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Whitney shared “Darling” in May, suggesting that the duo had a new album on the way. Indeed, they do: Today (July 16), they announced Small Talk, their fourth album.

They also shared a warm new single, “Dandelions.” The band’s Julien Ehrlich says of the song:

“A couple years ago Max and I were both on the brink of moving across the country to be closer to the people we were dating at the time. Over the span of a few months both relationships somewhat abruptly crumbled, leaving us with equal parts confusion and sadness, mourning the futures that would have accompanied those relationships as well as the relationships themselves. Inspired by those events (and on a whim of Midwestern pride) we wound up spinning the story of ‘Dandelions’ into one of a big city hopeful who gets chewed up and spit back out into the heartland.”

The duo previously told Uproxx, “It’s always at the forefront of our minds to think about, ‘Someone who knows our band or likes our band, what would they like to hear? How would they want to hear us change and evolve?’”

Watch the “Dandelions” video above. Below, find the Small Talk cover art and tracklist. Whitney also just announced a tour, so find those dates below as well.

Whitney’s Small Talk Album Cover Artwork

Whitney’s Small Talk Tracklist

1. “Silent Exchange”
2. “Won’t You Speak Your Mind”
3. “The Thread”
4. “Damage”
5. “Dandelions”
6. “Islands (Really Something)”
7. “In The Saddle”
8. “Evangeline” Feat. Madison Cunningham
9. “Back To The Wind”
10. “Small Talk”
11. “Darling”

Whitney’s 2025 Tour Dates

07/16 — Greek Theatre @ Los Angeles, CA#
07/18 — Santa Barbara Bowl @ Santa Barbara, CA#
07/19 — Greek Theatre @ Berkeley, CA#
07/20 — The Hangar @ South Lake Tahoe, CA
07/22 — Ford Idaho Center Amp @ Nampa, ID#
07/23 — The Elm @ Bozeman, MT
07/24 — The Granary @ Salt Lake City, UT#
07/25 — Washington’s FoCo @ Fort Collins, CO
07/26 — Fiddlers Green Amp @ Greenwood Village, CO#
07/31 — Higher Ground @ Burlington, VT*
08/02 — Osheaga Festival @ Montreal, QC*
08/04 — Tree House Brewing Company @ Charlton, MA*
08/05 — Levitate Backyard Outdoor Concert Series @ Marshfield, MA*
08/06 — Stone Church @ Brattleboro, VT*
08/07 — Levon Helm Studios @ Woodstock, NY*
08/08 — The Recher @ Towson, MD*
08/10 — The Stone Pony @ Asbury Park, NJ*
08/12 — Anthology @ Rochester, NY*
08/13 — Hi-Fi Annex @ Indianapolis, IN*
08/14 — Globe Iron @ Cleveland, OH*
08/15 — Bell’s Eccentric Cafe @ Kalamazoo, MI

* with Folk Bitch Trio
# supporting Caamp

Small Talk is out 11/7 via AWAL. Find more information here.

We haven’t heard from Sudan Archives for a couple of years. Her last album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, was released in 2022, and after a 2023 spent making appearances at Coachella, and on late-night shows The Late Show and The Tonight Show, she pretty much spent 2024 off the radar entirely.

Today, though, she announced her comeback. Releasing the video for her new single, “My Type,” she also revealed the release date for her third studio album. The BPM is due on October 17 via Stones Throw Records, and according to its press release, “explores themes of mental illness, self-love, technology, romance and heartbreak even.” Inspired by her parents — her mom’s from Michigan, her dad’s from Illinois — the album incorporates the club sounds that began in both places (if I have to explain that techno was born in Detroit and house was born in Chicago one more time, I may have a nervous breakdown).

The album was recorded in both cities, and also introduces an alter ego named “Gadget Girl,” who Sudan explains is inspired by her own use of technology to express the musical ideas she developed outside classical channels like school band. Meanwhile, “My Type” is, in her words, her first “rap-rap song,” revolving around both hyping up her friends and questioning her potential attraction to them.

You can watch the “My Type” video above.

The BPM is due on 10/17 via Stones Throw. You can find more info here.

Sound Check returns with week with Long Beach R&B star Giveon, who learns the hard way that this format may be fun, but it’s also about as challenging as it gets.

