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New Music Friday - this week's biggest new song, album and DVD releases, all in one place

New Music Friday Song Album Single Releases March 28 2025

Welcome to New Music Friday, your one place to discover the biggest new song, album and DVD releases.

This week, let's start with albums.

Ariana Grande may have only released her seventh studio album eternal sunshine last year, but the time has come for it's long-awaited expansion. eternal sunshine: brighter days ahead promises to shed yet more light on Ari's most emotionally-luminating record to date. London residents will also recognise Hampstead, name-checked in an album track, written while the global superstar was living on the Heath while filming her Oscar-nominated role as Glinda in Wicked, parts one and two.

Also on the comeback trail, Mumford & Sons! Rushmere is the acclaimed band's first record in nearly seven years, and their first since the departure of founding member Winston Marshall, leaving Marcus Mumford, Ted Dwayne and Ben Lovett to continue on as a trio. To date, two of Mumford & Sons's LPs have hit Number 1 in the UK - 2012's Babel and 2015's Wilder Mind, Could a third chart-topper be on the cards?

The Darkness are also back this Friday. Dreams On Toast is the first album by the British rockers in four years, and their eighth overall. The last time The Darkness placed a Top 10 album in the UK was 2019...is it time for a return?

Lucy Dacus - who many indie-heads will recognise and adore as a member of chart-topping trio boygenius - comes out with her fourth studio album, Forver Is A Feeling. It's her first record issued by a major label (Interscope subsidiary Geffen, also home to Olivia Rodrigo) and her first since she debuted at Number 1 alongside Phoebe Bridgers and now-partner Julien Baker with boygenius' The Record in 2023. Bridgers and Baker appear throughout the record, which also includes a collaboration with fellow indie-pop touchstone Hozier.

Now let's move over to singles.

First up is pop's premier party-starter (it truly doesn't start until she walks in...) Kesha, who has just announced the release of her new album . (Period, as the Americans would say, maybe it will be re-named 'full stop' for its UK release?). The LPs next single - her first as an independent artist is Yipee-Ki--Yay, featuring none other than T-Pain.

Other singles launching this Friday include new drops from Sophie Ellis-Bextor (Relentless Love), Grace Davies (MDE) and acclaimed Swedish rapper Yung Lean (Babyface Maniacs).