3 New Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now: Friendship, The Callous Daoboys, and Ezra Furman
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 Friendship, The Callous Daoboys, and Ezra Furman.
Friendship – Caveman Wakes Up
On Caveman Wakes Up, Philadelphia’s Friendship stretch the boundaries of country rock into dreamy, uncanny terrain. Their second album for Merge is a liminal soundtrack for daily rituals and surreal interludes—music for drifting off or waking up, loitering or longing. Songwriter Dan Wriggins anchors the record with his signature baritone, delivering bleary-eyed poetry against a backdrop of shambolic guitars, soft synths, woodwinds, and Motown-tinged grooves. The band, joined by Adelyn Strei and Jason Calhoun on flute, clarinet, and violin, crafts a sound that’s ragged and tender, like Talk Talk raised on dusty Americana or Jason Molina filtering memories through a basement four-track. Produced by the band and recorded with Jeff Zeigler in Philadelphia, Caveman Wakes Up is both experimental and deeply grounded, an ode to music as a liminal, transformative force.
Standout Songs: ‘Tree of Heaven,’ ‘Betty Ford,’ ‘Free Association,’ ‘Love Vape,’ ‘Resident Evil,’ and ‘All Over the World.’
8.9
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The Callous Daoboys – I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven
I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven, the third studio album by The Callous Daoboys, is a ferocious and emotionally raw document of personal upheaval, released via MNRK Heavy. Spanning 57 minutes, the album finds vocalist Carson Pace turning inward, casting off societal commentary in favor of a visceral chronicle of identity, illness, heartbreak, and catharsis. Bolstered by chaotic mathcore instrumentation, string and brass arrangements, and guest appearances from the likes of Adam Easterling and Ryan Hunter, the record pushes the band’s genre-blending approach to new extremes. Led by singles ‘Two-Headed Trout’ and ‘The Demon of Unreality Limping Like a Dog,’ this is The Callous Daoboys at their most unfiltered and sonically ambitious—a twisted and triumphant Museum of Failure.
Standout Songs: ‘Schizophrenia Legacy,’ ‘Two-Headed Trout,’ ‘Lemon,’ ‘The Demon of Unreality Limping Like a Dog,’ and ‘Distracted By The Mona Lisa.’
7.3
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Ezra Furman – Goodbye Small Head
Ezra Furman’s Goodbye Small Head is a raw, cinematic journey through the experience of losing control—emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Written during a period of illness and existential upheaval, the album trades communal anthems for intensely personal revelations, blending orchestral emo, prog-rock, and samples into a vivid, genre-defying sound. Produced by Brian Deck in Chicago and featuring Furman’s longtime band, the record is filled with moments of panic, mysticism, and beauty, capturing the terrifying and ecstatic edge where self dissolves. It’s music for unraveling—and finding something luminous in the wreckage.
Standout Songs: ‘Grand Mal,’ ‘Jump Out,’ ‘Power of the Moon,’ and ‘Submission.’
6.6
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