26 New Songs to Hearken to At this time: Superchunk, Foxwarren, and Extra
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 via the noise to carry you a curated checklist of essentially the most attention-grabbing new releases (the most effective of which might be added to our Finest New Songs playlist). Beneath, take a look at our observe roundup for Tuesday, March 25, 2025.
Superchunk – ‘Bruised Lung’ [feat. Rosali]
Superchunk are again with their first track of 2025, a collaboration with their Merge labelmate Rosali Intermediary. “I received a bruised lung,” goes the chorus, however it sounds completely invigorating. Mac McCaughan described it as “a track about being disoriented and sleepless and never with the ability to clarify why. Like a hangover however not from ingesting. (You look regular on the skin.) Rosali got here into the studio so as to add some woozy shredding and nice harmonies.”
Foxwarren – ‘Listen2me’
The Andy Shauf-fronted band Foxwarren is again with information of their sophomore album, 2, which they introduced with the mesmerizing ‘Listen2me’. “I do know I’m not some film star/ Reciting some large script/ However in the event you open your thoughts/ I’d be capable to let you know one thing,” Shauf sings. Higher lean in and pay attention.
MJ Lenderman – ‘Dancing within the Membership’ (This Is Lorelei Cowl)
This Is Lorelei has shared MJ Lenderman’s model of ‘Dancing within the Membership’ for the upcoming deluxe version of Field for Buddy, Field for Star. It’s actually a match made in heaven. “Field For Buddy was by far the album I listened to most in 2024,” Lenderman mentioned. “I had a good time re-recording ‘Dancing In The Membership’ with Nate again in December.” Nate Amos added, “I actually cherished engaged on the MJ model of ‘Dancing within the Membership’—Jake [Lenderman] is chill AF and mad proficient. Extra so than another track I’ve written this one was dreamt up for others to sing, so it was fairly freaky watching it fall into place with somebody like Jake dealing with lead vocals.”
Samia – ‘Gap in a Body’ and ‘Pants’
Samia’s new album Cold comes out in a month, and at present, she’s shared two extra singles from it, the hazy, affecting ‘Gap in a Body’ and the climactic ‘Pants’. “I paired these tracks as a result of they seize reverse instincts,” Samia defined. “‘Gap in a Body’ is a few fascination with disappearing and the facility of absence. ‘Pants’ is about accepting a non-refundable self, social contexts and all. They transfer from a consolation within the potentialities of vacancy to the fact of existence.”
Fragrance Genius – ‘Clear Coronary heart’
Forward of the discharge of his new album Glory on Friday, Fragrance Genius has unveiled a gorgeously triumphant observe referred to as ‘Clear Coronary heart’. It follows ‘It’s a Mirror’ and the Aldous Harding-assisted ‘No Entrance Enamel’, which made our greatest songs of January and February, respectively.
Mannequin/Actriz – ‘Doves’
Mannequin/Actriz have put out one other single from their second LP Pirouette, the cavernous and in the end liberating ‘Doves’. “’Doves’ was the primary track on Pirouette to have totally accomplished lyrics,” singer Cole Haden defined. “Initially, its story wasn’t completely clear to me, however it in the end grew to become the gateway to the remainder of the album’s writing. Throughout the track, I sing from an empty cathedral, however on a broader stage, it explores how a spot that when felt like a sanctuary can, over time, turn out to be a cage. Finally, the problem then lies to find the braveness to step past it. The track is about trusting that the hassle to interrupt free is value it.”
Sea Lemon – ‘Keep’
Sea Lemon, aka Seattle songwriter Natalie Lew, has introduced her debut album, Diving for a Prize, with the lead single ‘Keep’, which is each gauzy and groovy. “‘Keep’ was the primary observe I actively wrote for my report, and is somewhat vignette of a person I noticed in an area thrift retailer,” Lew defined. “This older man, in all probability in his 70s or 80s, was appearing as a safety guard at this thrift retailer close to my home, however he was principally asleep on the sofa your complete time I used to be there. I couldn’t cease fascinated by him after I left, and wrote ‘Keep’ as a response to seeing this man who I felt deserved to take a break. The track grew to become a brief story about him, and about how essential I really feel it may be to have somebody in your life prepared to telling you to take a step again and simply calm down.”
