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, October 1, 2025.
Jane Inc. – ‘what if’
Jane Inc., the moniker of Toronto musician Carlyn Bezic, has shared ‘what if’, which thrusts and pulses with existential questions over eight minutes. “The song imagines a car crash as the moment I split in two,” Bezic explained. “Carlyn walks away to continue a life in which the accident never happened, leaving Jane (pure, unadulterated, in her final form) to be born, hungry for life.” It’s the latest single from A Rupture A Canyon A Birth, following ‘Elastic’ and ‘freefall’.
The Last Dinner Party – ‘Second Best’
Drawing inspiration from the Sparks’ angular pop style, The Last Dinner Party guitarist Emily Roberts wrote explores the tension between obsession and betrayal on ‘Second Best’. “I wish I could go back and say to myself that I am worth more than that, and that no one needs to accept being second best,” Roberts commented on the From The Pyre single. “I hope that the song captures the pain, anger and despair I felt but most importantly the defiance and satisfaction I now have in being able to immortalise this person in a song and to look back on the situation with more maturity.”
Alan Sparkhawk – ‘No More Darkness’ & Benjamin Booker – ‘A Place for Us’
Alan Sparhawk and Benjamin Booker have shared hauntingly raw yet hopeful tracks for Passages: Artists In Solidarity With Immigrants Refugees, and Asylum Seekers, a new compilation by Western Vinyl. About his contribution, Sparhawk said: “Here is a song that came from the struggle to know what to say to someone who is having a hard time. There are real things that we can do to lift each other out of suffering — sometimes it is tangible charity, like this compilation to raise funds and awareness for the plight of immigrants and those who have been displaced. Sometimes it is words of encouragement. It can also just be time spent with someone who needs help getting through the moment. Let’s do our best to turn up the light.” Booker added, “The human struggle is a family struggle. We rise together and we suffer together. There are so many things out of our control, but we can always open our hearts to love and understanding. May you find light in the darkness.”
Agriculture – ‘My Garden’
Agriculture have unleashed ‘My Garden’, the relentless opener from their imminent new LP The Spiritual Sound. Flitting between sludgy riffs and a sweet melody, it sits on the opposite end of the tender previous single ‘Dan’s Love Song’.
Rosie Carney – ‘Here’
Rosie Carney is back with a heavenly, expansive single called ‘Here’, her first new music in three years. Accompanied by a Cal McIntyre-directed video, the track was co-produced by Ross MacDonald of The 1975 and Ed Thomas. “Since recording my first album, Bare I’ve always known that someday I wanted to build a much more expansive musical world,” Carney expounded. “It wasn’t a matter of if, it was a matter of when and how? Since signing to Polydor when I was sixteen I’ve probably done hundreds of sessions with some really wonderful musicians. But for the longest time I shied away from truly embracing collaboration, as I feared it would mean surrendering my identify. It wasn’t until I got into the studio with Ed and Ross and we finished “Here” that I felt comfortable with the idea of there being a team of collaborators who would amplify my voice and vision while staying true to own intimacy and I am so grateful for their help in forging this new world to come.”
McDonald added: “Rosie was the first artist who let me express myself fully as a producer outside of my band, so I am immensely proud of what she, Ed and I have created together. Also, to be tasked with changing her musical expression and exploring new parts of her talents and tastes has been a real privilege. I learned a lot from working with her and I’m incredibly excited for ‘Here’, and everything else in this project, to be heard.”
Witch Post – ‘Changeling’
Witch Post, the duo of Dylan Fraser and Alaska Reid, is the latest act to sign to Partisan Records, marking the news with ‘Changeling’, a track that showcases their vocal chemistry. The pair offered this statement introducing the song:
We met a changeling that inspired this song. We didn’t realise it ’till a year later…
Once knew a changeling Julie was her name
Foxglove & roses painted tears on her face
I knew she was restless, I knew she had pain
Then she tried to consume me we were never the same
Skullcrusher – ‘Living’
“Am I living/ In the details of a drawing/ In the traces/ In the fading of the morning,” Skullcrusher ponders on the latest single from And Your Song is Like a Circle. “One day, I was wandering around Brooklyn, and I felt like I was watching everything through a window or on a screen,” Helen Ballentine recalled. “I felt like everyone was moving so fluidly and certainly like moving through a piece of choreography. ‘Living’ is about being a voyeur, catching a glimpse of brief moments of people’s lives. Like watching a play through a small peep hole, or through the slit of a curtain. I wonder if I am the same. If my life feels a part of this production or if it exists in a small detail somewhere off stage.”
