16 New Songs to Take heed to In the present day: Frankie Cosmos, Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke, and Extra
There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s exhausting 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 fascinating new releases (the very best of which might be added to our Finest New Songs playlist). Beneath, take a look at our observe roundup for Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
Frankie Cosmos – ‘Vainness’
Frankie Cosmos have introduced a brand new LP, Totally different Speaking, arriving June 27 by way of Sub Pop. It’s led by ‘Vainness’, which is characteristically heat and subtly expansive by the band’s requirements.
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke – ‘Gangsters’
Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard have shared a brand new single from their upcoming album Tall Tales, the bleeping, otherworldly ‘Gangsters’. It comes paired with a fittingly eerie video video directed by Jonathan Zawada.
HLLLYH – ‘Lifeless Clade’
The Mae Shi, whose final album was 2008’s HLLLYH, have reformed with HLLLYH as their new moniker. They’ll launch a brand new album, URUBURU, on June 2, and its dizzying lead single ‘Lifeless Clade’ is out now.
Smut – ‘Syd Sweeney’
‘Syd Sweeney’, the blistering lead single from Smut’s upcoming report Tomorrow Comes Crashing, was, certainly, impressed by the actress. “Girls in leisure are exceptionally gifted, sensible and delightful, as a result of they must be,” vocalist Tay Roebuck defined. “Generally they wish to discover sexuality and vulnerability of their work. Then the pitchforks come out, how dare they be superb AND sexual? You possibly can solely be one or the opposite! Why is expertise and exhausting work seemingly erased when you’ve seen a girl bare?”
Sorry – ‘Jetplane’
Sorry have dropped a brand new single, ‘Jetplane’, which weaves in a vocal pattern from Guided By Voices’ ‘Sizzling Freaks’. The eerily infectious observe additionally comes with a video directed by FLASHA Productions, aka Sorry vocalist Asha Lorenz and Flo Webb.
Florry – ‘First it was a film, then it was a e book’
From Sorry to Florry (my sincerest apologies) – anyway, the newest from Francie Medosch’s band is known as ‘First it was a film, then it was a e book’, which is rambunctious and rootsy in all the correct methods. In regards to the music and its accompanying video, Medosch shared: “When the climate was nicer, and once I didn’t actually have a job but final Fall, Jon Cox and I might typically go into Waterbury, VT to go to a wild thrift retailer referred to as Discount Boutique the place the whole lot was both 50 cents or $2. One time I discovered a random VHS in a clean white case and I threw it into my basket. In a while at a cocktail party at Trash Mountain, the place we dwell at the moment, there have been a bunch of associates on our sofa in the lounge so I busted out the VHS TV and the random tape and it turned out to be bull using. We immediately knew then we had to make use of it for the Film video cos the vibe was proper.”
“We shot the remainder of the video at our very personal Johnny Brendas in Philly, without end our favourite place to play anyplace that has venues. It solely felt proper to have footage of us taking part in there captured without end in a music video. Kurt Vile is someplace in there too, I used to be reteaching him Passenger Aspect and Beast of Burden within the inexperienced room for our encore. We’ve been taking part in there since our conception as a band, and since then we’ve performed it nearly 15 instances or so. Shout out to JB’s, their workers is superb, the inexperienced room hummus platter is superb, the tea is superb, nice sound, nice crowds, nice lights, nice the whole lot.”
Deerhoof – ‘Below Rats’ [feat. Saul Williams]
Deerhoof have collaborated with Saul Williams for ‘Below Rats’, a buzzing, ramshackle lower off their forthcoming album Noble and Godlike in Damage. “Nearly as unhealthy because the crimes of the ruling class are the crimes that allow them: tricking everybody into considering that nobody else cares,” the band’s Greg Saunier wrote on Instagram. “There have been so many instances after we have been making our new report after we turned nearly overwhelmed with doubt: ‘What’s the purpose of music when genocide is customary fare and the murderers are essentially the most rewarded individuals in society?’ Saul Williams was and is somebody we glance to. Who’s doing it like Saul? He’s been there each day with poetry, with grief, with information that oligarch-owned media doesn’t contact for months. Making us all really feel much less alone. We categorical ourselves in an effort to discover our chosen household.”
“I met Saul at a tiny music competition in Switzerland,” he continued. “I used to be performing a duo with Marc Ribot, and Saul was performing with a string quartet. When it was over Saul, Marc and I talked American politics backstage for hours, and I instantly felt I’d change into acquainted with somebody I might respect for a lifetime. I’ve been grateful ever since.”
