18 New Songs Out Today to Listen To: David Byrne, La Dispute, 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 Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
David Byrne – ‘Everybody Laughs’
‘Everybody Laughs’ is the lead single from David Byrne’s just-announced album Who Is the Sky?, which features St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, the Smile drummer Tom Skinner, and others. “Someone I know said, ‘David, you use the word ‘everybody’ a lot,’” he explained. “I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it. Everybody lives, dies, laughs, cries, sleeps and stares at the ceiling. Everybody’s wearing everybody else’s shoes, which not everybody does, but I have done. I tried to sing about these things that could be seen as negative in a way balanced by an uplifting feeling from the groove and the melody, especially at the end, when St. Vincent and I are doing a lot of hollering and singing together. Music can do that—hold opposites simultaneously.”
La Dispute – ‘Environmental Catastrophe Film’
La Dispute’s astounding nine-minute track ‘Environmental Catastrophe Film’ serves as the second act of their new album No One Was Driving the Car, according to frontman Jordan Dreyer. “more or less the thematic center of the record — is a single song split into three parts. it begins with a boy beside a creek-bed in a wooded area near home, holding a snapping turtle above the flowing water, before tracing its winding path to the river around which the city was first built, and through a brief history of the city itself — its settlement, the creation of the christian reformed church, and the furniture industry that dominated its early economic growth.”
“from there we return to the boy beside the creek,” Dreyer continued. “he sees his own lack of control in the flailing creature he holds, then again at church, listening to a sermon delivered on the calvinist doctrines of predestination, man’s innate and total depravity, and the irresistible grace of his family’s god. at the end of it, he returns for the first time in adulthood to that same church, at the funeral of an old friend dead by suicide, from which the conversation shifts back to the creek as metaphor for life and time, and to what we ultimately maintain the least control over in life: that we can change neither the fact it moves nor the direction it ceaselessly does.”
Dreyer concluded: “in the final section, the city’s history of the furniture manufacturing returns as additional metaphor, presenting us as un-hewn wood, locked within the lathe of time and against its blade turned, to carve away with each rotation fragments of self en route to new forms — perhaps useful, perhaps beautiful, perhaps not. and as the layers shaved away fall to ground, they are swept up at day’s end and thrown inside the furnace: to burn and be breathed in as smoke, felt as heat, and to return one day as rain from the atmosphere in which they’ve dissipated. what’s left on the lathe is given purpose—placed as slats in chair backs or as table legs — and from this image the focus narrows again: to life with another—where, ultimately, the narrator finds his own comfort against the tumult — via the furniture moved and used by them from one shared home to another, and the person with whom he’s shared them.”
Margo Price – ‘Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down’
Margo Price has announced a new LP, Hard Headed Woman, arriving August 29 on Loma Vista. It’s led by the empowering track ‘Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down’, of which Price said: “I always hope to do like Johnny Cash did, which is speak up for the common man and woman. But there have been so many threats and anger and vitriol over the years, when I am only coming from a place of love. So I made the decision to rebuild everything from the ground up. I hope this album inspires people to be fearless and take chances and just be unabashedly themselves, in a culture that tries as hard as it can to beat us into all being the same.”
Japanese Breakfast – ‘My Baby (Got Nothing at All)’
Japanese Breakfast has shared her dreamy, airy contribution to the soundtrack of Celine Song’s new A24 movie Materialists. ‘My Baby (Got Nothing at All)’ set to to appear on the soundtrack, out June 13, alongside a pair of Baby Rose tracks.
Field Medic – ‘MELANCHOLY’
Field Medic has announced a new album called surrender instead, out August 8, with the mellifluous new song ‘MELANCHOLY’. “After getting sober, years in therapy, and for the first time taking an antidepressant, I would still sometimes suffer from days or weeks of stifling depression,” Kevin Patrick Sullivan explained. “Experiencing that unique and dreadful feeling comes as quite a shock when you’ve been ‘doing the work’ and ‘healing’ in the ways that I had been, and still am. I had just read William Styron’s Darkness Visible, which is his memoir about his time in the throes of a depressive episode. Having also recently written a doo-wop song for a pitch for sync, the ’50s chord progression was fresh in my mind, as well as the examination of melancholy as a lifelong disease that waxes and wanes, but may never go away entirely.”
Iron & Wine – ‘Robin’s Egg’ [feat. I’m With Her]
Iron & Wine has teamed up with I’m With Her, with whom he’s about to embark on a co-headlining tour, for an endearing new single called ‘Robin’s Egg’. “I had the start of ‘Robin’s Egg’ kicking around and began finishing the tune earlier this year with I’m With Her in mind,” Sam Beam explained. “We had already started to plan our summer tour together; I passed it to them with the hope they were up for adding their voices to it and lucky for me they were! I’m looking forward to performing it, and a few other surprises, with them this summer.”