PUP – ‘Get Dumber’ [feat. Jeff Rosenstock]
PUP have teamed upwith Jeff Rosenstock for his or her newest Who Will Look After the Canine? single, the blistering ‘Get Dumber’. “I wrote “Get Dumber” in Jeff’s basement,” Stefan Babcock commented. “I used to be home sitting for him whereas he was on tour. I recorded the primary demo for it on his guitar utilizing his mics and his pc. Possibly as a result of the ghost of Jeff was within the room with me, I at all times imagined our voices on this track collectively, so I used to be very comfortable when he agreed to sing on it.” He added, “We recorded the vocals collectively, in the identical room, dealing with one another. What which means is, we each needed to nail it on the identical time as a result of we couldn’t actually lower between takes. On the primary take, he forgot a line within the second verse and mentioned ‘ahhhhhh, lyrics’ as an alternative. I couldn’t end the take as a result of I used to be laughing too laborious. Anyway, he practiced singing the proper lyrics however then
we determined these lyrics kinda sucked and he ought to simply keep on with ‘ahhhh lyrics’ as a result of it’s humorous and the track is named ‘Get Dumber’. We nailed it on the second take.”
Horse Jumper of Love – ‘The Fool’ and ‘The Automotive Is aware of the Approach’
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Fool was one of many inspirations Horse Jumper of Love’s Dimitri Giannopoulos talked about in our interview about final 12 months’s Catastrophe Trick. “I did really find yourself writing a track that was a B-side for that recording session referred to as ‘The Fool’, so it did slip into my unconscious,” he shared. At this time, we get to listen to that spectral track, together with one other B-side referred to as ‘The Automotive Is aware of the Approach’. In a press launch, Giannopoulos mentioned of ‘The Fool’: “The track is about stumbling again into your ‘actual’ life after tapping out for a while. Whenever you’re in a mentally unavailable state and then you definately get your shit collectively, you anticipate folks to have waited for you and to be accessible themselves whenever you’re ‘again.’ The primary time in your life it occurs to you and also you understand folks haven’t waited could be laborious to face.” He added, “‘The Automotive Is aware of the Approach’ is about letting the automobile carry you to the place it’s worthwhile to go.”
James Krivchenia – ‘Bracelets for Unicorns’ [feat. Sam Wilkes and Joshua Abrams
Big Thief drummer has shared ‘Bracelets for Unicorns’, another intriguing and wonderfully titled cut from his forthcoming album Performing Belief. It features both Sam Wilkes and Joshua Abrams, with whom he recorded most of the LP.
Gold Mud – ‘An Early Translation of a Later Work’ [feat. J Mascis]
Gold Mud began 4 years in the past because the solo outlet of Massachusetts musician Stephen Pierce, however now it’s expanded right into a full band that includes Potty Mouth, Nanny, and the Van Pelt. At this time, they’ve introduced a brand new LP Within the Shade of the Residing Gentle, whose lead single ‘An Early Translation of a Later Work’ options an unimaginable electrical sitar solo from J Mascis. “An early translation could be groundbreaking, lovely, and flawed,” Pierce mirrored. “A later translation could be defanged of its urgency, however extra correct to the literal textual content. Neither is essentially higher than the opposite – it relies on perspective.” He added, “What’s any of this however an try to translate hazy gray amorphous expertise into one thing tangible, one thing we are able to maintain and perceive? We’re all making an attempt to make sense of a variety of issues – issues we might not get solutions to on this lifetime or in any respect. Sitting with unknowing, or sitting with the multitude of translations of the identical textual content (as a metaphor for the self, naturally): that’s a life’s work.”
Maria Somerville – ‘Stonefly’
Maria Somerville has unveiled ‘Stonefly’, an atmospheric waltz that may seem on the Irish musician’s upcoming LP Luster. The observe arrives with a music video directed by Daniel Swan.
Purelink – ‘Rookie’ [feat. Loraine James] and ‘Kite Scene’
Purelink – the ambient techno trio of Tommy Paslaski (aka Concave Reflection), Ben Paulson (aka kindtree), and Akeem Asani (aka Millia) – have introduced a brand new album referred to as Religion. They’ve shared two tracks to mark the information, the entrancing Loraine James collab ‘Rookie’ and ‘Kite Scene’, which is much more diffuse.
CMAT has introduced a brand new LP, EURO-COUNTRY, which might be launched on August 29 through AWAL. Concerning the relatable lead single, the Irish singer-songwriter mentioned: “‘Operating/Planning’ is about having to chase your personal tail to be adequate to exist. It’s an abstracted view of societal stress on ladies – particularly via a relationship lens: You begin courting somebody, you get engaged, you get married, you could have youngsters and many others and many others and many others… every little thing has to comply with this linear sample. (That’s the rationale for the repetitive refrain!). And the minute you don’t comply with that path, your mam begins giving out to you. That slim path that everybody is meant to be on… the minute you get exterior of that, it will get extremely annoying. And I don’t know anybody who’s like, ‘Yeah, love this!”