Inexperienced Day – ‘Smash It Like Belushi’
‘Smash It Like Belushi’ is one in all 5 new songs on the just-announced deluxe reissue of Saviors, which got here in early 2024. The others are referred to as ‘Fuck Off’, ‘Ballyhoo’, and ‘Underdog’, and ‘Keep Younger’.
Punchlove – ‘In the present day You Can Study the Secret’
In the present day you’ll be able to hear a brand new observe by Brooklyn shoegazers Punchlove referred to as ‘In the present day You Can Study the Secret’. “This launch is a surrealist, portal fantasy-inspired encounter with the unconscious thoughts,” Jillian Olesen defined. “This newest music began with simply the title itself (“In the present day You Can Study The Secret”), after which Ian wrote all of the instrumental components. When it got here time to put in writing the lyrics, I had began leaving an open pocket book subsequent to my mattress every evening as a inventive train in automatism I’d examine someplace and mainly began waking as much as discover all types of scribbles and hen scratch everywhere in the pages every morning. It was like scary psychological Christmas every morning. At instances there was actually uncooked stuff in there. It kinda freaked me out, but it surely was additionally thrilling and actually began to shift my perspective by myself humanity, in addition to the world round me. It felt like I had a brand new window into understanding how sure issues have been actually affecting me, and to start out greedy the nuances of how I had been unknowingly absorbing and filtering my (excessively digital) every day stimuli on an unconscious degree, from which I might start to make actual modifications. So outlining my very own expertise and a few of the recurring themes of those weird dream entries, O is the journey of shifting from an outward dealing with, always-on, digital world in in the direction of the deepest, darkest, realms of ourselves, the place we’re discovered face-to-face with our personal humanity and mortality in new and surprising methods.”
Cloud Nothings – ‘That Prince’
Cloud Nothings have unveiled ‘That Prince’, a cool B-side from their newest LP Ultimate Summer season. “‘That Prince’ was written in the course of the throes of the Covid pandemic, and it offers with that point when nobody was certain of something and telling your self a couple of little lies was customary apply to get by way of the day together with your sanity intact,” the band shared. “Lyrics like ‘the whole lot you realize / might be right here within the morning’ and ‘if i might inform a lie / would you not thoughts’ fashioned out of the pervasive and scary feeling that gripped the world for a couple of years.”
Juan Wauters – ‘If It’s Not Luv’
Juan Wauters has introduced a brand new album, MVD LUV, arriving June 27 on Captured Tracks. To accompany the announcement, the singer-songwriter has shared the playful and joyous ‘If It’s Not Luv’. “This time round you catch me in Montevideo, the town the place I used to be born and grew up,” Wauters remarked. “Although I’m from right here, that is the primary time I get to report an album right here. I’ve all the time longed to do that. Let’s get to it, make it by way of it, MVD LUV a.okay.a. Amor Montevideo.”
The Chain – ‘Ineffective’
Australian hardcore crew the Chain are again with ‘Ineffective’, a monstrous single that leads their forthcoming LP Blind the World – set for launch on Might 9 by way of Triple B.
Mclusky – ‘chekhov’s weapons’
“If I had a nasty day each time that I’d mentioned I had a nasty day/ Then I wouldn’t be the proprietor of this snooker corridor,” begins ‘chekhov’s weapons’, the pummeling new single from Mclusky’s forthcoming report the world remains to be right here and so are we.
Smerz – Roll the cube
“It’s a post-something state of affairs music,” Smerz mentioned of ‘Roll the cube’, which can or could not enable you contextualize it. It’s alluring, that’s for certain, and it’s obtained one hell of a piano riff.
Rubbish – ‘There’s No Future in Optimism’
“I really like the title,” Shirley Manson mentioned of the brand new Rubbish single, which is taken from their forthcoming LP Let All That We Think about Be the Gentle. “The band despatched it me and I used to be like, ‘That is nice. I’m conserving that.’ However the lyrics are an motion towards that title. As a result of if we enable our fatalism or our negativity to actually take over, we are going to crumble. It’s a couple of metropolis, in my case, Los Angeles, but it surely could possibly be anyplace the place unhealthy stuff is occurring. After the George Floyd homicide, which is one in all few issues in my life that I want I’d by no means seen: I used to be modified completely by seeing the footage of that cop kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. In Los Angeles there have been enormous protests and numerous upheaval after that. Above our home in Hollywood, there have been helicopters all day lengthy, for days on finish. It was actually precarious, chaotic and terrifying.”
Mary Halvorson – ‘Carved From’
Along with a brand new Deerhoof music, at the moment we get the announcement of a brand new album produced by John Dieterich of Deerhoof. ‘Carved From’, the colorful lead single from Cloudward, doesn’t sound fairly just like the Deerhoof observe, but it surely’s simply as adventurous.
