{"id":1236275,"date":"2025-03-13T20:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1236275"},"modified":"2025-03-13T20:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:21:45","slug":"best-new-songs-march-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/best-new-songs-march-13-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Best New Songs (March 13, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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

billy woods: \u201cMisery\u201d<\/h2>\n

Following 2023\u2019s excellent Kenny Segal produced Maps<\/a><\/em>, it\u2019s been two long years since we\u2019ve had a full-length billy woods record, but the wait is finally over: the New York rapper will be back with GOLLIWOG<\/em> on May 9, and it\u2019s already evident that it\u2019s going to be a doozy. Alongside the album announcement, woods released the lead single \u201cMisery,\u201d a grim, gnarled track that likely takes inspiration from Stephen King\u2019s 1987 novel of the same name. Reconnecting with long-time collaborator Segal on production, woods spins a twisted tale of sex taken to its gory extreme (\u201cRagged holes in my throat,\u201d woods spits, \u201cBut I love to see those lips shiny with blood) atop jazzy inflections and a languid drum line. Complete with references to MF Doom (the refrain \u201cI re-up on bad dreams, bag up screams in fifties\u201d is taken straight from \u201cGas Drawls\u201d) and an outro sampling the 1998 film adaptation of Toni Morrison\u2019s Beloved<\/em>, \u201cMisery\u201d paints an entire evocative world in just over two minutes. Watch out, everyone; woods is coming for that AOTY title once more. \u2014Casey Epstein-Gross<\/em> <\/p>\n

Coltt Winter Lepley: \u201cThe Bandito\u201d<\/h2>\n

\"\"\"\"The bank-robbin\u2019, wrong-doin\u2019, somehow never-dyin\u2019 outlaw is likely the most enduring character in the American canon\u2014you\u2019ve heard his story a million times over. You probably haven\u2019t<\/em>, however, heard Coltt Winter Lepley\u2014he\u2019s just a folkie from the Appalachian mountains of Pennsylvania, hanging out on somebody\u2019s front porch with his guitar in hand, assuming a Crosby, Stills & Nash-like air of humility. He only has one song on streaming platforms, \u201cThe Bandito\u201d\u2014which, true to its name, follows a desperado figure with a penchant for bad women and bad behavior. If you\u2019re expecting a rehashed, dusty little ditty rehashing the vagabond tale we\u2019ve all heard a few times too many, I understand, but let me tell you: You should be prepared for Lepley to blow those expectations right out of the water. He\u2019s a convincing, enthralling performer, singing with a gravelly rasp that\u2019ll scratch you up in all the right ways. It a testament to his magnetism that the music swelters and simmers in response to each chapter of his story\u2014guitar arpeggios unravel around his otherwise unaccompanied croon at the end of each verse, allowing his cry of immortality to explode with a chorus colored by whooshing drums, weeping fiddle, sun-stroked pedal steel coils and castanets that crackle like a rattlesnake\u2019s tail. In short: Coltt Winter Lepley is a damn good songwriter, and quite an intriguing character\u2014according to his website<\/a>, he\u2019s also a folklorist, poet and former racecar driver. I only discovered him this past weekend, but he\u2019s already welcome to play on my front porch. \u2014Anna Pichler<\/em> <\/p>\n

feeble little horse: \u201cThis is Real\u201d<\/h2>\n

\"\"\"\"Babe, wake up. New feeble little horse just dropped. After two years of periodic touring, not to mention a brief yet alarming rumor that the band had disbanded altogether, our favorite Pittsburgh noise-poppers are back with \u201cThis is Real.\u201d It\u2019s their first single since 2023\u2019s Girl With Fish<\/em>, which we named one of our favorite albums that year<\/a>, but \u201cThis is Real\u201d sees the band decidedly coloring outside the lines of their sophomore LP. The song unfolds like a Pompeii-level eruption\u2014one second Lydia Slocum is nonchalantly singing about smoking in the back of a car, only to quickly pummel us with waves of double kick drum, bit-crushed guitar and a near-screamo pre-chorus of \u201cLike I could be the moon \/ Like I could be the moon \/ Like I could be the moon.\u201d Then, just like that: The detonation is over, punctuated by a warped acoustic guitar and a calm, warm outro. When I say I was floored upon my first listen, I\u2019m putting it lightly (I didn\u2019t know Slocum had it in her to scream like that, but it was absolutely awesome, and I hope this isn\u2019t the last we hear of it). \u201cThis is Real\u201d manages to feel both more structured and more spontaneous than anything feeble little horse has done so far\u2014like it\u2019s mutating unpredictably with every inharmonious guitar note. I also can\u2019t get enough of the cybercore meets webcore, late \u201890s aesthetic that ties together the whole release. If \u201cThis is Real\u201d is a launchpad for feeble little horse\u2019s next album, I\u2019m fully on board and I want more of it as soon as possible. I get it though, genius takes time. \u2014Gavyn Green<\/em> <\/p>\n