Gold Soundz: March 14, 2025

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

We’ve hit the half-way point of March and the days are starting to longer and things are starting to defrost. For those still blasting Mayhem on repeat, if you need to change things up, but still want the electro-industrial dance feels, but a little more experimental, the new album from Circuit des Yeux is your go-to.

As I’ve been saying, we’re in a shoegaze revival and this week, Terraplana throws in their new record into the mix. Blasting away with slow-burning, big chugging guitar sounds full of rich, thick textures, it brings on a traces of slowcore, but still pushes forward at more determined pace.

The artist mostly prominently known as Parannoul has released music under a few guises and this week, they released a new album under their moniker Huremic. While still making more of the surging shoegaze sounds, this one leans a bit darker and away from the brighter melodies that come with their main project. While their identity still remains a mystery, their ability to surprise remains supreme.

If you haven’t seen the recent Best Picture nominated film Nickel Boys, I suggest you watch it immediately. Until then, you can check out the cast member Daveed Diggs, also known as the vocalist for boundary-pushing hip-hop group clipping. whose latest album arrives today.

For a long time, it seemed like we might not see Edwyn Collins return to music after he suffered some unfortunate health situations. However, the former Orange Juice front man has continued his comeback and this week he delivers his latest record, Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation, before he takes off on what is billed as his final U.K. tour this fall.

The biggest rising pop star of the past year struck gold in the spring of 2024 when she took the world by storm with her smash hit “Good Luck, Babe!” which helped catapult her previous album to the top of the charts and brought in the biggest festival crowds in history. Today, Chappel Roan’s back with her first new song since becoming a real life feminomenon and it’s the “cuntry” leaning “The Giver,” which she played during her SNL debut.

The fifth studio album from Bon Iver is coming this year and today he’s shared another single, “If Only I Could Wait,” and it features Danielle Haim on guest vocals. After teasing a perhaps return to form with last year’s Sable, EP, this new tune brings back the crystalized ‘80s tones and hints of soft rock that have also defined his discography.

Great rapper alive, billy woods, continues his prolific streak with the announcement of his upcoming album, GOLLIWOG, and it features a murderer’s row of guest producers like El-P, the Alchemist, Shabaka Hutchings, Conductor Williams, DJ Haram, Preservation, Steel Tipped Dove, Messiah Musik, Sadhugold, Willie Green, Jeff Markey, Saint Abdullah, Human Error Club, and Atmosphere’s Ant. On the first single, “Misery,” he links back up with Maps’ producer Kenny Segal and lays the groundwork for greatness.

It’s been five years since Women in Music Pt. III, but HAIM have confirmed a new album is on the way and shared an R&B influenced one-off single called “Relationships” which features a guest spot from former Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij. It brings forth the topic so many dread to talk about and the sisters shine with their usual L.A. flare.

Last week, Lizzo dropped her comeback single “Love in Real Life” which sounded more like a Strokes song than something you might expect from Lizzo. This week, she’s shared another and this time around she brings the Phoenix vibes with flashy guitar licks and stylized synth approach.

Pittsburgh’s feeble little horse dropped a stellar album in 2023, but retreated to focus on their mental health. Things seemed promising when they returned to play Pitchfork Music Festival last summer and this week they shared the ragging new shredder “This is Real” which brings the noise to the front and center of their blown-out jams.

After sharing a recent new tune, Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke have announced a new collaborative album that was born out the of the pandemic when Yorke started receiving beats from Pritchard and the two began to work together between other projects. The latest single is an up-starter electronic number with a blitzing pulse.

Sparkling in gold dust and diamonds, Sally Shapiro’s latest dreamy disco number is pure luxury and sophistication. It oozes a sultry elegance as a seductive synth line and driving electric beat meet her velvety voice likes it’s meant to soundtrack the chicest of affairs and most glamorous nights.

Albums:

CIRCUIT DES YEUX | Halo On The Inside
TERRAPLANA | Natural
HUREMIC | Seeing Darkness
CLIPPING. | Dead Channel Sky
TWIN SHADOW | Georgie
EDWYN COLLINS | Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation

Songs:

CHAPPELL ROAN | “The Giver”
BON IVER | “If Only I Could Wait” (ft Danielle Haim)
BILLY WOODS | “Misery” (ft Kenny Segal)
HAIM | “Relationships”
LUCY DACUS | “Talk”
LIZZO | “Still Bad”
FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE | “This is Real”
FREDDIE GIBBS | “Nobody”
MARK PRITCHARD / THOM YORKE | “This Conversation is Missing Your Voice”
SALLY SHAPIRO | “The Other Days”
MATT BERNINGER | “Bonnet of Pins”
THESE NEW PURITANS | “Industrial Love Son” (ft Caroline Polachek) / “Bells”
TY SEGALL | “Fantastic Tomb”
BOLDY JAMES | “Split the Bill” (ft V Don)
SUMAC / MOOR MOTHER | “Hard Truth” (ft Candace Hoyes)
BARRY CAN’T SWIM | “Different”
GREGORY UHLMANN / JOSH JOHNSON / SAM WILKES | “Marvis”

If you’re a Spotify user, you can listen to these songs (and more from 2025) here!