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, March 12, 2025.
Haim – ‘Relationships’
Haim are back with a new song, ‘Relationships’, their first new music since contributing ‘Home’ to Barbie the Album in 2023. Accompanied by a Camille Summers-Valli-directed music video starring Queer actor Drew Starkey, it’s a deceptively breezy tune that deals with the titular subject with the kind of genuine curiosity most of us tend to evade.
billy woods – ‘Misery’
billy woods is back with news of his next solo LP, GOLLIWOG, which is led by the Kenny Segal-produced, beguiling ‘Misery’. Offering some context on the album title, the rapper said, “When I was nine years old, I wrote a story about an evil golliwog. My mother read it and told me it was overly derivative and needed some work. Here we are.”
Lucy Dacus – ‘Talk’
The latest Lucy Dacus single, ‘Talk’, is dynamic and damning while still easing the listener in. “Why can’t we talk anymore?/ We used to talk for hours/ Do I make you nervous or bored?” she sings. It’s set to will appear on the singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album Forever Is a Feeling.
Erin Durant – ‘If Love Had a Name’
Erin Durant has announced a new album, Firetrail, arriving May 16 on Ruination Record Co.. Produced by Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, the LP was recorded during the summer pandemic of 2021 at Sonic Ranch. It’s led by the stirring and beautifully atmospheric ‘If Love Had a Name’, on which she sings, “If love had a name/ I would call it yours/ And love you came around my door/ And changed my life/ For sure.”
Sumac and Moor Mother – ‘Hard Truth’
SUMAC and Moor Mother have unveiled ‘Hard Truth’, the latest preview of their upcoming collaborative album The Film. Featuring additional vocals by Candice Hoyes, the track, which lasts less than two minutes, throbs and haunts in equal measure.
The Film by SUMAC and Moor Mother
Julia Sanders – ‘Dark Matter’
Julia Sanders has announced her third album, Dark Matter, with the Esther Rose-assisted title track, which introduces the theme of tackling difficult questions rather than looking for answers. “This song became a way to write about the unknowns we live with every day and the ways in which we try so hard to create meaning,” Sanders explained. “It begins with a line about the seemingly endless instinct to wonder why, but the older I get, the more I resonate with the later verse: ‘The only thing to master/ Live in question need no answer.’” She added: “One of my favorite things in this world is singing with Esther. I love the way she builds harmony and the unique way our voices click together. Her bright notes in the chorus mixed with that little riff from Steve’s guitar makes me think of a shooting star, or a lightspeed jump in space.”
Hannah Cohen – ‘Dusty’
Catskills-based singer/songwriter Hannah Cohen has shared a new track from her upcoming LP Earthstar Mountain. ‘Dusty’, which is both lovely and emotionally complex, is “about the relentless passage of time that we will all experience, and the way beauty and sorrow intertwine at every turn,” according to Cohen.
Maia Friedman – ‘Russian Blue’
Maia Friedman has previewed her upcoming LP Goodbye Long Winter Shadow with new single, ‘Russian Blue’, which gently unfurls. “Imagine being 13 in 1999: there was a massive wave of movies and media that preached the ‘one true love,’ ‘will you find your soulmate’ concept,” Friedman explained. “I was consumed by romance, and was convinced I would never find love, because I already found my soulmate in a cat. It was completely naive, but what a vulnerable time, those early teenage years.” She continued: “Cats have, at times, shown me how to live; at once entirely independent with an ‘I don’t give a fuck’ demeanor, while at the same time being sensitive enough to paw on your door when you’re crying or lay in the crook of your body when you’re sick. They take time and space for themselves and soak in pools of sunlight, two of my favorite things in life.”
Thanya Iyer – ‘I am here now’
Montreal artist Thanya Iyer has unveiled ‘I am here now’, the opening track of her forthcoming album TIDE/TIED, which is both entrancing and grounding. “‘I am here now’ is a meditation on presence – on coming back into connection with ourselves and the world around us when everything is on fire,” Iyer explained. “It’s a mantra on staying open and engaged, moving through discomfort, slowing down, loving our bodies, and finding joy. For me, this song is deeply tied to my experience with chronic pain and the forces in the world that attempt to sever our connection to our bodies — How do we come back into conversation with our bodies and the stories they carry? Through it all, we find new ways to listen, to love, to awaken.”
Lil Nas X – ‘Swish’
Lil Nas X has dropped a new single for the third day in a row: the swaggering ‘Swish’ follows ‘Dreamboy’ and ‘Big Dummy!’. They’re all presumably from a new album called Dreamboy.
Mclusky – ‘people person’
Mclusky have shared a new song from their reunion LP the world is still here and so are we, the frenetic ‘people person’. “‘people person’ is the song that gave me tinnitus, so asking me about it is really cruel,” Andrew Falkous remarked. “It’s probably about being overwhelmed by the world because that’s what all of our songs are about.”
Étienne de Crécy – ‘Rising Soul’ [feat. Damon Albarn]
Damon Albarn joins Étienne de Crécy on the new single ‘Rising Soul’, which is stirring and understated. It will appear on the veteran French DJ-producer’s new record Warm Up, which arrives this Friday. Dancer Marie Louise Hertog stars in the accompanying video, directed by Étienne and Marie de Crécy.
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