Freshly Squeezed, Vol. 61: Posh Hammer, Ruston Kelly, Tom Freund & more

Welcome to Freshly Squeezed, a weekly new music playlist: spanning country, pop, EDM and urban, mainstream and other.

We don’t have much patience these days. Sister Sparrow‘s upcoming new album, Gold, out October 12, can. not. come. soon. enough. But thankfully, the titular cut has officially dropped everywhere, and it’s so satisfyingly brassy, we’ll be able to ride into the weekend like a boss. Her voice glistens among a rumbling choir of horns, piano and strings. It’s warm and invigorating, a musical hybrid that pumps on all cylinders, and by the time the climax arrives, a point where Sister Sparrow hits for the glory notes in a delicious rock-tearing vocal, you’re on your knees begging to hit repeat all over again…and again…and again.

Electro-pop trio Glades make a big return with “Eyes Wide Shut,” the apt follow-up to “Not About You” earlier this year. True to form, they bend reality with a cloudy production of synths and playful vocal distortions, which may or may not be figments of imaginations tricking our ears into following into some otherworldly soundscape. But we’re just along for the ride, and that’s OK

Media-heralded “outlaw” Ruston Kelly explores various threads of country, often feeling polished but never over-baked, traditional but not too earthy, insightful but somehow spirited. And make no mistake, Dying Star has its finger right on the pulse of what has and continues to make country music such a wonderful and impassioned storytelling format, its teeth cut on detailed songwriting and nuanced, steel-crying musicianship. It also helps Kelly’s vocal is raspy and towering.

Folk tunesmith Tom Freund also delivers stunning songcraft on his new record, East of Lincoln, combed with bristled guitars and thick percussion, embellished from the ground up with great care and aptitude. “Runaround” is among his most addictive moments, and his voice hangs mid-air like the sun, an orb that mesmerizes the listener into a world of true heart, grit and ferocity.

Posh Hammer, an electro-pop duo out of North Carolina, jump start their forthcoming new EP, Dancing in Place, with the flickering and colossally anthemic “After We Dance.” Technically, summer has a few more weeks to go, and they just made a bid for Song of the Summer.

The new music weekly playlist also includes: Tuomo & Markus, Leebone Phillips, Whitney Road, T’Pau, Sharky, Dom Ford, Drunken Logic, GRAACE, Delta Rae, Jonny Mendez, Eames, Katie Barbato, The Hold Steady, Jonas Blue, The Lavender Scare, Silk City, Jillian Jacqueline and many others.

In all, we’ve got 30 new songs spin and spin and spin some more.

Each playlist will be refreshed every Friday morning/afternoon. We reserve the right to update anytime during the week, so make sure you bookmark this page.

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