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With the playlist, Friday Finds: This Week’s Best New Music, The Music’s team gathers the best new songs you need to hear every Friday. Here are our picks released this week, August 21, 2026.

After enjoying breakout success with their self-produced 2022 debut, the Sydney psych quartet hit a wall while recording the follow-up. The solution? To strip everything away to the bare essentials.

It was released 50 years ago today.

Having cut her teeth in bands, fostering multiple projects over the years, Catalina Richardson, the creator behind LINA, her latest project, has stepped into an expansive portrayal of human capabilities in her debut album, 'SUCKER'.

She first burst onto the scene as Celia Pavey on 'The Voice', before being reborn as Vera Blue: now, with her new record 'Modern Rituals', she realises that these identities are one and the same.

After Twin Temple were axed from Charley Crockett's tour, Jack White's act of goodwill made him the subject of Crockett's anger. The 'satanic' Twin Temple, however, are more popular than ever.

From meeting Greta Thunberg in Belfast to touring Europe, Miss Kaninna opens up about her mixtape 'BLACKPRINT' and blazing her own trail.

Almost 24 years after making an Australian debut to hardly anyone, Simple Plan are back, playing some of the biggest local shows of their career as they continue to get bigger and bigger.

Goth music icon Chelsea Wolfe opens up about collaborative energy, film influences, grief, and finding beauty in simplicity on her ninth album, 'The Dark'.

Legendary Aussie songsmith Robert Forster spins a decade-long global tale of chance meetings, foreign flair and inner-world building which culminated in his solo masterpiece, ‘Strawberries’.

“I don't think I'd be able to create the dark stuff without knowing what it's like to be really joyful as well," Cummings explains.