3 new songs and 3 new albums to listen to this weekend

Florence + The Machine return with a scream for Halloween, while Telescreens impress us with "Nothing."

By A.V. Club Staff | October 31, 2025 | 5:00pm

Album art: Autumn de Wilde, XL Records, +1 Records

Music Features 3 new songs and 3 new albums

3 new songs and 3 new albums to listen to this weekend

Welcome to our weekly music post, where we spotlight our favorite new songs and albums. Hop in the comments and tell us: What new music are you listening to?

“Nothing,” Telescreens

“Anywhere,” Ratboys

People always talk about turning their pain into art, but it’s also valuable to make art out of healing. Ratboys singer and guitarist Julia Steiner did the latter. After some breakthroughs in therapy, she wrote the majority of the songs that would become Singin’ To An Empty Chair, the Chicago band’s forthcoming sixth studio album. The record was produced by former Death Cab for Cutie member Chris Walla, and features new single “Anywhere,” a pop-rock bop about anxious attachment. Singin’ To An Empty Chair it out on February 6. [EK]

“Waiting For The Phone Call,” The Twilight Sad (feat. Robert Smith)

Scottish post-punk duo The Twilight Sad have been touring with The Cure for years, and now they have a brand new single with Robert Smith on guitar to show for it. Smith’s specific contributions to “Waiting For The Phone Call” aren’t obvious, but The Cure’s influence is clear in the track’s lush, layered sound and overtly bleak outlook. The song is about “grief, love, and mental illness,” singer James Graham said in a statement. Despite all that, it’s still a fun listen. [EK]

A Little Death, Claire Rousay

Claire Rousay’s last album, 2024’s sentiment, was a layered experiment in lo-fi sound and bedroom pop-adjacent songwriting. A Little Death seems to go even further into the experimental and further from anything that could be called pop, if advance singles “just” and “somewhat burdensome” are any indication. But A Little Death might not end up straying too far from the bedroom: its title means “orgasm” in French. [Drew Gillis]

Everybody Scream, Florence + The Machine

Florence Welch knows her audience (and her own indisputable talent, if single “One Of The Greats” is anything to go by), and she has just the thing to make her coven of fans happy: an appropriately spooky album, right in time for Halloween. Title track “Everybody Scream” is a bacchanalian window into life on the stage that at times feels more like an incantation. A chorus even sings of witchcraft, spells, madness, and mystery in its outro. Based on its leading singles, Everybody Scream is shaping up to be more treat than trick. [EK]

hooke’s law, keiyaA

keiyaA’s rich contralto is the first thing that strikes you when listening to the songs from hooke’s law, the R&B artist’s sophomore album. But there is plenty else for your ear to latch onto here: the soothing melody of “stupid prizes,” keiyaA’s rhythmic sensibility that allows her to float over some of the busier beats. hooke’s law is described as an extension of her recent stage play milk thot, which saw the singer wrestle with themes of destruction and rebirth. [DG]