Weekly Releases (01.08.25)

Your round-up of the latest and greatest sounds heading your way over the next few days.

Greetings and welcome to the first Weekly Releases post of the gatekeep! era. A tradition passed down from generation to generation, this low-effort, high-reward series concisely summarises every new release you need to know about over the next seven days (except singles, or we’d be here forever).

Slow week, you thought? Think again - brand new albums from The Armed and Kayo Dot are sure to excite the intellectual punk-rocker and metalhead, whilst us brainrotted elder-GenZ droolers have a surprise EP from enigmatic rage-rapper Yeat to soundtrack all our new TikTok crashouts for the next month, and I used all those words correctly I think. Elsewhere, deep house therapist Sofia Kourtesis has a new EP, araabMUZIK finally drops the sequel to his cult classic Electronic Dream album after years of teasing, and recently-independent agent of chaos Haru Nemuri seems set to kickstart her new label with a full-length album, amongst many more.

Want a taster of each release? Check the linked playlist below from the official gatekeep! Spotify account, which has compiled a selection of pre-release singles for your perusal.

Without further ado then, let’s get to the good stuff.

This Week’s New Music

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Ali Sethi

Love Language (Zubberdust)

PAKISTAN | Qawwali // Reggaetón

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araabMUZIK

Electronic Dream 2 (Genre Defying Entertainment)

USA | Trap // Trance

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The Armed

The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed (Sargent House)

USA | Noise Rock // Post-Hardcore

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BabyTron

Luka Troncic 2 (Empire)

USA | Detroit Trap

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Blush

Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever (Kanine)

SINGAPORE | Dream Pop // Shoegaze

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Car Bomb

Tiles Whisper Dreams (Self-released)

USA | Mathcore // Djent

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Creatvre

Toujours Humain (I, Voidhanger)

FRANCE | Avant-Garde Black Metal

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Dayburn

Hollow Sounds, Part I (Deep Elm)

USA | Post-Rock // Emo

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Debby Friday

The Starrr of the Queen of Life (Sub Pop)

CANADA | Alt-Pop // Electropop

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Dev Lemons

Surface Tension (Self-released)

USA | Bedroom Pop // Electropop

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Discipline

Breadcrumbs (ProgRock.com’s Essentials)

USA | Progressive Rock

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Emilia

Perfectas (Sony Latin)

ARGENTINA | Electropop // Funk Mandelão

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Fireground

Smile As One (Ilian Tape)

ITALY | Techno // House

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Fit for a King

Lonely God (Solid State)

USA | Melodic Metalcore // Alternative Metal

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Fox Lake

New World Heat (MNRK Heavy)

USA | Metalcore // Nu Metal

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Haru Nemuri

ekkolaptόmenos (ekkolaptόmenos)

JAPAN | Art Pop

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Hayley Williams

EGO (Self-released)

USA | Alternative Rock //

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Hedonist

Scapulimancy (Southern Lord)

CANADA | Death Metal

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Homixide Gang

Homixide Lifestyle 2 (Opium)

USA | Trap // Rage

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Joey Bada$$

Lonely at the Top (Columbia)

USA | East Coast Hip-Hop

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Kayo Dot

Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason (Prophecy)

USA | Post-Rock // Experimental

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Kloke

Lucidity (Mindgames)

AUSTRALIA | Jungle // Atmospheric Drum and Bass

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Knosis

Genknosis (Sharptone)

JAPAN | Alternative Metal // Metalcore

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Laura Groves

Yes (Bella Union)

UK | Art Pop // Singer-Songwriter

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Nuclear Daisies

First Taste of Heaven (Portrayal of Guilt)

USA | Dream Pop // Shoegaze

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Reneé Rapp

BITE ME (Interscope)

USA | Pop Rock // Alt-Pop

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Sallow Moth

Mossbane Lantern (I, Voidhanger)

USA | Progressive Metal // Technical Death Metal

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Sea Mosquito

Majestas (I, Voidhanger)

UK | Dissonant Black Metal

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Sex Week

Upper Mezzanine (Grand Jury)

USA | Indie Pop // Indie Rock

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Sofia Kourtesis

Volver (Ninja Tune)

PERU | Deep House // Garage

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$uicideboy$

Thy Kingdom Come (G59)

USA | Southern Hip-Hop // Trap

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Sunik Kim

Formenverwandler (Feedback Moves)

USA | Glitch // Noise

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Wisp

If Not Winter (Music Soup)

USA | Dream Pop // Shoegaze

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Yeat

Dangerous Summer (Field Trip)

USA | Trap // Rage

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YENA

Blooming Wings (Yue Hua)

SOUTH KOREA | K-Pop

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Thanks for browsing all the way to the end, I know that took a lot of effort. Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments below, or feel free to shout out which releases you’ll be refreshing frantically for at midnight. Stay tuned for next week!

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