There’s so much music coming out all the time that it’s hard to keep track. On those days when the influx of new tracks is particularly overwhelming, we sift through the noise to bring you a curated list of the most interesting new releases (the best of which will be added to our Best New Songs playlist). Below, check out our track roundup for Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
Julien Baker and TORRES – ‘Dirt’
‘Dirt’ is the latest preview of Julien Baker and TORRES’ collaborative album Send a Prayer My Way, following ‘Sylvia’ and ‘Tuesday’. “Spend your whole life gettin clean/ Just to wind up in the dirt,” Baker sings gut-wrenchingly. “Got a shortcut into paradise that’s/ killin me but I still gotta try to get there first.”
Yaya Bey – ‘merlot and grigio’ [feat. Father Philis]
Yaya Bey is back with ‘merlot and grigio’, a remarkably playful, funky tune featuring Bajan dancehall artist Father Philis. “I’ve been doing a lot of international touring and constantly in places where I’m the only Black person,” Bey shared. “When I was in France most recently I asked myself what it would look like to play to Black international audiences and that sort of got my wheels turning. My dad would always have at least one Reggae song on his albums. Our family is from Barbados and I continued that tradition with songs like ‘Meet Me in Brooklyn.’ I decided I would dive even deeper with Soca and reached out to Father Philis whose music I’ve been really digging. This song feels like a dream come true. To dig deeper into my own roots and prioritize Black communities especially in the Caribbean.”
Black Country, New Road – ‘For the Cold Country’
Black Country, New Road’s latest Forever Howlong single is the first to feature pianist and accordionist May Kershaw on lead vocal duties. It’s beautifully layered, and builds into one of the record’s most thunderous moments.
Disinblud – ‘It’s Change’ [feat. Willy Siegel, Katie Dey, and Julianna Barwick) and ‘Blue Rags, Raging Wind’ [feat. Amigone]
Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith, now together known as Disinblud, have announced their self-titled debut LP and shared two songs from it. ‘It’s Change’ and ‘Blue Rags, Raging Wind’ are both euphorically collaborative, though the first is particularly wonderful.
Career Woman – ‘Piano Song’
Career Woman, the indie rock project led by Santa Cruz-based songwriter Melody Caudill, has announced its debut album, Lighthouse, with ‘Piano Song’, which is actually guitar-driven. “It’s about not taking things too seriously and letting myself have fun, recovering from a deeply shy and introverted teenhood and diving into a social, fast-paced young-adulthood,” Caudill explained.
McKinley Dixon – ‘Could’ve Been Different’ [feat. Blu and Shamir]
McKinley Dixon is joined by Blu and Shamir on ‘Could’ve Been Different’, an intricate and satisfying new single from his forthcoming album, Magic, Alive!. “‘Could’ve Been Different’ is another attempt to follow, what I view as ‘the perfect closing credits:’ A summary of the story before, a different outlook on where you’re at now, and a rough question of ‘what’s going to happen to us in the future?’” Dixon expounded. “To me, those make for the perfect ending when writing tales. Well, those things and mimicking the music how you would live your life: going out with an ending they will never forget.”
The Swell Season – ‘People We Used to Be’
The Swell Season, the duo of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, are back with ‘People We used to Be’, a nostalgic piano ballad. “It’s a song about trying to reconcile with what feels like an end of an era and allowing one’s self to mourn the People We Used To Be while choosing to fight for the person we love and the life we built with them,” Irglová explained. “It is a song of defiance and determination as much as heart aching nostalgia.”
Sorry Girls – ‘Ricochet’
Sorry Girls, the duo of Montreal musicians Foster Kirkpatrick and Dylan Konrad Obront, have announced a new LP to follow up 2023’s Bravo!. Dreamwalker releases June 13 on Arbutus, and the infectious, sparkling lead single ‘Ricochet’ is out now.
