There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s laborious to maintain monitor. On these days when the inflow of recent tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift by means of the noise to convey you a curated checklist of essentially the most attention-grabbing new releases (the very best of which will likely be added to our Greatest New Songs playlist). Under, take a look at our monitor roundup for Monday, June 23, 2025.
Caroline Polachek – ‘On the Seaside’
Caroline Polachek’s lumbering, hypnotic new track, ‘On the Seaside’, is her contribution to the soundtrack for the brand new PlayStation 5 online game Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside, which is out this week. Accompanied by an alternate ‘Timefall Combine’, the monitor was co-produced with Danny L Harle and co-written with Harle and Hideo Kojima, the sport’s author, director, and designer. “I used to be listening to Caroline Polachek final yr and have become a giant fan of hers,” Kojima mentioned in a current interview. “After I put that on my Instagram, she contacted me, after which she DM’ed. We saved in contact after which finally met up in Paris, and that’s when she informed me she wished to put in writing a brand new track for Dying Stranding 2. She works very quick. You heard her track if you noticed the Plate Gate — it’s referred to as ‘On the Seaside’.”
In a press launch, Polachek shared: “‘On The Seaside’ was really one of many first songs I ever made with Danny L Harle, nevertheless it was too alien and industrial- nearly too evil – to work sense on Pang, so I set it apart til the precise factor got here alongside. When Kojima approached me about DS2, I confirmed him the sketch of it and he agreed that it was an ideal match, and so eight years after beginning this track, it received reopened, prolonged, and completed for the right setting.”
Moist Leg – ‘davina mccall’
Moist Leg have put ‘davina mccall’, the third single of their upcoming album moisturizer, which is breezier and extra relaxed than the primary two. The sweetness is suitable: it’s “a track about pure, unadulterated devotion,” in accordance with a press launch.
The Lemonheads – ‘Within the Margin’
The Lemonheads have launched a fuzzy, infectious new track referred to as ‘Within the Margin’, which accompanies the announcement that their new album Love Chant will likely be out October 24. “I wished to have a riffy track, so I wrote riffs throughout it,” Evan Dando mentioned of the monitor. “The physique of the track was Marciana’s. It’s like a full-on eighth grade lady revenge track: ‘Stupidly I left the escape plans out so they might discover my approach.’”
Superchunk – ‘No Hope’
Superchunk’s newest single, off their forthcoming Songs Within the Key of Yikes, delivered to thoughts a track I haven’t thought of in a very long time: the Vaccines’ fairly nice 2012 single of the identical. It’s not shocking you possibly can spin the identical phrases right into a refrain nowadays, and Superchunk’s is fairly catchy, too. “The final…10 (?) years have given us loads of materials for crushing nights and countless days, and this rollercoaster is simply happening in the intervening time, however right here we’re singing,” Mac McCaughan commented.
Ada Lea – ‘one thing within the wind’
“I had a dream about this track and bear in mind nothing,” Ada Lea mentioned of ‘one thing within the wind’, the newest single from her forthcoming LP when i paint my masterpiece, which pulls you proper into its spell. “There’s a fixed in everybody’s life, which is the dream. Once we recorded the track, Luke, who produced it, urged we gradual it down so Tasy might improvise a busy drum solo. Then, Jonas, engineer, sped the track as much as its common pace. Like a slowed down wink to Leonard Cohen himself.”
Golden Apples – ‘Noonday Demon’
Golden Apples have introduced a brand new report, Capturing Star – September 19 – with the gauzy, fuzzed-out ‘Noonday Demon’. In line with bandleader Russell Edling, the track “addresses the way in which anxiousness and paranoia could make you kind of lose monitor of your self and your id — turning your world the other way up and alienating you from the folks round you on the similar time.”
Kae Tempest – ‘Diagnoses’
Kae Tempest has dropped ‘Diagnoses’, the third single from the forthcoming Self Titled LP, Co-produced by Fraser T Smith and Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers, the monitor is “a Summer season banger about antipsychotics and HRT,” within the artist’s personal phrases. “And loving one another no matter how psychological we’re.”
Kneecap – ‘THE RECAP’
Kneecap have formally launched ‘THE RECAP’, their defiant single that includes drum & bass artist Mozey. Taking goal at UK politician Kemi Badenoch, the track was beforehand accessible on SoundCloud and is being shared on streaming forward of the group’s Glastonbury efficiency.
Horsepower – ‘Cash’
Horsepower – the moniker of the New York-based singer-songwriter Charlotte Weinman – has shared a brand new single referred to as ‘Cash’. That includes contributions from brothers Noah (aka Runnner) and Ben Weinman, the undertaking was impressed by the likes of Gap, Sleater-Kinney, and Lomelda, although this new monitor additionally brings to thoughts Samia with a extra pronounced slowcore affect. “That is the primary track I wrote for the EP,” Weinman mentioned. “I began writing it the night time my accomplice of a few years and I made a decision to interrupt up. The model I wrote that night time was like 1,000,000 verses longer and the lyrics had been utterly uncooked and pathetic, which I say with love. They had been open wounds. The one lyrics that stay from that first cross is the refrain. As I’ve gotten distance from the state of affairs that begot the track, numerous my disappointment has been energized, and I’ve been extra focused on exploring the anger. So we fanged this track, too. It’s been enjoyable watching folks hook up with it once we play it stay.”
Coral Grief – ‘Paint By Quantity’
Seattle trio Coral Grief have previewed their debut album, Air Between Us, with a mesmerizing new track referred to as ‘Paint By Quantity’. “For this track, we began enjoying round with rhythmic parts that had been enjoyable to bounce off of one another,” the band mentioned. “It developed right into a contemplation on studying the way to convey liveliness and coloration into bleak instances, which is a continuing effort nowadays.” Who doesn’t resonate with that?
