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 Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
Ouri – ‘Daisy Cutter’
Montreal producer and multi-instrumentalist Ouri has announced a new album, Daisy Cutter, which is out October 24, and shared the mesmerizing title track. “All these trusting miles in the dark led me to these 13 songs,” Ouri explained in a press release. “Daisy Cutter is music but it’s also the leader of a militia, a part of me. Like a rotor, I started a practice that brought all this album to life and it’s gonna keep spinning even when I let go of the wheel.”
C.Y.M. – ‘Life of Mine’ [feat. Day Wave]
Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio and British producer Fort Romeau (aka Mike Greene) have announced their debut LP as C.Y.M., sharing the driving, hypnotic Day Wave collab ‘Life of Mine’ along with the news. The track comes paired with a video by Tom Mull.
Kali Malone and Drew McDowall – ‘The Sound in My Mind’
Kali Malone and Drew McDowall have announced a collaborative album titled Magnetism, which arrives November 7. “Playing this music felt like singing, as I freely followed my internal voice,” Malone commented. “I had been holding a lot of those melodies inside of me for so long.” McDowall added: “The music is surprisingly accessible even though some of the timbres are extreme; it’s not foreboding or even opaque. We might even be dabbling with pop sentiments.” I wouldn’t call the first single ‘The Sound in My Mind’ pop, necessarily, but I do hear the internal voice Malone mentions taking the music to some interesting places.
Whitney – ‘Back to the Wind’
Whitney have previewed their upcoming record, Small Talk, with a breezy tune called ‘Back to the Wind’. “I think what’s stuck with me most about ‘Back to the Wind’ is the way the imagery ended up unfolding across the instrumental,” the band’s Julien Ehrlich shared. “In the past, we’ve always insisted that each word on a lyric sheet so deliberately leads you back to the sentiment of the hook that it almost leaves no room for imagination. With ‘BTTW,’ it felt more compelling to steer the second half into a series of images that might mean something different to each person that hears it. And, since this was the first song we wrote for the record, I think it informed the way we pushed ourselves to explore and dig deeper lyrically overall. Also, [Max Kakacek’s] guitar solo goes crazy.”
Skullcrusher – ‘Dragon’
Skullcrusher has followed up ‘Exhale’, which we named one of the best songs of August, with the second single from her forthcoming And Your Song is Like a Circle. Helen Ballentine wrote the hazy, absorbing song “while thinking about dissociation and how it can feel to be brought back to the ground from this state,” she explained. “Like in Spirited Away when Chihiro begins to disappear in the spirit world she touches Haku’s hand, which pulls her back but then she can’t move her legs. It is a heavy thing to feel the weight of living and pull yourself back to earth. I was interested in the idea of this being a heavy burden but also a necessary aspect of living. It is hopeful but scary as well. Similar to the way armor is a protection but also a burden, either physically or mentally. It’s difficult to protect yourself.”
Sudan Archives – ‘COME AND FIND YOU’
As she gears up for the release of her new album THE BPM, Sudan Archives has dropped a new single, the snaky, confident ‘COME AND FIND YOU’. The track was built around a loop created by one of Sudan Archives’ stylists, Umesi, which she turned into a beat in real time.
Militarie Gun – ‘Throw Me Away’
Militarie Gun have shared ‘Throw Me Away’, the second single from their forthcoming album God Save the Gun, following ‘B A D I D E A’. Like that song, it’s both infectious and heartfelt. “‘Throw Me Away’ is about the feeling of only being valued when you’re visible or useful and the desperate need to hold onto that,” frontman Ian Shelton explained. “What someone loves about you one day might be cited as a reason they hate you now. It’s the desire for external validation and also the deep resentment of it.”
Matt Berninger – ‘Blue Monday’ (New Order Cover)
The National’s Matt Berninger, backed by his Get Sunk band, has shared a cover of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ as an Amazon exclusive.
Melody’s Echo Chamber & El Michels Affair – ‘Daisy’
Are you starting to miss that Clairo Charm energy? Well, Melody’s Echo Chamber, the moniker of French musician Melody Prochet, has come through with her own collaboration with El Michels Affair, aka Leon Michels. “‘Daisy’ started as a daydream while listening to Leon’s finest music,” Prochet recalled. “I reached out to him, and we instantly created this sweet overlapping zone—like an invisible playground between our worlds. It’s a privilege to have made this one together!”
