There’s so much music coming out all the time that it’s hard to keep track. On those days when the influx of new tracks is particularly overwhelming, we sift through the noise to bring you a curated list of the most interesting new releases (the best of which will be added to our Best New Songs playlist). Below, check out our track roundup for Tuesday, April 1, 2025.
Wet Leg – ‘catch these fists’
Wet Leg are back with the announcement of their sophomore album, moisturizer. The lead single ‘catch these fists’ is a dance-punk tune equal parts cheeky and beefy, and it comes with a music video the band shot in their native Isle of Wight.
Jenny Hval – ‘The artist is absent’
There’s two versions of ‘The artist is absent’, the latest preview of Jenny Hval’s upcoming album, an extended mix “89 seconds rewrite” and the original studio version. A play on Marina Abramović’s The Artist Is Present, it’s one the most infectious songs the Norwegian singer-songwriter has laid to tape.
The Hives – ‘Enough Is Enough’
The Hives have announced a new LP, The Hives Forever Forever the Hives, the follow-up to 2023’s The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons. Arriving on August 29, it’s led by the hooky and rambunctious ‘Enough Is Enough’, which is accompanied by a video from director Eik Kockum.
Florist – ‘Jellyfish’
Mournful yet warmly empowering, ‘Jellyfish’ is the final preview of Florist’s new album Jellywish ahead of its release on Friday. “‘Jellyfish’ is presented as an upbeat song with a darker undertone of frantically wondering how doomed we really are, what our lifetimes may bring, and what we can do about it,” bandleader Emily Sprague explained. “It marvels at the mysteries of our world while also mourning the destruction of so much of it by the hands of humans. ‘Jellyfish’ draws a connecting line between our very minds and the natural world, attempting to establish an important theme of this song and record which is: rethinking what is normalized so we can be more symbiotic with each other and the Earth. The song ends its musing with a reminder to the listener of our power centers, that we are deserving of happiness and love: ‘Destroy the feeling you are not enough.’ This is mirroring an earlier lyric: ‘Destroy everything on earth,’ which is an observation of how things seem to be, but shouldn’t have to be, and must be challenged.”
No Windows – ‘Easter Island’
No Windows, the folk duo of Morgan Morris and Verity Slangen, have released a gorgeous new song from their forthcoming The Great Traitor EP called ‘Easter Island’. “‘Easter Island’ may be the most collaborative song we’ve written, there was almost no separation between both of our roles in that moment,” Morris shared. “Usually, our instinct after finishing on a song’s spine is to think about arrangement, instrumentation, and production. The works. However, after finishing up ‘Easter Island’, we felt perfectly content with where it was. The song remains almost the same as when we played it in my room for the first time.”
Slangen added: “It was written at the end of the relationship that inspired so much of this EP, I have written so many breakup songs and this one shows my maturity in being able to take a gentler and more nuanced approach on the situation. As Morgan said, I cannot separate our roles in this song, I felt very unrooted while writing it, and the collaborative element signifies to me the most constant thing in my life, music and me and Morgan’s relationship.”
Pet Symmetry – ‘Big Mileage’
Pet Symmetry – the emo supergroup comprising Evan Weiss (Into It. Over It.), Marcus Nuccio (Ratboys), and Erik Czaja (Dowsing) – have announced their new album Big Symmetry – out May 2 – with a driving new single, ‘Big Mileage’. “I feel a special connection to my cars,” Weiss said. “I’ve written several songs about all of them throughout the years. Vanessa The Van was one of the best vehicles I had ever owned. It took me all around the United States and Canada for 10 years. 350K miles. Never acted up. Always reliable. Always good to the band. Always safe. Finally it came time to sell it and I was frankly heartbroken but knew it was time. This song is about letting go of the ones you love.”
Anika – ‘Oxygen’
Anika’s new album Abyss is out later this week, and today she lures us into its world with latest single ‘Oxygen’. It’s “about feeling trapped in your own body, in your own narrative, in your own society, within the norms and expected behaviours of this claustrophobic socially constructed world,” she explained. “It wants to break out of this cage, it wants to breathe, it wants to be in tune with its true self, its true feelings, sensations and desires – without restriction.”
Graham Hunt – ‘East Side Screamer’
Wisconsin-based songwriter Graham Hunt has announced his fourth LP, Timeless World Forever – due June 13 – with a riveting song called ‘East Side Screamer’.The track “is a true story about an encounter with a supernatural entity on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin,” according to Hunt.
Cameron Knowler – ‘La Paz’
Ahead of the release of his new album CRK this Friday, guitarist and archivist Cameron Knowler has put out another soothing instrumental, ‘La Paz’. “These songs paint a picture of my relationship to that place, my isolated childhood there, and how it all crumbled after my dad was suddenly incarcerated in 2008,” Knowler shared. “Those early impressions fuel my work in spite of their once-stifling darkness; the backdrop, a theatrical bordertown, always moves on with characteristic resourcefulness. Everything in that town is small, bare and historically charged which is a fitting analog to the artforms I’m most attracted to: instrumental songs, polaroids, short fiction and personal narrative. Those are all represented in this project.”
Death in Vegas – ‘Death Mask’
UK producer Richard Fearless has announced the first Death in Vegas album since 2016’s Transmission. Death Mask arrives on June 6, and the newly unveiled title track sprawls over seven minutes. “Some of the gear I use has a tendency to take on a life of its own — for example, the Effectron delay, which Arthur Russell also used. It was feeding back on itself, and ended up sounding like a radio conversation — literally voices from within the machine,” Fearless shared. “On the Echoplex, the tape has never been changed. It’s eroded by the hands of time. When you record over the tape, things bleed in from what was there before, like people from the past.”
