New Music Friday Picks

Friday’s release slate cut across electronic and country, with new full-lengths from Lone, upsammy and Valentina Magaletti, Squarepusher and Ella Langley, plus a Thomas Rhett-Marshmello single. (ra.co) Lone’s *Hyperphantasia* arrived on April 10 with 16 tracks after months of advance singles and a long lead-up that Resident Advisor first reported in January. Resident Advisor said it is Matt Cutler’s first album in five years and follows 2021’s *Always Inside Your Head*. (ra.co) Bandcamp and Spotify list *Hyperphantasia* as a 16-song release dated April 10, and Lone’s own album page says the record leans further into vocals than his earlier sample-driven work. That puts one of the week’s most visible electronic releases squarely in album format, not just a one-off single drop. (bandcamp.com) Upsammy and Valentina Magaletti’s *Seismo* also landed April 10. The Quietus reported that the eight-track collaboration grew out of a Rijksmuseum commission in Amsterdam before expanding through live shows into a full album for PAN. (thequietus.com) Squarepusher’s *Kammerkonzert* gave the same Friday another electronic release with a very different shape. Apple Music lists 14 songs, while Squarepusher’s Bandcamp page frames the project as chamber music pushed through Thomas Jenkinson’s familiar electronic logic. (music.apple.com) On the country side, Thomas Rhett and Marshmello released “Where We Go” on April 10. Apple Music lists it as a standalone single, and the official lyric video says it was issued through Joytime Collective under exclusive license to Mercury Records. (music.apple.com) Ella Langley went bigger than a single. Apple Music and Spotify list *Dandelion* as an 18-song album released April 10, and Sony Music said the project follows her recent run behind “Choosin’ Texas.” (music.apple.com) The mix helps explain why early playlist and editorial chatter clustered around this week’s drop: one Friday delivered veteran electronic names returning with albums, a museum-born collaboration on PAN, and mainstream country releases built for large streaming audiences. Resident Advisor’s coverage and platform listings show that attention forming before and at release. (ra.co) The through line is scale. Some of the week’s most noticed releases were full albums with 8, 14, 16 and 18 tracks, not just teaser singles, which gave editors and playlist curators more to surface at once. (thequietus.com) By the end of April 10, New Music Friday had settled into a clear split-screen: club-focused listeners got Lone, upsammy, Magaletti and Squarepusher, while country listeners got Ella Langley and the Thomas Rhett-Marshmello crossover. The attention around the slate followed the releases themselves. (music.apple.com)