There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s arduous to maintain monitor. On these days when the inflow of latest tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift by way of the noise to deliver you a curated record of essentially the most attention-grabbing new releases (the most effective of which can be added to our Finest New Songs playlist). Under, take a look at our monitor roundup for Monday, June 23, 2025.
Caroline Polachek – ‘On the Seashore’
Caroline Polachek’s lumbering, hypnotic new tune, ‘On the Seashore’, is her contribution to the soundtrack for the brand new PlayStation 5 online game Loss of life Stranding 2: On the Seashore, which is out this week. Accompanied by an alternate ‘Timefall Combine’, the monitor was co-produced with Danny L Harle and co-written with Harle and Hideo Kojima, the sport’s author, director, and designer. “I used to be listening to Caroline Polachek final yr and have become a giant fan of hers,” Kojima stated in a latest interview. “After I put that on my Instagram, she contacted me, after which she DM’ed. We saved in contact after which ultimately met up in Paris, and that’s when she instructed me she needed to write down a brand new tune for Loss of life Stranding 2. She works very quick. You heard her tune once you noticed the Plate Gate — it’s known as ‘On the Seashore’.”
In a press launch, Polachek shared: “‘On The Seashore’ was really one of many first songs I ever made with Danny L Harle, however it was too alien and industrial- virtually too evil – to work sense on Pang, so I set it apart til the fitting factor got here alongside. When Kojima approached me about DS2, I confirmed him the sketch of it and he agreed that it was an ideal match, and so eight years after beginning this tune, it obtained reopened, prolonged, and completed for the right setting.”
Moist Leg – ‘davina mccall’
Moist Leg have put ‘davina mccall’, the third single of their upcoming album moisturizer, which is breezier and extra relaxed than the primary two. The sweetness is suitable: it’s “a tune about pure, unadulterated devotion,” in line with a press launch.
The Lemonheads – ‘Within the Margin’
The Lemonheads have launched a fuzzy, infectious new tune known as ‘Within the Margin’, which accompanies the announcement that their new album Love Chant can be out October 24. “I needed to have a riffy tune, so I wrote riffs throughout it,” Evan Dando stated of the monitor. “The physique of the tune was Marciana’s. It’s like a full-on eighth grade woman revenge tune: ‘Stupidly I left the escape plans out so they might discover my means.’”
Superchunk – ‘No Hope’
Superchunk’s newest single, off their forthcoming Songs Within the Key of Yikes, delivered to thoughts a tune I haven’t considered in a very long time: the Vaccines’ fairly nice 2012 single of the identical. It’s not shocking you’ll be able to spin the identical phrases right into a refrain today, and Superchunk’s is fairly catchy, too. “The final…10 (?) years have given us loads of materials for crushing nights and countless days, and this rollercoaster is simply happening in the meanwhile, however right here we’re singing,” Mac McCaughan commented.
Ada Lea – ‘one thing within the wind’
“I had a dream about this tune and keep in mind nothing,” Ada Lea stated of ‘one thing within the wind’, the most recent single from her forthcoming LP when i paint my masterpiece, which pulls you proper into its spell. “There’s a fixed in everybody’s life, which is the dream. After we recorded the tune, Luke, who produced it, steered we sluggish it down so Tasy may improvise a busy drum solo. Then, Jonas, engineer, sped the tune as much as its common velocity. Like a slowed down wink to Leonard Cohen himself.”
Golden Apples – ‘Noonday Demon’
Golden Apples have introduced a brand new document, Taking pictures Star – September 19 – with the gauzy, fuzzed-out ‘Noonday Demon’. In line with bandleader Russell Edling, the tune “addresses the way in which anxiousness and paranoia could make you type of lose monitor of your self and your identification — turning your world the wrong way up and alienating you from the individuals round you on the similar time.”
Kae Tempest – ‘Diagnoses’
Kae Tempest has dropped ‘Diagnoses’, the third single from the forthcoming Self Titled LP, Co-produced by Fraser T Smith and Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers, the monitor is “a Summer season banger about antipsychotics and HRT,” within the artist’s personal phrases. “And loving one another no matter how psychological we’re.”
Kneecap – ‘THE RECAP’
Kneecap have formally launched ‘THE RECAP’, their defiant single that includes drum & bass artist Mozey. Taking goal at UK politician Kemi Badenoch, the tune was beforehand obtainable on SoundCloud and is being shared on streaming forward of the group’s Glastonbury efficiency.
Horsepower – ‘Cash’
Horsepower – the moniker of the New York-based singer-songwriter Charlotte Weinman – has shared a brand new single known as ‘Cash’. That includes contributions from brothers Noah (aka Runnner) and Ben Weinman, the mission was impressed by the likes of Gap, Sleater-Kinney, and Lomelda, although this new monitor additionally brings to thoughts Samia with a extra pronounced slowcore affect. “That is the primary tune I wrote for the EP,” Weinman stated. “I began writing it the evening my accomplice of a few years and I made a decision to interrupt up. The model I wrote that evening was like 1,000,000 verses longer and the lyrics have been fully uncooked and pathetic, which I say with love. They have been open wounds. The one lyrics that stay from that first move is the refrain. As I’ve gotten distance from the state of affairs that begot the tune, lots of my unhappiness has been energized, and I’ve been extra keen on exploring the anger. So we fanged this tune, too. It’s been enjoyable watching individuals connect with it once we play it dwell.”
Coral Grief – ‘Paint By Quantity’
Seattle trio Coral Grief have previewed their debut album, Air Between Us, with a mesmerizing new tune known as ‘Paint By Quantity’. “For this tune, we began enjoying round with rhythmic parts that have been enjoyable to bounce off of one another,” the band stated. “It developed right into a contemplation on studying methods to deliver liveliness and colour into bleak occasions, which is a continuing effort today.” Who doesn’t resonate with that?
