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, July 16, 2025.
Sudan Archives – ‘MY TYPE’ and ‘YEA YEA YEA’
Sudan Archives has announced a new album, The BPM, which revolves around a new persona, Gadget Girl. It’s out October 17, and two of its groovy, dizzying dance tracks, ‘MY TYPE’ and ‘YEA YEA YEA’, are out now. “I was never the girl in a band in high school – I could only express myself for the first time when I got my first iPad and started making beats on it, and when I got my first electric violin,” she explained. “I’m all gadget girled out now, but I’ve never felt so free as a human.”
Skullcrusher – ‘Exhale’
Skullcrusher has announced her second album, And Your Song is Like a Circle, with the lead single ‘Exhale’, which is swirling and wondrous. It’s “about noticing the moment when a song is first conceived,” Helen Ballentine explained. “There is a part of me that wants to stop there and leave the song unfinished, before structure settles in and the song evolves. Instead, I allow it to form & accept whatever it may become. This process feels natural, like taking a pause at the top of your inhale before letting it all out. Maybe through acknowledging this process I can feel more at peace with change in general. When thoughts, words & sounds interact in a certain way they can reveal a path forward. Sometimes I want to linger before this path, in a space that feels hidden and safe, but in the end I take the path & surrender to change.”
Living Hour – ‘Wheel’
Living Hour have announced a new album, Internal Drone Infinity, arriving October 17. Jay Recorded with Jay Som’s Melina Duterte, the follow-up to 2022’s Someday Is Today is led by the soaring and hypnotic ‘Wheel’. Vocalist Sam Sarty had this to say about it:
The story of “Wheel” begins with buying a car off Facebook Marketplace in BC. Turns out the car was junk, but I had no choice but to drive it home to Winnipeg. It took 3 days. I was driving through the mountains, and the headlights were so dim, and for a stretch there was nowhere to turn off. It felt like a weird, horrific video game — navigating the road and dodging danger and trying not to die. I also felt so deeply betrayed by all the men involved in the whole thing.
These men feel like a series of characters now. I felt so powerless in this weird system that prioritizes men and their opinions. In this song, I was able to imagine an alternate reality where I’m a vengeful spectator in these men’s lives. What if I had died on the road, and what if I came back and plagued them all with my powerful essence that they so easily dismissed, contorted and took advantage of in order to sell me a fucked up car?
I fantasized about how it would feel to “fall off the wheel” and lean into this witchy, monstered realm of existence where men are de-centered. One where I would have no hesitation to put those men in the same danger they put me in.
Whitney – ‘Dandelions’
Whitney have returned with news of their next LP: Small Talk is out November 17, and the familiarly breezy ‘Dandelions’ is out now. “A couple years ago Max [Kakacek] and I were both on the brink of moving across the country to be closer to the people we were dating at the time,” the band’s Julian Ehrlich explained. “Over the span of a few months both relationships somewhat abruptly crumbled, leaving us with equal parts confusion and sadness, mourning the futures that would have accompanied those relationships as well as the relationships themselves. Inspired by those events (and on a whim of Midwestern pride) we wound up spinning the story of ‘Dandelions’ into one of a big city hopeful who gets chewed up and spit back out into the heartland.”
David Byrne – ‘She Explains Things to Me’
“Many times, I have marveled at how a friend (usually a female friend) seems to clock what is going on in a film between characters way before I do,” David Byrne said of ‘She Explains Things to Me’, the second single off his forthcoming LP Who Is The Sky?. “Sometimes I understand poetry, but sometimes I need help. Though inspired by the Solnit book men explain things to me, there is a huge difference — mansplaining is usually unasked for, in this case I am the one asking.” If you also sometimes need help, you’ll find the track particularly charming.
FKA twigs – ‘Perfectly’
FKA twigs has dropped bubbly club track called ‘Perfectly’, her first new music since January’s EUSEXUA. “and so the offerings begin again… if EUSEXUA was the tip of the tongue, PERFECTLY is the oesophagus… i wonder what lays in the belly of the beast,” twigs wrote on Instagram.
