Phoebe Bridgers, KATSEYE, Troye Sivan, Ayra Starr & More: New Music Friday Guide

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.

Last week , we featured Karol G, Role Model, FLO, Stray Kids and more.

This week, three is the magic number: indie-rocker Phoebe Bridgers releases her highly-anticipated third album, Lost Weekend ; KATSEYE drops its third EP ; and Ayra Starr shares her third album as well… plus much more.

Check out all of this week’s picks below: Phoebe Bridgers, Lost Weekend After Phoebe Bridgers performed a semi-impromptu, highly in-demand, phone-free show at New York’s Madison Square Garden in early June, it was clear something was coming.

And just a few weeks later, that hunch was confirmed when the indie-rockstar announced her first solo album in six years, Lost Weekend .

Across its 16 tracks, “the album fluctuates between grief and elation, agitation and contentment, as Bridgers sings like someone who has loved and lost — and still has something to lose,” writes Billboard ‘s Christine Werthman for the album’s tracks ranked .

Surely, it’s the perfect album to get lost in this weekend. — LYNDSEY HAVENS KATSEYE, WILD Despite this girl group’s ongoing lineup changes (with Manon and Sophia both on mental health breaks), one thing is certain: KATSEYE brings the energy.

Its third EP, WILD (out on HYBE x Geffen Records) is packed with high-impact, hard-hitting tracks like single “Pinky Up” and focus track “Hootie Frutti.” Meanwhile, sassier songs like single “Animal” and “That Way” slow it down — but just a bit.

As a release for the EP states, “the project captures the feeling of a wild ride fueled by growth and transformation” and marks the start of a new “electrifying new era” for the now foursome. — L.H.

Troye Sivan, “She’s the Best” Troye Sivan is back — and not only with a new single.

The pop singer’s low-toned “She’s the Best” — about all the qualities, expected and less so, of a particular person that wows him — serves as the lead single and title track of his fourth album, out Oct.

9 on Interscope.

“ She’s the Best is a painting that captures my life in all of its moods and colours,” Sivan said in a statement.

“It explores the high-octane highs of the last few years, and the solitude and longing that sat underneath.