Welcome to another installment of Today's Release Highlights, where the TND writers room gathers up some brand new projects they want to draw your eyes and ears to.

This week, we have seven new releases we'd like to key you into as you head into the weekend. Check them all out below.

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Cameron Winter – Live at Carnegie Hall [Partisan/Play It Again Sam]

Maybe the next Geese album will be even bigger; after all, Turnstile is coming this close to hobnobbing with Taylor Swift on SNL, and Winter himself is making pals with Olivia Rodrigo (though I guess so are we). But this is very likely a career apotheosis, especially for Winter solo: selling out Carnegie Hall late last year and having the result documented by Paul Thomas Anderson and Benny Safdie as a concert film. Bet that the intimacy and intensity of these performances is captured more viscerally with the visuals capturing all that hair in his face, because the music is solo piano all the way down. New opener “It All Fell in the River” is as great as — if not better than — anything on the runaway cult hit Heavy Metal, as is the spellbinding encore “Vines.” But the rest you’ll have to A-B to compare, while obvious showstoppers like the “fuck these people” moment in “$0” or a false ending to “The Rolling Stones” probably zip to life in the documentary. – Daniel Aaron

Imperial Teen – All Over You [Merge]

Intermittently over the last 30 years, Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum and his drastically different quartet Imperial Teen have fashioned some of the most quietly perfect albums in alt-rock, full of two-chord bangers well before Spoon made minimalism hot, stacked with harmonies and ba-ba-bas and power-pop choruses that usually signal more showoffy chops, as well as bratty queer signifiers to make their friend Courtney Love proud. (IT’s near-flawless first two albums, Seasick and What Is Not to Love, have been absent from streaming due to major-label ownership limbo; check the used CD bins, or start with 2002’s sugarcoated On.)

Their seventh album is their catchiest and most anthemic since 2007’s The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band, which was named after their full-time concerns and cemented IT as a side project. You’d never know it from confectionaries like “Kiss It Goodbye,” “GetYouHome,” and “Bringing It Down.” — Daniel Aaron

Isobel Anderson – End Times [self-released]

On her first album in 10 years, British musician, producer, and educator Isobel Anderson takes as her starting point the grotesque psychology – and, let’s be honest, outright evil – of the ruling class and their tireless assault on the environment, and us mere mortals. END TIMES taps into the feeling that we’re living through a succession of oppressive, world-ending events that somehow never seem to build to a finale.

Retreating to a mobile home in the otherworldly landscape of Dungeness in southeast England, she found it wasn’t quite so simple to escape the grip of overwhelm. Whether confronting ghosts of industry, the frontlines of the data wars, or ecological collapse, END TIMES is infused with dread; the intimate kind that seeps into the everyday, and your very bones if you let it. Anderson’s eerie, sometimes carnivalesque electronics are enhanced by well-placed field recordings that add much to the record's itch and unease. Highlights include the gradually amassing “AMAZING Predictions!!” (“I would love to save you all, but I’m leaving now,” declares her false prophet) and the seasick lead track “Fray (everything, everywhere, all at once”). – Alan Pedder

LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) – CITIZEN'S ARREST [self-released]

On his latest solo album, the versatile Western Massachusetts artist LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) moves fluidly between finger-plucked rock, Southern rap, and lo-fi bedroom pop. His latest collaborations across rap and electronic music shine through, especially in the distant echoes of "100 MILES (FT. MARIA MANOW)" and the jangly "FANCY CHANDELIER." Armed with a Kangol beret and tennis racket, his whole shtick oscillates between a bit he’s lost himself in and a project as serious as his work with The Taxidermists, Safe Mind, and Club Casualties, all of which share a throughline of gritty electronic textures and homespun oddities that harken back to his pastoral Cape Cod upbringing. – Giliann Karon

Ovrkast. - STRIKING [Three Times Louder]

Weeks after Outkast sued him for alleged trademark infringement, Ovrkast. is reminding everyone that his talent speaks louder than any name attached to him. On STRIKING, the Oakland rapper and producer delivers his most complete record to date, a 12-track project chock-full of gorgeous jazzy instrumentals. The stellar production was never in doubt, but his lyricism continues to get sharper as he grows as a writer. Joey Bada$$, MAVI, and Samara Cyn lead a strong lineup of features. This year alone, he’s produced for the likes of Drake and Standing on the Corner, earning a reputation for bringing out the best in every artist he works with. STRIKING proves he can do the same for himself. – Isaiah Gessner

Remi Wolf – Mud [Island Records]

Pop singer-songwriter Remi Wolf has traded in her bright, bubbly exterior for her rawest, most stripped-down record to date. Her songwriting and gorgeous vocals take center stage, with Wolf delivering some of the most powerful performances of her career and marking a clear new chapter for her as both a person and a musician. Mud was primarily made at a retreat house in Big Bear, California, where Wolf recorded with her tight-knit circle of collaborators and friends fresh off a breakup. When discussing the title of the album, Wolf explained, “It did feel like I was working through this emotional sludge. The beautiful thing about mud is that, as dirty, sludgy, awkward, and gross as mud is, there’s a freedom to it.” That sentiment comes through across the project’s 11 tracks, where she embraces this period of her life no matter how messy it may seem. Her music is as infectious as ever, but this time it comes in dirtier, more honest packaging. – Isaiah Gessner

Twin Temple – Doomed Lovers [Pentagrammaton]

Satanic doo-wop act Twin Temple has had quite the year. Earlier this summer, the husband-and-wife duo were preparing to embark on a tour with country singer Charley Crockett when they were kicked off the bill over their occult and heretical imagery. The brief resurgence of Satanic Panic proved to be the best publicity campaign a band could ask for, leading to a tour with Jack White and the band's first late-night appearance on "The Daily Show."

Today, the band unveils its third studio album Doomed Lovers, out now via Pentagrammaton Records. Produced by Shooter Jennings, the album's eight tracks are inspired by a time when rock was still believed to be the Devil's music. The band assembled a 37-piece orchestra to help craft its sacrilegious hymns, with songs like "Doomed Lovers" and "Love You to Death" owing as much to Roy Orbison and Patsy Cline as to Lucifer himself. Turn the lights down, light a candle and enjoy. — Nic Huber