Dove Ellis – ‘To the Sandals’
Dove Ellis, who is opening for Geese in North America this fall, has unveiled a new single. The stirring ‘To the Sandals is made up of “reflections on a failing shotgun marriage in Cancún,” according to the Irish singer-songwriter.
Margaret Glaspy and James Bay – ‘These Days’ (Jackson Browne/Nico Cover)
Margaret Glaspy’s covers EP The Golden Heart Protector is out this Friday, and she’s teamed up with James Bay for its latest single, a cover of Nico’s Jackson Browne-penned ‘These Days’. “Margaret and I met back in 2016, I reached out as a huge fan of her record Emotions and Math,” Bay recalled. “We were playing the same festival and though we were on different stages at the same time, she sent a signed copy of her record to my dressing room. We’ve been friends ever since! In 2024 Margaret was in London playing some solo shows; she asked if she knew anyone who might be able to open up the show. I asked if I could and she said yes! We decided it would be fun to do a cover song together and we found These Days on a playlist of hers and thought it could make for a cool duet so we worked out a version that afternoon and that evening we played it live. We loved duetting and agreed it would be fun to capture it in the studio some time. At the end of 2024 we happened to be in LA at the same time and Margaret was working with Ryan Lerman in the studio. Margaret and I realised this was our chance to record These Days, she invited me over and we captured it in just a couple hours! The rest is history! I’m so grateful to Margaret for her friendship and inspiration, I’m such a huge fan of her work.”
Joy Orbison – ‘play it again’
UK electronic musician Joy Orbison has dropped a new single called ‘play it again’. “‘play it again’ started in London, but it really began to take shape while I was out in San Francisco,” he explained. “That trip ended up being quite a memorable one. I got pulled in to Portola to fill in for another artist and I ended up playing to a lot more people than I expected. My music’s far from Stockhausen but it still surprises me when I get to play to so many people in big spaces like that. I spent the rest of the trip chipping away on ‘play it again’, I recorded some synths at Empire Studios in San Fran, and I think the drums came together on the flight home, elbow deep in those mini bottles of wine and newly procured sleeping aids.” He added, “This track is going to be part of something bigger but I got impatient waiting for that to come together (my fault). I just really wanted to have this one out there. This is where my heads at right now and there’s a lot more to come.”
dust – ‘Alastair’
Australia’s dust have shared a gorgeous new single, ‘Alastair’. The band’s Gabriel Stove and Justin Teale explained: “‘Alastair’ is a song about meeting someone down on their luck and feeling conflictingly empathetic for them. It is navigating the challenges of growing up without getting bitter. It’s a short story from when we went on a writing trip in Mullumbimby. We met a man named Alastair at the Mullumbimby Motel and within 5 minutes of meeting him he recounted his whole recent years of life, how he couldn’t get ahead.”
Wisp – Yellow (Coldplay Cover)
Wisp transfers Coldplay’s ‘Yellow’ into a modern shoegaze context with her new cover, which reminds me of IAN SWEET’s rendition. “‘Yellow’ to me is a childhood memory that I wanted to rendition into my present life,” Natalie R. Lu explained. “A song that I never understood the depth of, to now relating to the lyrics and singing them with the emotion of my romantic journeys this past year.”
The Telephone Numbers – ‘Battle of Blythe Road’
San Fransisco band The Telephone Numbers have shared a new single, ‘Battle of Blythe Road’, from their upcoming LP Scarecrow II. “A lot of this record was written about my journey in music, and while I was coming up with the lyrics for ‘Battle of Blythe Road’, I came across the story of the magickal battle between William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley,” the group’s Thomas Rubenstein explained. “This incredible anecdote felt like a parable for my tussles with ego – personal and otherwise – in the music world. I had a lot of fun coming up with the mandolin sections and was blown away by K. Dylan Edrich’s off-the-cuff fiddle solo before the outro. Always a blast working with her.”
villagerrr – ‘Portsmouth Raceway’
villagerrr has shared a new unreleased track from the band’s 2024 LP Tear Your Heart Out, which will be reissued by Winspear on October 10. “This song is about Portsmouth, Ohio. I lived there for five years in my early 20’s going to school and running and making guitar loops and some of my first recordings,” Columbus, Ohio’s Mark Allen Scott explained. “It’s about an hour south of Chillicothe, down state route 23, where I grew up. There’s a huge floodwall with murals painted on it that give a history of the city. I’d run by it almost every day. River Days is a street fair that happens there every summer that’s mentioned in the song. Smash Mouth played there for free, and Blue Oyster Cult.”
