There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s onerous to maintain monitor. On these days when the inflow of latest tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift by way of the noise to deliver you a curated record of probably the most attention-grabbing new releases (the very best of which will probably be added to our Greatest New Songs playlist). Beneath, try our monitor roundup for Wednesday, Might 21, 2025.
Wednesday – ‘Elderberry Wine’
It is a particular sort of Wednesday for these of us who’ve been anticipating new music from the North Carolina band since 2023’s Rat Noticed God; ‘Elderberry Wine’ is their first authentic monitor since then/ It sounds far more easygoing than ‘Bull Believer’, the chaotic introduction to that LP, however after all, there’s extra to the twangy, beautiful association than meets the attention. “Elderberry is named a therapeutic fruit, and is an ingredient in lots of tonics and syrups to help the immune system. One time, nevertheless, my sister consumed them uncooked, and it instantly induced vomiting,” bandleader Karly Hartzman defined. “So ‘Elderberry Wine’ is in the end a love tune about creating simply the correct atmosphere for success. There’s a fragile steadiness that must be created, particularly in love, for 2 lives to intersect with out poisoning one another.”
The Armed – ‘Effectively Made Play’
A brand new album rollout from the Armed, a brand new thriller to unpack. In line with lead singer Tony Wolski, The Future Is Right here and Every little thing Must Be Destroyed is “music for a statistically rich inhabitants that in some way can’t afford meals or drugs — endlessly scrolling previous trip pictures, health club selfies, and pictures of kid amputees in the identical feed. It displays the dissociation required simply to exist in that actuality.” Lead single ‘Effectively Made Play’ is a free jazz-inspired freakout that ends earlier than you could have an opportunity to digest it.
They Are Gutting a Physique of Water – ‘AMERICAN FOOD’
TAGABOW, the extremely influential shoegaze band newly signed to ATO Data, have shared the hazy, hypnotic new single ‘AMERICAN FOOD’. “All them atrocities is much from our minds, when the vices assist us through,” Douglas Dulgarian remarked.
Fazerdaze – ‘Motorway’
New Zealand artist Fazerdaze is again with a brand new tune referred to as ‘Motorway’, which is fairly gritty and, after all, driving. It rose out of “a sense of being trapped between a metropolis and a relationship, looking for residence in each, however discovering it in neither,” Amelia Murray shared. “It explores an enmeshment with familiarity; and the motorway changing into an emblem of that for me; repetitive, a loop to interrupt out of, a false sense of freedom.”
Kieran Hebden and William Tyler – ‘If I Had a Boat’ (Lyle Lovett Cowl)
4 Tet’s Kieran Hebden and Nashville guitarist William Tyler have introduced a brand new collaborative album, 41 Longfield Road Late ‘80s. Main the LP is a affected person, gorgeously pristine 11-minute cowl of Lyle Lovett’s ‘If I Had a Boat’.
Alaska Reid – ‘Huge Drops’
Avery Tucker, previously half of Girlpool, has unveiled his debut solo single. ‘Huge Drops’ was co-written and co-produced with Alaska Reid. It’s “a narrative about loving and shedding somebody who’s discovering themselves time and time once more overtaken by the large drop,” based on Tucker, and the best way he makes use of the phrase “massive” jogs my memory of Reid’s personal Huge Bunny. It’s tender and affecting.
Yaya Bey – ‘raisins’
Yaya Bey has shared one other preview of her forthcoming file do it afraid, and it’s quietly inspiring.“It’s onerous to sum up ‘raisins’ in a small burb but it surely’s the pursuit of affection, pleasure and freedom with the total realizing that there will even be ache,” Bey stated. “It’s a give up. It’s me giving myself permission to dream. It may not occur. However possibly the actual pleasure shouldn’t be within the materialization however within the dreaming itself. The title is impressed by a Langston Hughes poem referred to as Harlem the place he says ‘What occurs to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin within the solar?’”
Madeline Kenney – ‘Scoop’
Madeline Kenney has shared ‘Scoop’, the most recent single from her forthcoming LP Kiss from the Balcony. It’s a mesmerizing monitor, and I like the best way the electrical guitar and synth scrape in opposition to the melody. “The unique title was ‘Guitar Scoop Coronary heart Flip’ due to the guitar melodies and lyrical themes; I used to be considering rather a lot about what is predicted of a “cool lady”, how detachment is admired in fashionable relationships, and the way the lavatory in a bar is a sacred area for ladies (strangers!) to carry one another of their shared, odd, conditioned realities,” Kenney mirrored.
Alison Goldfrapp – ‘Reverberotic’
Alison Goldfrapp has teased her new LP Flux with a playful new monitor, ‘Reverberotic’. It’s out through her personal imprint, A.G. Data. “When you’re fortunate sufficient to have the choice, proudly owning your personal masters looks like a no brainer today,” she commented. “Whereas being a solo impartial artist comes with its personal set of challenges, it really fits me and has given myself and the folks I work with a way of empowerment and invigoration for this album…”
Jacques Greene and Nosaj Factor – ‘Unknown’
Jacques Greene and Nosaj Factor have teamed up for the most recent in a string of collaborations, the alluring ‘Unknown’. It’s accompanied by a remix from Audion. “I believe it is a tune that units us on a path, a transparent vacation spot,” Jacques Greene defined. “It’s so attention-grabbing how that is a kind of tracks that simply occurred. It’s a kind of bizarre issues the place we took a stroll round your neighbourhood, and after we received again to the studio we simply began enjoying. Then we simply regarded up an hour later and 85% of the monitor was there.” Nosaj Factor added: “I’d say that is the primary monitor that we had been each locked in on what our intentions had been. We had been each in movement state.”
