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, July 8, 2025.

Geese – ‘Taxes’

Geese are back with news of their next album, Getting Killed. The follow-up to 2023’s 3D Country is set for release on September 26. Lead single ‘Taxes’, produced by Kenny Beats, is eerie and rattling before turning radiant. If Cameron Winter’s solo LP Heavy Metal won you over, this might be up your alley, too.

Neko Case – ‘Wreck’

Neko Case has announced a new album, Neon Grey Midnight Green, her first since 2018’s Hell-On. The self-produced record is led by the delightfully orchestral ‘Wreck’. “There are so few producers who are women, nonbinary, or trans,” Case commented. “People don’t think of us as an option. I’m proud to say I produced this record. It is my vision. It is my veto power. It is my taste.”

Hot Chip – ‘Devotion’

Hot Chip have announced their first greatest hits album, Joy in Repetition, arriving September 5 via Domino. To accompany to news, they’ve shared a resplendent single called ‘Devotion’, which is true to its title. The band’s Alexis Taylor calls it “a celebration of the devotion to doing this project together,” adding, “I think of Joe [Goddard] as being like Brian Wilson, with this huge dedication to finding how to make the most amazing pop music.”

Danny L Harle – ‘Starlight’  [feat. PinkPantheress]

“’Starlight’ reaches for a kind of euphoric melancholy — a guiding light in all of my music,” Danny L Harle said of his new single, a balance perfectly struck by guest vocalist PinkPantheress. “It’s shaped by my love of the melancholic songwriting traditions of Europe from composers like Monteverdi and John Dowland, all the way to 90s Eurodance and the uplifting trance of the 2000s — artists like Gigi D’Agostino and Alice Deejay. PinkPantheress is the dream collaborator for this song, her love for ornamental melodies and hypnotic lyricism fit perfectly into my sound world.”

La Dispute – ‘Self-Portrait Backwards’, ‘The Field’, ‘Sibling Fistfight at Mom’s Fiftieth / The Un-Sound’, ‘Landlord Calls The Sheriff In’, and ‘Steve’

We recently named La Dispute’s nine-minute track ‘Environmental Catastrophe Film’, which serves as the second act of their new album No One Was Driving the Car, as one of the best songs of June. Today, the entirety of Act II is out, featuring five new songs. Frontman Jordan Dreyer expounded:

the next act encompasses in more focused detail the narrator’s look backwards down the path, beginning at their shared home in the present day, where the dissociation introduced in act one as almost entirely a self-inclosed thing trickles outward and troubles the comfort outlined in the last section of the song preceding it. he examines his own life through imagined self-portraits, in various sequences of time (fractions of days first, then weeks, months, years), and through multiple specific events. from there, four critically influential events from his earlier life are detailed in four songs:

first, a story from his early teenage years, where he and his brother—up north hunting with their father in the area where he and his own brother (the boys’ uncle, who has long lived far away elsewhere), and their father (who died when they were young)—stumble upon what they believe to be an abandoned paramilitary compound. in the middle of the field beside it they come to a hole dug in the ground full of deer carcasses. the narrator becomes fixated on the bodies below, unable to break his gaze from them, while the brother continues on toward the compound, a metaphor both for their diverging paths and for the obsessions/explanations that motivated them to take which ones they did.

the second song happens a few years later, at their mother’s fiftieth birthday party, where several siblings—drunk and airing internal grievances—fight on the basement staircase while their mother contemplates what role her own actions as a parent played in their arrival at that moment and in the conflicted history that led up to it. in the second half of the song, the siblings are gathered at the parents’ house again, years after the fight, for a quarterly group birthday celebration for several of their own children.

the third song occurs years on from there, with a pitch made to the partner of the narrator—working through undergrad at the time—from purveyors of a multi-level marketing company central to the history of grand rapids, and in some ways inextricably entwined with the christian reformed church mentioned earlier on the record (somewhat importantly, the rapture is invoked at the very end of the song, in a section discussing extraordinary wealth).

the final song centers around the friend whose funeral appeared earlier in act two, and is presented as reflections of their shared experiences together in youth, chiefly a snowy night drifting in a car together across an empty church parking lot, and the crash that occurred when the car spun on ice to slide sidelong into a curb and embankment. the end of the song harkens back heavily to the second section of act two (the song “Environmental Catastrophe Film”) and represents a full-circle consideration of the control dictated to him via exposure to calvinist teachings in childhood.

NewDad – ‘Roobosh’

Irish rock band NewDad have announced their second album, Altar, with the propulsive ‘Roobosh’. The song “is just about being fed up,” frontwoman Julie Dawson explained. “I wanted to write one song for the album that allowed me to shout, to get out all my frustration. Women get angry and we are expected to contain our rage but on this song I just allowed myself to go there. I wanted a song where I could moan and scream cause we all need to do that every once in a while and honestly it was just a bit of fun, letting myself get angry when I never allow myself to.”

