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, May 27, 2025.
Wet Leg – ‘CPR’
The announcement of Wet Leg’s sophomore LP, moisturizer, came with the promise that Rhian Teasdale had embraced the process of writing love songs. Now we know what a Wet Leg love song sounds like, and I’m happy to report it’s one of the weirdest, most exhilarating things they’ve laid to tape – way more dense and chaotic than, say, ‘Being in Love’. moisturizer is out July 11.
Ben Kweller – ‘Oh Dorian’ [feat. MJ Lenderman]
“I can’t wait to hang with you again.” If you know the tiniest bit of backstory about Ben Kweller’s upcoming album Cover the Mirrors, there’s no way the closing line from his new song featuring MJ Lenderman won’t leave you with at least a knot in your throat. Cover the Mirrors is Kweller’s first album since the loss of his son, Dorian Zev Kweller. There’s a warmth to it, but that waiting feels like staring right into the sun.
Lucrecia Dalt – ‘divina’
Lucrecia Dalt has followed up January’s ‘cosa rara’ with a new song, ‘divina’, which leads her new album A Danger to Ourselves. “In the past, I often turned to movies and texts as mirrors to shape my stories, guiding me away from revealing too much from within, inventing isolated fictions,” Dalt explained. “This time, I wanted to create music that flows cinematically and sets a landscape to tell a love story that flirts with improbability, the miraculous and the mysterious.” ‘divina’ is a gentle, hypnotic invitation into that world.
Alan Sparhawk and Trumpled by Turtles – ‘Get Still’
Ahead of the release of his new collaborative LP With Trampled By Turtles, Alan Sparhawk has shared a new version of his White Roses, My God track ‘Get Still’, trading fractured electronics for banjo and stand-up bass. It’s just as, if not more, resonant.
Mavi – ‘Landgrab’ feat. Earl Sweatshirt
Mavi has teamed up with Earl Sweatshirt for his first single of 2025, the arresting ‘Landgrab’. The Hollywood Cole-produced track arrives with a music video directed by Alex Free. “It makes sense that Thebe [Kgositsile aka Earl Sweatshirt] is the first rap feature, as I’m forming into a new shape of Mavi, doing a bunch of stuff for the first time,” Mavi told Pitchfork. “Earl was the first person to bring me out in a collaborative way, so it feels like, as I’m entering this new paradigm, I want him to accompany me through that door as he did before.” He added: “My first few projects served as something like the preface to my story of me entering young adulthood and this industry, learning my powers in terms of rap, art, and business. Now, I’m manipulating the forces in a different way, having a lot more fun, with a lot more collaboration coming soon.”
Sea Lemon – ‘Cynical’
Ahead of the release of her debut album Diving for a Prize this Friday, Sea Lemon has shared one more single, the jangly, driving ‘Cynical’. “A lot of this record feels like a step in a new but related sonic direction for me,” Natalie Lew explained. “‘Cynical’ is the song that feels the most connected to some of my former music, like the song Vaporized, and is about the feeling of being all the way in on a relationship while sensing someone is on their way out.”
Foxwarren – ‘Deadhead’
Andy Shauf’s Foxwarren have dropped a new track from their forthcoming album 2. “To all the deadheads, we say ‘don’t stop dancing,'” the band said. The song itself is pretty danceable, but this being Andy Shauf, there’s more than meets the eye.
CIVIC – ‘The Fool’
Ahead of the release of their new LP Chrome Dipped in a few days, CIVIC have served up one more single, ‘The Fool’. The chugging track comes paired with a video directed by Conor Mercury.
Sharpie Smile – ‘The Staircase’
The duo of Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner have shared ‘The Staircase’, the luminous title track off their upcoming record. “‘The Staircase’ is about trying to reconnect with a fractured self,” Sharpie Smile said in a statement. “Losing sight of oneself while maintaining relationships that aren’t working anymore, and the process of rediscovery after the fact.”
Planning for Burial – ‘(blueberry pop)’
Planning for Burial’s new album, It’s Closeness, It’s Easy, arrives on Friday, and today, Thom Wasluck has previewed it with a haunting drone piece titled ‘(blueberry pop)’. “For the last single before the release, I wanted to show the sonic alternate side of the album compared to the last two singles,” Wasluck shared. “‘(blueberry pop)’ was originally made for the purpose of being a set ender, a moment to catch my breath while coming down from the sheer wall of volume for the 25-35 minutes prior. Later, I figured it would also act a closing for the album around the same principles, but as I played with the sequencing in my head that quickly changed to it being bumped up early in the album as part of the first musical suite.”
Boneflower – ‘Pomegranate’ [feat. Touché Amoré’s Jeremy Bolm]
Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm has joined Madrid band Boneflower on their frenetic (yet melodic) new single ‘Pomegranate’, which leads their forthcoming album Reveries. The follow-up to 2018’s Armour lands July 25.
Hot Joy – ‘Quality Control’
Hot Joy, the St. Louis band recently signed to Tiny Engine, have dropped an infectious new track called ‘Quality Control’. It’s part of a double single featuring ‘Leaning’, which will arrive in July, and was recorded with Melina Duterte of Jay Som.
Autocamper – ‘Red Flowers’
Manchester band Autocamper have unveiled a lovely, pensive new track, ‘Red Flowers’, from their debut Slumberland LP, What Do You Do All Day?, arriving July 11. “‘Red Flowers’ is about feeling like an interim character in someone’s life, and how that can leave you feeling cold and like a bit of an idiot,” Jim Quinn explained. “It’s also about contemplating all the different versions of a person’s personality that can exist, depending on which aspects you bring out of each other more prominently. This was one of the songs we asked Tom to play flute on, and it was really cathartic to sit in the studio and listen to him write and record his part over the course of a few hours – very beautifully melancholic.”
Jahnah Camille – ‘summer’s scorch’
Birmingham songwriter Jahnah Camille has released ‘summer’s scorch’, the final offering from her new EP My sunny oath!. “I wrote it about a crush that I never even talked to,” Camille said of the glistening track. “I was just like, ‘Would I be able to keep myself? Can I be trusted with a romantic relationship?’”
