There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s arduous to maintain monitor. On these days when the inflow of latest tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift via the noise to convey you a curated checklist of essentially the most fascinating new releases (the most effective of which shall be added to our Finest New Songs playlist). Under, try our monitor roundup for Tuesday, February 18, 2025.
Samia – ‘Lizard’
‘Bovine Excision’, the primary single from Samia’s upcoming album Cold, made our checklist of the greatest songs of January 2025. The musician has now shared its second preview, ‘Lizard’, which captures the expertise of dissociating out of your physique at a ravishing social gathering. “It’s painful to remain current, to exist as an actual, flesh-and-blood individual at a celebration, after present comfortably as a fable or a reminiscence,” Samia defined. “And it was much more painful to strive to not smash a celebration I’d already ruined.”
Patterson Hood feat. Waxahatchee, ‘The Forks of Cypress’
In line with Drive-By Truckers co-leader Patterson Hood, “The Forks of Cypress an actual place, a couple of miles simply north of my hometown of Florence, Alabama.” It lends its title to his gorgeously ethereal new duet with Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, set to seem on his upcoming LP Exploding Timber & Airplane Screams. Hood continued: “A former plantation home, as soon as owned by a cousin of Andrew Jackson, it was struck by a ‘lightning cluster’ in 1966 — after I was two — and exploded into flames, burning to the bottom in beneath 5 minutes. All that was left have been these enormous columns, in a rectangle on high of the hill overlooking the meadow. It was proper by a really creepy rickety one-lane bridge that the locals known as Ghost Bridge. I drove previous this (and crossed the scary bridge) each week of my childhood on my technique to my Nice Uncle’s home (the place I spent each weekend). Later, as a teen, youngsters would drive dates out to Ghost Bridge and inform ghost tales and make out. The bridge was torn down a few decade in the past.”
“I wrote the track as pure fiction, impressed by these nice story songs that Bobbie Gentry did, ‘Ode to Billie Joe,’ and so forth., the place she implies a narrative with out actually telling it,” he added. “In my head, I heard Katie Crutchfield singing it with me and was blessed that she was prepared to take action. She’s certainly one of my very favourite artists and such a stunning individual.”
“The track was fleshed out splendidly by Phil and Brad Prepare dinner (who performed keyboards, dobro and bass on it), Dan Hunt on drums, after which Kevin Morby put the cherry on high with a surprising lead half.”
Youth Lagoon – ‘Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas)’
Youth Lagoon‘s new LP, Hardly ever Do I Dream on Friday, arrives on Friday. The shimmering and propulsive ‘Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas)’ is its newest preview, following earlier cuts ‘Pace Freak’, ‘Soccer’, ‘Lucy Takes a Image’, and ‘My Stunning Woman’. “Somebody stated my music makes them really feel like they died within the forest, and I’ve truthfully by no means heard a greater praise,” Trevor Powers stated in a press release. “I don’t suppose I’ve a track that’s extra suited to that description than ‘Gumshoe’. I often write out of pure love, delirium, or simply to get the satan off my again, and this one checks all three packing containers… it could be the closest I’ve come thus far to discovering actual freedom in music.”
Avalon Emerson – ‘Don’t Be Seen With Me’
DJ and producer Avalon Emerson has signed to Lifeless Oceans, saying the brand new venture Perpetual Emotion Machine with a buoyant rendition of Oppenheimer Evaluation’ cult traditional ‘Don’t Be Seen With Me’. “These songs have been created for my DJ units,” Emerson remarked. “Whether or not they’re solely unique, edits to recontextualize outdated favorites, instrumental, or characteristic me singing, they’re all a part of my perpetual emotion machine. And the machine steams on.”
Hannah Cohen – ‘Draggin”
Hannah Cohen has previewed her forthcoming album Earthstar Mountain, with a brand new monitor, ‘Draggin”, a nice tune about how maddening acquainted love could be. “There’s a common reality: Water is moist, the solar rises within the east and your loved ones will drive you to your brink,” Cohen remarked in a press launch.
Lonnie Holley – ‘That’s Not Artwork, That’s Not Music’
Lonnie Holley has shared one other deeply stirring monitor, ‘That’s Not Artwork, That’s Not Music’, from his upcoming document Tonky. This one’s about “Holley’s early experiences within the artwork world and bigger establishments’ apprehension in accepting Black self-taught artwork as advantageous artwork,” in response to a press launch. Over horns, flute, and marimba, Holley sings, “Gathering our arts/ Gathering our music/ Incorporating it into track/ Us being rejected/ They have been saying, ‘That’s not adequate’/ Not adequate/That’s not artwork/ That’s not music.”
Anxious – ‘By no means Mentioned’
Anxious have served up one other cathartic monitor from their new album Bambi forward of its arrival this Friday. “In our music subculture, there typically appears to be this dynamic the place individuals keep near others whatever the truth of whether or not they actually like them or not,” Grady Allen defined in a press release. “You hear refined whispers and rumors about what individuals actually consider you, however these emotions are by no means expressed to you straight. It’s an exhausting social dynamic and one which I’m determined to let go of. ‘By no means Mentioned’‘s lyrics give attention to that concept. The track happened tremendous weirdly and not directly. I went over to Dante’s [Melucci, guitarist/co-vocalist] home final winter and we simply began capturing this riff backwards and forwards. We began Frankenstein-ing new components onto it over a number of months and ultimately it simply form of fell into what it was. It was a cool course of — we hardly ever write that method. It was enjoyable to simply form of preserve throwing issues collectively and see what occurred.”
Melvins 1983 – ‘Victory of the Pyramids’
Melvins 1983 – the incarnation of the Buzz Osborne-fronted band that options unique Melvins drummer Mike Dillard – have shared a 10-minute epic known as ‘Victory of the Pyramids’. It’s taken from the 34-minute LP Thunderball – out April 18 – which Osbourne described as “the third Melvins 1983 document we’ve made collectively, and I needed it to be bombastic. I feel we achieved that. I additionally needed to do one thing with digital artists Void Manes and Ni Maîtres for a very long time. Each of them are distinctive skills. Their out-of-the-box use of electronics pushed Thunderball past my expectations.”
Andy Bell – ‘Don’t Cha Know’
Erasure frontman Andy Bell has introduced a brand new solo album, Ten Crowns, which is ready for launch on Could 2. “I imply, I’ve bought every part I might presumably want for, you recognize, I actually have, however that’s to not say I’m at all times fulfilled,” Bell stated in a press launch. “This album’s about selecting your self up, dusting your self off, embracing life – and about taking that feeling on even once you’re combating demons on this planet, like homophobia, and combating demons in your self. It’s about being celebratory and uplifting.” New single ‘Don’t Cha Know’ sounds prefer it, too.
