There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s exhausting to maintain observe. On these days when the inflow of latest tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift by the noise to deliver you a curated checklist of probably the most fascinating new releases (one of the best of which can be added to our Finest New Songs playlist). Beneath, try our observe roundup for Monday, June 23, 2025.
Caroline Polachek – ‘On the Seaside’
Caroline Polachek’s lumbering, hypnotic new track, ‘On the Seaside’, is her contribution to the soundtrack for the brand new PlayStation 5 online game Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside, which is out this week. Accompanied by an alternate ‘Timefall Combine’, the observe was co-produced with Danny L Harle and co-written with Harle and Hideo Kojima, the sport’s author, director, and designer. “I used to be listening to Caroline Polachek final 12 months and have become a giant fan of hers,” Kojima stated in a current interview. “After I put that on my Instagram, she contacted me, after which she DM’ed. We saved in contact after which finally met up in Paris, and that’s when she instructed me she wished to put in writing a brand new track for Dying Stranding 2. She works very quick. You heard her track while you noticed the Plate Gate — it’s referred to as ‘On the Seaside’.”
In a press launch, Polachek shared: “‘On The Seaside’ was really one of many first songs I ever made with Danny L Harle, however it was too alien and industrial- virtually too evil – to work sense on Pang, so I set it apart til the fitting factor got here alongside. When Kojima approached me about DS2, I confirmed him the sketch of it and he agreed that it was an ideal match, and so eight years after beginning this track, it obtained reopened, prolonged, and completed for the right setting.”
Moist Leg – ‘davina mccall’
Moist Leg have put ‘davina mccall’, the third single of their upcoming album moisturizer, which is breezier and extra relaxed than the primary two. The sweetness is suitable: it’s “a track about pure, unadulterated devotion,” in line with a press launch.
The Lemonheads – ‘Within the Margin’
The Lemonheads have launched a fuzzy, infectious new track referred to as ‘Within the Margin’, which accompanies the announcement that their new album Love Chant can be out October 24. “I wished to have a riffy track, so I wrote riffs throughout it,” Evan Dando stated of the observe. “The physique of the track was Marciana’s. It’s like a full-on eighth grade lady revenge track: ‘Stupidly I left the escape plans out so they might discover my approach.’”
Superchunk – ‘No Hope’
Superchunk’s newest single, off their forthcoming Songs Within the Key of Yikes, dropped at thoughts a track I haven’t thought of in a very long time: the Vaccines’ fairly nice 2012 single of the identical. It’s not stunning you possibly can spin the identical phrases right into a refrain lately, and Superchunk’s is fairly catchy, too. “The final…10 (?) years have given us loads of materials for crushing nights and countless days, and this rollercoaster is simply happening in the mean time, however right here we’re singing,” Mac McCaughan commented.
Ada Lea – ‘one thing within the wind’
“I had a dream about this track and bear in mind nothing,” Ada Lea stated of ‘one thing within the wind’, the newest single from her forthcoming LP when i paint my masterpiece, which pulls you proper into its spell. “There’s a fixed in everybody’s life, which is the dream. Once we recorded the track, Luke, who produced it, instructed we sluggish it down so Tasy might improvise a busy drum solo. Then, Jonas, engineer, sped the track as much as its common velocity. Like a slowed down wink to Leonard Cohen himself.”
Golden Apples – ‘Noonday Demon’
Golden Apples have introduced a brand new file, Taking pictures Star – September 19 – with the gauzy, fuzzed-out ‘Noonday Demon’. In line with bandleader Russell Edling, the track “addresses the way in which anxiousness and paranoia could make you kind of lose observe of your self and your identification — turning your world the wrong way up and alienating you from the individuals round you on the identical time.”
Kae Tempest – ‘Diagnoses’
Kae Tempest has dropped ‘Diagnoses’, the third single from the forthcoming Self Titled LP, Co-produced by Fraser T Smith and Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers, the observe is “a Summer time banger about antipsychotics and HRT,” within the artist’s personal phrases. “And loving one another no matter how psychological we’re.”
Kneecap – ‘THE RECAP’
Kneecap have formally launched ‘THE RECAP’, their defiant single that includes drum & bass artist Mozey. Taking intention at UK politician Kemi Badenoch, the track was beforehand out there on SoundCloud and is being shared on streaming forward of the group’s Glastonbury efficiency.
Horsepower – ‘Cash’
Horsepower – the moniker of the New York-based singer-songwriter Charlotte Weinman – has shared a brand new single referred to as ‘Cash’. That includes contributions from brothers Noah (aka Runnner) and Ben Weinman, the venture was impressed by the likes of Gap, Sleater-Kinney, and Lomelda, although this new observe additionally brings to thoughts Samia with a extra pronounced slowcore affect. “That is the primary track I wrote for the EP,” Weinman stated. “I began writing it the night time my accomplice of a few years and I made a decision to interrupt up. The model I wrote that night time was like one million verses longer and the lyrics have been utterly uncooked and pathetic, which I say with love. They have been open wounds. The one lyrics that stay from that first go is the refrain. As I’ve gotten distance from the scenario that begot the track, a variety of my disappointment has been energized, and I’ve been extra keen on exploring the anger. So we fanged this track, too. It’s been enjoyable watching individuals hook up with it after we play it stay.”
Coral Grief – ‘Paint By Quantity’
Seattle trio Coral Grief have previewed their debut album, Air Between Us, with a mesmerizing new track referred to as ‘Paint By Quantity’. “For this track, we began enjoying round with rhythmic components that have been enjoyable to bounce off of one another,” the band stated. “It developed right into a contemplation on studying tips on how to deliver liveliness and shade into bleak instances, which is a continuing effort lately.” Who doesn’t resonate with that?