DJ Python – ‘Daki Buki’ [feat. Jawnino and Organ Tapes]
DJ Python has linked up with Jawnino and Organ Tapes, who are pretty elusive but have both released music on the producer’s Worldwide Unlimited imprint., for a new single called ‘Daki Buki’. Taken from new EP i was put on this earth, it’s slinky in a way that seems to rub far below the Earth’s surface.
Steve Queralt – ‘Lonely Town’ [feat. Emma Anderson]
Ride’s Steve Queralt has announced his debut solo album, Swallow – out June 13 via Sonic Cathedral – and the immersive lead single ‘Lonely Town’ features Emma Anderson of Lush. “I’d been going through another Joy Division stage and so the rhythm and tempo were the starting point and, once they were in place, the bass part followed naturally,” Steve explained. “Emma follows the synth melody for the chorus, but it’s the bridge part that does it for me. Just after we finished it, Emma came up with more vocal parts which were too good to miss out on, so back to the studio we went.” Anderson added that the lyrics are about “revisiting a familiar place and having your memories jogged and remembering things how they were in reality and not how you thought you remembered them.”
Keep – ‘Fun Facts’
“‘Fun Facts’ is about feeling checked out of your life,” Richmond, Virginia shoegazers Keep said of the lead single off their new LP Almost Static, which arrives. “It’s about making peace with the fact that everything feels pointless. Everything is happening around you and you feel helpless.” Sounds like ‘Fun at Parties’ would be a better title. Good song, though!
Niontay – ‘Mumbleman’
Florida-raised, Brooklyn-based rapper Niontay has announced a new record, Fada<3of$, which boasts guest appearances from MAVI, El Cousteau, Sideshow, and Jadasea. It arrives on April 25, and the lead single ‘mumbleman’ is out now. “The initial name for the tape was 2009 (shoutout my bradda Pretty V) that being the year my Ole boy passed, it completely changed my life,” Niontay shared. “Same way I feel this album will, in a much more positive light. Death sucks but we gotta learn to celebrate it and send our loved ones off properly with love. That’s all I’m doing with this music, still tryna have fun and carry my Ole boy’s name and legacy on to the furthest extent despite the ‘reality’ of the situation.”
Avalon Emerson – ‘Treat Mode’
Avalon Emerson has served up a new song, the kaleidoscopic ‘Treat Mode’. It’s the latest offering from the San Francisco DJ and producer’s new project Perpetual Emotion Machine.
Sydney Sprague – ‘Fair Field’
Sydney Sprague has released ‘Fair Field’, a propulsive, dizzying track that marks her first fully independent release. “I wrote ‘Fair Field’ last summer after a full-blown panic attack on tour, triggered by an edible in a hotel room in Hays, Kansas,” the singer-songwriter explained. “The song carries this underlying tension—almost playful, but also unsettling—that originally captured the chaos of life on the road. Lately, though, it feels like a reflection of the world at large, everything unraveling in real time. I recorded it at home with my band (Chuck Morriss, Sébastien Deramat, and Matt Storto), marking my first independent release in a long time. Reclaiming full creative control has been incredibly freeing—it’s all about making music I love, on my own terms, and just having fun with it again.”
Rico Nasty – ‘ON THE LOW’
Rico Nasty – who is gearing up for the release of her new album Lethal and will make her acting debut in Apple TV’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles – has a hyperpoppy new single out called ‘ON THE LOW’.
Bria Salmena – ‘Rags’
Ahead of the release of her debut album Big Dog this Friday on Sub Pop, Brian Salmena has shared a cathartic new single called ‘Rags’. “In writing ‘Rags’ and developing the video concept in collaboration with director Julia Hendrickson, ‘accommodation’ revealed itself as the foundation of the rage we were both drawing inspiration from,” Salmena reflected. “Altering your values to accommodate external expectations was a feeling I knew all too well from my adolescence. When I realized I was losing myself, as an adult, to the same vices of external validation, I felt like an angry teenage girl all over again. As a way of reconciling this self-awareness, I sat in my bedroom and tried to write a song my fifteen-year-old self would want to hear.”
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