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 Monday, July 21, 2025.
Madi Diaz – ‘Feel Something’
“Fatal Optimism is the innate hope for something magical,” Madi Diaz said of her just-announced album. “It’s the weird faith that kicks in while knowing that there is just plain risk that comes with wanting someone or something. It’s when you have no control over the outcome, but still choose to experience every moment that happens, and put your whole heart in it.” On the striking lead single ‘Feel Something’, that something is longing for the kind of connection that stirs something in you, even when it makes no logical sense.
Why Bonnie – ‘Fast – Demo’
Ahead of the release of their The Bedroom EP on Friday, Why Bonnie have shared a lovely new song called ‘Fast – Demo’. It’s the only new composition on the EP, and it bears the intimacy of a phone call with a friend when you’re lying desperate in bed. “I wrote this song over 5 years ago when I moved to New York,” Blair Howerton explained. At that time, I was equal parts excited and terrified by my new life and was grappling with the rapid change. I’ve always loved this song and recording, but never found a place for it on an album. I’m glad it’s finally found a home on this EP with other recordings also made at home in my lonesome.”
Titanic – ‘La dueña’
I wouldn’t necessarily expect a power ballad from Titanic, the duo of composers Héctor Tosta and Mabe Fratti, whose work is usually more stylistically deconstructive. But ‘La dueña’ is nothing short of moving in its gracefulness. “I remember that we were in Austria waiting backstage to do a show as an opener for Ben Howard,” Tosa recalled. “I was playing the guitar just to warm up for the show but noodling around and fell in love with a very simple progression of chords. A progression that I have played a million times and that you can find it in a million songs. I don’t know why but in that particular time I fell in love with it. Then, when we were on the plane going back to México, I started to write in my notebook a lot of options of a heartbroken elegant and classic old lady that felt betrayed by love. In that year I was going very often to a karaoke bar in Mexico called el Timon de Cortez and I just realised how good it feels to sing a ballad with all your heart.”
Jehnny Beth – ‘No Good for People’
Jehnny Beth has shared ‘No Good For People’, a thumping new single from her second LP, You Heartbreaker, You. “The idea of the song came as I re-watched the first season of True Detective,” Beth said of the track. “There’s a scene at the end where the character played by Matthew McConaughey says that he can be hard to live with: ‘I don’t mean to, but I can be…critical. Sometimes I think I’m just not good for people…I wear them down.’ It spoke to me because it questions the inability to coexist with others and the delicate balance where the truth can be heartbreaking.”
For Those I Love – ‘Mirror’
For Those I Love has shared the third single from his forthcoming LP Carving the Stone, ‘Mirror’. Offering context into the song, a press release explains that “Dublin is ‘in bed with techno-feudalism,’ a theory which argues that we have undergone a transition to a post-capitalist world in which we are all digital serfs, enslaved by our new feudal overlords in Silicon Valley.”
Tchotchke – ‘Now I Love You’
The NYC “diva rock” trio Tchotchke have shared a new single from their upcoming record Playin’ Dumb. It’s more laid-back than previous cuts ‘Poor Girl’ and ‘Did You Hear?’, all about how the rush of new love can bubble into uncertainty. “This song was started in 2019 but quietly took a backseat until 2023,” Kaila Chambers explained. “Eva and I revisited it and made a super minimal demo that we loved so much, we decided to keep it exactly as it was. It’s our short and sweet insecure love song.”
Josh Halper – ‘Schlimazel’
Josh Halper – the guitarist and songwriter who has worked with the likes of Tommy Prine, Lily Hiatt, and MJ Lenderman – has unveiled a mellifluous track, ‘Schlimazel’, from his latest album Schlemiel. You can hear the range of the musician’s influences, from bluegrass and jazz to American Primitive-style fingerpicking and heartland rock.
Domina – ‘Apathy’
Domina have shared their debut single, the mesmerizing ‘Apathy’. It’s “reminiscent of a disjointed, not yet flowing state – rooted in Broadcast style atmospherics,” the band explained. “Its dream-like lyrics feel like conversation, almost calling after each other. ‘Big shoulders block the view’ seems like a distant memory, still blurred. The minimalist restraint on instrumentation leaves space for the electronics to float above the angular beat that repeats in an uneven cycle. The polyphony between the synthesiser and guitar blur into unity as they pulsate in the background.”
Lydia Loveless – ‘There Is a Beach On Walnut Street’
Lydia Loveless has shared a new single, ‘There Is a Beach On Walnut Street’, as part of her Secret Sessions series. Her piercing emotion is palpable when she sings “Every time you go away you take a piece of me.” The Ohio-based singer-songwriter explained, “This one is truly a standalone song and I am really proud of it. I wrote it in a state of heightened anxiety instead of participating in other dumb, unhealthy activities. That should be fairly obvious behavior for a songwriter, but I’m a slow learner.”
