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, September 24, 2025.
Florence + the Machine – ‘One of the Greats’
Florence + the Machine have released a new song, ‘One of the Greats’, which sprawls over seven minutes in ragged, eerie, caustically humorous fashion. It’s the second single from Everybody Scream. In a statement, Florence Welch said:
I don’t really know how to explain myself with this one, it was sort of a long poem about the cost of greatness. Who gets to decide what that is? Why do I even want it? Why am I never satisfied?
I feel like I die a little bit every time I make a record, and kind of literally nearly died on the last tour. Yet I always dig myself up to try again, always trying to please that one person who doesn’t like it, or finally feel like I made something perfect and I can rest.
Early in my career, I was consistently ridiculed and derided for the bigness of my expression. I was thrust into the spotlight but also told again and again I didn’t deserve it, or that because it wasn’t to their taste it wasn’t good. So maybe this is a 15-year outpouring of frustration. But also, a lot of the lines I just left in because I thought they were funny.
Me and Bowen from IDLES wrote it in one take. He played the guitar and I just sang it straight from the page. We meant to re-record it but the first take just had this amazing energy.
Then Aaron Dessner helped us take it to a truly transcendent place. I wanted it to feel like you were disintegrating into nothing at the end. Which is sometimes what the creative process feels to me. Death and resurrection over and over.
Courting – ‘rollback freestyle’ [feat. RXK Nephew]
Courting have recruited Rochester rapper RXK Newphew for a frenetic, noisy track called ‘rollback freestyle’, from the deluxe edition of Courting’s latest album Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story.’ “Hardly just a deluxe, but an inversion – this release is an attempt to add new layers to the dual thematics of ‘Lust for Life(…)’, by twisting original songs into new beasts entirely, through either doubling up the processing, or stripping it back altogether,” Sean Murphy O’Neil explained. “Songs written in bedrooms are now opened up and collaborative, whereas songs written on stages are re-interpreted from outside perspectives. Some songs are re-performed live, in the same studio, but with a year of touring forcing them to shift and evolve.”
Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo – ‘Demon Time’
Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo have released ‘Demon Time’, another beguiling single from their upcoming collaborative LP In the Earth Again. “Speaking to Yeats’ widening gyre, things are falling apart,” Chat Pile’s Raygun Busch said in a press release. “Bad to worse or painful move towards something better is anyone’s guess, but we are living through a difficult time. The cycle continues forever, though. This is one of the first songs we recorded for the new record and is the wellspring from which the rest of the lyrical ideas flow.” Hayden Pedigo added: “This track feels like the gateway to the rest of the album. The calm before the storm. It might be my favorite track on the record just because it sets the tone so well. It’s eerie calm, and you know something might be coming around the corner.”
Eliza McLamb – ‘Suffering’
Eliza McLamb has dropped a poignantly self-aware track, ‘Suffering’, from her forthcoming album Good Story. “I get off on suffering/ It’s my favorite thing,” goes the chorus, “Find without it I can’t figure out the point of anything.” “I came to see suffering as a creative act — something I often wanted to feel and thus created situations where it was possible,” McLamb shared in a statement. “I realized my own role in manufacturing pain, and I wanted to play with the idea of suffering as something I sometimes chose as a willing experience.”
Bartees Strange – ‘DCWDTTY’
Bartees Strange’s ‘DCWDTTY’ is the fifth single from All Things Go: 10 Years, whose proceeds go to Jack Antonoff’s charity the Ally Coalition, and features production by Antonoff. “One of my favorite songs from people in this part of the world is ‘DC Will Do That To You’ by Smart Went Crazy,” Strange said. “Content wise this song doesn’t have much to do with theirs, other than I feel like a big part of who I am is because of DC and what I feel like it did to and for me. This song is just me, wandering through the DMV – things seen and heard in a uniquely lovely and upside down place.” It might be one of the most raucous-sounding things Antonoff has been involved in.
Sharp Pins – ‘I Don’t Have the Heart’
Kai Slater’s Sharp Pins have served up another single from their forthcoming LP Balloon Balloon Balloon. Following up ‘I Wanna Be Your Girl’ is the lonesome yet bouncy ‘I Don’t Have the Heart’.
Elias Rønnenfelt – ‘Love How It Feels’
Elias Rønnenfelt has shared a groovy, enticing track, ‘Love How It Feels’, alongside a video directed by Thinh T. Petrus Nguyen. It’s the second single from his upcoming LP Speak Daggers, following ‘USA Baby’.
