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, November 12, 2025.
Robyn – ‘Dopamine’
No one does euphoric pop like Robyn, and today she’s back to remind of us just that with her new single ‘Dopamine’. “Everyone has a phone where they see their heart rate, and we’re learning how to decode our emotions through the hormones and chemical substances in our bodies,” she explained in a statement. “It’s almost like we don’t even accept that we’re human anymore, like we’re trying to shoot ourselves out of it and explain every single thing—which I think is great, but that’s also why the world is shit, this idea that you can figure out and win life or something. The doubleness of ‘Dopamine’ is having an emotion that is super real, super strong, intense, enjoyable or painful, and at the same time knowing that this is just a biological process in my body—and then not to choose religion or science. To just accept that they’re there together and to be able to go in between.”
Mandy, Indiana – ‘Magazine’
Mandy, Indiana have announced a new album, URGH, with the visceral and explosive ‘Magazine’. It’s “the expression of the frustration and deep-seated violence I felt while attempting to recover from being raped,” vocalist Valentine Caulfield. “Just like most victims of sexual assault, I will never get justice, and just like most perpetrators, my attacker will never be punished. My therapist encouraged me to channel my anger into something productive, so here it is: my primal, screaming call for retribution. It is the only way I will ever get to say to my rapist: you hurt me, so I’m going to hurt you.”
Daphni – ‘Waiting So Long’ and ‘Lucky’
Dan Snaith has announced a new album under his Daphni moniker, Butterfly, and one of its two new singles, the sugary ‘Waiting So Long’, features his main project Caribou. Let him make sense of that for you: “People understandably always ask about the difference between Caribou and Daphni music – how I decide which is which. I think there have been times where the music I’ve made under the two aliases has been farther apart and times – eg right now – where they’re closer together. One big thing that has always differentiated them is my voice. I’ve never sung on a Daphni track. When I started ‘Waiting So Long’ initially it was an instrumental. The lyric and the melody came to me as I was working on it and I just recorded it without thinking too much about it, but when I listened back to it a few days later it was the first time that i’ve had the sense that a track belonged to both aliases – like Daphni had sampled a Caribou vocal or something like that. I’m not in the midst of some existential crisis; I haven’t, hopefully, slipped too deep into the welcoming waters of the pool of Narcissus; I don’t agonise about what track ends up under what alias – in fact the opposite. I worry about it less than ever and just go with my gut instinct. On a practical level I just felt like this was a track that both Daphni and Caribou fans might want to hear.”
Jana Horn – ‘Go on, move your body’
Jana Horn wrote most of her just-announced self-titled album during her first year of living in New York, but it’s lethargic first preview comes from her days in Austin, Texas. “I can see how the conditions of my life may have caused it to resurface, but it wasn’t a conscious decision then,” Horn said of ‘Go on, move your body’. “It just felt like it was time… to be reiterated.”
Austra – ‘Fallen Cloud’
Ahead of the release of her new album Chin Up Buttercup on Friday, Austra has shared the blissful dancefloor cut ‘Fallen Cloud’. “Although I didn’t realize until long after this song was finished, ‘Fallen Cloud’ is a song that takes place during the bargaining stage of grief,” Katie Stelmanis explained. “It begins with a desperate attempt to change an undesired romantic outcome, but after spending a bit too much time imagining different scenarios, I become enveloped by the dream-like fantasy of an alternate life. This song is meant to make you feel like you’re floating in a sweet cloud of delusion.”
ira glass – ‘that’s it/that? that’s all you can say?’
ira glass are gearing up for the release of their new EP joy is no knocking nation on Friday, and today they’ve shared one last preview, the jittery, frenetic ‘that’s it/that? that’s all you can say?’. It follows previous cuts ‘fd&c red 40’ and ‘fritz all over you’.
Lime Garden – ‘Maybe Not Tonight’
Lime Garden are back with a nervy, bouncy single called ‘Maybe Not Tonight’. The Brighton band described it as “the soundtrack to a woman on the edge of making all the wrong choices, it feels like getting punched in the face with the morning after a night out.”
GENA – ‘Circlesz’
GENA, the new project of Karriem Riggins and Liv.e, has shared its first single, the playfully enchanting ‘Circlesz’. It comes with a talk show video directed by Mackai Sharp.
Searows – ‘Photograph of a Cyclone’
Searows, the project of Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter and guitarist Alec Duckart, has shared an incisive new single called ‘Photograph of a Cyclone’. “When I initially started writing this song I went into it without a real intention of what I was trying to say. It was one of those songs for me where I didn’t know what it meant until after it was finished, which occasionally happens when I write,” Duckart explained. “This song is about repeating cycles you learned from your surroundings or culture, and feeling incapable of doing anything different. It’s about witnessing chaos in your world and in your periphery and not knowing what else to do but watch it happen. Sometimes you can create art from that chaos. But you aren’t sure if the creation in itself is a new perspective or understanding, or simply a picture of it.”
Sharon Van Etten – ‘2000 Miles’ (The Pretenders Cover)
Fleet Foxes, St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy, Gwen Stefani, Sharon Van Etten, the bird and the bee, and Weyes Blood have covered holiday favorites for the soundtrack to the new Michael Showalter-directed film, Oh. What. Fun. The album is out alongside the film’s debut on Wednesday, December 3, and Sharon Van Etten’s rendition of Pretenders’ ‘2000 Miles’ is out now. “I am usually very wary of doing covers, especially a ‘holiday’ song – but I connected with the depth of the lyrics and how our feelings around the holidays can be complicated,” Van Ettan said. “I tried to honor Chrissie Hynde’s version by collaborating with my band, The Attachment Theory. I hope if The Pretenders hear it, they feel our appreciation and love for Chrissie, the band and this song.”
Superchunk – ‘I Don’t Want to Get Over You’ (The Magnetic Fields Cover)
Another delightful cover – Superchunk offer their take on The Magnetic Fields’ ‘I Don’t Want to Get Over You’, from the 1999 classic 69 Love Songs. “Stephin’s songs remind me of the Ramones in their classic pop simplicity, and we play this one that way,” Mac McCaughan said in a statement. “We came home with a handful of the tour 7″ (featuring amazing sleeve art by Glen Baldridge), and the B-side is by another one of our favorite artists, NZ’s Look Blue Go Purple.”
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