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 8, 2025.
Stereolab – ‘Aerial Troubles’
Stereolab are back with their first new music in 15 years. The groovy, enchanting ‘Aerial Troubles leads their new album Instant Holograms on Metal Film, which comes out May 23 via Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp Records, and is accompanied by a Laurent Askienazy-directed video.
Turnstile – ‘Never Enough’
Turnstile are still a band, they’re from Baltimore, but should we still call them hardcore? That will be the question running through many fans’ heads as they release ‘Never Enough’, the first preview and title track of their Glow On follow-up. You’ll like it if you’re a fan of a Turnstile song like ‘Mystery’, though it purposefully leaves you wanting more.
Hotline TNT – ‘Julia’s War’
Hotline TNT nod to their shoegaze contemporaries They Are Gutting a Body of Water’s label in the title of their new song, which leads their forthcoming album Raspberry Moon. It’s possibly their tightest and most infectious song to date – how many of Will Anderson’s peers could pull off a na-na-na chorus?
Lifeguard – ‘It Will Get Worse’
Chicago indie rock trio Lifeguard have announced their their debut album, Ripped and Torn, which they recorded last year with producer Randy Randall (No Age). It’s out June 6, and the pummeling, rambunctious lead single ‘It Will Get Worse’ is out now.
Ben Kweller and The Flaming Lips – ‘Killer Bee’
‘Killer Bee’, Ben Kweller’s new collaboration with the Flaming Lips, is dedicated to Nell Smith, the prodigious Canadian musician who died last year at the age of 17. The Flaming Lips were Smith’s favorite band, and they eventually backed her on 2021’s Where the Viaduct Looms. Smith’s debut album will posthumously be released this Friday, which explains the timing of the latest single from Cover the Mirrors, Kweller’s first new music since the sudden passing of his 16-year-old son Dorian Zev in 2023. The facts speak for themselves here, and the music speaks even louder.
“Nell was a gifted artist who marched to the beat of her own drum,” Kweller said. Like my son Dorian, she was taken from us out of nowhere, driving alone, freak car accident, 17 years old. Amidst the chaos, Wayne [Coyne] connected me and Liz with Nell’s parents in hopes that we might be able to shed some light on their journey ahead. Since then, Liz and I have spent hours with Jude and Rachel getting to know each other and trying to make sense of it all. Though neither of us knew each other’s child, we’ve discovered how similar these two angels were during their time here on earth. Community is one of the only reasons Liz and I are still standing today. Grief makes us feel isolated and the weight seems too heavy to carry alone. Community reunites and lifts us up. Love on your people today and every day.”
Hayden Pedigo – ‘Long Pond Lily’
Fingerstyle guitarist Hayden Pedigo has announced a new record, I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away – out June 6 – to follow up 2023’s The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored. It’s led by the luscious and expansive ‘Long Pond Lily’, of which Pedigo said: “It’s very heavy and huge. The low end is rattling on it — it sounds bonkers, and feels like it’s on the verge of going off the rails. It’s so maximalist, so much more energetic than anything I’ve ever written.”
Porches – ‘Shirt’ and ‘Lunch’
Porches has released an expanded edition of last year’s Shirt called Shirt Expansion Pack, which features two new songs. The title track boasts a soul-shattering scream, while ‘Lunch’ is exuberant in Porches’ typically warped fashion.
yeule – ‘Evangelic Girl Is a Gun’
yeule has unveiled title track off their forthcoming LP Evangelic Girl Is A Gun, which is a fractured yet danceable slice of, as the artist calls it, trip club. “An angelic blade of a dance beat with dual bpm switch ups, nostalgic synth patches Kin [Leonn, producer] and I alchemised together reminiscent of early 2010s electronica,” yeule explained. “In the light of love and obsession lies the silhouette of a shadow diluted with the playful flirting of synths and drum patterns, but this time with a sexy silhouette of a shadow. Going back to experimental dark techno, but aligning it with modern inclinations of what I want to label as ‘trip club.’ Eternal light, eternal love, depth of the heart with a shallow facade. Diluting the vanta black blood that boils on rotting flesh.”
Home Is Where – ‘Migration Patterns’
“This is about grappling with a mundane destiny,” Bea MacDonald remarked. “You will work until the day you die.” Home Is Where, of course, make an anthemic singalong out of ‘Migration Patterns’, as if to insert a we before grappling.