The Armed – ‘Sharp Teeth’
The Armed have dropped another blistering yet hooky new single, ‘Sharp Teeth’, from their forthcoming The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed. It follows previous cuts ‘Well Made Play’ and ‘Kingbreaker’.
Robert Plant – ‘Everybody’s Song’ (Low Cover)
Robert Plant has shared a studio cover of Low’s Everybody’s Song’, a song he shared a live rendition of back in 2020. It serves as the lead single from his forthcoming album Saving Grace, which he described as “a song book of the lost and found.”
Eliza McLamb – ‘Like the Boys’
Eliza has announced Good Story, the follow-up to her impressive 2024 debut Going Through It. It’s led by the heartfelt new song ‘Like the Boys’, which is “about being a girl among the boys,” the singer-songwriter explained. “I wanted to gain their authority, their audacity. I wanted them to love me like they loved each other. And looking back now, I see how we all played pretend with one another. I also see how play can be violent.”
Clipping – ‘Night of Heaven’ [feat. Counterfeit Madison & Kid Koala]
Clipping have announced a deluxe edition of their cyberpunk-inspired record Dead Channel Sky, previewing it with ‘Night Of Heaven’, which finds the group teaming up with Counterfeit Madison and Kid Koala.
múm – ‘Only Songbirds Have a Sweet Tooth’
múm have previewed History of Silence, their first studio album in over a decade, with a delicately processed new track called ‘Only Songbirds Have a Sweet Tooth’. “It’s easily the most light hearted song on the album,” the band’s Örvar Smárason remarked in a press release. “Lots of sunshine, four-track cassette beat, mangled guitar, wonky bass and distorted vocals. It starts with the sound we recorded from a camera flash going off, so it literally begins with a burst of light.”
Alex G – ‘Oranges’
Ahead of its release on Friday, Alex G has shared another single from his major label debut, Headlights. We just posted a track-by-track review of the LP, and you can read about ‘Oranges’ there.
Georgia – ‘Wanna Play’
Georgia is back with an uptempo song called ‘Wanna Play’. She explained, “I wrote this song at a complete crossroads in my life, which is why I stuck with the 160bpm! It’s a fast tempo punk-electro song, inspired by early Knife songs & 80’s Depeche Mode bass-lines. It’s a bit of fun really, I wanted to explore my love for synths again!”
Sam Prekop – ‘Light Shadow’
Sam Prekop has announced a new album, Open Close– due Septembe 26 – with the feathery, entrancing ‘Light Shadow’. The artist aimed to produce a more organic sound out of modular synth, explaining: “In my mind that’s what the modular is really good at doing, adding interesting and less predictable textural elements. That’s only one part of the dialog though. It energizes the other sounds and voices. Along with the steady rhythmic pulses I’ve been gravitating towards, the juxtaposition of those elements becomes a form of architecture within abstraction, just by imposing them on each other and layering them in a precise way.”
White Lies – ‘In the Middle’
White Lies have announced their seventh album, Night Light, which is set for release on November 7. The propulsive lead single ‘In the Middle’ is out now. “The lyrics to the verses for ‘In The Middle’ have been written in notebooks for nearly a decade, waiting for the right vessel, which has finally presented itself in this hypnotic and locomotive piece of music,” the band shared. “It’s a song about moving, not necessarily moving on, but moving to another emotional place needed for growth. It also gives you another taste of our musical growth on this forthcoming album where we fully let our hair and scalps down to embrace a more experimental side of arrangement. And, by the way, it’s a saxophone, not a flute.”
Asher White – ‘Why I Bought the House’
Asher White has shared a charming new single, ‘Why I Bought the House’, from the forthcoming album 8 Tips For Full Catastrophe Living. “It’s written from the perspective of a girlboss whose girlboss mindset has begun to rot and is just starting to look like conquest,” White explained. “Her dreams of flipping houses, of assimilating into a neighborhood in the city, are becoming dubious and condescending.”
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