3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Nine Inch Nails, Gorillaz, and Mitski
There’s so much good music out in the ether that sometimes it’s difficult to parse through all of it. Every week The Daily Music Report will do the hard work for you and highlight the best releases available on streaming services.
This week we’re highlighting new music from Nine Inch Nails, Gorillaz, and Mitski.
Nine Inch Nails – Tron Ares: Divergence
TRON Ares: Divergence is a digital companion to Nine Inch Nails’ TRON: Ares soundtrack, expanding the world of the 2025 score with remixes and previously unreleased material. Split across two discs, the set pairs new reinterpretations from artists like Boys Noize, Arca, Danny L Harle, and Mark Pritchard with additional score cuts, further deepening the film’s dystopian electronic atmosphere.
Standout Songs: ‘Godmode,’ ‘A Question of Trust’ – Boys Noize Remix, ‘Who Wants to Live Forever?’ – Danny L Harle Remix, ‘Infiltrator’ – Jack Dangers Remix, ‘Ghost In The Machine’ – Boys Noize Remix, and ‘Forked Reality’ – Schwefelgelb Remix.
8.4
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Gorillaz – The Mountain
Arriving just before their 25th anniversary, Gorillaz’s ninth album finds Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett confronting grief after both lost their fathers during its creation. Partly recorded in India and inspired by its vivid relationship with mortality, the record blends Indian classical influences with Gorillaz’s genre-blurring pop to explore loss, transformation, and renewal. Featuring contributions from artists past and present—including Anoushka Shankar, Asha Bhosle, Tony Allen, and others—the album balances intimate elegies with pointed social commentary, ultimately framing death not just as an ending, but as a beginning.
Standout Songs: ‘The Mountain’ (feat. Dennis Hopper, Ajay Prasanna, Anoushka Shankar, Amaan Ali Bangash, and Ayaan Ali Bangash), ‘The Moon Cave’ (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda, and Black Thought), ‘The Happy Dictator’ (feat. Sparks), ‘The God of Lying’ (feat. IDLES), ‘The Manifesto’ (feat. Trueno and Proof), and ‘Damascus’ (feat Omar Souleyman and Yaslin Bey.
7.8
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Mitski – Nothing’s About To Happen to Me
On Nothing’s About To Happen To Me, Mitski abandons plans for a stripped-back rock record and instead embraces lush instrumentation and orchestral sweep, creating one of her most expansive albums yet. Blending echoes of her earlier guitar-driven work with the grandeur of The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, the record traces heartbreak, longing, and the urge to disappear with raw vulnerability and flashes of dark wit.
Standout Songs: ‘In a Lake,’ ‘Where’s My Phone?,’ ‘If I Leave,’ ‘I’ll Change for You,’ and ‘Rules.’
7.6
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