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 28, 2025.
Avery Tucker – ‘Like I’m Young’
Avery Tucker, formerly one half of Girlpool, has today announced his debut solo album, Paw, which he recorded with Alaska Reid. You can hear her hazy, vulnerable style seeping into the new single ‘Like I’m Young’, which explodes in satisfying fashion. It’s “probably one of the most emotionally raw songs I’ve ever written,” Tucker explained. “There are lines in the song I remember writing and thinking ‘I won’t keep this in.’ I decided to take this song to the edge of myself at the time, and whenever I play the song live I walk alongside that cliff within me and feel the height.”
Fat Dog – ‘Pray to That’
Fat Dog are back with a frenzied, pulsing new single called ‘Pray to That’. “Seven shits left to give/ Yeah I’ll pray to that,” Joe Love deadpans. “I’m only 25/ Well it’s the same every night/ She thought I’m 39.” It comes paired with a video directed by frequent collaborator Dylan Coates.
Laura Groves – ‘Yes’
Ahead of the release of her Yes EP this Friday, Laura Groves has served up the softly beguiling title track. “I wanted to capture the feeling of finding joy again after a long period of sadness, entering into the unknown against a backdrop of deep unrest and uncertainty,” she explained. “Drawing on my love of 80s pop radio, drum machines, the sound of FM synthesis and affected piano, Yes is a grittily optimistic pop song.”
Wreck and Reference – ‘Burning’ and ‘The Cup’
California duo Wreck And Reference are back with the announcement of a new called Stay Calm, which its first singles does not encourage me to do. ‘Burning’ and ‘The Cup’ are nervy and harrowing, trading in influences from industrial and electronic music in intriguing ways.
Nuclear Daisies – ‘Toad’
Nuclear Daisies’ latest single is guazy and kinetic, the final preview of their album First Taste of Heaven ahead of its release on Friday (August 1). Alex Gehring’s lyrics “recall a tumultuous time in her life when she felt completely helpless, watching someone she loved suffer,” according to a press release.
The Mary Wallopers – ‘The Juice’
The Mary Wallopers have released ‘The Juice’, the Irish band’s first new single since 2024’s Home Boys Home EP. “This is a song for all the exhausted people, fed up of all the greedy crooks, who still manage to squeeze a bit of juice out of life,” they remarked.
