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 via the noise to deliver you a curated record of essentially the most attention-grabbing new releases (one of the best of which will likely be added to our Finest New Songs playlist). Beneath, take a look at our observe roundup for Wednesday, September 17, 2025.
Helado Negro – ‘Extra’
Helado Negro has introduced a brand new EP referred to as The Final Sound On Earth, which was impressed by the query, “What’s going to the final sound I hear earlier than I die will likely be?” Releasing Novemver 7 on Massive Dada, the album is led by the bleary new single ‘Extra’. “After I get up within the morning, I can hearken to my ears tuning-in to the world round me,” Roberto Carlos Lange stated in an announcement. “It seems like a blanket being pulled off my eardrums. I used to be watching Michael Snow’s Wavelength (in increments 😅) whereas engaged on these songs and the room for interpretation of what I noticed and heard felt massive. Each time I watched it carved a brand new emotion out of me. Despair, hope and inspiration. I wished to ask extra of listeners, to wish to take time — not simply pause, however ask your self are you able to untangle the entire mess and take a look at once more.”
Peel Dream Journal – ‘Venus in Nadir’
Peel Dream Journal has introduced a brand new mini album, Taurus, comprising songs initially recorded for final 12 months’s Rose Principal Studying Room. The primary preview of the report, arriving October 1, is ‘Venus in Nadir’, which is reserved and hummable in an autumn form of method. “This can be a track that I began through the Rose Principal Studying Room classes however form of gave up on,” songwriter Joseph Stevens defined. “I revisited it after the album got here out, reworked the lyrics and a number of the overdubs, and ended up with this actually easy twee track a few forlorn recluse who’s withering away from an requited love. I imagined him confined to a log cabin, withdrawing from the civilized world, perhaps as a result of the guitar voicings felt very Nick Drake-y. ‘Venus In Nadir’ is what got here out and it appeared proper. I used to be already kicking round this astrology motif, which is mysterious to me as a result of I’m extremely skeptical of it. However that’s what’s cool about writing songs – you may take these psychological photos off the shelf, make a large number of them, and also you don’t have to fret about placing them again once you’re finished.”
Keaton Henson – ‘Insomnia’
Keaton Henson has introduced a brand new album, Parader, sharing the quietly explosive new single ‘Insomnia’. It’s accompanied by an animated cease movement video made by Henson himself. “It’s not me pretending to be something I’m not,” the singer-songwriter stated of the report. “It’s perhaps simply me accepting that a part of me is that this. It’s louder and it has these greater, louder, rasher sounds, however not from a performative perspective. Perhaps I’m accepting that that is part of me as nicely.”
The Avvett Brothers – ‘Everlasting Love’
Religion No Extra/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton is an attention-grabbing and prolific collaborator, however his newest team-up continues to be a shocking one. He labored with the Avett Brothers for a brand new album referred to as AVTT/PTTN, out November 14, which you couldn’t essentially inform by listening to the shimmery new track ‘Everlasting Love’. “Mike’s a part of our DNA, like the material of our youth,” Scott Avett commented, “Actually, we studied him. He’s an expensive good friend now, however after we had been youthful, I used to be imitating him… That is what artwork is. That is what making is meant to be: in secret and with no ambition.” Patton added: “My peculiar problem on this was to develop into a protracted distant cousin. A brother that was orphaned. Perhaps they saved him within the rooster coop or some shit. They introduced him out years and years later.”
Flock of Dimes – ‘Defeat’
Flock of Dimes has launched ‘Defeat’, a mesmerizing new single from her forthcoming album The Life You Save. “This track represents a second of whole give up,” Jenn Wasner shared in an announcement. “It’s concerning the second I lastly allowed myself to just accept my very own powerlessness, and began the method of studying the best way to step again and permit others to face the implications of their actions. It contains a second of melodic counterpoint that turned a form of mantra for myself as I tried to make my method via this course of—I’m inside it, in spite of everything. This realization—kindly first launched to me by somebody I like who sees me clearly—was one thing of a breakthrough for me. Studying to see myself as part of a dynamic (somewhat than separate, having escaped) was an vital step in altering my very own conduct—which is, in the end, the one actual agent of change over which I’ve any form of management. Three years after I wrote it, the work continues—I’m nonetheless engaged on attempting to see myself not as some form of savior determine, however simply one other flawed human being, doing her greatest.”
Courtney Marie Andrews – ‘Cons and Clowns’
Courtney Marie Andrews is again after three years with a brand new track referred to as ‘Cons and Clowns’, which immediately seems like a heat embrace. “‘Cons & Clowns’ is an ode to all of the artists, outsiders, and shy family members you wish to see shine!” she remarked. “On this world of rising sameness I wished to put in writing a love letter of encouragement to anybody who was afraid to be their wildest and weirdest self, particularly amid the darkish panorama of now. With a need to embody the unencumbered playfulness of youth, I performed the flute on this observe, an instrument I haven’t performed since my childhood.”
