There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s arduous to maintain observe. On these days when the inflow of recent tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift by means of the noise to deliver you a curated record of essentially the most fascinating new releases (the very best of which might be added to our Greatest New Songs playlist). Under, take a look at our observe roundup for Thursday, January 23, 2025.
Hannah Cohen – ‘Earthstar’
Earthstar Mountain, the just-announced album by Hannah Cohen, serves as an ode to the Catskills Mountains, which the singer-songwriter and her companion, producer Sam Evian, have referred to as house since 2018. The lead single is a beautiful ripple of a track, making peace with the truth that we will by no means really know somebody, even when the love in the direction of them appears to movement endlessly. “For me, ‘Earthstar’ is in regards to the complexity of connection, the danger and vulnerability of affection,” Cohen defined. “The track grapples with the concept that finally, we are going to by no means utterly know somebody.” Of the video, she added, “Photographer CJ Harvey and I got down to movie a love letter to the Catskill Mountains over 4 seasons. We took our time over a 12 months to seize shifting portraits in a few of our favourite swimming holes, creeks, waterfalls and fern gullies deep within the Catskill Mountain forests. All the video for Earthstar was all shot on 16 mm movie.”
Viagra Boys – ‘Man Fabricated from Meat’
Swedish post-punk outfit Viagra Boys have introduced a not-exactly-self-titled LP (it’s referred to as viagr aboys), sharing the biting, danceable single ‘Man Fabricated from Meat’ together with the information. “I’m a person that’s product of meat/ You’re on the web taking a look at ft,” the refrain goes. “I hate virtually all the pieces that I see/ And I simply wanna disappear.”
Tamino and Mitski – ‘Sanctuary’
Tamino has enlisted Mitski for the brand new track ‘Sanctuary’, which is able to seem on his upcoming album Each Daybreak’s a Mountain. Their voices make for a chic pairing, and the track itself is gorgeously cinematic. “On this album, ‘Sanctuary’ is the one observe absolutely birthed from this working dynamic.,” Tamino defined. “It’s additionally the ultimate addition to the report. This stuff, mixed with the truth that the track includes a second voice on what’s in any other case a really private report, make the observe a little bit of an outlier. Nonetheless, it looks like a vital observe on this album. I gained’t analyze it right here, however suffice it to say that I can’t think about this report with out it. Aside from that, it’s additionally a pinch me second each time I hear Mitski’s voice hovering over ‘Sanctuary’, particularly once I assume again to my time in Amsterdam the place it soared over many days.”
Lily Seabird – ‘Trash Mountain (1pm)’
Like Hannah Cohen’s upcoming album, the newest LP from Burlington-based singer-songwriter Lily Seabird began out as an ode to house, although maybe of a extra unconventional sort: “The home I dwell at has been known as Trash Mountain as a result of it’s on prime of an outdated landfill on the sting of city,” she defined. “It’s additionally the final place my good friend Ryan went earlier than she died, it’s actually unusual how loads of our shut pals wound up shifting in right here after she handed, she feels very tied to it spiritually.” The album’s first preview, ‘Trash Mountain (1pm)’, is rootsier than most indie people you’ll hear today, but in addition strikingly evocative.
Clothes – ‘La Muerte en Realidad no Existe (Para mi)’
Clothes, the mission of Mexico Metropolis’s Santi Ropa, has introduced a brand new album, La Muerte En Realidad No Existe, which is out March 28 options collaborations with Mabe Fratti on cello and backing vocals. The spine-tingling title observe is accompanied by a video that introduces the report’s central determine, Jesus De La Cruz Conde. “The character of Jesus de la Cruz Conde a Mexican vampire cowboy is my tackle the blood-sucking monster archetype. He’s a campy, guilt-ridden determine grappling with deep id points,” Ropa defined. “In an age marked by widespread uncertainty and misinformation, his questioning of dying itself not appears completely absurd.”
Niis – Low Life
Los Angeles outfit Niis have introduced a brand new album, Niis World, which is able to drop on March 28 by way of Get Higher Data. It’s led by the chugging, fiery single ‘Low Life’, which additionally opens the LP.
Peel Dream Journal – ‘Callers (Demo)’
Peel Dream Journal have introduced have introduced a deluxe model of their first album, Trendy Meta Physic, which got here out all the best way again in 2018. It options unreleased B-sides and demos Joseph Stevens recorded at house between 2016-2017, together with the just-unveiled ‘Callers (Demo)’, which is eerily resonant.
Nadia Reid – ‘Maintain It Up’
Nadia Reid has shared ‘Maintain It Up’, a stirring preview of her first album in 5 years, Enter Now Brightness. “I bear in mind I wrote this in lockdown in our home we’d purchased on the finish of 2019 in a suburb of Dunedin,” she defined “It was proper on the hill, like a treehouse, on a really pretty, lush part… It’s the concept that I could be sort to anybody now, tenderness in the direction of the entire world, of being in love with the world. it’s seeing people, even those who I believe I’ve nothing in frequent with, and pondering ‘You might be anyone’s valuable child.’”
Knuckle Puck – Good to Know Ya
Chicago punk outfit Knuckle Puck are again with one other rager, ‘Good to Know Ya’, which follows October’s ‘On All Cylinders’.
Olivia’s World – ‘Sourgum’
Australian band Olivia’s World have introduced their debut album, Grasping & beautiful, which is about to reach on March 14. They’ve additionally previewed it with the grungy and riveting ‘Sourgum’, which even has a sax solo. “I hadn’t picked up the guitar shortly, and it was written within the house of half-hour,” vocalist Alice Rezende mentioned in an announcement. “It was additionally the primary track we wrote underneath the brand new Olivia’s World lineup. As we had a brand new and really highly effective drummer, it grew to become a reasonably potent dwell track.”
