16 New Songs Out Today to Listen To: Wednesday, Titanic, and More
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, June 18, 2025.
Wednesday – ‘Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)’
It’s another Wednesday kind of Wednesday. A few weeks ago, Wednesday returned with the excellent and remarkably sweet ‘Elderberry Wine’, and today they’re sharing another single along with the announcement of a new album called Bleeds. In addition to calling it a “spiritual successor to Rat Saw God” and “the quintessential ‘Wednesday Creek Rock’ album,” frontwoman Karly Hartzman also described the album as “what Wednesday songs are supposed to sound like,” and the band makes its case with the feral and piercing ‘Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)’. “This song is inspired by a story my friend told me, from when he had to pull a body out of a creek in West Virginia,” Hartzman explained, though the lyrical imagery speaks for itself. “Someone had drowned but they took a few days to resurface because of the current.” She added, “’I wound up here by holdin on’ is a line from my friend Evan Gray’s poetry book: Thickets Swamped In A Fence-Coated Briars. He gave me and Jake [Lenderman] a copy of it to read on tour once and that line stuck out to me as pure genius so I stole it and wrote the rest of the song in my own words around it.”
Titanic – ‘Gotera’
Titanic – the Mexico City-based duo of composers Héctor Tosta (aka I. la Católica) and Mabe Fratti – have announced a new LP. Hagen is set to arrive September 5 via Unheard of Hope, and it’s led by ‘Gotera’, which is punishing, hypnotic, and totally breathtaking. “The lyrics started as we were thinking about keeping up and moving forward as everything around us is on fire,” Titanic shared. “The original composition was created for a residency in the Netherlands called Gaudeamus and we continued working on it for this album, so we could dive deeper into it. Eli Keszler improvises drums at the ending, and one of the things that we love the most about it is the vocal harmonies.”
múm – ‘Mild at Heart’
múm have announced their first new album since 2013’s Smilewound. The Icelandic outift’s new effort is called History of Silence, and it’s out September 19 via Morr Music. Lead single ‘Mild at Heart’ is appropriately muted and intimate. The whole LP was recorded, deconstructed, and completed over the course of two years.
Steve Gunn – ‘Slow Singers on the Hill’
If you’re like me, you find instrumental music pretty conducive to writing. Which means that when a great instrumentalist (who also happens to be a great singer-songwriter) announces a record Music for Writers, I’m especially intrigued. Steve Gunn’s new solo album arrives August 15 on Three Lobed Recordings, and it’s previewed today by ‘Slow Singers on the Hill’, which gave me pause. “Mixed by Ernie Indradat, Music for Writers reflects an important aspect of my practice—one that is less about song and more about atmosphere and the in-between,” Gunn reflected. “I hope it offers something subtle but steady: a ground for thought, a companion for work, daydreaming, grief, happiness, sadness, or simply a place to rest.”
Madi Diaz – ‘Something to Burn’
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Madi Diaz has released ‘Something to Burn’, a lovely new song for the soundtrack of The Buccaneers, the Apple TV+ series based on Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel. The second season of show is out today, and Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa served as the executive producer of the soundtrack.
Blush – ‘X My Heart’
Blush have announced a new album, Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever, due out August 1 via Kanine. The bright, gauzy lead cut ‘X My Heart’ arrives today with a video directed by Goh Koon How.
The Armed – ‘Kingbreaker’
The Armed have released a new cut forthcoming album, THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED. The furious ‘Kingbreaker’, which happens to follow last week’s “NO KINGS” protests in the US, arrives with a music video directed by Aaron Jones and Tony Wolski.
Billie Marten – ‘Clover’
Billie Marten has released ‘Clover’, the fifth offering from her forthcoming album, Dog Eared. “A song about feeling small but needing to appear big,” Marten commented. “It’s a note on power and inequality. Most of this record talks about age and experience and relevance, something that’s clogged my mind since I began music. I carry a lot of premature worry with me, and that’s something that comes from starting an adult life as a teenager I suppose. I gained the human affliction of inventing things before they happen. I’m a multitude of anxieties.”
Goon – ‘Begin Here’
Goon have released a new song, ‘Begin Her’, taken from their forthcoming LP Dream 3. “I had this reversed guitar progression kicking around for a little while, and I showed a demo version to Tamara on tour sometime in 2023,” Kenny Becker explained. “She insisted on putting it on the next record. Lyrically, it became a meditation on heartbreak. Feeling like some kind of maimed and dying animal in the middle of a canyon, or something. Tamara was really there for me during that heartbreak so it felt right to mention her in the song.”
Wombo – ‘Neon Bog’
Wombo have shared a shadowy, haunting single from their forthcoming album, Danger in Fives. “‘Neon Bog’ is a song about a simple time I had with a friend and reflecting back on that and how relationships change over time,” bassist/vocalist Sydney Chadwick explained. “And how things get murky kind of like how the song feels which inspired the lyrics for me.”
Sydney Minsky Sargeant – ‘I Don’t Wanna’
Sydney Minsky Sargeant, of the Manchester outift Working Men’s Club, has announced his debut solo album, Lunga, arriving on September 12 via Domino. Lead single ‘I Don’t Wanna’ is sparkly and touching, circling around the refrain, “If loving this is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right.” Of the record, he said, “I’m trying to wear my heart-on-my-sleeve a bit more, these songs come from a search for meaning and understanding. I’m always trying to unpick myself and those around me, the ones I love and loved the most. There were thoughts and feelings that these songs helped me express, address and make sense of.”
Forth Wanderers – ‘Bluff’
A month from now, Forth Wanderers will release their new album for Sub Pop, The Longer This Goes On, and today they’ve shared an affecting single called ‘Bluff’. It arrives with a visual animated and directed by the band’s Ben Guterl.
deBasement – ‘Aperol Spritz’
deBasement – the project of Special Interest’s Alli Logout and producer/DJ Margo XS have released a bubbly, energetic new single called ‘Aperol Spritz’. It’s billed as an “ode to those moments before the cork rips off the bottle and all hell breaks loose at the function.”
Acopia – ‘Falter
“Even if I fall/ I will never falter,” Kate Durman sings on ‘Falter’, the mesmerizing, immediate lead single from Naarm/Melbourne trio Acopia’s just-announced LP, Blush Response. “It’s more grand than anything we’ve written previously,” they explained in a statement. “After many iterations, we settled on something anthemic, short and to the point, both lyrically and sonically.”
Mark William Lewis – ‘Still Above’
Acopia have opened for bar italia on tour, and Mark William Lewis, once a touring drummer for bar italia, has today announced his self-titled album. The first artist to sign to A24 Music will release Mark William Lewis on September 12. The lead single ‘Still Above’, which arrives with a video by Molly Valdez and Judson Valdez, is hypnotically groovy and fuzzy. According to Lewis, the track “is the morning after an argument. You are trying to remember what happened the night before but the memories are blurry. Part of you wants to repair the emotional wreckage, but another part of you wants to stay in bed and relax into the familiar comforts of conflict.”
End It – ‘Pale Horse’
Baltimore hardcore outfit End It have announced their debut full-length, Wrong Side of Heaven, which they recorded with Brian McTiernan. It’s out August 28 via Flatspot, and the ferocious new single ‘Pale Horse’ is out now.
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