New Music Friday: JADE, Ringo Starr, Ethel Cain and more

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

Let’s kick of with singles, shall we?

Following the Official Singles Chart success of Angel Of My Dreams, Midnight Cowboy and Fantasy, JADE unleashes her first release of 2025; IT girl. A massive middle finger to the most fickle facets of fame, IT girl sees JADE asserts her autonomy on this arresting cut co-written alongside Cirkut, Lostboy, Lauren Aquilina and JHart.

On first listen, it’s giving MARINA’s Primadonna meets Azaelia Banks’ 212, with a hat tip to Xenomania’s ‘00s Frankenstein-pop formula.

It’s a ‘yes’ from us, hun.

Elsewhere, Olly Alexander delivers When We Kiss, the latest track from his upcoming debut solo album Polari, as Jack Harlow follows up Hello Miss Johnson with smooth offering Tranquility.

As enduring smash Somedays tracks for a Top 20 return, D.O.D delivers Reach For You, with Wallows dropping Your New Favourite Song. Loving the confidence, lads.

Berkshire-born rockers The Amazons are back with self-produced single My Blood, K-pop outfit RIIZE take on TVXQ!’s 2004 tune Hug and Teddy Swims kicks off 2025 with Givēon team-up Are You Even Real.

I Believe In Miracles sees Majestic join forces with LMC, while Sweden's Eurovision 2024 entrants Marcus & Martinus release Wonder.

Now, let’s talk albums.

Always one to subvert the status quo, Floridian alt-pop auteur Ethel Cain released her brand-new project Perverts last Wednesday. The ambient 89-minute affair sees Cain, real name Hayden Silas Anhedönia, lean further into her goth-pop eccentricity; icy cuts like Pulldrone proving the perfect soundtrack to these subzero January nights.

Ringo Starr returns with Look Up. His 21st solo studio LP, the country collection was recorded in Nashville, co-written and produced by legendary Missouri multihyphenate T Bone Burnett.

Glaswegian rockers Franz Ferdinand serve up their sixth studio record The Human Fear; their first studio release in seven years. With six Top 10 albums under the belt so far, could they bag a seventh next week?

And, last but by no means least, Brighton punk duo Lambrini Girls unapologetically unleash their debut LP Who Let The Dogs Out. Once hailed by Iggy Pop as his ‘new favourite band,’ vocalist Phoebe Lunny and bassist Lilly Macieira will be hoping to score their first-ever Official Albums Chart entry with the sociopolitical statement.