Hand Habits – ‘Jasmine Blossoms’ and ‘Dead Rat’

Hand Habits has unveiled two gorgeous, meticulously crafted songs from their forthcoming album Blue Reminder. “This song really conjures for me the room and the time that I wrote it in—I was living in Mount Washington in LA, which is just such a beautiful, lush neighborhood,” Meg Duffy said of ‘Jasmine Blossoms’. “And there were (and are) these sort of unthinkable contradictions, between the beauty of the flowers and the trees and the birds around me, and then just being blasted with so much horrifying information and footage of war, death, and greed on the news and social media. This song is definitely not an answer to how to integrate those things, but I just wanted to try to sort of depict that experience, that one reality doesn’t negate the other. I come from a family where we don’t typically talk about the tragic or dysfunctional, which I think partly led to me being a songwriter who talks about pain and grief a lot, and at the same time, to being a person who tries to cultivate some joy, while everything falls apart.”

Of the more wistful ‘Dead Rat’, Duffy added: “There was an actual dead rat rotting in my wall. It was disgusting and I was living with the smell and couldn’t get to it, so there was truly nothing I could do but wait it out. It just became this metaphor for me on a number of levels: There are definitely things that I’ve done or been through that a part of me would rather put behind the wall and never think about again… but that’s not the way the psyche or healing works, and things will find their way out, whether it’s through a wretched smell or through acceptance or an open window, or all three.”

Hannah Frances – ‘Falling From and Further’

Hannah Frances has released a piercing new single, which serves as “a door into my next musical chapter, achieving the poignant vulnerability, grounded whimsy, and measured experimentalism that I strive for in my work,” according to the artist. “This song was a breakthrough for me in contending with the roots of my relational past, and holding space for the fragmented parts of me that are learning to trust through fear of abandonment.”

Shame – ‘Quiet Life’

Shame have previewed their upcoming album Cutthroat with the rockabilly-inspired track ‘Quiet Life’, which is “about someone in a shitty relationship,” according to vocalist Charlie Steen. “It’s about the judgment they receive and the struggle that they have to go through, trying to understand the conflict they face, of wanting a better life… but being stuck.”

Sex Week – ‘Lone Wolf’

Sex Week’s latest single, taken from their forthcoming Upper Mezzanine EP, is spooky yet vulnerable. “‘Lone Wolf’ is about communication and testing the limits of a relationship,” the duo of Pearl Dickson and Richard Orofino commented.

Marissa Nadler – ‘Hatchet Man’

Marissa Nadler has unveiled a stark, doomful new single from her self-produced LP New Radiations. “’Hatchet Man’ is about a sinister character bringing a woman home — not for romance, but to murder her –while the narrator, his partner, is made to witness it unfold,” she explained. “Ultimately, the storyteller escapes, adrenaline flooding her veins. The sweet, lilting melody of the chorus offers a stark contrast to the verses, where much of the tale is told. I enjoy twisting narratives, subverting tropes, and playing with perspective in my songs. The rest of the details are all in the song.”

mei ehara – ‘Kanashii Untenshu (Sad Driver)’

Tokyo-based artist mei ehara has announced a new album, All About McGuffin, due September 12 via KAKUBARHYTHM. It’s led by the slinky and hypnotic single ‘Kanashii Untenshu (Sad Driver)’ and keeps her music relatively stripped-down. “Even if I felt uneasy about whether it was enough, or whether people might say it wasn’t enough,” ehara remarked, “I was aware that I didn’t have to add anything. It was like I was naked.”

Google Earth – ‘meow meow’

Google Earth – the duo of songwriter and producer John Vanderslice and his longtime collaborator James Riotto – have announced a new album, Mac OS X 10.11, to follow up last year’s Street View. It’s out August 29. Gimmicky as it may sound, lead single ‘meow meow’ is sincerely vulnerable and wonderfully atmospheric. “I think Jamie and I are better now at the typical Google Earth process of starting with nothing and ending with something but who knows how that translates in the end,” Vanderslice shared. “GE seems to be good at confounding us, I still find the journey to be difficult and unsettling. It’s easier when you’re just writing a song with a verse/chorus.”

Michael Hurley – ‘Fava’

A posthumous album from the outsider folk legend Michael Hurley has been announced: Broken Homes and Gardens is out September 12 via No Quarter. Today, we get to hear one of its 11 tracks, the delightful ‘Fava’.

Indigo De Souza – ‘Be Like the Water’

I highly recommend you dive into ‘Be Like the Water’, the anthemic new offering from Indigo De Souza’s upcoming LP. “It’s about listening to your inner self and respecting your gut instinct,” De Souza explained. “My favorite lyric in the song is ‘you can leave if you want to, and you don’t have to say why.’ Whether it’s leaving the room, leaving the conversation, or leaving a toxic relationship, you have the power to make a change and life is too precious to waste your spirit.”

Legss – ‘909’

London outfit Legss have announced their debut album Unreal – out September 12 – and shared ‘909’, which is appropriately uneasy. “‘909’ has existed in various forms for a few years now,” the band explained. “There’s a 10-minute disco version somewhere. It’s a song that has developed with us and been rewritten at every stage, and now it’s in its final form: a stark, cubist, bass-driven day in the life of a nine-to-fiver addicted to radio podcasts.”