There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s laborious to maintain observe. On these days when the inflow of latest tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift by way of the noise to carry you a curated listing of essentially the most attention-grabbing new releases (one of the best of which will likely be added to our Finest New Songs playlist). Under, take a look at our observe roundup for Wednesday, Might 21, 2025.
Wednesday – ‘Elderberry Wine’
It is a particular sort of Wednesday for these of us who’ve been anticipating new music from the North Carolina band since 2023’s Rat Noticed God; ‘Elderberry Wine’ is their first authentic observe since then/ It sounds far more easygoing than ‘Bull Believer’, the chaotic introduction to that LP, however after all, there’s extra to the twangy, attractive association than meets the attention. “Elderberry is called a therapeutic fruit, and is an ingredient in lots of tonics and syrups to help the immune system. One time, nevertheless, my sister consumed them uncooked, and it instantly induced vomiting,” bandleader Karly Hartzman defined. “So ‘Elderberry Wine’ is finally a love music about creating simply the best surroundings for success. There’s a fragile stability that must be created, particularly in love, for 2 lives to intersect with out poisoning one another.”
The Armed – ‘Effectively Made Play’
A brand new album rollout from the Armed, a brand new thriller to unpack. In response to lead singer Tony Wolski, The Future Is Right here and All the pieces Must Be Destroyed is “music for a statistically rich inhabitants that one way or the other can’t afford meals or medication — endlessly scrolling previous trip images, health club selfies, and pictures of kid amputees in the identical feed. It displays the dissociation required simply to exist in that actuality.” Lead single ‘Effectively Made Play’ is a free jazz-inspired freakout that ends earlier than you’ve got an opportunity to digest it.
They Are Gutting a Physique of Water – ‘AMERICAN FOOD’
TAGABOW, the extremely influential shoegaze band newly signed to ATO Information, have shared the hazy, hypnotic new single ‘AMERICAN FOOD’. “All them atrocities is much from our minds, when the vices assist us via,” Douglas Dulgarian remarked.
Fazerdaze – ‘Motorway’
New Zealand artist Fazerdaze is again with a brand new music known as ‘Motorway’, which is fairly gritty and, after all, driving. It rose out of “a sense of being trapped between a metropolis and a relationship, trying to find dwelling in each, however discovering it in neither,” Amelia Murray shared. “It explores an enmeshment with familiarity; and the motorway turning into an emblem of that for me; repetitive, a loop to interrupt out of, a false sense of freedom.”
Kieran Hebden and William Tyler – ‘If I Had a Boat’ (Lyle Lovett Cowl)
4 Tet’s Kieran Hebden and Nashville guitarist William Tyler have introduced a brand new collaborative album, 41 Longfield Road Late ‘80s. Main the LP is a affected person, gorgeously pristine 11-minute cowl of Lyle Lovett’s ‘If I Had a Boat’.
Alaska Reid – ‘Massive Drops’
Avery Tucker, previously half of Girlpool, has unveiled his debut solo single. ‘Massive Drops’ was co-written and co-produced with Alaska Reid. It’s “a narrative about loving and dropping somebody who’s discovering themselves time and time once more overtaken by the large drop,” in keeping with Tucker, and the best way he makes use of the phrase “large” jogs my memory of Reid’s personal Massive Bunny. It’s tender and affecting.
Yaya Bey – ‘raisins’
Yaya Bey has shared one other preview of her forthcoming report do it afraid, and it’s quietly inspiring.“It’s laborious to sum up ‘raisins’ in a small burb nevertheless it’s the pursuit of affection, pleasure and freedom with the total realizing that there will even be ache,” Bey stated. “It’s a give up. It’s me giving myself permission to dream. It may not occur. However perhaps the true pleasure is just not within the materialization however within the dreaming itself. The title is impressed by a Langston Hughes poem known as Harlem the place he says ‘What occurs to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin within the solar?’”
Madeline Kenney – ‘Scoop’
Madeline Kenney has shared ‘Scoop’, the newest single from her forthcoming LP Kiss from the Balcony. It’s a mesmerizing observe, and I like the best way the electrical guitar and synth scrape in opposition to the melody. “The unique title was ‘Guitar Scoop Coronary heart Flip’ due to the guitar melodies and lyrical themes; I used to be pondering so much about what is anticipated of a “cool woman”, how detachment is admired in trendy relationships, and the way the lavatory in a bar is a sacred area for women (strangers!) to carry one another of their shared, odd, conditioned realities,” Kenney mirrored.
Alison Goldfrapp – ‘Reverberotic’
Alison Goldfrapp has teased her new LP Flux with a playful new observe, ‘Reverberotic’. It’s out by way of her personal imprint, A.G. Information. “When you’re fortunate sufficient to have the choice, proudly owning your personal masters appears like a no brainer lately,” she commented. “Whereas being a solo unbiased artist comes with its personal set of challenges, it actually fits me and has given myself and the individuals I work with a way of empowerment and invigoration for this album…”
Jacques Greene and Nosaj Factor – ‘Unknown’
Jacques Greene and Nosaj Factor have teamed up for the newest in a string of collaborations, the alluring ‘Unknown’. It’s accompanied by a remix from Audion. “I feel it is a music that units us on a path, a transparent vacation spot,” Jacques Greene defined. “It’s so attention-grabbing how that is a kind of tracks that simply occurred. It’s a kind of bizarre issues the place we took a stroll round your neighbourhood, and once we received again to the studio we simply began enjoying. Then we simply regarded up an hour later and 85% of the observe was there.” Nosaj Factor added: “I might say that is the primary observe that we have been each locked in on what our intentions have been. We have been each in circulate state.”
