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, April 16, 2025.
Militarie Gun and Dazy – ‘Tall People Don’t Live Long’
Back in 2022, Militarie Gun and Dazy teamed up for ‘Pressure Cooker’, one of the best songs of that year. They then enlisted Mannequin Pussy’s Missy Dabice for the song’s remix, which took it in a dreamier direction they further embrace on their second collab, ‘Tall People Don’t Live Long’. “James is taller than me so you can guess how I came up with the title of this song,” Militiarie Gun’s Ian Shelton commented. “What started as a joke between us turned into a real conversation about how sometimes people who have reached certain heights in life begin to look down on others. ’Tall people’ became our tongue-in-cheek term for anyone that’s lost so much perspective that they think it’s alright to make someone feel less-than. This song is about rejecting that attitude – the bigger they are, the harder they fall.”
Dazy’s James Goodson added: “Ian and I wrote this song shortly after ‘Pressure Cooker’ came out and it made us realize how daring we could actually be with songwriting. It came together really quickly in an afternoon of us sending ideas back and forth, and I’ll never forget how we couldn’t stop listening to the demo and saying ‘I can’t believe we wrote this.’ Years later we were finally able to get together and take the song over the finish line with Justin Raisen. We see Dazy & Militarie Gun as basically its own band, a separate body of work from our other music with its own identity, and I think this song really solidified that idea for us.”
Fontaines D.C. – ‘Before You I Just Forget’
Fontaines D.C. have released a deluxe edition of their latest album Romance. It features the previously released ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’, a live version of ‘Starburster / In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)’, and the expansive, shoegazey new song ‘Before You I Just Forget’. “‘Before You I Just Forget’ is a song that started with a vision of this really blown out sound, something that heaved and shifted with new details, becoming apparent every time you would listen,” the band’s Conor Curley explained. “Like never being able to step in the same river twice, the song morphs and changes, finishing with an incredible string part by Grian.”
MIKE and Tony Seltzer – ‘Prezzy’
Just over a year after the release of Pinball, MIKE and Tony Seltzer have announced its sequel with the intoxicating, shapeshifting ‘Prezzy’. Clams Casino helped co-produce the track.
Grumpy, claire rousay, and Pink Must – ‘Harmony’
Grumpy, the indie singer-songwriter who recently collaborated with country superstar Zach Bryan, has now teamed up with some of the biggest names in experimental music: claire rousay and Pink Must, the collaborative project of more eaze and Lynn Avery. “This song was scientifically engineered so that every individual element will be stuck in your head at all times,” Pink Must said in a press statement, which I can only call scientifically accurate. “I have no doubt in my mind that people will listen to this song and say ‘ya imma listen to that again’,” claire rousay added.
illuminati hotties – ‘Wreck My Life’ [feat. PUP]
illuminati hotties has announced a new EP, Nickel on the Fountain Floor, which arrives May 30 via Hopeless. PUP’s Stefan Babcock joins her on the punchy new track ‘Wreck My Life’. “There are a handful songs that I couldn’t quite figure out how to squeeze onto Power – they live in a nearby neighborhood to Power or perhaps weren’t fully formed in time, and ‘Wreck My Life’ was a tune that lay crying on the cutting room floor for a rework,” Sara Tudzin explained.
Goon – ‘Closer To’
Goon have announced a new LP, Dream 3, which is due July 11 via Born Losers. It’s led by ‘Closer To’, a song of ghostly, striking intimacy. “I began this record so excited,” bandleader Kenny Becker shared. “The songwriting was less scripted, letting me loosen up the reins a little and follow whatever idea seemed most interesting. It started off as a really joyful recording process. Then came the most devastating time of my life.”
Joe Goddard – ‘Image and Style’ [feat. SUKU and Dynamite MC]
Joe Goddard of Hot Chip has announced a new EP, Kinetic – out May 9 – and previewed its clubby, garage-inspired sound with the new song ‘Image and Style’, featuring SUKU and Dynamite MC. “This EP focuses on the club more than my album Harmonics did,” Goddard explained. “Working with MCs like Dynamite, Suku and Pinty was a real pleasure as I have been a fan of all of them for many years. I have been playing these tracks whilst DJing for the last year. Seeing the resurgence of UK garage recently it felt like a good moment to work in that genre again as it has always been so close to my heart. Seeing it bloom around the world is so cool.”
Real Bad Man and Boldy James – ‘Come Back Around” [feat. DREAMCASTMOE] and ‘It Factor’ [feat. El-P]
LA producer Real Bad Man and Detroit rapper Boldy James have announced their third full-length collaboration, Conversational Pieces, following 2020’s Real Bad Boldy and 2022’s Killing Nothing. Today’s announcement comes paired with the release of two new songs, the catchy ‘Come Back Around’ (featuring DREAMCASTMOE) and the chiller ‘It Factor’ (featuring Run the Jewels’ El-P). The whole project, which also features Conway the Machine, is out May 2.
M83 – ‘A Necessary Escape (Part 2)’
M83 have announced a new soundtrack project, A Necessary Escape, which Anthony Gonzales composed for the upcoming documentary Dakar Chronicles. Our first preview of the record is the immersive eight-minute instrumental ‘A Necessary Escape (Part 2)’.
Jeanines – ‘On and On’
Jeanines have announced a new album, How Long Can It Last, with the bouncy, driving ‘On and On’. The record comes out June 27 via Slumberland/Skep Wax.
Lightheaded – ‘Same Drop’
On June 27, Slumberland/Skep Wax will also put out Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming, the latest effort by Lightheaded. Lead single ‘Same Drop’ is a bit mellower than the new Jeanines tune, but just as jangly.
The Bug Club – ‘How to Be a Confidante’
The Bug Club have dropped ‘How to Be a Confidante’, the latest offering from the group’s forthcoming LP Very Human Features. It’s absurdly funny and melodic, circling around the refrain, “If I’m lucky, I’ll never have another friend like you.”
Shamir – ‘Recording 291’
Shamir has previewed their final album, Ten, with the vulnerable and cathartic ‘Neverwannago’. The record features songs written by their closest friends, and this one was cwritten by Paige Pfleger, who also starsin the music video directed by J.D. Biskner. Ten is out May 19.
Black Honey – ‘Dead’
Black Honey have announced a new full-length, Soak, for release on August 15. They’ve also shared its lead single ‘Dead’, which alludest to A Clockwork Orange: “And you couldn’t decide to stab my back or my eyes/ Oh no, I know what you like/ Just press on the knife.” Frontwoman Izzy B. Phillips commented: “Soak is me processing a decade of touring and creating music and art as an addict. It’s me picking at the layers of messy, romantic, confusing, woozy, beautiful and fucked up things. Who I thought I was, who I was supposed to be and who looks back at me now are all so different but I’m kind of here for it.”
Age of Apocalypse – ‘Impulse’ [feat. High Vis]
High Vis frontman Graham Sayle joins Age of Apocalypse on their pummeling new single, ‘Impulse’. It’s taken from their forthcoming LP In Oblivion, which AOA recorded with Taylor Young. “‘Impulse’ lyrically is just emphasizing that empathy is not weakness,” Dylan Kaplowitz explained. It’s suggesting that looking through the eyes of someone else one might be able to find peace. It’s specifically touching on police violence and the dehumanizing protocols that are sometimes taken to exert “the law.”
