23 New Songs Out Today

So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. We update a playlist weekly of some of our current favorite tracks. Here’s a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.

KAE TEMPEST – “STATUE IN THE SQUARE”

“I love this song. I love everything about how we made it, I love how it feels to deliver these lyrics and how it was to shoot the video,” Kae Tempest says of “Statue in the Square” which has a chorus of “They never wanted people like you round here, but when I’m dead they’ll put a statue in the square.” They add, “I am so grateful for the amount of energy raised by everyone involved. There is power in showing up for yourself and showing up for your people. I hope this song powers you up. I hope it moves you.”

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LINDSTRØM – “CIRKI”

Norwegian dance great Lindstrøm will release new album Sirius Syntoms on May 23 via his own Feedelity label. He says the title of first single “Cirki” feels like “the perfect fit for this moment. It symbolizes the sense of coming full circle for me as I relaunch Feedelity, the label I established in 2003, where I released all my early Lindstrøm material. The track taps into the same energy I explored with those early releases, while also pushing into new sounds and ideas. It’s minimal in structure, with a warm and uplifting energy.”

Sirius Syntoms by Lindstrøm

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SLEIGH BELLS – “THIS SUMMER”

The propulsive “This Summer,” the latest single from Sleigh Bells’ new album Bunky Becky Birthday Boy, jumps from chiptune to hyperpop and beyond. ““We joked around about writing our version of a summer song, but since it’s 2025 it had to have a twist,” they say. “Not comparing us to these bands, but musically I think Derek mentioned The Cars and Ramones when he was working on the intro, verse and pre-chorus, and I was listening to The Shangri-Las a lot while messing around with melodies. RIP Mary Weiss, you are missed.”

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INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK – “SISTER”

London’s Index For Working Musik have shared a second single from their upcoming album Which Direction Goes The Beam that’s out April 4 via Tough Love. Of it, they say, “Old world refuses a new one to be born, enforcing its Jurassic ways with a belt in his hand, and the unjustified killing going on.”

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FLYING LOTUS – “IT’S OUT THERE”

Ahead of the arrival of his new film, Ash, in theaters on Friday, Flying Lotus has given us another preview of its soundtrack with the foreboding “It’s Out There.”

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PREOCCUPATIONS – “BASTARDS”

Here’s the second single from Preoccupations upcoming album Ill At Ease. “Bastards” adds a bit of early-’80s synthpop to their taut post-punk sound. “The well of dark things to write about seemingly has not dried up, and lyrically, it’s where I still tend to draw from,” says frontman Matt Flegel. “Draining all my anxieties into a song is often the only way I can get through a day. Some songs exist in a world with barren plains of burnt earth, covered in a dust of shame, dread, death, where all the things I love are things that kill me,” explains Flegel. “Some come from the perspective of another distant world, looking skyward into a science fiction ocean of space, solitude, slight hope. Sometimes I’m looking around at the world that we live in now with incredulity, hilariously dissatisfied with how it’s all turned out, and assuming that it can’t be long before it’s all over. Some songs are just a reflection of me looking down at my feet while I trudge along wondering what I’m doing with myself, and if the ground is going to fall out from underneath me at any given moment.”

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ALEX ORANGE DRINK – “EVERYTHING IS BROKEN”

Alex Orange Drink calls his new single “Everything is Broken” “A system, a heart, a nation, a spirit,” saying, “Recorded and mixed after harrowing radiation sessions, this song explores the hopelessness that tries to swallow us in the darkest night and the light that rises in the morning. It’s an embrace of imperfection, depression and brokenness. Was it Leonard Cohen, Jeff Lewis or Luke Chiaruttini who said, ‘It’s the ones who’ve cracked that the light shines through’ – that ‘there’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’? It’s been said many times, in many ways, by many optimistic pessimists. When something collapses in hate, it can be re-built with love. Everything is broken, maybe that’s OK.” It’s from his new album Victory Lap (#23).

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MARIKA HACKMAN & LAURA MARLING – “SKIN”

Marika Hackman’s We Slept at Last turns 10 this year and to she says it “felt like the perfect time to have a little refresh of one of my all time favourites from that record.” Here’s a new version of “Skin” featuring Laura Marling.

