Happy Friday! Alternative New Music Friday #Happens With Glass Animals. The Oxford, England’s fourth album, I Love You So F***ing Much, is out today via Republic. The band debuted the opening track on the album “Show Pony” last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

New singles from honestav & MOD SUN (with 70 Million Global Streams), bby (Glassnote’s “baby” also have their debut album, 1, out today), and Hippo Campus (via Sylvan Esso’s artist-run record company, Psychic Hotline) are now available for airplay on Happens Alternative Downloads.

Declan McKenna has announced new October headline U.S. tour dates ahead of tour with Sabrina Carpenter. I have the dates for you in Alternative Music Info.

Ella Red was at KQCJ (Planet 93.9)/Quad Cities to debut her new single “I Like You Best” on the Dave & Darren Morning Show. Have you heard her new single that is empowering for women and a tiny bit naughty? Listen/Download HERE and you can check out what she said at Planet 93.9 and hear an acoustic in-studio performance when you get down to Alternative Photos.

Let’s dig in on the new music that needs to be on your radar today.

ALTERNATIVE NEW MUSIC DISCOVERY  

honestav & MOD SUN “I’d Rather Overdose” (Open Shift / gamma.)

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Springfield, MO’s honestav & Bloomington, MN’s MOD SUN collaborate on “I’d Rather Overdose” released on July 19th. The original song released by honestav in January has 70 Million Global Streams. 

Honestav said, “This is a song I wrote about losing my dad to his drug addiction & struggling to love myself thru my own mistakes. I’m so F****** stoked it’s connected with people on so many different levels & I’m forever greatful for id rather overdose.” 

Following a sobriety verse challenge on TikTok that generated over 150,000 creates, MOD SUN’s verse has been added to the song. MOD SUN posted, “I love this song so I wanted to add my own story to it.” 

bby “kinky” (Glassnote)

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East London 5-piece bby (pronounced baby) released “kinky” on July 16th. It’s the follow-up to their Top 20 debut single “hotline.” The new single is from bby’s debut album, 1, out July 19th via Glassnote. 

bby said, “1 is about the beginning and end of a relationship. Letting a stranger become the most important person in your room and then learning how to make them feel like a stranger again and not someone who could destroy you.  But that’s like the quiet and written side of it. The heart of it is the hangs. Playing these songs for the day 1s at the HQ. Sweating, moshing, drinking, dancing and figuring them all out live. Playing a hundred different versions until they hit just right. Playing a hundred different jams until we got 13 songs that tell the story we wanna tell and move the room how we wanna move it. 

“We all met online about 1 year ago, started the hangs about 6 months ago, and now dropping our first album. This is where it starts. We made it out the group chat.”

Hippo Campus “Paranoid” (Psychic Hotline)

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Saint Paul, Minnesota 4-piece Hippo Campus released “Paranoid” on July 16th. It’s the lead single from the band’s fourth album, Flood, set to drop on September 20th. 

Flood is a record and a rebirth, in which the Twin Cities childhood friends recorded with longtime producers Caleb Wright (Charly Bliss, Samia) and Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee) at Sonic Ranch on the Texas border last fall while finding out someone they loved had unexpectedly passed. 

“‘Paranoid’ is the collection of sun flares plastered against your eyelids after falling asleep outside,” says the band. “What’s left of whipping shitties in your self-conscious for too long. It’s a hard look in the unforgiving mirror and the sobering realization that not all questions have answers.” 

Hippo Campus exit the traditional label system to release Flood through an independent, artist-run record company founded by their pals in Sylvan Esso. On the heels of performing at Summerfest and Governors Ball. Hippo Campus will play Hinterland Music Festival and Lollapalooza. Find upcoming tour dates HERE.   

New Music Friday #Happens With Glass Animals

UK 4-piece Glass Animals release their fourth album, I Love You So F***ing Much, today via Republic. The new 10 song collection includes the lead single “Creatures In Heaven.” Glass Animals debuted the first song on the album “Show Pony” last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch it HERE. This morning, the band chatted with Anthony Mason on CBS Mornings about the new album and its creation process as well as their upcoming tour.

Glass Animals frontman/producer David Bayley said, “I love you so f***ing much, I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH, I love you SO f***ing MUCH, I love you so F***ING much, I LOVE you so f***ing MUCH. These words take on a different meaning every time you say them. The universe may make us feel overwhelmingly small, but we have this human connection that is far vaster and more mysterious. Love comes in an infinite number of forms and shapes and sizes. It is so complex, and so powerful that even witnessing the tiniest instance of it can change your life forever.”

Painting 10 portraits of love in all its messy forms, I Love You So F***ing Much is the most personal record that Bayley has ever written. “Show Pony,” the album’s opening track, is a lucid tale of a relationship from start to finish. Bayley shares, “Our first blueprints of love are the relationships we see and experience growing up. They aren’t always perfect, but they completely shape our understanding of love. That’s why I wanted ‘Show Pony’ to open the album. It throws you in at the deep end, but that’s life.” 

I Love You So F***ing Much is the follow-up to the band’s 2020’s critically revered Dreamland, which sold over 12 million copies globally and featured the breakout single “Heat Waves.”  The Oxford band’s other releases include How To Be A Human Being (2016), and Zaba (2014).

Having performed a string of intimate, underplay pop-up shows for fans across the world, including Elsewhere in Brooklyn this past week, Glass Animals begins their U.S. leg of  “Human Musical Group Sensations Glass Animals Tour Of Earth” on August 7th in Charlotte on August 7th. Find the tour dates HERE. 

More New Music Friday Albums Out Today

bby – 1 (Glassnote)

Childish Gambino – Bando Stone & The New World (RCA)

Highly Suspect – As Above, So Below (Roadrunner/3EE)

Koe Wetzel – 9 Lives (Columbia)

MORE ALT ALBUMS HERE

GOING FOR ADDS

Impacting Songs Next Week (7/23):

Imagine Dragons “Wake Up” (Interscope) 

Orville Peck & Beck “Death Valley High” (Warner)