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 15, 2025.
caroline – ‘Tell me I never knew that’ [feat. Caroline Polachek]
caroline are launching their sophomore album in the most striking fashion: by enlisting Caroline Polachek – a single entity rather than an eight-piece band – for a new single called ‘Tell me I never knew that’. It’s a beautifully nuanced song that makes perfect use of Polachek’s voice. “We used to call this one ‘Backstreet boys’ because the opening top line felt like a Backstreet Boys song,” the band explained. “The main riff was written by Casper on acoustic guitar and stuck out as a really catchy, bouncy, hypnotic thing. We wrote the opening top line together and straight away we thought ‘This sounds like a melody that Caroline Polachek might sing’ in its hooky-ness. We sort of joked that we’d ask her to sing it but didn’t think it’d actually be on the cards, until about a year later when we sent her the half-finished song and she was up for it!”
They added: “Caroline was amazing. She wrote a load of extra parts that gave the whole thing such a lift, and then spent a few hours tracking a load of more improvised parts. We were still recording at about 1:30 a.m. when we decided to call it, but there was no indication that Caroline was the slightest bit tired or that she had lost any momentum in her ability to sing, even though she’d been singing for about 6 hours. It was an inspiring thing to witness! We did a little bit more re-ordering together with Caroline a few weeks after the session and then the song was finally there.”
Greet Death – ‘Country Girl’
Greet Death have announced their next album, Die in Love, with ‘Country Girl’, a song as musically haunting as it is lyrically complex. According to the band’s Harper Boyhtari, it’s about “identity, alienation, and detachment. It’s like trying to solve a murder mystery and finding out you were the killer the whole time.”
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – ‘Deadstick’
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard recently announced their 27th album, Phantom Island, sharing the title track, and now they’re back with the flashy, fun ‘Deadstick’. “‘Deadstick’ refers to when a plane propeller stops midflight so I decided to have a massive plane made out of cardboard crash land into a beautiful location,” Guy Tyzack, who directed the song’s accompanying video, explained. “The song is big and chaotic so then I went about casting swing dancers and eccentric extras to fill the landscape.”
Tunde Adebimpe – ‘Somebody New’
Ahead of the release of his debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, on Friday, TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe has offered one more preview with the glistening, upbeat new track ‘Somebody New’. “I’m positive I fell asleep on a couch with the TV on sometime in 1982 and fever dreamt this exact thing,” Adebimpe remarked.
Julien Baker and TORRES – ‘Bottom of a Bottle’
Julien Baker and TORRES have dropped yet another single from their collaborative LP, Send a Prayer My Way, which arrives this Friday. Debuted during their performance at The Daily Show, it features fiddles, parlor piano, steel guitars, and TORRES taking on lead vocals.
Adrianne Lenker – ‘happiness (live)’
Adrianne Lenker has announced a new live album that spans 43 songs and features five unreleased songs, including the just-unveiled ‘happiness (live)’, which is quietly stunning and evocative. “The clover/ Fluorescent snow/ The gasoline/ Coffee/ Look at you, big enough,” Lenker sings. “For happiness.”
Asher White – ‘Kratom Headache Girls Night’
Asher White has signed to Joyful Noise, marking the announcement with an amazingly titled new song, ‘Kratom Headache Girls Night’. It’s equal parts inviting and idiosyncratic. “This is a relatively straightforward song about Hanging with the Homies, which I find to be a classic and timeless premise for many good songs,” White explained, adding: “Recently there’s a dark cloud of end times that hangs out with us, of course, and there’s a new psychic puzzle of trying to have fun despite this. This song toys a little with the membrane between losing-yourself-in-rapturous-experience-of-friend-love and panic-about-the-immediate-future-on-an-urgent-material-level; sometimes a feeling of doom can even facilitate a moment of heightened presentness. So there’s some real Perks of Being a Wallflower–style images that result from me discovering I have the group of friends and lovers I’d wanted my entire childhood.”
Patrick Wolf – ‘Hymn of the Haar’
Patrick Wolf has released ‘Hymn Of The Haar’, the latest offering from his new album Crying the Neck. “I wrote ‘Hymn of the Haar’ over three years of writing walks and researching the history and psychogeography of the White Cliffs of Dover near where I live and work in East Kent,” he explained. “Studying from the romantic mythologising aspect of Alice Duer Miller’s famous work and the cliffs famous wartime anthem to observing Dover relentlessly exploited as the centre of ‘crisis’ after ‘crisis’ within the British media. I felt the need to write this, my own private relationship with of this beautiful and bewildering stretch of land, bringing me so much solace over the years, its antidote. Ultimately it became a song that accepts, as I have at my age, that we can only learn how to live alongside our miseries in order to be temporarily free of them, arriving and departing, temporarily obscuring our path and vision in the hymn of the passing mist of cloud, the sea fret, the haar. It was with this song I began to make out a relationship between Crying the Neck and my second album Wind in the Wires, where at 21 I was fighting to be free by being free of my sorrows but 20 years later I finally achieved that freedom in the acceptance of living alongside them.”
