There’s always a lot of music coming out, so it’s hard to track. At a time when new trucks were particularly overwhelming, we sift through the noise and bring you a curated list of the most interesting new releases (the best that will be added to us) Best New Song Playlist). Below is a look at the track roundup for Thursday, March 20th, 2025.
Debbie Friday – “1/17”
Debbie Friday is back with the steamy “1/17,” a new song co-produced by Toronto artists with Darcy Baylis. The accompanying video was directed on Friday and by his frequent collaborator Kevan Funk. “It’s based on the fusion of two experiences I had,” commented Friday. “I first won a Polaris Award for Massey Hall. Massey Hall felt like the peak moment of my career. Second, nine months later, I never did a festival show to anyone in my audience. I’m separating myself from the highs and lows of this business and seeing what it all means.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs5g76tceio
Chanticeleste – “I’m thinking about you”
Shanti Celeste has released a new album, Romancearrives on May 16th and discovers that the Chilean DJ is singing the album for the first time. The meditative yet propulsive lead single, “Thinking About You,” was written in honor of a friend who passed away. “I’m thinking of you more than ever,” she sings over and over again. In a statement, Celeste said, “He was my first boyfriend, but he was also a really good friend. He was a really important person in my life.”
Sex Week – “Coat”
Sex Week, the Brooklyn duo of actor and musician Pearl Amanda Dixon, songwriter and producer Richard Orofino, is building in the world, founded with a self-titled debut EP. The song seems to continue sinking into oblivion, just above the surface, twisting its ominous, delicate voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-plgdrqcbho
BNNY – “Good Things (edit)” [feat. Wild Pink]
BNNY collaborates with John Ross of Wild Pink. One million love songs Highlight “Good’s one.” A new version that adds gritty quality to Ethereal tracks will be taken from the upcoming Deluxe Edition of the record. “‘Goodstaff’ is one of my favorite songs I’ve heard for a while, so I was really excited to work with Jess on the alternative version,” Ross said in a statement. “I’ve heard it over and over again. I thought it was a dream song and some heavy baritone guitars were a different approach to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_nwujqgqrq
Johanna Warren – “Nectar”
Johanna Warren is back with the new playful hypnotism song “Nectar,” which will appear in upcoming EPs Wind night. The project is based on a book of the same name that Warren drew and wrote at the age of three, and is called “33 years of collaboration between Johanna Warren and her three-year-old self.” “In some ways, this feels like the most frightening and vulnerable thing I’ve ever made,” Warren recalled. “Music is not about captivating people with sophisticated language or technical acrobatics, it’s about retrieving something pure and stupid.”
Angel Bat Dawid has released a new album created in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist and musician Naima Nefertari. Journey to Nabta Playaarrives via SpiritMuse on May 2nd. It is led by the foreshadowing “Equinox’s Procession,” partly inspired by a part of Virginia Hamilton. People could fly. “They say people can fly,” Hamilton wrote. “Tell me that in Africa a long time ago, some people knew magic. And they walked in the air like climbing up a gate, and they flew like black birds on the field.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w19zu36bgo
Nell Smith – “Billions”
Bella Union shared “Billions,” the latest offering from Nell Smith’s debut solo album after his death I’m worried. The driving single recalls the Canadian band Shred Kelly written in September 2022 in Ferny BC and visited the UK on a tour with Lips of Flames earlier that year. Shred Kelly commented: “We worked together every week on songwriting and, if we remember correctly, we brought a chorus of ‘billion people’ to the session. In about 30 minutes she received a message from her connections with people who left town. We wrote the day and the rest of the song came together quite easily. ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di4e2gu5mak
Eric Church – “The Hand of Time”
Eric Church has released a new album, Evangeline Vs. MachineIt will arrive on May 2nd. Today he co-written with Scooter Caruso and includes screams with Bob Cigar, Tom Petty, Meatloaf, Criskistofferson and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzsjlcxelxu
Couch Print – “Hall Light”
New York Duo Couch Prints has been announced Pit Bull 22023 follow-up Waterfall: Regeneration. It came out in May and has released a charming lead single “Hall Light.” “It’s a soundtrack to a friendship that divides into the unknown. One is locked in memory, the other foot stumbles first,” they shared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ogfwelqua
Jolly Ride – “Holly”
Jolly Ryde has released an interesting new single, “Holly” from the upcoming LP Creatures. “‘Holly’ is a song about two strangers meeting at the edge of a dense forest and a tanned cleaning,” the band explained. “They start a conversation when one asks the other. A girl named Holly passes the long key of braided hair in her hand, “You got that long brown hair.” Obviously she isn’t herself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vtt3iksoio
Georgia Harmer – “Little Light”
Georgia Hermer has released a beautiful, calm and modest song called “Can Can We Be Still.” In a statement, she wrote that “a homage to a very peaceful place in the country I have lived in for a few months, and a new love that has taken root. It is a very hopeful song, guided by inner comfort, and feeling like the blinds are open, giving them a little more light than they really were. Let them penetrate inside enough to make me feel like I can be a part of it.”
