10 Greatest Songs of the Week: Guerilla Toss, The Final Dinner Get together, Jeff Tweedy, and Extra

Plus Water From Your Eyes, 9 Inch Nails, Margo Value, David Byrne, and a Wrap-up of the Final Week’s Different Notable New Tracks

Jul 18, 2025

By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the twenty fifth Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, and Stephen Humphries helped me determine what ought to make the listing. We thought of over 40 songs and narrowed it right down to a Prime 10.

Like final week, we’re doing issues a bit in another way this week, as I’m in a foreign country for the following month visiting household. So it’s a extra stripped down Songs of the Week, with much less textual content and embeds. However all of the songs are nonetheless within the Spotify playlist.

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That will help you type by means of the multitude of contemporary songs launched within the final week, now we have picked the ten finest the final 7 days needed to supply, adopted by some honorable mentions. Take a look at the total listing under.

1. Guerilla Toss: “Life’s a Zoo” (Feat. Stephen Malkmus and Ben Katzman)

Guerilla Toss are releasing a brand new album, You’re Bizarre Now, on September 12 by way of Sub Pop. This week they shared its newest single, “Life’s a Zoo,” which options visitor vocals from Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, who additionally produced the album. It additionally options vocals and guitar from Ben Katzman, third-place winner of Season 46 of the fact present Survivor, as a result of…why not? The splendidly quirky tune has a Bis vibe, that means the Scottish indie-pop band from the ’90s who had been championed by Beastie Boys.

Guerilla Toss beforehand shared the album’s lead single, “Purple Flag to Indignant Bull,” which was certainly one of our Songs of the Week.

This would be the band’s fifth full-length, following Famously Alive in 2022. You’re Bizarre Now is produced by Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus and was recorded in Vermont at The Barn, the studio belonging to Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio who additionally seems on the album. By Mark Redfern

2. The Final Dinner Get together: “This Is the Killer Talking”

The Final Dinner Get together returned at present with “This Is the Killer Talking,” the primary single from their upcoming second album From the Pyre, due for launch on seventeenth October 2025 by way of Island Information.

The follow-up to their chart-topping 2023 debut Prelude to Ecstasy, From the Pyre finds the band each increasing their sonic universe and leaning right into a freer, darker inventive power. Written on the street and honed by means of relentless touring, the album trades orchestral grandeur for one thing extra primal and mythic, whereas nonetheless retaining the theatrical aptitude that made them a breakout pressure.

The Final Dinner Get together had this to say in regards to the new album: “This file is a set of tales, and the idea of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place wherein these tales originate, a spot of violence and destruction but additionally regeneration, ardour and lightweight.

“The songs are character pushed however nonetheless deeply private, a commonplace life occasion pushed to pathological excessive. Being ghosted turns into a Western dance with a killer, and heartbreak laughs into the face of the apocalypse. Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mom Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos. We discovered this sort of evocative imagery to be essentially the most sincere and truthful technique to talk about the best way our experiences felt, giving every the emotional weight it deserves.

“This file feels a bit darker, extra uncooked and extra earthy; it takes place searching at a elegant panorama somewhat than seated an opulent desk. It additionally feels metatextual and cheeky in locations, like a realizing look mirrored again at ourselves.” By Andy Von Pip

3. Jeff Tweedy: “One Tiny Flower”

This week Jeff Tweedy of Wilco introduced a triple album! Fittingly for such an extended album he shared 4 preliminary singles from it. “One Tiny Flower,” additionally the album opener, was our favourite of the lead singles.

The album is titled Twilight Override and is due out September 26 by way of dBpm Information. The album options James Elkington, Sima Cunningham, Macie Stewart, Liam Kazar, and Tweedy’s youngsters Spencer and Sammy.

Tweedy had this to say in regards to the album in a press launch: “If you select to do inventive issues, you align your self with one thing that different folks name God. And whenever you align your self with creation, you inherently take a aspect in opposition to destruction. You’re on the aspect of creation. And that does quite a bit to quell the impulse to destroy. Creativity eats darkness.

“Kind of an limitless buffet nowadays—a bottomless basket of all-time low. Which is, I suppose, why I’ve been making a lot stuff these days. That sense of decline is difficult to disregard, and it should be a minimum of part of the shroud I’m attempting to unwrap. The twilight of an empire looks like a ok jumping-off level when one is leaping into the abyss.

“Twilight positive is a fairly phrase, although. And the world is stuffed with blissful folks in former empires, so possibly that’s not the one supply of this dissonance. No matter it’s on the market (or in there) squeezing this ennui into my day, it’s fucking overwhelming. It’s tough to disregard. Twilight Override is my effort to overwhelm it proper again. Listed below are the songs and sounds and voices and guitars and phrases which might be an effort to let go of a number of the heaviness and up the wattage by myself mild. My effort to engulf this encroaching nighttime (nightmare) of the soul.” By Mark Redfern

4. Water From Your Eyes: “Taking part in Classics”

Water From Your Eyes are releasing a brand new album, It’s a Lovely Place, on August 22 by way of Matador. Now they’ve shared its second single, “Taking part in Classics,” by way of a music video. Watch it under.

Water From Your Eyes is Nate Amos (additionally of That is Lorelei) and Rachel Brown (additionally of thanks for coming).

Amos had this to say in regards to the tune in a press launch: “‘Taking part in Classics’ began as an try to rework an current guitar piece that I had stalled on right into a dance quantity after Rachel requested that the following album have a disco tune on it—the unique model was 12 minutes lengthy.”

Brown provides: “It was most likely my favourite instrumental that Nate despatched so it was my favourite to work on lyrically. I really like disco and dance music and I had been begging him to make a brilliant dance focused monitor. I used to be specializing in the concept of dancing in a membership regardless of the world falling aside outdoors. It was written throughout Brat Summer time, so Charli positively had an affect.”

Beforehand Water From Your Eyes shared a video for the album’s first single, “Life Indicators,” which was certainly one of our Songs of the Week.

It’s a Lovely Place follows 2023’s acclaimed Everybody’s Crushed.

On her inspiration for the album, Brown stated in a earlier press launch: “I’ve been carrying round The Dispossessed (a 1974 anarchist utopian novel by Ursula Ok. Le Guin) and There Is No Sad Revolution (a 2017 non-fiction by Marcello Tarì) in my backpack for effectively over a 12 months now. They’ve been to 4 totally different continents and throughout virtually each state line. Whereas writing lyrics for the album, I skimmed each books fairly totally.”

Learn our 2021 interview with Water From Your Eyes on Construction. By Mark Redfern

5. 9 Inch Nails: “As Alive As You Want Me to Be”

9 Inch Nails are doing the music for the upcoming film TRON: Ares, due out this October. This week they shared a brand new tune from it, “As Alive As You Want Me to Be.” The tune can be featured within the new trailer for the movie.

TRON: Ares (Authentic Movement Image Soundtrack) is due out September 19 by way of Interscope. Under is the tracklist and canopy paintings.

9 Inch Nails are led by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. They’re following within the footsteps of Daft Punk, who scored 2010’s TRON: Legacy. 9 Inch Nails’ final album was 2020’s Ghosts VI: Locusts. Since then Reznor and Ross have saved busy scoring different movies, comparable to 2024’s Challengers. The rating for TRON: Ares will, nonetheless, be credited to 9 Inch Nails somewhat than Reznor and Ross.

In January 9 Inch Nails introduced the Peel It Again World Tour.

TRON: Ares is due out October 10. Joachim Rønning directed the movie, which stars Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson, and Jeff Bridges (reprising his position from the primary two movies). By Mark Redfern