Willi Carlisle – ‘Work Is Work’
Interesting tie-in with the Home Is Where track, huh? ‘Work Is Work’ is the lead single from Willi Carlisle’s new album Winged Victory, arriving on June 27. “With ‘Work is Work’, I wanted to write a bluegrass tune, and I wanted to try to make a direct address of my own [à la the album’s opening cover of ‘We Have Fed You All For 1000 Years’ written by an anonymous Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) worker]. I believe that after a certain point of creature comfort and stability, money doesn’t make you happier. So what are we doing with our precious time? I wrote it in a motel room along the Mississippi River. The room was full of bedbugs, and I’d just left New Orleans, a city that seems to be thriving even as it falls into the ocean. I finished the song in about an hour. I want people to know that they aren’t free from the terrible things that work does to people, from the awful transmutation of labor into money, but that the sacrifice isn’t meaningless.”
Softie – ‘Kiss Kiss Kiss’
Softie have shared the hazily invigorating and jagged ‘Kiss Kiss Kiss’, which will appear on their just-announced Somersault EP, due May 9. The collection features the previously unveiled cuts ‘Gauzy’ and ‘Don’t Look Down’.
Lido Pimienta – ‘Mango’
Lido Pimienta has returned with the announcement of a new album, La Belleza, which is led by the stunningly transportive ‘Mango’. The song “took me back to my territory, to nature, to my people, to my village, where I watched love unfold all around me,” Pimienta reflected. “I’ve always had an aversion to writing love songs — especially if they’re about a man (insert barfing sound). But at the time, my love life was in a nebulous state: unrequited love, love from the past, love in the present — it was all I could think about. I resolved the hetero issue by keeping my love songs genderless. The sensuality is in the innuendo, in the nuance. I’m very proud of this song.”
Charmer – ‘Blue Jay’
Charmer have dropped ‘Blue Jay’, a poignant new single from their third album Downpour. “It’s about a specific day that completely shifted my life’s direction,” vocalist and guitarist David Daignault explained. “If that day never happened, I’d be living a different reality. I still don’t know if it was a good thing or not, but maybe I’ll figure it out in the next 60 years.”
Jessica Winter – ‘All I Ever Really Wanted’
My First Album is the title of Jessica Winter’s All I Ever Really Wanted, and it’s led by the cheekily, hauntingly euphoric ”All I Ever Really Wanted”. “When fantastical expectations are set so high, reality will always feel like a disappointment,” Winter explained. “As an artist, fantasising is part of the process but it can have a negative impact when you’re forever fantasising and lose appreciation for the real stuff. It’s a sound of life imploding whilst in delusional euphoria.”
Spacey Jane – ‘Through My Teeth’
Australian band Spacey Jane have previewed their upcoming LP ‘If That Makes Sense’ with a glistening new track called ‘Through My Teeth’. “We’re really happy to have this song out in the world,” the group commented. “It’s one of our favourites off the record and we can’t wait for you to hear it. It has a longing and nostalgia that made us all fall in love with the song – it goes and goes until the very last fill and we felt it was the perfect way to start the record.”
University – ‘Curwen’
UK punk outfit have announced their debut full-length, McCartney, It’ll Be OK, which arrives June 20 on Transgressive. Of the place that gives its raucous, ecstatic lead single its title, the band said: “Pale sunlight bounds over timid concrete, time jumps like a broken typewriter, the future is past and the past is irrelevant, faces falling in the animal soup of time.”
BC Camplight – ‘Two Legged Dog’ [feat. Abigail Morris]
BC Camplight has announced his new album, A Sober Conversation, with ‘Two Legged Dog’, a duet with The Last Dinner Party’s Abigail Morris. “I was so thrilled when Brian reached out and asked if I would feature on this track,” Morris commented. “I will never forget the first time I heard BC Camplight – my band was driving from London to Brighton, I was astonishingly hungover and sunken eyed in the back seat when ‘I Only Drink When I’m Drunk’ came on my Discover Weekly. I had it on repeat for the rest of the journey and spent the next week exclusively listening to the rest of his discography. This track was a joy to sing, and I felt so honoured to be involved in such a powerful and personal song. Thank you, Brian – you are the GOAT.”
