Gold Soundz: April 18, 2025

This week's suggested new music, curated by omg!nyc

Apr 18, 2025

After months of build-up and already gifting us five songs from the record, we are finally at release day for the country-forward album from Julien Baker and TORRES. Following some intimate shows previewing their upcoming material and ahead of their upcoming tour, we now get to immerse ourselves in the whole experience of this intimate and detailed new project from a strong and powerful new duo.

Even with his main project back together and hitting the road for the first time in over half a decade, Tunde Adebimpe isn’t letting that stop him from releasing his debut solo album. Continuing his band’s swirl of experimental rock the infects killer grooves with righteous rhythms, his solo act dives further into dance music and pop sensibilities while still keeping his singular voice at the front of the mix.

Hard rocking noise makers Superheaven haven’t released a new album since 2015, but that changes today as the band drops their third album. Full of raging alt-rock that blends lush guitars and thick textures, they bridge the gap between shoegaze and alternative in a nostalgic, yet fresh demeanor.

After playing a rally for Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers, amongst others, last weekend, living legend Neil Young has a new soundtrack out today that accompanies the concert film his wife, Daryl Hannah shot last year while he was on tour.

In March, caroline shared their first new song in three years and this week they followed it up with another new tune and this one features Caroline Polachek on vocals. Announced in tandem with their new album, the song finds the band building slowing over a gentle acoustic guitar before other layers of sound begin to fill out the track. It’s a rather hypnotic tune that slowly takes over, ascending gently before crashing all around.

Last year, Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief released a solo album and now they’ve announced a whopping 43-track live album is on the way. Five of those tracks are unreleased and this week Lenker shared the song “happiness - live” and it’s a sharp recording that feels as intimate as a studio session.

Greet Death are great at creating waves of sound through walls of guitar and slow, oozing rhythms. They’re unhurried and in their own lane like usual on their new track “Country Girl,” but this time around they’ve stepped up their game with a bit more velocity, but still retaining their core focus.

Former Dirty Projectors member Angel Deradoorian may be best known for her vocal work on the psych-pop group’s stellar song “Stillness is the Move,” but she’s a true force in her solo career as well. You can confirm that immediately on her dance-punk leaning new song “No No Yes Yes” which has some ESG vibes to it and gives us some serious flavor and funk.

The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, has an upcoming box set full of unreleased records from the icon’s storied career and this week he shared a song he laid down in the ‘90s. It’s beat was inspired by hip-hop music of the time, but it sounds like late-era Bruce with ultra-sleek production and it’s familiar melodies.

Last week, I Have That On Vinyl published a story I wrote my quest to find a record for that lasted over a decade and ended when I finally found it at record store in Ridgewood, Queens earlier this month. Reissued by Now-Again Records in February 2025, after only being released in Bermuda in 1970, check out Spacing Out by The Invaders!

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