New River Music

This Week’s New River Music

Artist: Suki Waterhouse
Song: Back in Love

Suki Waterhouse celebrates her newly rediscovered lust for life in the first single off her forthcoming album Loveland. Catchy, dreamy, atmospheric, “Back in Love” screams for self-connection. This record comes after Waterhouse and partner Robert Pattinson welcomed their first child in 2024. “I felt like my identity had been cut open in becoming a mother,” she shared in an interview with Variety. “It’s like [I got] belief back in myself, and then also being … I don’t want to say back in love with my partner, because it sounds like I was out of it, which I was never. But it’s also a new relationship. Your old relationship has been wiped out, and so it’s building that new one and kind of celebrating the beauty in that, like, we’ve survived this.”

Artist: Lucy Dacus
Song: Planting Tomatoes

In her first release since 2025’s Forever is a Feeling, “Planting Tomatoes” finds Lucy Dacus balancing everyday beauty with an awareness of mortality, turning small moments like gardening, or overheard music from a neighbor’s apartment, into reflections on staying present. It pairs Dacus’ warm indie-rock voice with some distorted instrumentation, giving a sonic backup to the melancholic nature of the theme, which culminates with the devastating line, “Now I’m older than you’ll ever be,” a meditation on outliving someone you’ve lost.

Artist: Malcolm Todd
Song: Earrings

Malcolm Todd released “Earrings” in 2024 when he was just 20 years old.  The LA native blends indie-pop with elements of R&B – using funky guitar riffs, soothing synths, and modern, relaxing vocals. Like so many hit singles today, “Earrings” took over TikTok and Instagram, eventually soaring its way up to #3 on the US Spotify Chart and US Billboard Hot 100. The song sits in the middle of an actively drifting relationship, with Todd afraid to talk to his partner. The rising star is currently touring his newest album, Do That Again, and will be at MGM Music Hall mat Fenway on September 26th.

Artist: Bleachers
Song: we should talk

This new one from Bleachers explores friendship, distance, and the conversations that never happen. Jack Antonoff reflects on how any number of factors can quietly pull people apart – a phenomenon most of us recognize as we transition from one stage of life into another.

Artist: Myles Smith
Song: Hold Me in the Dark

This new single from from Myles Smith’s just-released album My Mess, My Heart, My Life, is a pop anthem that the singer-songwriter says is one of his favorite songs he has written. Featuring lively instrumentation and uplifting melodies, the track pairs comforting, optimistic lyrics with an overall sense of reassurance and security.