14 New Songs to Take heed to At this time: Automobile Seat Headrest, Tune-Yards, and Extra
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 record of probably the most fascinating new releases (the very best of which might be added to our Greatest New Songs playlist). Beneath, try our monitor roundup for Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
Automobile Sear Headrest – ‘Gethsemane’
Automobile Seat Headrest have introduced their first album in 5 years, The Students, with a cathartic, multi-part epic referred to as ‘Gethsemane’. “Rosa research on the medical college of Parnassus College,” the band mentioned of the character it portrays. “After an expertise bringing a medically deceased affected person again to life, she begins to regain powers suppressed since childhood, of therapeutic others by absorbing their ache. Every night time, as a substitute of desires, she encounters the uncooked ache and tales of the souls she touches all through the day. Actuality blurs, and he or she finds herself taken deep into secret services buried beneath the medical college, the place historical beings that covertly reign over the faculty convey forth their darkish plans.”
Tune-Yards – ‘Limelight’
Tune-Yards have returned with information of their first LP since 2021’s sketchy. It’s referred to as Higher Dreaming, and it comes out Could 16 through 4AD. It’s led by the slinky and infectious ‘Limelight’, of which the duo’s Merrill Garbus mentioned: “This one virtually didn’t make it onto the album as a result of it felt trite, particularly given a number of genocides throughout the globe and the actual impression on youngsters (the children should not ‘alright’). But it surely stored coming again as individuals stored responding positively to it, particularly our personal child. Who am I to speak about getting free, about us all getting free? Fannie Lou Hamer mentioned, ‘No one’s free till all people’s free’ and it feels susceptible however vital to see myself as a part of that ‘all people.’”
Destroyer – ‘Cataract Time’
Destroyer’s ‘Hydroplaning Off The Fringe of The World’ simply made our record of the finest songs of February 2025, and its predecessor ‘Bologna’ landed on the identical record the earlier month. If these singles weren’t dramatic sufficient, the brand new one, ‘Cataract Time’, sprawls gorgeously over eight minutes. His new album Dan’s Boogie comes out March 28. “The track is a reckoning, a dressing down, a stroll within the park the place you fastidiously document your steps and describe the park and one way or the other the recording and the outline undoes you,” Bejar defined. “Which is why it’s vital that the track be as groovy as it’s. That half I didn’t see coming. There’s a lightness that factors to a future, even when I feel it’s the heaviest factor I’ve ever written. John [Collins] outdid himself within the combine. His filigree harps modified every part. I feel it’s his favorite track on the document.”
Scowl – ‘Tonight (I’m Afraid)’
Santa Cruz band Scowl have shared one other huge but ferocious single off their upcoming album Are We All Angels. ‘Tonight (I’m Afraid)’ follows earlier cuts ‘Particular’, ‘Not Hell Not Heaven’, and ‘B.A.B.E.’.
Alien Boy – ‘Adjustments’
Portland emo outfit Alien Boy have introduced a brand new album, You Wanna Fade?, which lands Could 9 through Get Higher. “Change is at all times laborious for me, even after I know I would like it,” vocalist and guitarist Sonia Weber mentioned of the jangly but emotive lead single ‘Adjustments’. “There’s an increasing number of ghosts the older I get. This track’s for attempting to acknowledge the ghosts and grieving an previous life.”
Anika – ‘Stroll Away’
Anika has previewed her forthcoming album Abyss with ‘Rumour’, which is easygoing but brutally candid, impressed by “the reckless nature of 90s /2000s Gap / Courtney Love information — of not giving a shit — telling it how it’s, not scared to offend, not scared to be cancelled. We’ve additionally misplaced the house for wholesome debate, for distinction of opinion, shutting down these we don’t agree with, eradicating them from our social networks.” The Berlin artist added: “This track is saying all of the issues I need to say however am too scared to say or that society doesn’t settle for me to say. It’s coping with psychological well being — the state of poor psychological well being in these fucked up, divided, remoted, social media, warfare, pest, rise of the appropriate instances. It’s the deconstruction of the female — of subjects thought of to be personal realm.”
