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 Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
Sorry – ‘Echoes’
Sorry have announced a new album, COSPLAY, arriving November 7. It includes their recent singles – ‘Waxwing’, ‘Jetplane’, and ‘Jive’ – as well as the ethereal yet vulnerable ‘Echoes’. “Meet me at the butterfly sanctuary,” Asha Lorenz remarked of the song.
Kaytranada – ‘Space Invader’
Kaytranada has previewed his imminent new album, Ain’t No Damn Way!, with a sleek, bouncy new single called ‘Space Invader’, which is built on a sample of Latrelle and Kelis’ 2001 R&B track ‘My Life’.
Militarie Gun – ‘B A D I D E A’
Militarie Gun have announced a new album, God Save the Gun, with the infectious and pummelling ‘B A D I D E A’. “I wanted to make a video that was a celebration of vices, a new iteration of yourself looking back at a moment you made a mistake while never truly reflecting,” bandleader Ian Shelton said in a press release. “This was the most technically challenging video we’ve ever done and it only fits a song spelling out the words ‘bad idea’.”
Hannah Frances – ‘Surviving You’
“‘Surviving You’ is a reflection on the ways generational trauma can repeat itself when unexamined, and the ways we learn to protect ourselves through necessity,” Frances said of her entrancing new single, which leads her forthcoming album Nested in Tangles. “It’s a personal account of receiving harm from people who have projected their own pain onto me, who refuse to see themselves or take accountability for the impact of their actions. I was reckoning with my rage, and recognizing how much I’ve lived in survival mode for the majority of my life. This is for anyone who grew up in a turbulent and harmful home and is learning to affirm their lived experience.”
Twen – ‘Godlike’
Twen have a new album on the way, Fate Euphoric, which comes out November 5. It’s led by the tuneful and breezy ‘Godlike’, which comes paired with a video directed by the duo’s Jane Fitzsimmons.
Sudan Archives – ‘MS. PAC-MAN’
‘MS. PAC-MAN’ is the name of Sudan Archives’ kinetic, hilarious new single. “My cousin Taylor was like, all you write about is love, sometimes I want to be toxic — I want to hear stupid shit,” the artist remarked. “Eric, her husband, was playing this beat, and Taylor was like ‘PUT IT IN MY MOUTH’ and I was like, oh God, that’s so funny – ‘AND MY BANK ACCOUNT!’”
Avalon Emerson and Moby – ‘E After Next’
Avalon Emerson and Moby have joined forces for a new song, which flips Moby’s 1992 rave anthem ‘Next Is the E’. It’s a playful, buoyant reimagining.
Jay Som – ‘Cards on the Table’
Jay Som has shared, ‘Cards on the Table’, the latest single from the forthcoming album Belong. It’s hazy-sounding track with striking emotional clarity. “‘Cards on the Table’ is my favorite song on Belong!” Jay Som commented. “It’s about the shifting nature of friendships and how devastating conflict can be in platonic relationships when you feel misunderstood by each other. I think it’s a universal experience to navigate that type of dynamic. It feels like a never-ending cycle of people walking in and out of your life, but it ultimately leads to self discovery and growth.”
Guerilla Toss – ‘CEO of Personal & Pleasure’
“If you’re feeling strange/ You should probably stick with it.” That’s a decent piece of advice from Guerilla Toss’ delightfully weird new single, ‘CEO of Personal & Pleasure’. “Instead of marinating in the void, I’ve chosen to gaslight myself into greatness by firing my inner critic and reinstating myself as the slightly unhinged CEO of my own emotional start-up,” frontperson Kassie Carlso saidn. “The CEO of Personal & Pleasure doesn’t have a 5-year delusion, but I do have dogs, vicious optimism, and a vague idea that being alive should occasionally feel good. Late-stage capitalism meets self-care nihilism … and blooming from it, the CEO of Personal and Pleasure.”
