New Music Friday: LISA, Doja Cat & RAYE, Inhaler, Rachel Chinouriri, Caity Baser and more

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New Music Friday Songs Albums Singles February 7th 2025

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

Let's get straight into this week's singles.

Fresh off the back of BLACKPINK’s 2025 world tour announcement, LISA recruits Doja Cat and RAYE for her latest solo cut Born Again. The track will feature alongside Rockstar, ROSALíA collab New Woman and Sixpence None The Richer-sampling Moonlit Floor (Kiss Me) on LISA’s upcoming debut solo LP Alter Ego, released February 28.

Caity Baser is back and as unapologetic as ever. Watch That Girl (She’s Gonna Say It) signals the start of a confident new era for Caity; seeing her collaborate with English alt-pop duo Oh Wonder for the first time. Recorded with a fully live band and stomping choir, Watch That Girl (She’s Gonna Say It) is Caity at her most vulnerable – and sonically-experimental - yet. “I’m confronting what’s inside my head; the good, the bad and the ugly,” she says. “No more hiding from my past; just going straight at it. And it feels f*cking great!”

Kickstarting 2025 with two BRITs nominations (Artist of the Year and Best New Artist), Rachel Chinouriri enlists New York singer-songwriter sombr on a brand-new version of All I Ever Asked. The track originally featured on Rachel’s Top 20 debut album What A Devastating Turn Of Events, released last year.

Need a new boy band in your life? Meet Alex, Ashton, Conor, Freddie; known collectively as Absnt Mind.

Brand-new single Special sees the group team up with producer Mark Schick (Dua Lipa, Troye Sivan), and was co-written by the lads alongside JC Stewart and Sara Boe at Peter Gabriel’s legendary Real World Studios.

On the track, Absnt Mind say: “This was one of the first songs that we wrote together on our first writing camp trip in early 2024, and we're so excited for everyone to finally hear it. We knew it was an absolute bop from day one. It’s taken a minute to perfect it, and it’s one we're very proud of.”

Nominated for International Song Of The Year with MILLION DOLLAR BABY at the 2025 BRITs, breakout star Tommy Richman is still ACTIN UP on his latest release.

Elton John and Brandi Carlile deliver the title track to upcoming collaborative record Who Believes In Angels?, Ava Max returns with Lost Your Faith and Alex Warren follows up Top 40 singles Carry You Home and Burning Down with Ordinary.

A special mention to two surprise drops from earlier this week, too. Doechii celebrates her GRAMMYs Best Rap Album win with Nosebleeds, as Lady Gaga unleashes latest MAYHEM cut Abracadabra. ‘Amor-oo-na-na!’ indeed.

Now, onto albums.

Dublin-formed four-piece Inhaler have their eye on a second Official Number 1 album with third collection Open Wide. Elijah Hewson, Robert Keating, Josh Bartholomew Jenkinson and Ryan McMahon previously saw success with 2021's It Won't Always Be Like This (1) and 2023 release Cuts & Bruises (2).

Olly Alexander offers up Polari; his first full-length release post-Years & Years. Could the record, which includes the singles Dizzy, Cupid’s Bow and When We Kiss, earn Olly his first chart-topper as a solo artist?

Liverpudlian rockers The Wombats are back with their sixth studio album Oh! The Ocean this week. Matthew Murphy, Tord Øverland Knudsen and Dan Haggis will be hoping to score a second Number 1 LP, after Fix Yourself, Not The World reached the summit in 2022.

Krept & Konan eye a fifth Top 10 album with Young Kingz II and finally, following no less than five wins at last weekend's GRAMMYs, Kendrick Lamar's former chart-topper GNX could see a surge with its physical release this week.