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

“Night Or Day,” the second single from Franz Ferdinand’s upcoming album, The Human Fear, is a tonic for all the feelings of hopelessness we’ve been experiencing the past few weeks. Franz Ferdinand will pretty much always show up ready to lighten the mood of any situation with their fun, groovy songs and Scottish charm, but “Night Or Day” particularly shines in that area. It’s an ode to finding joy in loved ones even when times are tough, and that’s a message we can really relate to right now.

Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett making music together is pretty much always going to be an instant recommendation. You can dig into the fake history of their two characters, Howard and Henry Coward, via the accompanying Audible series (directed by Christopher Guest!) if you’re looking for the full experience, but the music is still plenty of fun on its own. The album is also a generous 20 tracks long, so there’s plenty of sonic goodness to enjoy.

Dust is the first full-length album from dreamy pop duo Say Lou Lou in six years. While it contains 10 tracks, only five of them are new—the first five were released as an EP, Dust, Pt. 1, in April of this year. The album charts a difficult breakup and all the subsequent feelings that arise, and twins Elektra and Miranda Kilbey deliver it with a hazy, indie-nostalgia sound.

For their 14th record, Swedish metalheads Opeth deliver a concept album set sometime after World War I about a wealthy patriarch whose will upends the family with secret revelations. And like, that’s cool and all, but the real highlight here is the return of singer Mikael Åkerfeldt’s death metal growl, which he hasn’t broken out on a record in nearly 20 years. Why now, after such a long absence? “I think overall, it just made the record better, I guess,” Åkerfeldt told Kerrang! Simple, clean, elegant: exactly the opposite of Opeth’s sound, especially on this record, and it’s all the better for it.