Moving Mountains – ‘Ghosts’
Moving Mountains have detailed their first album in 12 years, Pruning of the Lower Limbs. The Westchester County quartet’s follow-up to their 2013 self-titled record is out June 26, and it’s led by the ethereal ‘Ghosts’.
Mavis Staples – ‘Godspeed’ (Frank Ocean Cover)
Mavis Staples has offered her take on Frank Ocean’s ‘Godspeed’. The cover was produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee) and features spoken word vocals by Kara Jackson. “Channel Orange was my first introduction to Frank Ocean and I was just amazed at the writing and soulfulness coming from his voice,” the singer shared. “And I loved Blonde when that record came out. That first line in ‘Godspeed’ of ‘I will always love you’ just crushes me every time I hear it…or sing it. It’s just such a beautiful song and he sounds amazing on it so I was a little nervous if we could pull it off. I was honored to sing his words.”
Daphni – ‘Sad Piano House’
Dan Snaith has shared a new single under the Daphni name, ‘Sad Piano House’. The title might point in the direction of Snaith’s Caribou project, but he puts a uniquely dancey spin on the melancholy, so it makes sense under this moniker too. “i dj’ed a lot last year in the lead up to the caribou album and inevitably ended up making a bunch of new music to play out in those sets,” he explained. “i’d made this one but knew that i wasn’t sure about it or when it would ever get a release so i sent it over to ben ufo and he started playing it and people started asking me about it. now i’ve finally got a chance to finish it off and release it. i’d given it the temporary title ‘sad piano house’ when i sent it because it’s piano house… but, you know, not that kind of piano house… i didn’t really intend for that to be the final track title but once it appeared in a couple of tracklists for radio shows and people started asking about it, the title stuck.”
Rocket – ‘Crossing Fingers’
Following ‘Take Your Aim’ and ‘One Million’, Rocket have come through with another exciting track called ‘Crossing Fingers’. It’s “the story of falling so deep into a partnership with someone and bearing the weight of the fear of messing it all up,” according to vocalist and bassist Alithea Tuttle Knowing that changing for them would mean sacrificing yourself, but not being able to help the feeling of wanting to change for them. Hoping that the two of you can grow together over years and years, but not knowing if that is even in the cards for you. Knowing that only time will tell.”
Nick León – ‘Crush’ and ‘Millennium Freak’
Nick León has teased his upcoming album A Tropical Entropy with two enchanting new songs, ‘Crush’ and ‘Millennium Freak’.
Nuovo Testamento – ‘Picture Perfect’
Nuovo Testamento have shared a dizzying new song called ‘Picture Perfect’, which opens their upcoming EP Trouble. The five-track project arrives July 25 on Discoteca Italia.
Lisa/Liza – ‘Summer’s Dust’
Portland, Maine singer-songwriter Lisa Victoria has announced a new EP, Ocean Path, which compiles her early home recordings. Lead single ‘Summer’s Dust’ is totally mesmerizing. “Ocean Path is a look back at the first songs I made in my teens and early twenties, including some of my very first recordings, such as ‘Gamble’,” Victoria shared. “For me, it is a letter from my younger self. This cassette leads down paths of memory, reminding me we are always becoming and growing into who we are and what will be. There is a peace and sense of pride in holding these songs now in the form of a curated cassette, giving them a place to be. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to share my inner world with others. And now I see where that lead me and feel gratitude for the path set out before me
“Each song holds time between it, at least a year between each, love and memory, and different worlds of view, threads between them,” she added. “As much as I hope this cassette shares a small piece of me with others, it is also a little sign on the road that says ‘keep going’. Knowing all there is that encourages the path to roll forward, friends, different lives, and loves met along the way, encouraging me to hit record and to sing a little louder. It feels hopeful and is a feeling of being held.”
Stay Inside – ‘Super Sonic’
Recent Tiny Engines signees Stay Inside have shared a propulsive new song called ‘Super Sonic’. According to singer Chris Johns, it’s “quite literally about me doing drugs on my sofa with someone in an attempt to manufacture some sort of emotional connection for myself.”
Cardinals – ‘Big Empty Heart’
Cardinals have shared a ghostly track called ‘Big Empty Heart’, “a love song written from beyond the grave,” per frontman Euan Manning. “It is a waltz, as waltzes are the most romantic kinds of songs. Oskar wrote the main melody on a Korg synthesiser when he was 12, and the song is built around that.”
Equipment – ‘espresso lemonade’
Equipment have dropped a new song called ‘espresso lemonade’ which is catchy and endearing. “Well, I, for one/ I think it’s really punk/ Of you to get a real job,” Josh Zander sings. “We’ve had our fun/ Should probably be done/ Getting wasted every day.”
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin – ‘Yek’
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin have announced Ghosted III, their third album together, releasing on August 29. They’ve previewed it today with the hypnotic opening track, ‘Yek’, alongside a music video by Maximilien Luc Proctor.
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