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At <\/i>Paste Music, we\u2019re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven days\u2019 best new songs, delivering a weekly playlist of our favorites. Check out this week\u2019s material, in alphabetical order. (You can check out an ongoing playlist of every best new songs pick of 2025 here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n

Car Seat Headrest: \u201cGethsemane\u201d<\/h2>\n

Car Seat Headrest\u2019s new album, The Scholars,<\/em> is centered around the lives, loves and losses of a group of students (scholars,<\/em> if you get my gist) attending the fictional Parnassus University, who \u201crange from the tortured and doubt-filled young playwright Beolco to Devereaux, a person born to religious conservatives who finds themselves desperate for higher guidance.\u201d Taking inspiration from Shakespeare, Mozart, classical opera and, of course, Biblical\/spiritual\/religious texts, lead single \u201cGethsemane\u201d is just one 11-minute chapter in a nine-song, hour-long tale of a college torn apart by the age-old battle between tradition and progress, history and present. There\u2019s also supernatural resurrection, hidden underground passages, magical powers and a potential cult of ancient beings who secretly control the entire school. Lyrically and metaphorically dense, \u201cGethsemane\u201d (and the wonderfully bizarre music video that accompanies it) seems like the band is attempting to combine the technical improvements and varied sounds of Making A Door Less Open<\/em> with the intricately-woven storytelling and multi-part trajectories of old fan favorites, like \u201cThe Ballad of Costa Concordia\u201d and \u201cThe Ending of Dramamine.\u201d The song is undoubtedly rooted in questions of spirituality and the bloody wounds of yearning, although it might take most of us a couple of listens to begin to parse everything that\u2019s going on. \u2014Casey Epstein-Gross<\/em><\/p>\n

Dean Johnson: \u201cBlue Moon\u201d<\/h2>\n

\"\"\"\"In 2023, Dean Johnson released his long-awaited debut album, Nothing For Me, Please<\/a><\/em>, a \u201cwidely spun tapestry of colored lands where curious eyes and hearts roam\u201d that took two decades to finish. But we won\u2019t have to wait another 20 years for Johnson\u2019s next move, as he\u2019s signed with Saddle Creek and announced a 7\u201d for April\u2014and one can only assume that means LP2 is on the way. We got a taste of what\u2019s to come from Johnson this week, lead single \u201cBlue Moon,\u201d which features a wrinkle of ornery pedal steel that weeps beneath Johnson\u2019s chugging acoustic guitar. \u201cBlue Moon\u201d is a doo-wop track colored by the chords of a gentle cowboy\u2019s aching six-string and memories of an anxious joy and young, wayfaring love. \u201cShe climbs on down in her white nightgown, across the field in her bare feet,\u201d Johnson sings. \u201cShe puts her hand flat on my chest and laughs at my heartbeat.\u201d He remains the closest thing we\u2019ve got to Jim Croce, or maybe Sweet Baby James<\/em>-era James Taylor. A gentleness wraps around every note Johnson sings; his language is the one I adore most. \u2014Matt Mitchell<\/em><\/p>\n

Delivery Service: \u201cGhost\u201d<\/h2>\n

\"\"\"\"Few debut singles are as fully-formed and casually captivating as \u201cGhost,\u201d the first release from Dublin alt-rockers Delivery Service. Bassist Becca Daly started the group after watching a Bikini Kill documentary, and she shares vocal duties with guitarist Ashley Abbedeen\u2014whose other project hotgirl made our list of Irish bands you need to know in 2025<\/a>. The band is rounded out by guitarist\/keyboard player Ciara O\u2019Neill and drummer Niall Thornton, and \u201cGhost\u201d was recorded with fellow Irish favorite of ours Aaron Corcoran, a.k.a. Skinner (his release Calling in Sick<\/em> made our list of the best EPs of 2024<\/a>). Daly and Abbedeen\u2019s voices intertwine, alternating between sweet and sour, over chugging bass and grungy guitar. \u201cGhost\u201d smolders with the narrator\u2019s overwhelming desire: \u201cI wanna be the one he brings home,\u201d Delivery Service implore. Safe to say we\u2019ll be keeping an eye out for their debut EP, which is due for release later this year. \u2014Clare Martin<\/em><\/p>\n

Destroyer: \u201cCataract Time\u201d<\/h2>\n

\"\"\"\"Ah, Destroyer, you\u2019ve done it again. My onset existential crisis from \u201cBologna\u201d had finally faded, and as I continue to lick my wounds from \u201cHydroplaning Off the Edge of the World,\u201d you go and drop \u201cCataract Time.\u201d Seriously, how am I expected to walk away unscathed when the song\u2019s opening lines are \u201cYou\u2019re sick of winning games \/ Been out on the road too long \/ Carve yourself out of illusion \/ You take the long way round \/ A setting sun\u201d? Dan Bejar sings like he\u2019s reading his subconscious verbatim back at me (or maybe I\u2019m just projecting). Either way, his three latest singles have been a masterclass in crafting half-devastating, half-beautiful indie impressionism, but \u201cCataract Time\u201d is the centerpiece of them all. It\u2019s an astonishing, eight-minute opus that finds Bejar as a full-on poetic-wanderer\u2014meandering along an airy, meditative drum beat that collects bits of sax, harp, synth and electric guitar along its way. Longtime collaborator John Collins also helped shape the track and its accompanying music video into one cohesive work of art\u2014creating a musical inner-monologue that floats weightlessly through time, battles the untethered illusion of control and hides in that devastated no man\u2019s land between clarity and confusion. With only a few weeks until Dan\u2019s Boogie<\/em> arrives in full, I can\u2019t fathom what the remainder of the record has in store. I\u2019m neither emotionally nor spiritually prepared, but more Destroyer is worth a little pain. \u2014Gavyn Green<\/em><\/p>\n

Dutch Interior: \u201cBeekeeping\u201d<\/h2>\n

\"\"\"\"Before Monday, the last we\u2019d heard from Dutch Interior\u2014the latest act we\u2019ve named the Best of What\u2019s Next<\/a>\u2014was \u201cFourth Street,\u201d a woozy, fuzzed-out barnburner that sounds like taking a drag of a cigarette feels. The driving MJ Lenderman-esque electric guitar riff is mercilessly charred, while Noah Kurtz\u2019s vocals float above it like a wispy smoke you could almost run your fingers through. From the glossy, xylophonic plinks that usher in their newest single, \u201cBeekeeping\u201d\u2014the closing track to their forthcoming album, Moneyball<\/em>\u2014it\u2019s clear that we\u2019re about to experience something entirely different, but just as visceral. There\u2019s a dash of Black Country New Road-esque balladry to the fragile-hearted dirge (it\u2019s somewhat reminiscent of \u201cBread Song,\u201d specifically), to which member Shane Barton lends wrenchingly tender lead vocals. He whispers as though singing a lullaby, but the dreamstate he waltzes into swirls into a nightmare when a storm of sonic distortion tears through the wall of delicate orchestral strings. It\u2019s hard to imagine Moneyball<\/em> ending on a more haunting note. \u2014Anna Pichler<\/em><\/p>\n