Robbie Williams – ‘Rocket’ [feat. Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi]
Robbie Williams isn’t precisely related to the style often called “Britpop,” however hey, neither is A.G. Prepare dinner. However, Britpop is the title of his just-announced LP, which is led by the Tony Iommi-featuring ‘Rocket’. Fascinating transfer! “I got down to create the album that I wished to jot down and launch after I left Take That in 1995,” Williams stated. “It was the height of Britpop and a golden age for British Music. I’ve labored with a few of my heroes on this album; it’s uncooked, there are extra guitars and it’s an album that’s much more upbeat and anthemic than regular. There’s some ‘Brit’ in there and there’s definitely some ‘pop’ too – I’m immensely pleased with this as a physique of labor and I’m excited for followers to listen to this album. I can also’t wait to carry out a music or two from it on my upcoming ‘BRITPOP’ tour, which I’m opening within the UK, naturally.”
Night time Tapes – ‘pacifico’
Night time Tapes have signed to Nettwerk and introduced their debut LP, portals // polarities, arriving September 26. It’s led by the transportive trip-hop lower ‘pacifico’,” which “was written after our buddy returned from Mexico (San Jose del Pacifico) and advised us tales about how stunning it was,” in keeping with Iiris Vesik. “It’s about our concept of Pacifico — like a frame of mind you’ll be able to attain, as we nonetheless haven’t been there.”
Mal Blum – ‘Killer’
Mal Blum has shared a brand new single from The Villain, their first LP in 5 years. “I need to be very clear about what this music is about,” they stated. “The music ‘Killer’ is particularly about internalized transphobia and unconsciously absorbing the assumption that you’re unhealthy. It’s a response to the villainization of trans individuals, the propaganda and messaging we continuously obtain that we’re inherently devious and immoral. It additionally particularly refers to a specific taste of transphobia that refuses to see transmasculine individuals as we’re, as an alternative contemplating us solely as harmful would-be assassins and butchers of our personal supposed girlhoods. ‘Killer’ is a acutely aware try to reclaim and play with that narrative.”
mark william lewis – ‘Tomorrow Is Excellent’
bar italia’s former drummer mark william lewis has signed to A24’s report label A24 Music, marking the announcement with the entrancing new music ‘Tomorrow Is Excellent’. “I wrote Tomorrow is Excellent at dwelling in London,” lewis shared. “I wished to seize and describe the entire pictures and locations that meant one thing to me on the time and collage them collectively in a single music.”
Surusinghe – ‘Kinda Like That’ [feat. Kassie Krut]
London-via-Melbourne digital producer Surusinghe has enlisted Kassie Krut for a brand new membership observe, ‘Kinda Like That’. Co-produced by Cameo Blush, it’s the second single off the forthcoming EP i can’t bear in mind the title of this, however that’s okay.
Perennial – ‘Child, Are You Summary?’
Perennial have introduced an expanded version of final yr’s Artwork Historical past 11 further tracks, together with the just-released rager ‘Child, Are You Summary?’. You’ll end up shouting alongside the titular refrain earlier than you recognize it.
White Lies – ‘Nothing on Me’
White Lies have returned with their first new music in three years, the propulsive and surprisingly frenetic ‘Nothing on Me’. “This observe welcomes you into the collaborative current thoughts of White Lies. It’s considerably reckless, unhinged, stuffed with competing concepts,” the band defined. “There’s a disregard for any exterior influences, pressures, or expectations. We’re driving with no brakes or seat-belts. Lyrically and conceptually it’s a rebirth, and an introduction.”
“The preliminary musical concepts got here from having a synth sequence that’s in a distinct time signature to the remainder of the band,” they added. “That is one thing I borrowed so much from the 70’s prog that I like and listened to so much throughout the making of this report. I listened to data by Genesis, Chris Squier, Sure, Utopia and Gong who all extensively make use of this of their music. The rhythm is a basic motorik beat borrowed from the krautrock that all of us love and is a motif we’ve used so much throughout our careers in White Lies. The guitar melody is sort of jolly and absurdist just like the nursery rhyme or one thing you’d hear an ice cream van enjoying. It clashes, I feel, to the texture of the music. That is impressed by Steve Hillage and his album Motivation Radio the place he typically makes use of comparable melodies. All of this feeds a cacophony and an overload of data that disorients and confuses. The lyrics replicate the difficulties we are able to all have in regarding individuals even when they’re near us, particularly within the warmth of an argument or disagreement and the way overwhelming that may be. That is most likely the quickest most intense music we’ve ever written and was additional developed in rehearsals, with Seth Evans (previously of Black Midi) on keys, after which carried out within the studio. The foundations of this observe are one take performed dwell.”
Guedra Guedra – ‘Drift of Drummer’
Moroccan producer Abdellah M. Hassak, who data as Guedra Guedra, has signed to the Domino imprint Smugglers Means, which is able to launch his new album MUTANT on August 29. Lead single ‘Drift of Drummer’ comes paired with a video from director Romain Cherbonnier. “In African traditions, rhythm particularly in its polyrhythmic kind is just not merely a pulse or a measure: it’s a cartography of life,” Hassak shared. “It expresses social complexity, layers of oral historical past, group dynamics, and the religious dimensions of existence. Transmitting this richness from era to era by way of follow and listening can also be an act of resistance, a means of preserving data and sensibilities that dominant narratives have lengthy tried to marginalize or simplify.”