Kitba – ‘Wolf’s Mouth’
“When I was little I had a dream/ About putting my head in a wolf’s mouth/ He never hurt me never bit down/ I always woke up but maybe now,” Rebecca El-Saleh sings on their blurry new Kitba single. “The song is based on a recurring childhood nightmare where I was in a room with a filing cabinet in the corner and a large wolf that would open its mouth,” they explained. “I would place my head inside its mouth and then wake up. I never got to see beyond the bite and I often wonder what was in the cabinet and why, when I eventually became less scared of the wolf, he disappeared. This song is about being ready to let the unknown consume me.”
Droogie Otis (Madlib + Your Old Droog) – ‘The Edge’ [feat. Killer Mike]
Madlib and Your Old Droog have teamed up with Killer Mike for their woozy new single, ‘The Edge’. “‘The Edge’ is one of those songs I dreamed of making,” Droog, who also delivers a guitar solo on the track, said in a press release. “It feels elevated. It feels like a suit-and-tie affair. It feels like an award show. It’s great to share that figurative stage with Killer Mike.”
Just Mustard – ‘We Were Just Here’
Just Mustard have announced a new album, We Were Just Here, out October 24, and dropped the dizzying title track. “I was trying to write more optimistically, and feeling like a fraud sometimes,” the band’s Katie Ball said of the album. “I was trying to put myself in places of physical joy to try and get that euphoric feeling.”
Marissa Nadler – ‘Light Years’
Marissa Nadler’s new single, ‘Light Years’, both evokes and digs into the memory of a fading love. “Back in the day, you were all the rage/ When you could still hypnotize her,” she sings, “Rockets and planes, and through hurricanes/ Fused to the sight of her fire.” It’s taken from her imminent LP New Radiations.
villagerrr – ‘Ride or Die’ [feat. Lydia Slocum]
feeble little horse’s Lydia Slocum has joined villagerrr for the hooky new single ‘Ride or Die’. It marks villagerrr’s signing to Winspiear, which will be releasing his album Tear Your Heart Out on vinyl for the first time, and the new song is one of five previously unreleased recordings that it features.
Pool Kids – ‘Sorry Not Sorry’
Pool Kids have previewed their new album Easier Said Than Done with an ethereal track called ‘Sorry Not Sorry’. “When you feel like you’re somebody’s second choice, or like you’re not as important to them as they are to you, it can send you into this desperate, embarrassing sort of spiral,” Christine Goodwyne reflected. “In phases like those, it can feel very empowering to pick yourself up, take control of the situation and be like ‘whatever, I’m not going to tolerate this, I don’t need this person’s approval.’ I used to get caught sort of in the middle of those two approaches, swinging back and forth between totally desperate and totally in-control.”
“It’s been many years since I’ve dealt with or felt anything like that, but it’s the kind of feeling that you never forget,” she added. “Sometimes when I’m writing, it can be inspiring to tap into those old, more potent emotions that I haven’t felt in a long time. It’s kind of an ode to an old version of myself that would’ve found a song like this very cathartic.”
Robin Kester – ‘Perspective’
Robin Kester has unveiled ‘Perspective’, the fifth offering from her upcoming record Dark Sky Reserve. “It is sinister, but at the same time there’s hope in it,” she said of the new single. “You need to go to a dark place first to get that kind of perspective.”
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – ‘Wicked Game’ (Chris Isaac Cover)
Countless artists have covered Chris Isaac’s ‘Wicked Game’. It’s been a live staple for Natural Wonder Beauty Concept, the duo of Ana Roxanne and DJ Python, and I haven’t heard a rendition quite like theirs, spare yet intoxicating. It will appear on Sitting on the Moon, a compilation their label home Mexican Summer is putting out this Friday.
Camp Trash – ‘Signal Them In’
Camp Trash have dropped a new single, ‘Signal Them In’. It seems to be a one-off single, and it’s pretty fun.
No Peeling – ‘Can I Pet That Dog?’
Knottingham’s No Peeling take inspiration from bands like the B52s and the Unicorns, and they remind me of Snooper, the egg punk band who recently started rolling out their second album. No Peeling’s self-titled debut arrives next month via Feel It Records, and it’s led by the exhilarating ‘Can I Pet That Dog?’.
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