Prewn – ‘My Side’
Prewn has released a haunting, numbed-out single, ‘My Side’, from the forthcoming LP System. In a statement, Izzy Hagerup is quick to explain how the track’s emotional core is rooted in the aforementioned system, calling it “a song about living in a country where the systems in place are bloated with abundance, yet we’re more isolated from community and connection to environment and each other than ever. Through this epidemic of over-consumption we lose our peace along with our compassion.”
Indigo De Souza and Mothé – ‘Serious’
Indigo De Souza is gearing up for a fall tour with Mothé, and today the two artists have teamed up for an upbeat single called ‘Serious’. “Serious is a reflection on overthinking— and trying not to!” De Souza reflected. “Reminders to myself, and from people I love, to loosen the tight grip I’m often holding internally. Life is a heavy experience, so it’s important to make time for letting loose! This song is about that moment when you decide you don’t care who’s watching, you’re just going to dance with your whole heart. It’s about trusting joy. I absolutely loved singing this song with my friend Mothé. They have such a beautiful voice and they are so fun to write with. I am grateful to have made this song with them, and really excited to hopefully sing it a few times on the tour we have coming up!”
Hannah Jadagu – ‘Gimme Time’
Hannah Jadagu has unveiled ‘Gimme Time,’ a delicate ballad off her forthcoming record Describe. The accompanying video, co-directed and edited by Jadagu and collaborator Sam Wilbert, was filmed in and around the mountains around Estes Park, Colorado.
Joyer – ‘Glare of the Beer Can’
Joyer, the East Coast indie rock duo of brothers Nick and Shane Sullivan, have shared the latest preview of their new album On The Other End of the Line…, the contemplative ‘Glare of the Beer Can’. “This song is about being reminded of someone everywhere you go,” Nick Sullivan said “It’s about seeing that person in both the good and bad things in life. It adds meaning to the mundane and enhances the beautiful things.”
Alexa Rose – ‘Anywhere, OH’
Alexa Rose wrote ‘Anywhere, OH’ – the gently swaying new single from her forthcoming album Atmosphere – about a town she stopped in for coffee while on tour, making it sound full of possibility. “I was only there for half an hour passing through, but I felt homesick when I left,” the singer-songwriter recalled. “I remember the way the colors of houses and old oaks poked out from the fog, a line of kids dressed up for Halloween, waiting to go into some church party. There’s a bittersweetness in making small talk with the person behind the coffee counter, who assumes you know about whatever local news is going on—and you just nod along, knowing you’ll likely never stop there again.”
Art School Girlfriend – ‘L.Y.A.T.T.’
Art School Girlfriend has released an affecting new song, ‘L.Y.A.T.T.’, her first new music of 2025. “L.Y.A.T.T. is about the resilience of love through times of physical or mental distance and hardship,” Polly Mackey revealed. “An unfaltering and unwavering declaration for the times when life may be taking its toll. This new music was written, recorded and produced by me in my own studio, allowing for a deeper, more reflective process and to dig into the emotional and sonic places I hadn’t yet explored.”
fanclubwallet – ‘Know You Anymore’
‘Know You Anymore’, the third single from fanclubwallet’s forthcoming sophomore album Living While Dying, was inspired by Anamanaguchi, emo guitar riffs, and Hannah Judge’s own intrusive thoughts. “Everybody dies,” she said. “How do you want to die? How do you think you’ll end up left behind by your loved ones? I don’t like thinking about this all the time, but why don’t you think about this stuff too?”
Pem – ‘m4 windy’
Pem has released a tender, airy new song, ‘m4 windy’, which is named after the motorway between London and The West Country. “I was driving on the M4 one day during that bout of gale force winds we had in early 2025,” she explained. “I was singing something to myself about a tornado and recorded a voice note of my tornado mumbles. My phone saved it as ‘m4’. I started writing when I got home and m4 windy was finished an hour later.” She added of the music video: “I reconnected with French filmmakers Camille and Juliette — aka Las Favoritas — who I first met when I was living in Paris seven years ago. Together we built an all femme-led crew. Nine of us piled into a van and drove to the countryside south of Paris to a surreal, sandy, rock park known for bouldering. We filmed through the night to create something earthy yet ephemeral, tempestuous but distant. It was so fun and the team were phenomenal.”
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