Ain’t – ‘Pirouette’
Ain’t don’t have anything to do with the brand new Mannequin/Actriz album, however their first single of 2025 is referred to as ‘Pirouette’. “I wrote ‘Pirouette’ throughout a interval of adjustments: A relationship had just lately ended, I used to be courting somebody who appeared fairly disinterested, and I used to be shifting between precarious flat shares,” George Ellerby mentioned of the dynamic observe. “All via this, it felt the band was anticipating and going via change too. It was throughout a degree when the total lineup of Ain’t was coming collectively.” The guitarist-vocalist added: “Once I began writing ‘Pirouette’, Ain’t was simply Ed, Jeevan and I; by the point it received to the apply room, Joe, Hanna, and Chapman had joined. It was the sum of all of this that impressed the track’s lyrics. I felt like I used to be sitting on the edge of one thing new and was virtually screaming out for it, however I additionally had elements of the previous nonetheless clinging to me. Pirouette particulars the drudgery of break ups and the lethargy that may include courting, however I really feel it’s preoccupied with a way of one thing overwhelmingly hopeful and exhilarating falling into place.”
Laura Jane Grace within the Trauma Tropes – ‘Mine Me Mine’
Laura Jane Grace’s just lately launched band Laura Jane Grace within the Trauma Tropes – that includes her spouse Paris Campbell Grace on vocals, Jacopo Fokas on bass, and Orestis Lagadinos on drums – have introduced a brand new album, Journey Membership. They’ve additionally shared the snappy ‘Mine Me Mine’, which follows final month’s ‘Your God (God’s D*ck)’/
Concord – ‘The place Strangers Go’
Concord, previously of Girlpool, has launched a brand new track, ‘The place Strangers Go’, which is sparser than something on her 2024 debut Gossip. In response to Tividad, it’s “in regards to the infinitely altering nature of life and making an attempt to make peace with it,” which all of us strangers can relate to.
Allison Russell – ‘Superlover’ [feat. Annie Lennox]
Allison Russell has teamed up with Annie Lennox for a brand new single, ‘Superlover’, which additionally options Wendy & Lisa and Russell’s Rainbow Coalition band. Russell shared, “This track is a prayer. This track is a safety spell. This track is a plea. This track is a perception. This track is a query. Are you a Superlover?”
Sparklmami – ‘Contact’
Sparklmami, the moniker of Ariella Granados, has dropped a brand new track referred to as ‘Contact’. The delightfully slinky, alluring observe was recorded with Chicago group Les Sons Du Cosmo.
Clothes – ‘Destituir’
Clothes, aka Santi Ropa, has unveiled ‘Destituir’, the ultimate single forward of the discharge of their debut album La Muerte en Realidad no Existe on Friday. Ropa described The Wall-invoking observe as “a self empowerment track about devouring the world,” including: “Look into the mirror and settle for your self, have a look at the injuries in your physique, a reminder that you simply weren’t meant to be unscathed.”
Wilby – ‘Pleaser’ and ‘Spin’
Maria Crawford, who information as Wilby, has made her label debut with two new songs, the driving ‘Pleaser’ and extra reflective ‘Spin’, out now through Hit the North Data. “‘Pleaser’ is a mirrored image on the high-quality line between love and submission, comfortability and management, and the way generally the need to please can cloud the safeness of a relationship,” Crawford defined. “With ‘Spin’, I’ve at all times been somebody who gravitates towards the tougher path and struggles to really have fun my wins. This track is a mirrored image of that interior battle—the a part of me that seems like issues solely have worth in the event that they’re laborious, even once I’ve labored so laborious to get to a spot of accomplishment.”
Soot Sprite – ‘Days After Days’
Exeter trio Soot Sprite have launched ‘Days After Days’, the second single from their upcoming full-length Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon. It’s much less memorably titled than ‘All My Pals Are Depressed’, however simply nearly as good – and focusing on the great, in truth. “It’s about dealing with the infinite horrors of the world and remembering to concentrate to the great,” the group’s Elise Cook dinner expounded. “Folks on the bottom, activism, and remembering that we shouldn’t be hardened by every little thing we witness or we are able to lose empathy. And it seems like with out empathy we’ll by no means be capable to obtain class consciousness, and lose our sense of neighborhood.”
