New Music Friday: Listen To Releases By Twenty One Pilots, Ed Sheeran, Demi Lovato & More

Caught somewhere in the liminal space between the departure of summer and the arrival of fall, this week's batch of new music is a diverse collection of releases with something for just about everyone. The bounty of new albums includes Ed Sheeran's Play, Ty Dolla $ign's Tycoon, Matteo Bocelli's Falling In Love and Sophie Ellis-Bextor's rather brilliantly titled Perimenopop.

TWICE member Chaeyoung drops her debut solo album with Lil Fantasy vol. 1, Ruston Kelly releases Pale, Through the Window, Mimi Webb makes a few Confessions and Spinal Tap mark the theatrical release of their new documentary with The End Continues. Elsewhere, Silverstein release their second full-length of the year with Pink Moon, Kassa Overall whips up his fourth studio album CREAM and Frost Children commemorate their sibling relationship on SISTER.

On the singles front, Rex Orange County wants to "Take A Drive," Rodney Atkins celebrates his "little bit of heaven" with "Helluvit," Slayyyter craves a lover on "CANNIBALISM!," and Coi Leray recruits Bktherula and G Herbo for "Pink Money."

The dance community sees several team-ups this week, too, including John Summit and Inéz's "crystallized," Gryffin and GRiZ's "Deep Clear Water," ILLENIUM's "Forever" with Tom Grennan and Alna, and REZZ's collab-filled new album, As the Pendulum Swings. There's several rap collabs, too, from Coi Leray's "Pink Money" with Bktherula and G Herbo to PLUTO's "Motion" with Sexyy Red and NaNaski.

Nostalgia is also in the air, with pop-punk vets Cartel re-recording their debut album as Chroma - 2025, while Phil Collins unveils a special box set of his 1985 solo album No Jacket Required (Fully Tailored) and David Bowie's estate offers up the superstar's latest box set, I Can't Give Everything Away (2002 - 2016).

Below, press play on 10 other new releases worth diving into, including new albums from Twenty One Pilots and JADE, singles by Demi Lovato and Drake, a collaboration for charity between Kesha and Orville Peck and more.

Twenty One Pilots — Breach

Twenty One Pilots go once more unto the Breach on their eighth album. The studio set continues the conceptual, world-building narrative duo Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun have been unfurling over the course of their last four albums: 2015's Blurryface, 2018's Trench, 2021's Scaled and Icy and 2024's Clancy.

While the band's most recent video for "Drum Show" was something of an outlier in the story, the dystopian, decade-long saga picks back up in the visual for album opener "City Walls." The nearly 10-minute blockbuster features callbacks to videos for past singles like "Jumpsuit" and "HeavyDirtySoul" as the battle between Clancy and Blurryface reaches its grandiose, poetic conclusion — just in time for Twenty One Pilots to head out on The Clancy Tour: Breach on Sept. 18.

Watch: Twenty One Pilots Drop Their Pants After Winning A GRAMMY In 2017 | GRAMMY Rewind

Ed Sheeran — Play

After completing the equation of his Mathematics era with 2023's Subtract (and taking a seasonal detour through Autumn Variations just a few months later), Ed Sheeran is kicking off a new musical chapter with Play, the first installment of the new series he's referring to as his Stereo era.

"Play is the album that's made me fall in love with fun again," the superstar wrote on Instagram to celebrate the album's release. "Play celebrates love, life, culture, exploring, creativity and technicolour. I've loved making this record and the last 6 months have been just what I needed to get back into the swing of things - to reheat my love for pop, and popping up. It's an album I'm immensely proud of, and just makes me feel good."

Demi Lovato — "Here All Night"

Fresh off of "Fast," Demi Lovato is "begging for the bass" and delivering another dance floor banger in the form of "Here All Night," the second single from her as-yet-untitled ninth studio effort.

The song's Hannah Lux Davis-directed video gives fans the opportunity to step directly into the pop star's POV, whether she's laying in bed scrolling through her group chats or distracting herself in the mirror as she processes a breakup. "I don't want to go all natural, I want electronic/ 'Cause if the music ever stops, I might go psychotic," she confesses through gasping breaths, eventually concluding that the only place she'll find healing — or a good time — is on the dance floor, no matter how long it takes.

Damiano David — FUNNY little FEARS (DREAMS)

Damiano David has turned the FUNNY little FEARS of his debut album into DREAMS on the deluxe edition, which arrives just four months after he first released the studio set back in May.

