New Music Friday: Arcade Fire, Sleep Token, PinkPantheress, Stormzy and more

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

Let's start with albums this week, because there are some very hotly anticipated long-players dropping.

Canadian rock behemoths Arcade Fire are back with their seventh studio album, Pink Elephant, which teams them with U2 and Bob Dylan producer Daniel Lanois. They'll be aiming for their fifth Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, but they face some stiff competition.

Very much in contention are enigmatic metal band Sleep Token, who scored a major Official Charts breakthrough in April when Caramel became their first Top 10 single.

Their last album Take Me to Eden peaked at Number 3 in 2023. Can they chart even higher with new album Even in Arcadia?

Meanwhile, consistently vibey singer-songwriter-producer PinkPantheress is dropping a new mixtape, Fancy That, which is already home to the Top 40 single Tonight.

And Brighton indie crew The Kooks are adding to their discography this week with a seventh studio set, Never/Know. It's their follow-up to 2022's 10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark, which peaked at Number 32.

Reading alt-rockers The Amazons are back, too, with their fifth studio album 21st Century Fiction. Can they beat the Number 5 peak of their last album, 2022's How Will I Know if Heaven Will Find Me?

Other notable new albums come from Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke (Tall Tales), Maren Morris (Dreamsicle) and Kali Uchis (Sincerely,).

Now, let's crack on with this week's singles.

The inimitable Stormzy drops a double release with swaggering freestyle banger SORRY RACH! and Hold Me Down; both showing off his formidable wordplay skills. Could it become his 16th Top 10 single – or even his fifth Number 1?

Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus is continuing to preview her upcoming visual anthem Something Beautiful; she'll be hoping that new single More to Lose becomes the 27th UK Top 40 hit if her prolific career.

Meanwhile, Tyla returns with Bliss, the first single from her forthcoming second album, and 5 Seconds of Summer's Calum Hood shares Call Me When You Know Better, another song from his upconing solo album Order Chaos Order.

Elsewhere, rising singer-songwriter Eden Hunter serves up Knock Me Out. On her inspiration behind the track, Eden says: "[It's my love letter to the city, to Hollywood, to the showgirls who stay true, to those who dragged me from the pits and told me I’m not the victim anymore, to myself for trusting in the magic of delusion…always."

Belong Together hitmaker Mark Ambor is back, too, with new single Who Knows. As is massively talented multi-hyphenate Tim Minchin, who shares pithy new single The Song of the Masochist.

It's a packed week for collabs, too. Halsey and Amy Lee team up for Hand That Feeds; Calvin Harris and Clementine Douglas join forces for Blessings; and Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan unite to give us Young & Dumb.

Oh, and Take That fans will be excited to hear a new remix of Hanging Onto Your Love, a deep cut from the band's chart-topping 1995 album Nobody Else. It's been given a club-friendly remix by none other than band member Howard Donald.

New Music Friday: Song, album and DVD releases for May 9 2025