The Student Playlist

Showcasing the Best New Music, Curating the Classics

PLAYLIST: June 2017

School may be out for the summer for university students by June, but 2017 is just getting started in terms of music, with the last month throwing up a large number of highly-anticipated releases for the rest of the year.

Deep breath…

Modern rock gods Queens Of The Stone Age and Foo Fighters have both unveiled new releases coming before the end of 2017. Josh Homme and crew will unleash Villains on August 25th, releasing two tracks, ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me’ and ‘The Way You Used To Do’ earlier in June. Dave Grohl’s Foos will release Concrete And Gold on September 15th, and its lead single ‘Run’ has been playlisted on both Radio 1 and Radio 6 Music.

Having been responsible for some of the very greatest albums of the 2000s and 2010s, the incredible Arcade Fire will deliver their fifth album Everything Now on July 28th, unveiling its title track and another single ‘Creature Comfort’ at the Primavera Festival at the beginning of the month. The Horrors announced their fifth record V that will be arriving September 22nd, and released a taster for it called ‘Machine’.

The Killers dropped a massive hint that their long-awaited next album, which will be their first in five years, will at last be out before 2017 is done. They teased a new song called ‘The Man’ and performed a secret set at Glastonbury Festival last weekend.

Having won our Album of the Year poll for 2015 with their excellent debut album My Love Is Cool, Wolf Alice will be returning with sophomore effort Visions Of A Life on September 29th, with riotous lead single ‘Yuk Foo’ making its radio debut.

The Cribs announced a new single ‘In Your Palace’ at the start of the month, from what will likely be their seventh studio album coming by the end of the year. Death From Above (having dropped the suffix ‘1979’ from their name) returned with ‘Freeze Me’. There’s also new records from Alvvays, Childhood, Ghostpoet, Everything Everything and singer-songwriter Sam Beam (aka Iron & Wine).

In the weird stakes, Iggy Pop has done another unlikely team-up, this time with avant-garde electronic music producer Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) for ‘The Pure And The Damned’. Very strange…

It’s been a decent if not vintage year for music so far in 2017 – plenty of 8/10 marks, not many 9/10s – but with that lot to come, and the certainty of newcomers arriving from nowhere to make classics, there’s plenty of time yet to declare this year a memorable one.

Also, there have been awesome album releases from New York indie-turned-folky band Big Thief, newcomer SZA and the mighty Lorde – all of which are represented in our best of the month list!

Listen to our bumper 22-track Spotify playlist of all the best new tracks released in June 2017 here!

Leave A Comment

Your email address will not be published.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.