Rocket – ‘One other Second Likelihood’
Rocket have already launched loads of singles from their upcoming debut album R is for Rocket, however the newest, ‘One other Second Likelihood’ is as robust and hooky because the earlier ones. “What for those who open me up/ And determine it’s by no means sufficient for you?” Alithea Tuttle sings on the refrain. It’s “an ode to by no means feeling adequate,” she defined, including that the dreamy outro is “one in every of my favourite moments in scripting this report.”
bar italia – ‘rooster’
bar italia have a brand new album on the best way referred to as Some Like It Scorching, and at the moment they’ve shared one other unnerving but impassioned single, ‘rooster’. Following ‘Cowbella’ and ‘Fundraiser’, it comes paired with a video by Simon Mercer.
Hannah Frances – ‘Life’s Work’
Hannah Frances has unveiled ‘Life’s Work’, a spidery, theatrical observe from her forthcoming album, Nested in Tangles. It’s enriched by manufacturing and association contributions from Daniel Rossen (of Grizzly Bear), with whom Frances linked after providing to promote merch for him via Instagram DM. “‘Life’s Work’ is a haywire and kooky exploration of familial rupture and the impacts of rising up in a dysfunctional dwelling,” Frances stated. “That includes preparations by Daniel Rossen and trombone by Andy Clausen, there’s a contact of theatrical gallows humor to this track as a musical juxtaposition to the interiority of ache that I’m narrating. Studying to belief finally is our life’s work.”
Agriculture – ‘Dan’s Love Tune’
Agriculture have previewed their forthcoming LP The Religious Sound with ‘Dan’s Love Tune’, a foggy but affecting wall of distortion. “This can be a love track to a future baby,” Dan Meyer revealed. “It’s so shifting to me that regardless that this baby doesn’t exist within the kind of a kid but, the entire matter that may someday make up their being is already on this planet. And naturally that is true of all issues which have ever existed. So regardless that I’m speaking a few child that I wish to have someday, I’m actually speaking concerning the precept that every thing is completely linked.”
bloodsports – ‘Rot’
bloodsports have launched ‘Rot’, a corrosive, cathartic style of their upcoming debut album Something Can Be a Hammer. “‘Rot’ is about somebody who has ended a relationship, and attempting to justify their conduct that led to the break up, blaming the opposite for errors they’ve made,” Sam Murphy defined. “Finally it deteriorates right into a self-obsessed, egotistical delusion ensuing within the screamed line of ‘how will you smile, when god is my viewers’. This track has existed in numerous types for years, and is unquestionably the oldest track on the album but it surely’s nonetheless one in every of my favorites and one of the vital cathartic to play stay.
PVA – ‘Boyface’
PVA have introduced their sophomore album, No Extra Like This, which arrives on January 23. It’s led by the slinky, off-kilter new track ‘Boyface, which comes paired with a music video directed by Ella Harris and Sal Redpath.
Drain – ‘Petrified of Every part and Nothing’
Drain have dropped ‘Petrified of Every part and Nothing’, one other anthemic single off their forthcoming LP …Is Your Good friend. It’s accompanied by an Eric Richter-directed video.
White Lies – ‘Maintain Up’
White Lies have shared a propulsive new single, ‘Maintain Up’, from their forthcoming album Evening Gentle. “There’s a tempo to this track which feels each managed and hypnotic but additionally directional,” the band commented. “There’s a deal with streamlining of vitality and eradicating something adverse or distraction.”
Weirs – ‘Eternal’
North Carolina experimental people collective Weirs’ enveloping new single, ‘Eternal’, is taken from their forthcoming report Diamond Grove. It was formed out of discipline recordings round North Carolina and classes at Diamond Grove Farm, the place the band tracked in September 2023. Band organizer Oliver Little one-Lanning defined: “The melody that we’re improvising on right here comes from the hymn ‘Leaning on the Eternal Arms’ which dates again to the Eighteen Eighties. It’s a favourite of my grandmother’s, who I used to sing it with as a baby. Singing this and ‘Balm in Gilead’ had been a number of the earliest experiences I had with the thought of being held or supported by a chic energy – ‘held within the mild’ as Quakers would say. This model is an excerpt of a late-night improv recorded in the lounge at Diamond Grove, direct to a Zoom recorder. It later was fleshed out into an extended stay model which has us sing the phrases of the hymn after a interval of instrumental free improvisation.”
