Each week we update our best new song playlist with some of the most popular tracks, compiling the best songs each month in this segment. Here are the best songs from March 2025, alphabetical order.
Alan Sparhawk and the turtle trampled – “Stranger”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utlRoupxm30
Low’s Alan Sparhawk cleared his second solo LP collaborative title to it You’ll be trampled down with a turtle. Sprawhwak may be a more recognizable name outside of Duluth’s creative community, but the Alt-Country group has also been a long-standing pillar of the city’s music scene. It’s not difficult to imagine the simplicity of the album’s lead single, “Stranger.” Although it refracted and slowed down to suit the distorted atmosphere of Low’s BJ Purton production records, Bluegrass arrangement of the song directs Sparhawk’s voice to a clear belief. “You have to put up with strangers more than you know now/experience some more dangerous things than you need to do,” he sings, bent grammatical rules to emphasize his points. A more innocent soul may settle You may have to;Sparhawk knows that life’s uncertainty is unnegotiable.
Car seat headrest – ‘Gessemane’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raga2fmbsjo
“A series of simple patterns slowly build yourself into another song,” Will Toledo sings on “Gessemano,” casually revealing the headrest MO on the car seat. from lead single Scholar It stretches over 11 minutes and stitches together fragments of what can be separated into an introduction to the epic tale of the band’s latest rock opera mystical and spiritual world. But there is a clear evolution between those parts, but through some form of dark mysticism, “I never missed a prayer, I always cooked,” and “I can do whatever I want when I want to.” The song seems to be about Rosa, a medical student at the fictional Parnassus University whose life transformed after reviving a medically deceased patient, but who is talking, and ultimately doesn’t appear. Through this, even if it is reduced to ware rub, the song with new possibilities for love is fascinating.
Chapel Lawn – “Giver”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dubtpdxxjew
Chappell Roan’s longtime country pop product may have raised some eyebrows, but whether it’s stuck in your head Saturday Night Live Debut in March or its official release, you know that the fiddle is all camping and not shrinking. Roan offers a country song with all the panache and playfulness of knowing that this doesn’t sound like a one-off, and that she might not put out another. You can get a lot of airplay from the song with wink hooks like “I’m going to start work again”, but the single becomes the national anthem via a breathing line around the chorus. The rest of the project that appears may be stylistically large, but the “gifter” sounds as effective as it claims.
Destroyer – “Cataract Time”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv4fwzilpri
Another month, another destroyer song on this list. The whole of Dan’s Boogie It’s out now, so perhaps there’s nothing else next month, but the album’s third single, “Caract Time,” may be the most enlightening. It spreads over eight minutes, but the song is the most gentle and engaging of the entire record, and rarely avoids the course in favor of unfiltered emotions. “I just sat down and started singing it with a bit of chord progression and melody,” Dan Bejaard said in our interview. “Cataract Time” is a portrait of fatigue, and it’s come too long, and the performance bubble is bursting. It’s slower than the world needs him, but it’s not only right, but somehow it illuminates.
MJ Lenderman – “Dance in the Club” (This is a Lorelei cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1on3v-W3W_i
When his cover of this was Lorelei’s “Dance at the Club” was released, MJ Lenderman revealed it Buddy box, star box It was the album he listened to the most in 2024. By inviting him to take a track from the deluxe edition of the record, Nate Amos expresses his own praise by trust. Renderman understands that fucking the guitar means not only the opposite, but the other way around, but the other way around. He slows down the song, pulls out the lyrics, making their dissociation feel more personal than the situation. And he, of course, enjoys joy in singing the words “The loser can never win/I am a loser and I am always a loser.” Manning Fireworks. But more than self-scientific, the cover also arrives as a source of comfort. Being your own worst enemy doesn’t mean you can’t see it.
Matt Berninger – “The Bonnet of Pins”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adtqj7xxvtq
“It takes a lot of time to really disappear in the leaves/always leave traces,” Matt Bellinger sings on “The Bonnet of Pins,” the first thing he hears from his next solo album. At first glance, it seems to delve deeper into the depression patterns of National’s last two albums, born from a time of creative and personal burnout for the singer. However, from lead single SinkThe narrator is not a person who appears as a ghost. “The closest thing she’s ever found to love is the kind you can’t get rid of quickly enough,” he suddenly reappears, recalling about the meat and bones and the person who finishes his drink. It sends a shock to the nervous system big enough to turn “Pin Bonnet” into one of the most active solo songs ever. “Poor,” the ghost shruggs. But you feel more than sympathy.
Billy Woods – “Sad” [feat. Kenny Segal]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa4cdgqusim
Another song about Misery Loving Company – more vaguely and unforgettable than anything on this list. Billy Woods introduced his new album Gorillag Kenny Seagull’s collaboration with the formula mastered by the pair map While marking some kind of lyrical shift. The album appears to have found a rapper revisiting the story about the evil goriwog (like the album cover) he wrote when he was nine years old, but he doesn’t want a part of “Misery” which includes the song “She’s Already Come Wet Me With Sex.” The jazz-inspired track is a dreamlike way that appears to move over time, despite blurring the line between ecstasy and chaos and the line between night and morning.
Caroline – “Total Euphoria”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwuapt421xs
Three years after her debut album, Caroline returned in a spectacular off-kilter fashion with “Total Euphoria.” Driving guitar stabs, drums in place at all, and keyboards that are shiny but not at all synchronized, I wonder if the song could sound title-worthy, but experimental British outfits naturally get there. The instruments don’t shake to anything greater than the sum of the parts, especially as Jasper Llewellyn and Magdalena MacLean begin singing at once. The vague betrayal at the song’s emotional core is never resolved, but somehow we get it completely.
Weak little horse – “This is real.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v = zz5Argm – ok
Unlike songs like “Dancing in the Club” and “Cataract Time,” “This Is Real” sounds like an explosion, at least in the literal sense, like a dissociative trip. “The heater-” Lydia Slocam sings in front of nu metal? Death metal? Neither tag conveys any destructive barriers of distortion. The guitar completes the sentence for her. Max. Pittsburgh’s first four-piece two-year first new music shows a band that doesn’t take advantage of the contrast between hypnosis and dynamic intensity to erase the difference. They are the kind of drilling points into the house, but they are not without twists. They make unreadable screams, but not without a real confession. “I felt an outrage in my heart, but/never will ever be the same again,” Slokam finally sings. That’s good, you’ll venture.
Ophelius – “Salome”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ize0uny7dhs
The vengeful and exhilarating “Salome” uses biblical stories of nominal characters to stab sexist men in the music industry. “I want your head on a platter,” sings Spencer Pepette. I Just as much as she enjoys her fantasies. “It’s boring and misogynistic,” Peppett wrote to her SubsackBut the song itself is nothing. It’s like the lyrical anomaly of the band’s mostly diaristic new album Spring glovesit punches up their sound – with the help of producer Julian Baker, they also offer additional guitars and harmonies in ways they have long reached. Yes, it’s about people that make you angry, but most of the insanity that drives you forward.
