Album releases are making Sept. 18 a very busy day, with Miley, Carly Rae Jepsen, Orville Peck, Tove Lo, and Kim Petras all dropping new music. Friday is looking particularly generous to music fans, with five major releases landing on the same day — and absolutely no reason to pretend your playlist is going to survive the weekend.
Miley is releasing her new album Bass Persuades, Carly Rae Jepsen is giving us the double album Day and Night, Orville Peck is dropping Mule, Tove Lo is unleashing ESTRUS, and Kim Petras is expanding Detour with Detour (Rare N’ Deluxe). Multiple current release guides confirm the Sept. 18 date for Miley, Carly, Orville, and Tove.
So yes, your weekend plans have officially been replaced by streaming.
Miley — Bass Persuades
Miley Cyrus who recently made her name just ‘Miley’ is entering a new era with Bass Persuades, her 10th studio album and her first full-length release since 2024’s Something Beautiful. The album includes the title track “Bass Persuades,” “Different Religion” featuring Model/Actriz, “Let’s Get Married,” “Orbit,” “Aftermath,” “REDLIGHTS,” and “Neon Signs” featuring Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow.
The album also includes “Innocent Ways” and “Snow,” before closing with “Bass Persuades Remixx.”
The record arrives with Miley’s unmistakable ability to make a song feel approximately 400 percent bigger than the room you’re listening to it in.
Basically, if your Friday night needs a little emotional volume, Miley has brought the speakers.
Carly Rae Jepsen — Day and Night
Carly Rae Jepsen isn’t simply dropping an album. She’s dropping a double album.
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Day and Night is divided into two halves: Day and Night. Apple Music describes the Day side as drawing from ’60s folk and ’70s psychedelia, while Night moves toward French house, Italo disco, and ABBA-inspired sounds.
The album includes songs such as “On Wires,” “Motivation,” “After All,” and “Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor,” giving Carly plenty of room to move between dreamy romance and dance-floor territory.
In other words, Carly has apparently decided that one mood wasn’t enough.
Orville Peck — Mule
Orville Peck is taking things somewhere considerably more personal with Mule, his new album arriving Friday.
The record features Emmylou Harris, Noah Cyrus, and Allison Russell, and Peck has described the project as exploring his struggles with addiction, sobriety, and rebuilding himself.
The album includes songs such as “Prologue (Eulogy of a Man Turned Mule),” “Too Little, Too Late,” and “Already Gone.”
Considering Orville Peck’s particular talent for making heartbreak sound extremely good, Friday may require a little emotional preparation.
Tove Lo — ESTRUS
Tove Lo is also arriving Friday with ESTRUS, her sixth studio album.
The album includes “I’m your girl right?,” “DNH,” “if I could I would,” “des fleurs” featuring Stromae, and “the bad one.”
The album title comes from the biological term for the period when certain female mammals are sexually receptive, which is perhaps the most Tove Lo way possible to name an album.
And yes, the record promises plenty of the emotional contradictions that have always made her music so compelling: desire, doubt, pleasure, chaos, and the occasional terrible decision that sounds fantastic in song form.
Kim Petras — Detour (Rare N’ Deluxe)
Kim Petras is rounding out the Friday pileup with Detour (Rare N’ Deluxe).
The expanded release adds to her Detour era, which includes songs such as “Need For Speed,” “Detour,” “101,” and “DTLA.”
Kim knows exactly how to make pop music feel larger than life, so naturally she’s joining this week’s release avalanche rather than letting everyone else have the spotlight.
Your Weekend Album Playlist Just Got Complicated
Miley has Bass Persuades. Carly Rae Jepsen has Day and Night. Orville Peck has Mule. Tove Lo has ESTRUS. Kim Petras has Detour (Rare N’ Deluxe).
That’s an unreasonable amount of new music to process in 24 hours. But honestly, nobody said you had to be reasonable. Clear the schedule, charge the headphones, and prepare to discover which song you’re going to play approximately 47 times before Monday.