Glare – ‘Nü Burn’
Heavy shoegaze outfit have shared ‘Nü Burn’, a gauzy and enveloping preview of their debut full-length Sundown Funeral. “‘Nü Burn’ is about the way it feels just like the world stops if you’re grieving,” the band defined. “‘I’ll discover you in a brand new solar, really feel a brand new burn’ means discovering these we misplaced within the heat we really feel… it’s a giant, explosive track and possibly our heaviest. After we completed writing, it we instantly knew it’d be a single.”
Lucius feat. Madison Cunningham – ‘Impressions’
Lucius have teamed up with Madison Cunningham for ‘Impressions’, the superbly layered newest single from their self-titled album. “We wrote ‘Impressions’ in Ethan Gruska’s residence studio in Los Angeles,” the duo recalled. “Along with Madi, we had been exchanging concepts and emotions concerning the adjustments in our lives and learn how to reckon with them — the selection as to what to maintain with you, and what to let go of, as we develop and evolve, and the questioning of your self if you’re dwelling a life you don’t acknowledge anymore.”
Mei Semones – ‘I can do what I would like’
Mei Semones has launched a dynamically compelling new track, ‘I can do what I would like’, taken from her first LP, Animaru. “‘I can do what I would like’ is likely one of the most high-energy songs on the album, in addition to one of the crucial difficult songs to play,” Semones defined. “Lyrically the track is centered round doing what I would like and what’s finest for me, and I hope it empowers different individuals to do what they need & prioritize what’s finest for them too.”
Suzanne Vega – ‘Audio system’ Nook’
Suzanne Vega has introduced that Flying With Angels, her first new studio album in eleven years, will arrive on Could 2. “That’s one thing you don’t need in democracy: the shutting down of the Audio system’ Nook the place individuals get a say,”Vega mentioned in an announcement about its lead single. “This can be a second in time when individuals are saying rather a lot, however generally they’re not making sense or not telling the reality. Folks ought to be accountable for what they are saying. They will’t simply lie. One would assume that that might be self-evident.”
Graham Hunt – ‘I Simply Want Sufficient’
Wisconsin-based musician Graham Hunt has signed to Run for Cowl, marking the announcement with the stunning new track ‘I Simply Want Sufficient’. “A buddy and I had been out strolling and we bumped into an previous highschool instructor of his,” Hunt he shared. “He requested if I wished a guitar, he didn’t play it and he thought somebody ought to. He mentioned day by day is one other chew out of the shit sandwich. This was the primary riff I wrote on it. It’s a track about love however it’s not a love track.”
I’m With Her – ‘Historic Mild’
It’s been seven years since I’m With Her — the folks trio of Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins – launched their debut LP, See You Round. But ‘Historic Mild’, the primary single and opening monitor of their just-announced full-length Wild and Clear and Blue Wild And Clear and Blue – out Could 9 – sounds warmly acquainted. “We began enjoying round with this riff in a Silverlake bungalow in October of 2022,” the band recalled. “We had been nonetheless firstly of penning this album, and as these pictures of joyful melancholy floated in the direction of us, we discovered ourselves reaching for them in a free-flowing approach that felt wholly new to us, but fully pure. This track is a journey, and (producer) Josh Kaufman inspired us to open the track up and let it breathe. ‘Historic Mild’ units the tone for all the album, communing with our previous and future selves.”
Sedona feat. Claud – ‘She’s So Fairly’
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Sedona has linked up with Claud for the angsty new tune ‘She’s So Fairly’. “‘She’s So Fairly’ is about studying to let go of previous tales, understanding your value, and placing your self first,” Sedona mentioned of the monitor, which seems on her debut document, Getting Into Heaven – out Could 23.
Dean Johnson – ‘Blue Moon’
Dean Johnson has unveiled a brand new track, ‘Blue Moon’, which marks the Seattle musician’s signing to Saddle Creek. The breezy tune arrives because the twentieth installment of the labels Doc collection. About it, Johnston mentioned: “Did you ever lie in mattress listening for a sound down the road? A whistle, a coo, the strategy of somebody’s toes? This track is finally an ode to bed room home windows; to climbing out of them late at night time.”