The Måneskin frontman adds five new tracks to his solo outing, including the star-studded collaboration "Talk To Me" featuring Tyla and Nile Rodgers and the scintillating, guitar-fueled "Cinnamon" with Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes. Elsewhere, he lays himself bare on the intimate ballad "Naked," falls head over heels for a "Mysterious Girl" and tries desperately to move on from heartbreak on the booming "Over."

JADE — THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY!

JADE's debut solo album has been a long time coming — she dropped the metamorphosizing lead single "Angel of My Dreams" more than a year ago — but the wait has been unequivocally worth it upon first listen to THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY!.

The album is frontloaded with all six of its singles, from the robotic sass of "IT girl" and the under-the-radar giddy-up of "Midnight Cowboy" to the disco rhapsody of "Fantasy" and unabashed middle finger of "FUFN (F—k You For Now)" But even on the album cuts, the Little Mix member deftly balances her sky-high pop ambitions with a penchant for sonic risk-taking and thrillingly unexpected left turns, whether she's building the heartache of "Before You Break My Heart" around a genius sample of the Supremes or incisively examining her own self-destructive tendencies on "Self Saboteur."

Drake feat. Julia Wolf & Yeat — "DOG HOUSE"

On Sept. 4, Drake surprised fans by premiering his latest single "DOG HOUSE" during the third episode of his ongoing Iceman livestream series.

It's anyone's guess whether the new song — which hit streaming services on Tuesday (Sept. 9) — will make the cut for the final tracklist of Drake's next album, but so far it follows "What Did I Miss?" and the Central Cee collaboration "Which One." The single kicks off with a melodic intro by Julia Wolf ("When they're all searching for my body/ I don't know who they'll find," the "In My Room" singer intones) and also features a guest verse from Yeat, who last teamed up with the five-time GRAMMY winner on For All The Dogs album cut "IDGAF."

Jacob Collier — "I Know (A Little)"

The countdown is officially on for Jacob Collier's next album, The Light For Days, which is scheduled to arrive on Oct. 10.

"I remember the feeling/ I remember the taste of you/ A little/ Shadows cover the ceiling/ Suddenly I believed in you/ A little," the 7-time GRAMMY winner reminisces over tender guitar on "I Know (A Little)," the second taste he's offered of what's to come on his first solo project since completing his years-long Djesse series in early 2024. The new original track follows Collier's gorgeous tribute to the late Brian Wilson with a cover of "Keep An Eye On Summer," which will also be featured on the upcoming record.

Kesha + Orville Peck — "Tennessee" (with Hudson Mohawke + Tayla Parx)

Kesha and Orville Peck have joined forces with Hudson Mohawke and Tayla Parx for "Tennessee," the latest sampling off the forthcoming charity benefit album All Things Go: 10 Years, which will be released Nov. 7 to support The Ally Coalition.

The pop star behind "JOYRIDE." and "YIPPEE-KAI-YAY." leads a raucous, foot-stomping sing-along on the track, which has her confidently stating, "I'm a crazy-ass b—, yeah/ But I know how to live/ And I got the best stories/ You could never say I'm boring."

"Making this song with Orville, Tayla and Hudson was so much fun," Kesha added in a press statement. "I felt safe to explore my Southern roots and excited [to be] entering a room with these artists I've looked up to for years and making music that felt real and honest … Knowing it's helping The Ally Coalition makes it even more special."

Kali Uchis feat. Ravyn Lenae — "Cry about it!"

Kali Uchis is adding a postscript to her latest album Sincerely, with the deluxe edition, Sincerely: PS, due out Sept. 26. And while the GRAMMY winner was wishing she "didn't let my emotions run the way they ran me" on the studio set's angelic lead-off "Sunshine & Rain…," she's letting the tears flow on latest single "Cry about it!"

For the occasion, Uchis switches seamlessly between English and Spanish over a doo-wop-inspired beat before tossing the mic to Ravyn Lenae to help drive the emotional release home. The pair premiered the track live on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" earlier this week to celebrate its release, with the former crooning, "Too bad, too bad, so sad, so sad/ You should cry about it/ Llora, llora, hasta que ya te deje de dolor."

Parcels — LOVED

Parcels put their intricate and impressive five-part harmonies front and center on their third album, LOVED. From the very first notes of opener "Tobeloved" through singles "Yougotmefeeling" and "Safeandsound" and beyond, the vocal arrangements sound impeccably effortless and the groove runs deep — even when the quintet slows things down on tracks like the contemplative "Everybodyelse" and the exhale of relief palpable on "Finallyover."

Recorded all over the world (from their native Australian locales like Sydney and Byron Bay to their adopted home of Berlin and Mexico City and Oaxaca in between), the album arrives on the heels of the band's electric, soulful live performances over the summer at Coachella and Glastonbury.