
Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can't get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order. Listen on our Spotify and Apple Music playlists, or hear them all below.
After, "Deep Diving"
Remember the era of Natasha Bedingfield and Colbie Caillat and pop songs that sounded like pure sunshine? “Deep Diving” is the 2025 version of that. After is a band that’s built their entire discography around replicating 2000s mall pop but done so well their songs sound like genuine relics, maybe from another version of Earth. “Deep Diving” is one of their best and the verse about collecting shells on the beach is just pure bliss. —Steffanee Wang
Titanic, “Gotera”
Arriving alongside the announcement of the second album from Titanic, the Mexico City duo of Mabe Fratti and Héctor Tosta (aka I. la Católica), “Gotera” is an ominous, explosive cut. The track is built on a military drum motif that fills out its eerie, skeletal structure with apocalyptic urgency over the course of the song. On this foundation, Tosta’s guitar and Fratti’s cello battle as Fratti sings of a claustrophobic existence. — Raphael Helfand
The New Eves, “Cow Song”
Briton’s The New Eves — Violet Farrer (guitar, violin, vocals), Nina Winder-Lind (cello, guitar, vocals), Kate Mager (bass, vocals) and Ella Oona Russell (drums, flute, vocals) — sound like they’ve been playing together in the hills and glens of the English countryside for a century or more. “Cow Song,” partly recorded in the presence of a cow called Bonnie, is a winding saga full of twists and turns, sliding confidently from choral hymn to stomping anthem to courtly coda across seven emotional yet un-self-serious minutes. —RH
Mary Halvorson, “Full of Neon”
Mary Halvorson’s new album About Ghost is yet another step forward for her super-group sextet Amaryllis — Patricia Brennan on vibraphone, Nick Dunston on bass, Tomas Fujiwara on drums, Jacob Garchik on trombone, Adam O’Farrill on trumpet, and Halvorson leading the way with the blown-glass sounds of her guitar. Opener “Full of Neon” introduces the strange, unsteady pace at which the players will wend their way through the album and features extra sprinkles of brilliance from guest saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles. — RH
Wednesday, “Wound Up Here”
“Wound Up Here” sees the North Carolina group at their darkest, scars and all. The second cut from their highly anticipated new album, Bleeds, out September 19, “Wound Up Here” sounds like They Are Gutting a Body of Water if they’d grown up in the South. The song itself is about pulling a corpse out of a river, a morbid visual, but Karly Hartzman’s lyrics and vocal delivery are arresting and vivid, Southern Gothic imagery that you can’t look away from no matter how much you want to. —Cady Siregar
Guerilla Toss, “Red Flag To Angry Bull”
This September, Guerilla Toss will share You’re Weird Now, produced by Stephen Malkmus. That’s exciting news for anyone who’s a fan of indie rock freakouts like 2022’s excellent, vivacious Famously Alive. “Red Flag To Angry Bull” is a more gentle side of Guerilla Toss, waves of proggy melodies overlapping one another into a perfect trifle: sweet, a little tart, and seemingly bottomless. – Jordan Darville
Andy Boay, “One & One”
The music of Andy and Edwin White, whether solo or as their long-running psych rock duo Tonstartssbandht, is made inimitable by how they sing. One voice can be looped and layered into a chorus, as majestic and ramsjackle as the echoes inside an abandoned church. This unmistakable quality is all over “One & One,” taken from Andy Boay’s upcoming project You Took That Walk For The Two Of Us. Part plainsong elegy and part lo-fi ballad, the song burrows further into your heart the deeper you listen. —JD
Georgia Maq, "Pay Per View"
Georgia Maq, formerly of the excellent Australian band Camp Cope, is down on her luck in Los Angeles. "I’ve got one hope/ Determined to lose it," she sings on a bittersweet alt-country song that expresses frustration with dating in a new city. Maq's voice, powerful yet tender, drives home the feeling of futility as chasing romantic adventure turns into an endless loop of deleting and reinstalling Hinge. —David Renshaw
deBasement, "Aperol Spritz"
Alli Logout, lead singer of punk band Special Interest, and producer/DJ Margo XS are the party-starting duo deBasement. Their zesty new song "Aperol Spritz" is an ode to the fluorescent Italian cocktail and, more specifically, the effect it has on Logout. "One two three out come my tits" they sing, "Four five six, take a bumper hit." It's probably not approved by the brand, but it's the most convincing argument for hitting the bar you will hear all week. —DR
bar italia, "Cowbella"
bar italia's new song has a scuzzy and pained feel to it with Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, and Sam Fenton trading vocals as scratchy guitars clash underneath. It's a song that is always building, tightening until it reaches a critical point. Like all of the best bar italia songs, it immediately transports you to a dive bar where the drinks are cheap and the floors sticky. —DR
Nourished By Time, "9 2 5"
When you’re about to make a huge change in your life, there’s a cusp at time right at the beginning when everything feels euphoric. “9 2 5,” the new single from Baltimore songwriter Nourished By Time is that feeling in a potent, summery song. The track is about moving to a big city and it paints mundane tasks like “working restaurants by day/ writing love songs every night” in a shimmering, romantic light, before, years later, it looses its luster. —SW
N3WYRKLA, "Bad Luck"
Philly singer N3WYRKLA has lost faith in men. On “BAD LUCK,” she compares associating with the opposite sex to inviting dark energy into your life. “You’re tryna judge me and make me the problem / It’s you baby," she croons. It’s the Hitmaka-made beat that really makes the song, a sparse burner built around a soulful sample, that lets her smoky, pleading vocals to shine. —SW