New Releases to Add to Your Halloween Weekend Playlist
This Halloween weekend brought more than elaborate costumes—new music arrived across genres. While celebrities like Coco Jones and Paris Hilton revisited iconic videos and Broadway looks for spooky-season style, artists also dropped fresh records and surprise projects timed for the holiday.
Florence + The Machine returned with their first full-length in three years, the evocatively titled Everybody Scream, featuring production from Aaron Dessner and Mark Bowen. Rapper Offset issued a surprise, eerie-themed effort called Haunted by Fame, and Mass Appeal released a long-awaited posthumous Big L collection.
The late Big L—who was killed in a 1999 drive-by shooting after releasing only one studio album in his lifetime—remains a towering influence. Mass Appeal’s installment Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King compiles remastered unreleased tracks and rare freestyles, including cuts featuring Jay-Z, Nas and Joe Budden.
OutKast marked the weekend with a 25th anniversary reissue of Stankonia, complete with unreleased material and new remixes. Hip-hop also saw fresh projects from Westside Gunn (Heels Have Eyes 3), Armani White (There’s A Ghost In My House), Kodak Black (Just Getting Started), Saba (Coffee!) and Icewear Vezzo (Purple Passion).
Several artists dropped singles aimed at the season and beyond: Brent Faiyaz’s “Have To,” Tyler, The Creator’s “Mother,” Omarion’s “For War,” Rosalía’s “Berghain,” and collaborative tracks from Russell Dickerson and the Jonas Brothers (“Happen to Me”) and Lee Brice (“Killed the Man”). Taylor Swift also offered the “Alone In My Tower” version of “The Fate of Ophelia,” while new offerings arrived from Jai’Len Josey, Lola Brooke, Lil Baby, The Chainsmokers and Jessie J.
Across the Atlantic, London indie-pop vocalist Cat Burns released How to Be Human, and Pentatonix added to the season with their holiday record Christmas in the City, which includes guest turns from JoJo and archival contributions from Frank Sinatra.
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