s take isn’t what listeners might expect; “Rock Music” is a dizzying one-minute and 55-second track that is more or less a grungy dance track with a guitar riff — and sure enough, it would sound right at home on a dance floor. MUNA, Dancing On the Wall MUNA’s fourth album, Dancing On the Wall , arrives today with focus track “Eastside Girls,” complete with its music video starring actor Hannah Einbinder, comedian Kate Berlant and more. With vocalist Katie Gavin’s distinct voice creating a throughline through all of MUNA’s work — from introspective slow songs to uptempo bangers — Dancing On the Wall is a full-bodied continuation of the trio’s rising arch. Kelela, “linknb” As Kelela readies her upcoming album , New Avatar, out 10 July, she continues to raise the bar with her genre-blurring blend of soul, R&B, and alternative experimental music. And “Linknb” manages to fit it all in — in just under two minutes — keeping expectations for her third full-length at an all-time high. Lykke Li, The Afterparty The sixth and, according to the Swedish singer, final Lykke Li album is out today — and serves as a bittersweet celebration of a near 20-year career and a farewell on her own terms. While The Afterparty offers a complete narrative as a whole, “Happy Now” is perhaps the best snapshot of this moment for Lykki Li, as she sings on the chorus: “Did your tears all go away? Did the darkness ever fade? Is it over? Are you happy now?” The Last Dinner Party, “Big Dog” Rock band The Last Dinner Party go all in with latest single “Big Dog,” delivering big, electrifying riffs alongside vocals that slide from eery whispers to full-throttled declarations. Fittingly, the act released an “(On The Road)” music video, given that the tra