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, October 15, 2025.
Sugar – ‘House of Dead Memories’
Sugar are back with their first new music in three decades. ‘House of Dead Memories’ is catchy and sneakily poignant, and it arrives alongside a video built from archival band footage, which is fitting given its subject matter.
Lala Lala – ‘Does This Go Faster?’
Lala Lala has returned with the news that she’s signed to Sub Pop, making the jump from its subsidiary Hardly Art. She’s also shared the evocative and beautifully layered new single ‘Does This Go Faster?’, which features Melina Duterte on bass, synthesizers, and guitar; Abby Black on drums; and Sen Morimoto on saxophone.
Courtney Barnett – ‘Stay In Your Lane’
Courtney Barnett is back with a new single, ‘Stay In Your Lane’, which is built on a deliciously scuzzy bassline. It comes paired with a music video directed by Alex Ross Perry.
This Is Lorelei – ‘Name the Band’
This Is Lorelei has announced Holo Boy, which is billed as “neither a retrospective compilation, nor a traditionally new LP” and collects 10 re-recorded versions of songs from 9 different releases written from 2014 to 2021. The first single is a catchy, pop punk-inflected reimagining of ‘Name the Band’, originally from 2021’s Jimmy Buffet Tape EP.
Jenny on Holiday – ‘Dolphins’
Jenny Hollingsworth, one half of Let’s Eat Grandma, has announced her debut album under the moniker Jenny on Holiday, Quicksand Heart. It’s led by the gorgeous new single ‘Dolphins’, which is full of yearning and wonder.
Haley Heynderickx & Max García – ‘Fluorescent Light’ and ‘Boars’
After teaming up for 2018’s Among Horses III EP, Haley Heynderickx and Max García have collaborated on a full-length album called What of Our Nature, arriving November 21 via Fat Possum. Today, they’ve previewed it with two lovely tracks, ‘Fluorescent Light’ and ‘Boars’, both of which come with music videos directed by Evan Benally Atwood.
Jim Jarmusch & Anika – ‘Jetlag’
Jim Jarmusch and British musician Anika have teamed up for the soundtrack to Father Mother Sister Brother Soundtrack, which just won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The pair met at the Sacred Bones 15th anniversary celebration in 2022, where she and Jarmusch’s band SQÜRL were both playing, and first worked together on a cover of Nico’s ‘These Days’ (which also appears in the film). ‘Jetlag’ is wonderfully atmospheric, and I can imagine it being a gentle balm after your next long-haul flight.
bar italia – ‘omni shambles’
bar italia’s new album Some Like It Hot is out on Friday, and it’s pretty great. Today, they’ve shared one final preview of it, the fiery, exhilarating ‘omni shambles’. It follows ‘Cowbella’, ‘Fundraiser’, and ‘rooster’.
Sword II – ‘Halogen’
Sword II have previewed their upcoming album Electric Hour with a shadowy, explosive track called ‘Halogen’. “This song is about not knowing who you should be or what you should believe; thinking too hard about what the right thing to do is,” the group shared. “The world might just be totally fucked but we should just keep fighting anyways. Stop thinking so hard about things. Stop trying to analyze everything and be so specific about your ideology, and just do what you know should be done.”
runo plum – ‘Pond’
runo plum has shared ‘Pond’, a gently poignant new single from her upcoming debut LP, patching. “This song came from feeling really stuck in a slump, feeling the height of the absence, the pain, and the loneliness,” she explained. “Wondering how there will ever be a time where it didn’t feel like this, and fighting with the internal voice that was telling me my best option was to not be on earth. Sonically this song is pretty mellow, but the fuzz guitar that comes in at the instrumental is a great representation of the internal horror that was happening inside of me.”
Sharp Pins – ‘Queen of Globes And Mirrors’
A new Sharp Pins tune is always good news. The pensive, jangly ‘Queen of Globes And Mirrors’ is the latest from Kai Slater’s Balloon Balloon Balloon, which is out next month.
The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton – ‘Heaven’s Breath’
It’s weird that any collaboration between the Avett Brothers and Mike Patton exists, let alone a full-length album. (AVTT/PTTN is out next month.) It should sound weird, and their latest single, ‘Heaven’s Breath’, sure does.
ira glass – ‘fritz all over you’
ira glass have shared ‘fritz all over you’, a frantic track off their forthcoming joy is no knocking nation EP. “We wanted to stitch together several disparate parts,” the quartet commented. “Some parts of the song were spontaneous compositions, others were puzzles that needed solving. For the outro we wanted to experiment further with long, jazzy outros, similar to what we did on last year’s ‘torrid love affair with a family annihilator.’ The vignettes in the video align in form with the song where we wanted to display each member performing a different action.”
Liam Kazar – ‘Didn’t I’
Cozy up with ‘Didn’t I’, the wistful new single from Liam Kazar’s upcoming LP Pilot Light. “There’s loneliness at the end of someone’s life. Every time we’d say, ‘Goodbye, I love you,’ she would say, ‘I love you more,’” Kazar recalled. “I wanted to write a song to remind my family that even if we couldn’t be with her every single second the last year of her life, she knew that we loved her, and she loves us more.”
Sean Trelford – ‘Naked’
London-based artist Sean Trelford has signed to Adventure Recordings/Island, marking the news with a wonky, chilling new single called ‘Naked’. It comes with a music video directed by Charlie Drinkwater and inspired by David Cronenberg. “’Naked’ is a song I wrote when in January 2025, it is a commentary on truth and lie in regards to relationships and intense emotions when feeling used or toyed with, not being understood or valued by yourself or a significant other. It is a deeply personal song that I produced, recorded and wrote,” Trelford explained. “The video has the motif of teeth falling out, an idea I thought of when I was 16, encountering so many people talking crap and I had recently read the picture of dorian gray, relating to the image of one’s soul tarnishing through careless action and self-indulgence.”
Lone – ‘Ascension.png’
Lone, the project of British producer Matt Cutler, has offered up a sumptuous track titled ‘Ascension.png’. “I had this dream about a year ago where I was floating on a small raft in the ocean, floating away from a tiny desert island,” he reflected. “The whole dream was just me on this raft watching the island get smaller and smaller as I floated further away from it. It felt like my subconscious was trying to tell me something about the nature of time. The colors I see in my head when I hear this track are more or less exactly like the ones in that dream. The track has loads of amens in it as well.”
Ain’t – ‘Long Short Round’
Ain’t have dropped a tense, stirring new single, ‘Long Short Round’. The track “is about doing little rituals that feel as if they’re doing something good, but they’re utterly pointless when it comes to getting what you’re hoping for,” the South London band said. “Pressing a bruise for instance – it’s a wonderful sensation, but it doesn’t make you heal any faster.”
