Carissa’s Wierd, the Seattle-based duo of Jenn Champion and Mat Brooke, made some absolutely gorgeous DIY indie records back in the early ’00s, and now they’re doing it again. The group broke up way back in 2003 and then spun off into other acts, including Band Of Horses. (Brooke was an original member, and former Carissa’s Wierd leader Ben Bridwell still leads them.) After a one-off reunion single in 2011, Carissa’s Wierd are back together and getting ready to release Somewhere Further Than Far Away, their first album in 25 years. We’ve already heard the stunning lead single “No One Lives Here Anymore.” Now, they’ve got another one.

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Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to subscribers on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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In 1998, between their first masterpiece Being There and their next masterpiece Summerteeth, Wilco teamed up with the English folksinger Billy Bragg to release Mermaid Avenue, a batch of newly written songs built from old unused Woody Guthrie lyrics. It’s where Wilco got “California Stars,” a perennial live staple, and they followed it up in 2000 with Mermaid Ave. Vol. II. The original album came back in the spotlight in June, when Wilco and Bragg performed it in full for the first time at Wilco’s Solid Sound festival. Now the Mermaid Avenue renaissance continues with a new box set.

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Dua Lipa had a definitively American experience Wednesday night. The British pop star and her husband Callum Turner attended the Yankees-Rays playoff game at Yankee Stadium, which ended with the once-mighty Yanks crashing out of the postseason yet again. More importantly, it was Dua Lipa’s first baseball game, during which she ate her first hot dog.

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In April, North Carolina’s Karl Kuehn, who records under the moniker Gay Meat, released his debut album Blue Water. The project is a loving reflection of passing time and the increasing weight of impending grief. On Wednesday, Gay Meat returned with “Leslie,” a new song that was written for Blue Water but didn’t make the final cut. It’s precious and devastating.

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The seamlessly cool producer/artist John Glacier, who released one of our favorite albums last year, is back with her second single of the year. “Lights,” the follow-up to this summer’s “Bond Girl,” finds Glacier relishing a life of luxury.

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Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds entered the stage to the sound of a heavy descending guitar riff like something out of a doom metal track. Then the disco ball turned on, and Sturgill Simpson started playing a smoky blues guitar solo over jazz chords. The introduction then resolved in the funky syncopated groove of “Venus,” which was soon graced by the hearty twang of Simpson’s voice, country to the bone. The sequence worked well as an overture for a night when Simpson and his band would roam all over the stylistic map.

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If it wasn’t already obvious based on lead single “Texas,” Austin Band To Watch Font have completely transformed their sound for sophomore album American Bully XL. Whereas Font’s debut Strange Burden could loosely be described as dance-punk, I compared “Texas” to fellow Austin band Hovvdy’s gauzy indie-pop. Now comes a second single, which pushes further into new sonic territory.

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In Endless Awe & Agony, the long-awaited debut album from the Australian hyperpop artist daine, is finally coming out next month, and we’ve already posted their singles “PQC,” “Love Love (Love Love),” and the aldn collab “I Used To Kill,” as well as their cover of Martin Solveig and Dragonette’s “Hello.” Their new single “Wishing Well” doesn’t sound much like the others. It’s a gentle ballad full of country-adjacent acoustic instrumentation, but it still has the sheen of intentional artificiality all over it. It’s pretty, and it’s also interesting. Listen below.

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You can tell from his stage name alone that Thundercat is exactly the type of artist to lend his music to some late 20th century pop cultural nostalgia. He’s done just that today, following up this year’s album Distracted with a new Sonic The Hedgehog tie-in.

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