Billy Nomates – ‘Plans’
Plans, Billy Nomates’ new single from her forthcoming album Metalhorse, is infatuated and invigorating. It’s like “getting on the Waltzers at the end of the world,” Tor Maries remarked.
Deradoorian – ‘No No Yes Yes’
Deradoorian has previewed her new album Ready for Heaven with a new single, the funky, thumping ‘No No Yes Yes’. It comes paired with a music video directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford.
Adult Mom – ‘Benadryl’
Adult Mom has released ‘Benadryl’, a crushing song that recounts Stevie Knipe’s experience with chemotherapy. In Knipe’s own words: “‘Benadryl’ is a song about going through chemotherapy when I first got diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021. I wanted the writing and production to reflect the distinct isolation that comes from cancer treatment and illness, and how little by little, things start to feel a little bit brighter, and then dark again.”
Yoshika Colwell – ‘There’s Got to Be a Loser Babe’
English singer-songwriter Yoshika Colwell has announced her debut album, On the Wing, which comes out July 25 via Blue Flowers. Its new single, ‘There’s Got to Be a Loser Babe’, is pensive yet hopeful. “This album is a bit of a shrine I suppose to all of the pivotal experiences that shaped me during my twenties and it’s also, I feel, a tentative lean towards hopefulness for the future,” Colwell explained. “It is, at its core, an album about acceptance and release, and freedom from old binds. It was an extremely emotional and cathartic record to make. It was a challenge to put all of the things I was scared to say into these songs, to finally let them out of my head without shying away from the ugly or unpalatable emotions, but it felt like the only thing to do. The process felt quite ritualistic, akin to writing down the things you know you need to let go of on a piece of paper and burning it.”
Balance and Composure – ‘Alive & Well’
Balance and Composure are back with another anthemic tune, ‘Alive & Well’. “This was the first song we worked on together when we decided to become a band again,” vocalist/guitarist Jon Simmons explained. “It was an idea that [guitarist] Erik [Petersen] had sent us in early talks of maybe reuniting and I sang over it almost immediately which began the entire process of writing a record.”
Sex Mask – ‘Circe’
Melbourne post-punk outift Sex Mask have delivered a buzzing, kinetic new single called ‘Circe’, which accompanies the re-release of previous cut ‘How To Be Cool at Parties’. “Taking from Homer’s classic Odyssey, the use of ‘Circe’ (The evil sorceress that turns men into animals”) is an illustration of my own projections at the end of a bad relationship,”, frontman Wry Gray explained. “The way we demonise and mythologise others to satisfy our own peace or fulfilment in the moment, in this instance I felt best analogised by myself as “man made beast”, bright red with embarrassment.”
Artificial Go – ‘Circles’
Cincinnati indie-pop trio Artificial Go have a new album on the way, Musical Chairs, arriving May 16. The lead single ‘Circles’ is playful and infectious, with Angie Willcutt repeating lines like “shaking in my boots like a chihuahua.”
Orla Gartland – ‘Now What?’
Orla Gartland has shared a new track, ‘Now What?’, that will appear on an upcoming expanded edition of her second album Everybody Needs a Hero. “Maybe I will cook for you and your new wife/ And think about the time where I was hanging on for life,” Gartland sings on the track, of which she said: “My second album Everybody Needs A Hero came out in October 2024 and I started this year with a strong feeling that I had more to say. Last year I experienced some big life changes; I felt more unravelled & pensive than any other time in my adult life. ‘Now What?’ explores the vast unknown we face after a breakup and how our feelings morph and change over time.”
M(h)aol – ‘I Miss My Dog’
M(h)aol’s new song is as scorching as it is marked by grief, and its accompanying video features crowd-sourced clips of fans’ pets. (It makes for a fun pairing with Propagandhi’s new single ‘Cat Guy’, which came out yesterday). “’I Miss My Dog’ is a song about my dog Poppy, and the experience of losing a pet,” the band’s Constance Keane said in a press release. “She passed away in July last year, and I still sometimes wake up thinking she’s with us. I think losing a dog is something that people either understand or they don’t, and this is a song for those of us that do.” M(h)aol’s upcoming LP, Something Soft, arrives May 16.