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DOMINO KIRKE – “STEPCHILD”

Domino Kirke’s new album The Most Familiar Star is out next month, and she’s given us another preview with “Stepchild.” “I wrote ‘Stepchild’ about my time in the ‘hallway’ as a parent,” she says. “I wasn’t a single Mum anymore because I was in a relationship, but I wasn’t married yet. I wrote this as sort of goodbye letter to my former partner, and also as a welcome letter to my new partner. Kinda like, ‘this is how to love us, ‘but also ‘man, I really hope I don’t have to put my kid through anymore major life changes.’I like to write very openly about family systems and dynamics in my songs. Step families can have a lot of stigma attached to them. My brother had a stepdad (my father) and it was always a really fascinating and confused me growing up. Intellectually I knew we had ‘different dads’ but emotionally I never felt a separation. I explore people’s experiences of blended families on both of my albums. It mirrors the inner work over been doing in my life since I became a parent sixteen years ago. Work I know we’re all doing on some level.”

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ANDY BELL (ERASURE) – “DANCE FOR MERCY”

“Sometimes I wonder how many lives (God, or whatever you wanna call it) has given me: from heart attacks, to HIV, to being run over as a kid, nearly drowning in the sea and smashing over the handlebars of my bicycle into a brick wall,” says Erasure’s Andy Bell of his new solo single. “I have no idea why any of us are here, so it’s best just to have a bloody good dance!” New album Ten Crowns is out May 2.

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ROI TURBO – “BOBO SPIRIT”

South African electronic duo Roi Turbo will release the Bazooka EP on April 25 via Maison Arts. With the news comes new single “Bobo Spirit” that definitely has an early-’90s baggy Manchester thing going on.

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THE NULL CLUB (GILLA BAND) – “FRAMESHIFT” (FEAT. ELUCID)

The Null Club, aka Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan-Borges, will release his self-titled EP on April 4 which includes collaborations with The Horrors’ Faris Badwan, Mandy Indina’s Valentine Caulfield and, on “Frameshift,” ELUCID of Armand Hammer.

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SPEEDWAY – “PASSION PLAY”

One of the best melodic hardcore bands in the world right now is Sweden’s Speedway, and their upcoming debut LP for Revelation Records A Life’s Refrain (produced by Ned & Ben Russin of Title Fight) is gonna be a whopper. Here’s the second single.

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WILLIAM J. CANNING (DEATH BELLS) & CRYOGEYSER – “LOCK OF LOVE”

Cryogeyser just recently released their very good self-titled sophomore album, which includes a collaboration with Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman, and now Cryogeyser vocalist Shawn Marom has done another collab, this time as the guest lead vocalist on a new song by Death Bells’ William J. Canning. Read what Shawn and William each had to say about it by clicking their names.

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NOAH CYRUS & FLEET FOXES – “DON’T PUT IT ALL ON ME”

I guess Noah Cyrus is the indie-iest member of the Cyrus family, ’cause she recently duetted with Bill Callahan on an Everything Is Recorded song and now she sings alongside Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold on her own new single, “Don’t Put It All On Me.”

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DUENDITA – “BABY TEETH”

New York’s duendita has announced a new project, A Strong Desire to Survive, due April 4 via MIKE’s 10k label, and here’s the soulful art pop piano ballad “Baby Teeth.”

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EYES – “SAVE FACE ON A REGULAR BASIS” (ft. KEN MODE’S JESSE MATTHEWSON)

Copenhagen metalpunks EYES (members of LLNN) have shared another taste of their upcoming third album (and Prosthetic debut), and this one’s a rager that features Jesse Matthewson of KEN mode.

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HEXVESSEL – “A DARK & GRACEFUL WILDERNESS”

Finnish dark psychedelic folk/rock band Hexvessel have announced their seventh album, Nocturne, due June 13 via Prophecy Productions. On lead single “A Dark & Graceful Wilderness,” they sound as entrancing as ever.

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QUICKLY, QUICKLY – “TAKE IT FROM ME”

quickly, quickly’s new album I Heard That Noise arrives April 18 via Ghostly International and here’s the bedroom-poppy new single.

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SATSUMA (ex-THE REPTILIAN) – “ANIMUSIC”

Satsuma is a new screamo band featuring Dan Riehl, drummer/vocalist of Michigan emo/math rock vets The Reptilian, and they’re gearing up to release their debut EP This Is My Outside Voice next week (3/28) via Tomb Tree Tapes. Read more about new single “Animusic” here.

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SHAMIR – “NEVERWANNAGO”

Shamir shared the first single off what he says is his final solo album, which you can read more about here.

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DEERHOOF – “IMMIGRANT SONGS”

Deerhoof just announced their 20th album (!) and this song was initially shared through Craigslist.

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SMERZ – “YOU GOT TIME AND I GOT MONEY”

Smerz announced a new album and gave us a second preview with “You got time and I got money.” Read more about it here.

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