There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s onerous to maintain observe. On these days when the inflow of recent tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift by the noise to convey you a curated record of probably the most attention-grabbing new releases (the perfect of which will likely be added to our Greatest New Songs playlist). Beneath, try our observe roundup for Tuesday, February 25, 2025.
Mannequin/Actriz – ‘Cinderella’
Mannequin/Actriz have introduced their sophomore album, Pirouette, with the dynamically radiant and frantic ‘Cinderella’. The observe “distills inside it lots of the targets that might change into the lifeblood of Pirouette,” vocalist Cole Haden defined. “The track switches between moments of rigidity and fluidity, dissonance and concord: we aimed to put in writing one thing with an inherent brightness that differed something we had made earlier than, and the sunshine that shines by the track was made not by eradicating darkness, however by upping the distinction. The lyrics had been written in response to that canvas, and provides voice to an internal dialogue I as soon as had whereas on a date with a fantastic man. It’s a track concerning the realization that there was disgrace and ache I carried lengthy after it had change into out of date, and whereas it was unsure if I’d ever see this particular person once more, I may bear in mind him all the time because the mysterious catalyst that launched me from it.”
Jenny Hval – ‘To be a rose’
Jenny Hval has introduced a brand new album, Iris Silver Mist, sharing ‘To be arose’ together with the information. “’To be a rose’ was written as a stressed pop construction,” Hval defined in an announcement, treating each that construction and the titular cliché with signature playfulness. “It has a refrain, with chords and a melody, however every refrain sounds barely totally different, like we’re experiencing the melody from totally different seasons, many years and even totally different our bodies. The clichéd rose metaphor within the track is equally stressed. It could possibly change form right into a cigarette after which evaporate to smoke. My mom and I (two stressed people) are each current within the track: ‘I used to be singing in my room, she smoked on the balcony/Lengthy inhales and lengthy exhales carried out in choreography.’ If about something, ‘To be a rose’ is about how one factor turns into one other factor, how all of us come from someplace and somebody, and the way that is stranger and extra highly effective than we expect.”
Marlon Williams – ‘Kāhore He Manu E’ [feat. Lorde]
Lorde friends on ‘Kāhore He Manu E’, a stirring new ballad from New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams’ upcoming Māori language album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka. Lorde’s voice, Williams mentioned, “in a really actual sense wrote the track. The distinct and putting traits in her voice cornering and demanding of the melody and phrasing what solely her voice may. Singing with Ella is unimaginable; the quantity of thoughts she’s capable of pour into the vessel. We acquired to know one another by sharing the highs and lows of touring life, and in an actual sense this track is an ode to the colorful however grim wormhole of street life, to the chums made and misplaced within the folds of time, ‘visions misplaced within the blur.’” Lorde added: “Singing with Marlon is certainly one of my favorite issues to do on earth, whether or not we’re tipsy backstage by a pool desk or in a luscious studio, and I used to be honoured he requested me to sing with him on this album. I’m so pleased with my buddy.”
Momma – ‘Bottle Blonde’
‘I Need You (Fever)’, the earlier single off Momma’s upcoming album Welcome to My Blue Sky, made our record of the perfect songs of January. The newly unveiled ‘Bottle Blonde’ is softer and extra self-reflective; “Bottle blonde, you’re a god/ You’re gonna determine it out,” “Bottle blonde, you’re a god/ You’re gonna determine it out,” Friedman and Weingarten sing on the observe. “We wrote this track as a letter to our previous selves, once we had been 23 and 24, stumbling by an especially grueling tour that ended up taking an enormous toll on our hearts and minds,” they defined. “We each had bleached hair and had been within the midst of constructing big choices that might change our lives and likewise our perceptions of ourselves. The track began out as type of an affirmation to our youthful selves, that every little thing could be OK when you simply observe your coronary heart, however now trying again on it the lyrics may be learn as us speaking to one another.”
Sparks – ‘JanSport Backpack’
Sparkshave shared their particulars of their twenty eighth studio album MAD!, arriving Might 23, with the playful and theatrical ‘JanSport Backpack’. It follows the just lately launched ‘Do Issues My Personal Manner’.
Darkside – ‘Hell Suite (Half II)’
For a track referred to as ‘Hell Suite’, the most recent single from Darkside emanates a wierd sense of serenity. In reality, it’s one of the gorgeously organized songs on their new album Nothing, which comes out Friday.
