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, April 30, 2025.
Turnstile – ‘Seein’ Stars’ and ‘Birds’
Turnstile have shared two more songs from their upcoming album Never Enough. ‘Seein’ Stars’ is airy and danceable, a more fully-formed version of what the title track offered us, while ‘Birds’ is more in line with the kind of anthemic hardcore that Turnstile built their name on. The tracks come paired with a double video directed by the band’s own Brendan Yates and Pat McCrory.
Indigo De Souza – ‘Heartthrob’
Indigo De Souza is shoegazing things up with ‘Heartthrob’, the driving lead single from her new album Precipice. “I wrote ‘Heartthrob’ as a way to help process something that is often hard to talk about—the harmful ways I’ve been taken advantage of in my physical memory,” De Souza explained. “‘Heartthrob’ is about harnessing anger, and turning it into something powerful and embodied. It’s about taking back my body and my experience. It’s a big fuck you to the abusers of the world. A sarcastic, angry cry for all bodies that have ever been touched in harmful ways.”
Debby Friday – ‘All I Wanna Do Is Party’
Debby Friday has announced her next album, The Starrr of the Queen of Life, and shared ‘All I Wanna Do Is Party’, which makes for a bold, hedonistic introduction. “The video is really about discipline and craft,” she shared. “It’s about the transformations that happen when you devote yourself to a process over time. The starrr is a metaphor for all these thoughts I have around fame, success, failure, love, power, god, death, life, everything. My starrr is in me, and your starrr is in you, and it’s just a matter of surrendering to it.”
Kacey Musgraves – ‘Lost Highway’ (Hank Williams Cover)
Kacey Musgraves has signed to the newly relaunched Nashville-based label Lost Highway, marking the announcement with a pretty straightforward cover of Hank Williams’ ‘Lost Highway’. “Lost Highway was always a musical stable for artists who might be considered outliers or outlaws; those who live on the fringe,” Musgraves explained. “In 2011, when other record labels questioned my songwriting and my more traditional country sound, Lost Highway believed in me, signing me to my first label deal and helped me take my music around the world. That journey has now come full circle in such a special way with John Janick and Interscope and I’m deeply honored to be able to once again call Lost Highway my musical home.”
Hotline TNT – ‘Candle’
Hotline TNT are gearing up for the release of their new album Raspberry Moon, and today they’ve shared the fuzzy, infatuated ‘Candle’. “This song was the first thing we wrote for Raspberry Moon – it flowed out of our guitars quite effortlessly and it barely required even 1% of our power to put the parts in the correct order,” Will Anderson commented. “Just to make sure it was as good as we thought it was, we brought the song over to Japan, and this video documents the reaction from that experiment. ‘Candle’ is LIT.”
Sufjan Stevens – ‘With Dignity (Demo)’
Following ‘Mystery of Love (Demo)’, Sufjan Stevens has shared another demo that will appear on the deluxe reissue of his 2015 album Carrie & Lowell. The previously unheard version of ‘Death With Dignity’ is as lovely as you’d expect.
MIKE and Tony Seltzer – ‘WYC4’
MIKE and Tony Seltzer have previewed their forthcoming collaborative record, Pinball II, with a hypnotic new song called ‘WYC4’. It comes paired with a music video directed by Ian Lopez.
Blondshell – ‘Event of a Fire’
Ahead of the release of her new album If You Asked for a Picture on Friday, Blondshell has shared a new track, ‘Event of a Fire’, which is the most vulnerable single off the LP. The track was inspired by a 4am hotel fire evacuation outside Boston while Blondshell was on tour. “It’s not really ‘what if I’m burnt out from touring,’” Sabrina Teitelbaum explained. “It’s like, ‘what if I’m burnt out from just existing?”
Barbra Streisand – ‘The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face’ [feat. Hozier]
Barbra Streisand has enlisted Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, Sting, and more for a new duets album, The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two. Today, she’s shared rendition of ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ featuring Hozier, who commented: “Barbra Streisand is one of the most enduring and iconic vocalists of our time, and somebody who defined an era with the sheer force of her voice, her talent, charisma and vision. To be asked to join her on a duet was a huge honour and came as a wonderful and welcome surprise. Ewan MacColl’s ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’, made famous by the stunning Roberta Flack recording, has always mystified me. It is, to me, one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. Like so many, I was deeply saddened to hear of her recent passing. Along with the honour I have to sing on this record with Barbra, I hope this duet offers something of a gesture to Roberta Flack’s incredible legacy.”
Mal Blum – ‘I’m So Bored’
Mal Blum has announced a new album, The Villain. It’s out July 11, and the lead single I’m So Bored’, which explores the dissolution of a relationship, is out today. Its biggest dig? “You don’t have friends/ You have meetings.” In a statement, Blum shared: “On one hand, ‘I’m So Bored’ is about a very specific moment of disillusionment in a power-imbalanced relationship, when you realize someone’s bad behavior is actually so predictable that it’s almost trite. The other layer is clearly about myself — mired in familiar patterns, tired of my own bullshit, making cyclical mistakes.”
Miya Folick – ‘Laid’ (James Cover)
In a Reddit thread, people theorized that everyone from Chappell Roan to Waxahatchee is singing the cover of James’ classic ‘Laid’ that serves as the theme song for Peacock’s acclaimed new series of the same name. It’s actually Miya Folick, and her rendition is officially out today.
TOPS – ‘ICU2’
TOPS have signed to Ghostly International, marking the announcement with a dynamic, flirty new single, ‘ICU2’, which they debuted at Coachella. The song arrives with a lo-fi music video directed by Frankie Ray.
Benny the Butcher – ‘Duffel Bag Hottie’s Revenge’ [feat. Boldy James]
Benny the Butcher has announced a new seven-song project, Excelsior, which is out Friday and features Styles P, Skyler Blatt, P.R.E.M.O., Sule, and Fuego Base. Boldy James appears on the lead single ‘Duffel Bag Hottie’s Revenge’, which coasts on a hypnotic horn loop from producer Nunchuk.
Kae Tempest – ‘Know Yourself’
Kae Tempest has announced his fifth studio album, Self Titled, with ‘Know Yourself’, a striking conversation with his younger self. “I love this song,” the rapper said. “It samples a lyric I wrote years ago, where my younger self is talking to their younger self. A dialogue between selves across time, in real time. Or maybe I could put that simpler – When I was young I sought help from my older self. I came into my head, I told me know yourself.”
Béton Armé – ‘Chemin De Croix’
Montreal oi band Béton Armé have dropped a strutting, anthemic new single, ‘Chemin De Croix’. It leads their forthcoming record Renaissance, which arrives on June 13.
Sally Shapiro – ‘Did You Call Tonight’
The theme of ‘Did You Call Tonight’, the latest single from Sally Shapiro’s new album Ready to Live a Lie, is microcheating. “Musically it’s inspired by 80s electro breakbeat, a bit slower and funkier than our usual style,” the duo noted. It makes you focus a bit more on the story, and it’s quite evocative.
Kassie Krut – Hooh Beat (Panda Bear Remix)
Kassie Krut have announced an expanded edition of their self-titled debut EP. Ahead of its June 6 release, they’ve shared Panda Bear’s take on ‘Hoot Beat’; the band is going on tour with the Animal Collective member, along with Toro y Moi, in May.
Avalon Emerson – ‘On It Goes’
Avalon Emerson has shared ‘On It Goes’, an exhilarating new track built on a Storm Queen sample. It’s the latest offering from the DJ and producer’s new project Perpetual Emotion Machine.