After telling host Jeremy Hecht that it’s one of the more interesting interview styles he’s participated in, he’s immediately hit with a round pitting two of his faves — Frank Ocean and Frank Sinatra — against each other, and revises his opinion in a hurry. He also takes on alt-R&B fixtures Miguel and PartyNextDoor, Giveon’s Canadian collaborators Drake and Justin Bieber, and of course, hometown heroes Warren G and Sublime.

Here’s how it works: Jeremy plays two songs for the guest artist, who has to choose one and explain their choice, giving Jeremy a chance to learn their musical taste. Jeremy then has to guess the artist’s life anthem, the song they’d take to a desert island, which the guest wrote down earlier on a piece of paper. Our production team has also given him a decoy song, and Jeremy has to guess which is correct based on what he’s learned in the previous rounds.

Watch Giveon take on the Sound Check challenge above. New episodes of Sound Check drop every Wednesday at noon ET/9 a.m. PT on Uproxx’s YouTube.

A couple days ago, FKA Twigs teased some new music by writing on social media, “and so the offerings begin again… if EUSEXUA was the tip of the tongue, PERFECTLY is the oesophagus… i wonder what lays in the belly of the beast. PERFECTLY 16.07.2025.” She also shared a quick snippet of “Perfectly,” which she had played live previously. Now, we have the whole song.

Twigs opens the club-ready song, “Another day, leave it all to another day / Leave it all to another day, another me / And when I’m done, they’ll say I did it perfectly.” In the refrain, she expands, “A sky of blue, a sea of green / A messy room, fits perfectly / Inside my head I have the best time / Yes, in my head, I have the best time.”

Notably, the song arrives Twigs played unreleased songs in Brooklyn, including “Perfectly, and teased, “I’m playing DELUXUA,” seemingly reference to a deluxe edition of Eusexua, although one has yet to be announced.

Meanwhile, Twigs recently reminisced about being roommates with ASAP Rocky, saying, “I used to live with ASAP Yams and Rocky in LA, and we had an apartment together. I would always cook for them because they would never eat. They were boys — they would never be able to cook for themselves.”

Listen to “Perfectly” above.

A couple days ago, FKA Twigs teased some new music by writing on social media, “and so the offerings begin again… if EUSEXUA was the tip of the tongue, PERFECTLY is the oesophagus… i wonder what lays in the belly of the beast. PERFECTLY 16.07.2025.” She also shared a quick snippet of “Perfectly,” which she had played live previously. Now, we have the whole song.

Twigs opens the club-ready song, “Another day, leave it all to another day / Leave it all to another day, another me / And when I’m done, they’ll say I did it perfectly.” In the refrain, she expands, “A sky of blue, a sea of green / A messy room, fits perfectly / Inside my head I have the best time / Yes, in my head, I have the best time.”

Notably, the song arrives Twigs played unreleased songs in Brooklyn, including “Perfectly, and teased, “I’m playing DELUXUA,” seemingly reference to a deluxe edition of Eusexua, although one has yet to be announced.

Meanwhile, Twigs recently reminisced about being roommates with ASAP Rocky, saying, “I used to live with ASAP Yams and Rocky in LA, and we had an apartment together. I would always cook for them because they would never eat. They were boys — they would never be able to cook for themselves.”

Listen to “Perfectly” above.

A couple days ago, FKA Twigs teased some new music by writing on social media, “and so the offerings begin again… if EUSEXUA was the tip of the tongue, PERFECTLY is the oesophagus… i wonder what lays in the belly of the beast. PERFECTLY 16.07.2025.” She also shared a quick snippet of “Perfectly,” which she had played live previously. Now, we have the whole song.

Twigs opens the club-ready song, “Another day, leave it all to another day / Leave it all to another day, another me / And when I’m done, they’ll say I did it perfectly.” In the refrain, she expands, “A sky of blue, a sea of green / A messy room, fits perfectly / Inside my head I have the best time / Yes, in my head, I have the best time.”

Notably, the song arrives Twigs played unreleased songs in Brooklyn, including “Perfectly, and teased, “I’m playing DELUXUA,” seemingly reference to a deluxe edition of Eusexua, although one has yet to be announced.

Meanwhile, Twigs recently reminisced about being roommates with ASAP Rocky, saying, “I used to live with ASAP Yams and Rocky in LA, and we had an apartment together. I would always cook for them because they would never eat. They were boys — they would never be able to cook for themselves.”

Listen to “Perfectly” above.

A couple days ago, FKA Twigs teased some new music by writing on social media, “and so the offerings begin again… if EUSEXUA was the tip of the tongue, PERFECTLY is the oesophagus… i wonder what lays in the belly of the beast. PERFECTLY 16.07.2025.” She also shared a quick snippet of “Perfectly,” which she had played live previously. Now, we have the whole song.