Robbie Williams – ‘Rocket’ [feat. Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi]
Robbie Williams isn’t precisely related to the style generally known as “Britpop,” however hey, neither is A.G. Prepare dinner. However, Britpop is the title of his just-announced LP, which is led by the Tony Iommi-featuring ‘Rocket’. Fascinating transfer! “I got down to create the album that I wished to put in writing and launch after I left Take That in 1995,” Williams stated. “It was the height of Britpop and a golden age for British Music. I’ve labored with a few of my heroes on this album; it’s uncooked, there are extra guitars and it’s an album that’s much more upbeat and anthemic than ordinary. There’s some ‘Brit’ in there and there’s actually some ‘pop’ too – I’m immensely happy with this as a physique of labor and I’m excited for followers to listen to this album. I can also’t wait to carry out a tune or two from it on my upcoming ‘BRITPOP’ tour, which I’m opening within the UK, naturally.”
Evening Tapes – ‘pacifico’
Evening Tapes have signed to Nettwerk and introduced their debut LP, portals // polarities, arriving September 26. It’s led by the transportive trip-hop reduce ‘pacifico’,” which “was written after our buddy returned from Mexico (San Jose del Pacifico) and instructed us tales about how lovely it was,” based on Iiris Vesik. “It’s about our concept of Pacifico — like a way of thinking you possibly can attain, as we nonetheless haven’t been there.”
Mal Blum – ‘Killer’
Mal Blum has shared a brand new single from The Villain, their first LP in 5 years. “I wish to be very clear about what this tune is about,” they stated. “The tune ‘Killer’ is particularly about internalized transphobia and unconsciously absorbing the idea that you’re dangerous. It’s a response to the villainization of trans folks, the propaganda and messaging we continually obtain that we’re inherently devious and immoral. It additionally particularly refers to a specific taste of transphobia that refuses to see transmasculine folks as we’re, as an alternative contemplating us solely as harmful would-be assassins and butchers of our personal supposed girlhoods. ‘Killer’ is a aware try and reclaim and play with that narrative.”
mark william lewis – ‘Tomorrow Is Excellent’
bar italia’s former drummer mark william lewis has signed to A24’s file label A24 Music, marking the announcement with the entrancing new tune ‘Tomorrow Is Excellent’. “I wrote Tomorrow is Excellent at residence in London,” lewis shared. “I wished to seize and describe all the pictures and locations that meant one thing to me on the time and collage them collectively in a single tune.”
Surusinghe – ‘Kinda Like That’ [feat. Kassie Krut]
London-via-Melbourne digital producer Surusinghe has enlisted Kassie Krut for a brand new membership monitor, ‘Kinda Like That’. Co-produced by Cameo Blush, it’s the second single off the forthcoming EP i can’t bear in mind the title of this, however that’s okay.
Perennial – ‘Child, Are You Summary?’
Perennial have introduced an expanded version of final yr’s Artwork Historical past 11 extra tracks, together with the just-released rager ‘Child, Are You Summary?’. You’ll end up shouting alongside the titular refrain earlier than it.
White Lies – ‘Nothing on Me’
White Lies have returned with their first new music in three years, the propulsive and surprisingly frenetic ‘Nothing on Me’. “This monitor welcomes you into the collaborative current thoughts of White Lies. It’s considerably reckless, unhinged, stuffed with competing concepts,” the band defined. “There’s a disregard for any exterior influences, pressures, or expectations. We’re driving with no brakes or seat-belts. Lyrically and conceptually it’s a rebirth, and an introduction.”
“The preliminary musical concepts got here from having a synth sequence that’s in a unique time signature to the remainder of the band,” they added. “That is one thing I borrowed rather a lot from the 70’s prog that I like and listened to rather a lot in the course of the making of this file. I listened to data by Genesis, Chris Squier, Sure, Utopia and Gong who all extensively make use of this of their music. The rhythm is a traditional motorik beat borrowed from the krautrock that all of us love and is a motif we’ve used rather a lot throughout our careers in White Lies. The guitar melody is sort of jolly and absurdist just like the nursery rhyme or one thing you’d hear an ice cream van enjoying. It clashes, I believe, to the texture of the music. That is impressed by Steve Hillage and his album Motivation Radio the place he usually makes use of related melodies. All of this feeds a cacophony and an overload of knowledge that disorients and confuses. The lyrics mirror the difficulties we are able to all have in regarding folks even when they’re near us, particularly within the warmth of an argument or disagreement and the way overwhelming that may be. That is most likely the quickest most intense tune we’ve ever written and was additional developed in rehearsals, with Seth Evans (previously of Black Midi) on keys, after which carried out within the studio. The foundations of this monitor are one take performed reside.”
Guedra Guedra – ‘Drift of Drummer’
Moroccan producer Abdellah M. Hassak, who data as Guedra Guedra, has signed to the Domino imprint Smugglers Approach, which can launch his new album MUTANT on August 29. Lead single ‘Drift of Drummer’ comes paired with a video from director Romain Cherbonnier. “In African traditions, rhythm particularly in its polyrhythmic type shouldn’t be merely a pulse or a measure: it’s a cartography of life,” Hassak shared. “It expresses social complexity, layers of oral historical past, group dynamics, and the non secular dimensions of existence. Transmitting this richness from technology to technology by way of apply and listening can be an act of resistance, a manner of preserving data and sensibilities that dominant narratives have lengthy tried to marginalize or simplify.”