Lianne La Havas – ‘Disarray’
Lianne La Havas is back with an intimately stunning new song called ‘Disarray’.“The song felt very intimate, almost like a secret just for me,” La Havas said in a statement. “It’s about vulnerability, honesty, and giving listeners a window into a moment of my life.”
HighSchool – ‘Sony Ericsson’
HighSchool have dropped a hazy, jittery new track, ‘Sony Ericsson’, from their self-titled debut LP. According to the band, it’s “about the strange dynamics of modern connection, the games people play over text, and how a single message can spiral into endless over-analysis.”
Clara Mann – ‘500 Miles’ and ‘My Life’
Clara Mann has shared two instantly hummable tunes that will appear on Rift (Extended Edition), the newly announced expanded version of her debut LP. The former reimagines the traditional song based on Hedy West’s version, while the latter is a rendition of the Iris DeMent ballad; both feature fiddle player Owen Spafford. “It is rare, in my line of songwriting, that you get to have fun on stage,” Mann said of ‘500 Miles’. “I often feel excited, or energised, or lifted by the music- as often as I feel heavy or moved- but when I first played this folk tune through with my friend Owen Spafford, we did, in fact, have fun. I love the part that Owen wrote, the fiddle like a train, on this version of the American tune (which I first came across as sung by Hedy West), and the way we shaped the song together around my vocal and guitar part. I feel, always, lucky to play with Owen: the friendship and music that we share are forces of light in my life. I have always felt careful around folk music – I do not have roots in any particular community around trad, did not grow up around session culture. There are spaces in which I do not want to take up space that should be occupied by other, more experienced, more authentic musicians. It’s light and wistful and I like it because it’s a moment in the live set in which I don’t have to excavate my own big heavy feelings, or go digging – it’s just singing for singing’s sake, singing to be together, singing for joy.”
“My mum and I had an Iris Dement CD in the car when I was little, and this was the final track on it. I have always loved it,” Mann added. “The first time I performed it live, a friend came up to me and said ‘It breaks my heart, hearing you sing those words’- I know what she meant, I guess this song is really about looking back on life rather than being, as I am, still quite near the beginning of it. Up until that moment, though, I hadn’t thought of it as sad. I think I associate it with the ‘mother and daughter’ moments of my life, like being in the car together, or her sitting on the end of my bed when I’m back home and we’re chatting, catching up – in a sense, the song sits between me and my ma’s chapters in life, between our ages. She could sing it, and so can I, and we both understand it from different angles.”
Show Me the Body – ‘Sabotage’ (Beastie Boys Cover)
Show Me the Body have offered up a studio version of their ‘Sabotage’ cover. They recorded it with Kenneth Blume, the producer formerly known as Kenny Beats, and it comes with a video from directors Jake Hanrahan and Jonny Pickup that features archival footage from the independent news organization Popular Front. “I support and consume independent journalism in general, but full disclosure, I am a straight up a fan of Popular Front,” the band’s Julian Cashwan Pratt shared. “Their crew does hard work to tell true stories, or as they put it, ‘honest reporting’. To work together on ‘Sabotage’ is a self-fulfilling prophecy. New York band with a New York song reaching out to the world at war with a message of love and solidarity.”
wavepool – ‘blue moon’
wavepool have shared a dazed, dreamy new song called ‘blue moon’, which is “about those moments when nothing really makes sense, and that’s perfectly fine,” according to the Rouen-based shoegazers. “Absurd and a little lost in an offbeat everyday life, the song invites you to let go and fully live in the moment without trying to figure everything out. It embodies the subtle art of not caring, with a touch of elegance.”