Twigs opens the club-ready song, “Another day, leave it all to another day / Leave it all to another day, another me / And when I’m done, they’ll say I did it perfectly.” In the refrain, she expands, “A sky of blue, a sea of green / A messy room, fits perfectly / Inside my head I have the best time / Yes, in my head, I have the best time.”

Notably, the song arrives Twigs played unreleased songs in Brooklyn, including “Perfectly, and teased, “I’m playing DELUXUA,” seemingly reference to a deluxe edition of Eusexua, although one has yet to be announced.

Meanwhile, Twigs recently reminisced about being roommates with ASAP Rocky, saying, “I used to live with ASAP Yams and Rocky in LA, and we had an apartment together. I would always cook for them because they would never eat. They were boys — they would never be able to cook for themselves.”

Listen to “Perfectly” above.

A couple days ago, FKA Twigs teased some new music by writing on social media, “and so the offerings begin again… if EUSEXUA was the tip of the tongue, PERFECTLY is the oesophagus… i wonder what lays in the belly of the beast. PERFECTLY 16.07.2025.” She also shared a quick snippet of “Perfectly,” which she had played live previously. Now, we have the whole song.

Twigs opens the club-ready song, “Another day, leave it all to another day / Leave it all to another day, another me / And when I’m done, they’ll say I did it perfectly.” In the refrain, she expands, “A sky of blue, a sea of green / A messy room, fits perfectly / Inside my head I have the best time / Yes, in my head, I have the best time.”

Notably, the song arrives Twigs played unreleased songs in Brooklyn, including “Perfectly, and teased, “I’m playing DELUXUA,” seemingly reference to a deluxe edition of Eusexua, although one has yet to be announced.

Meanwhile, Twigs recently reminisced about being roommates with ASAP Rocky, saying, “I used to live with ASAP Yams and Rocky in LA, and we had an apartment together. I would always cook for them because they would never eat. They were boys — they would never be able to cook for themselves.”

Listen to “Perfectly” above.

A couple days ago, FKA Twigs teased some new music by writing on social media, “and so the offerings begin again… if EUSEXUA was the tip of the tongue, PERFECTLY is the oesophagus… i wonder what lays in the belly of the beast. PERFECTLY 16.07.2025.” She also shared a quick snippet of “Perfectly,” which she had played live previously. Now, we have the whole song.

Twigs opens the club-ready song, “Another day, leave it all to another day / Leave it all to another day, another me / And when I’m done, they’ll say I did it perfectly.” In the refrain, she expands, “A sky of blue, a sea of green / A messy room, fits perfectly / Inside my head I have the best time / Yes, in my head, I have the best time.”

Notably, the song arrives Twigs played unreleased songs in Brooklyn, including “Perfectly, and teased, “I’m playing DELUXUA,” seemingly reference to a deluxe edition of Eusexua, although one has yet to be announced.

Meanwhile, Twigs recently reminisced about being roommates with ASAP Rocky, saying, “I used to live with ASAP Yams and Rocky in LA, and we had an apartment together. I would always cook for them because they would never eat. They were boys — they would never be able to cook for themselves.”

Listen to “Perfectly” above.

A couple days ago, FKA Twigs teased some new music by writing on social media, “and so the offerings begin again… if EUSEXUA was the tip of the tongue, PERFECTLY is the oesophagus… i wonder what lays in the belly of the beast. PERFECTLY 16.07.2025.” She also shared a quick snippet of “Perfectly,” which she had played live previously. Now, we have the whole song.

Twigs opens the club-ready song, “Another day, leave it all to another day / Leave it all to another day, another me / And when I’m done, they’ll say I did it perfectly.” In the refrain, she expands, “A sky of blue, a sea of green / A messy room, fits perfectly / Inside my head I have the best time / Yes, in my head, I have the best time.”

Notably, the song arrives Twigs played unreleased songs in Brooklyn, including “Perfectly, and teased, “I’m playing DELUXUA,” seemingly reference to a deluxe edition of Eusexua, although one has yet to be announced.

Meanwhile, Twigs recently reminisced about being roommates with ASAP Rocky, saying, “I used to live with ASAP Yams and Rocky in LA, and we had an apartment together. I would always cook for them because they would never eat. They were boys — they would never be able to cook for themselves.”

Listen to “Perfectly” above.