Deafheaven – ‘Heathen’
Deafheaven have previewed their upcoming LP Lonely Individuals With Energy with ‘Heathen’, which begins out mellower than the harrowing lead single ‘Magnolia’. Stick round, although, and also you’re in for a (heavy) deal with.
Lily Seabird – ‘How Far Away’ and ‘It Was Like You Have been Coming To Wake Us Again Up’
Lily Seabird has unveiled a pair of tracks from her forthcoming document Trash Mountain. “‘How Far Away’ closes Aspect A of Trash Mountain and ‘It Was Like…’ opens Aspect B, however they’re about the identical topic, so it’s good to have them paired collectively in the present day,” Seabird mentioned of the songs, that are each tenderly understated. “The movies had been captured in New Orleans final month throughout a document snowstorm. I used to be visiting with certainly one of my finest pals — it felt humorous that we appeared to have introduced the climate with us from Vermont.”
Swans – ‘I Am a Tower’
‘I Am a Tower’ is the title of Swans’ epic new single, which sprawls ominously over 20 minutes. It’s the primary single off their seventeenth studio album, Birthing, due Might 30. “The fabric contained on this album was largely developed over the course of a yearlong Swans tour, throughout 2023 – 2024 (‘The Healers’, ‘I Am a Tower’, ‘Birthing’, ‘Guardian Spirit’, ‘Rope’, and ‘Away’), then recorded and additional orchestrated and rearranged within the studio. Two items had been created and carried out within the studio (‘Crimson Yellow’, ‘The Merge’),” Michael Gira shared. “In all circumstances the fabric started with me sitting in my workplace with an acoustic guitar, singing and dreaming about what would change into of those skeletal songs.”
Miki Berenyi Trio – ‘Massive I Am’
Miki Berenyi Trio take intention at macho aggression on their pointedly danceable new single, ‘Massive I Am’, which is able to seem on their debut LP Tripla. “I’ve witnessed 50+ years of the tendencies in masculinity and albeit, nothing a lot adjustments — as ever, there are good males and there are shit males, and there are boys who might be misguided however simply mature into the perfect of their intercourse,” Berenyi commented. “However this newest incarnation of ‘successful’ the intercourse conflict is a laughably childish and willfully regressive new low.”
Demise of Love – ‘Unusual Little Consequence’
Demise of Love is the brand new collaborative challenge from three very proficient artists in UK dance music: Daniel Avery, Working Males’s Membership (Sydney Minsky-Sargeant), and Ghost Tradition (James Greenwood). In the present day, they’ve shared the primary single from their self-titled debut EP, the burbling and kaleidoscopic ‘Unusual Little Consequence’. Jak Payne, who directed the track’s music video, mentioned, “We wished to create one thing actually visually pushed for this. A visible that gestures in the direction of the breakdown of a relationship, by the litter and detritus that’s left behind.”
Clothes – ‘Tóxico Saico’
Clothes, aka Mexico Metropolis-based artist Santi Ropa, has dropped ‘Toxico Saico’, a heartfelt new single from their debut album La Muerte en Realidad no Exist. Based on Ropa, “It is a painfully sincere track that offers with the blurred line between love and hate. Nobody is spared—solely these you like probably the most can actually harm you.”
Lucy Rose – ‘Pale Blue Eyes’
Lucy Rose has shared a brand new single, the jazzy, superbly swirling ‘Pale Blue Eyes’, the singer-songwriter’s first new music since final 12 months’s This Ain’t The Manner You Go Out. “The track, it’s a tough one, took me some time to determine what I wished to say,” Rose mirrored. “The refrain could be very a lot about that one one that stored me believing in myself at my lowest time, who was in fact my little boy. After I felt like my physique was failing and nobody round me believed me, he nonetheless liked me for me.”
Bria Salmena – ‘Hammer’
“I’ve by no means seen you within the morning mild/ I’ve by no means seen you as you shut your eyes/ However I need to,” Bria Salmena sings on ‘Hammer’, which is brooding earlier than it turns into bracingly weak. It’s the second single from her debut solo album Massive Canine. “I’ve been struggling these days to seek out some mild, to seek out power on this present world dumpster hearth,” Salmena defined. “My private troubles apart I really feel as if this track resonates differently to me now. Whether or not I spotted it or not, ‘you’re a hammer’ and ‘you’re a massive canine’ turned phrases of encouragement for myself, and in a manner, the mantra for the document.”
