12 Greatest Songs of the Week: Dry Cleansing, The Final Dinner Social gathering, Simply Mustard, and Marvin’s Revenge
Plus Melody’s Echo Chamber, The New Eves, Whitelands, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Different Notable New Tracks
Oct 03, 2025
Welcome to the thirty fifth Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Dom Gourlay, Matt the Raven, Nick Roseblade, Issa Nasatir, and Scotty Dransfield helped me resolve what ought to make the record. We thought of over 40 songs and narrowed it right down to a Prime 12.
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In current weeks we posted interviews with Idlewild, Elbow, Baxter Dury (a My Firsts), Trendy Nature, and extra.
Within the final week we reviewed some albums.
That can assist you type by way of the multitude of recent songs launched within the final week, we’ve picked the 12 finest the final seven days needed to supply, adopted by some honorable mentions. Try the total record under.
1. Dry Cleansing: “Hit My Head All Day”
This week, South-London band Dry Cleansing introduced a brand new album, Secret Love, and shared its first single, “Hit My Head All Day.” Fellow musician Cate Le Bon produced the album. Secret Love is due out January 9, 2026 through 4AD.
The band options singer Florence Shaw, guitarist Tom Dowse, drummer Nick Buxton, and bassist Lewis Maynard.
Dry Cleansing labored on Secret Love at varied studios, together with Jeff Tweedy’s The Loft in Chicago, with Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan and Daniel Fox at Sonic Studios in Dublin, and at last with Cate Le Bon at Black Field within the Loire Valley in France.
“Being in a room with them and listening to that vitality and life drive that exists between all of them, it’s such a novel expression,” Le Bon says in a press launch.
Of the brand new single, Shaw says: “The music is about manipulation of the physique and thoughts. The lyrics had been initially impressed by way of misinformation on social media by the far proper. There are highly effective those who search to affect our behaviour for their very own achieve; to purchase sure issues, to vote a sure means. I discover it onerous to learn individuals’s intentions and resolve who to belief, even in on a regular basis life. It’s simple to fall underneath the affect of a sinister stranger who looks like a buddy. We took a playful strategy to the music. At one level it had harmonica on it as an alternative of a vocal. On the demo stage we had been impressed by There’s a Riot Goin’ On by Sly and the Household Stone.”
Dry Cleansing started with the 2 EPs Boundary Street Snacks and Drinks and Candy Princess EP in 2019. These had been adopted by their debut LP New Lengthy Leg in 2021 and most up-to-date LP Stumpwork in 2022. In 2023 they launched the Swampy EP.
Stream Stumpwork right here and browse our rave evaluate of the album right here. Stumpwork additionally landed on our Prime 100 Albums of 2022 record.
Learn our 2019 interview with Dry Cleansing.
Learn our 2021 interview with Dry Cleansing. By Mark Redfern
2. The Final Dinner Social gathering: “Second Greatest”
The Final Dinner Social gathering are releasing their second album, From the Pyre, on October 17 on Island. This week they shared its third single, “Second Greatest.”
The band’s guitarist Emily Roberts wrote the music, which was impressed by Sparks and a press launch says is “in regards to the push and pull of being obsessive about somebody however realizing that they’ll finally betray you once more, and permitting it to occur since you nonetheless love them.”
Roberts provides: “I want I may return and say to myself that I’m value greater than that, and that nobody wants to simply accept being second finest. I hope that the music captures the ache, anger and despair I felt however most significantly the defiance and satisfaction I now have in having the ability to immortalise this particular person in a music and to look again on the scenario with extra maturity.”
Beforehand the band shared From the Pyre’s first single, “This Is the Killer Talking.” It was one in every of our Songs of the Week. Then its second single, “The Scythe,” was additionally one in every of our Songs of the Week.
From the Pyre is the fast follow-up to the band’s 2024 launched debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy, which was one in every of our Prime 100 Albums of 2024.
The band collectively had this to say in regards to the new album in a earlier press launch: “This report is a set of tales, and the idea of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place through which these tales originate, a spot of violence and destruction but in addition regeneration, ardour and light-weight.
“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 probably the most trustworthy and truthful strategy to talk about the way in which our experiences felt, giving every the emotional weight it deserves.
“This report feels a little bit darker, extra uncooked and extra earthy; it takes place searching at a elegant panorama relatively than seated an opulent desk. It additionally feels metatextual and cheeky in locations, like a realizing look mirrored again at ourselves.”
You possibly can learn our album evaluate right here, and really doubtless their first interview with an American publication right here. By Mark Redfern
3. Simply Mustard: “ENDLESS DEATHLESS”
Eire’s Simply Mustard are releasing a brand new album, WE WERE JUST HERE, on October 24 through Partisan. This week they shared its third single, “ENDLESS DEATHLESS,” through a music video. The band’s David Noonan directed the video.
The album consists of “POLLYANNA,” a brand new single the band shared in June that was one in every of our Songs of the Week. When the album was introduced the band shared its title monitor, through a music video. “WE WERE JUST HERE” was additionally one in every of our Songs of the Week.
Simply Mustard’s line up is Katie Ball, David Noonan, Mete Kalyoncuoğlu, Rob Clarke, and Shane Maguire. WE WERE JUST HERE is the band’s third album, the follow-up to 2022’s Coronary heart Below and 2018’s Wednesday.
The band recorded the album at Black Mountain studio, which is simply exterior of their hometown. Noonan and the band produced the album, which was blended by David Wrench (Frank Ocean, FKA twigs). A press launch compares the brand new album to Nirvana and My Bloody Valentine.
“The vocal construction was crucial factor,” Noonan says.
Ball provides: “I used to be making an attempt to write down extra optimistically, and feeling like a fraud typically. I used to be making an attempt to place myself in locations of bodily pleasure to try to get that euphoric feeling.”
4. Marvin’s Revenge: “Coats”
Nottingham-based three-piece Marvin’s Revenge launched “Coats” this week, the third and closing single from their forthcoming EP, Supply of Love, which follows on Monday sixth October.
Following on from former singles “Scrape” and “Get Married,” “Coats” was recorded and blended by Cosy Recording Co. and mastered by John Paul Braddock and has been a staple of the band’s dwell units in current months.
Supply of Love consists of 5 songs in whole—“Mary Beth” and the title monitor along with the three aforementioned singles and has already obtained airplay from the likes of John Kennedy on Radio X and Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music.
To have a good time the discharge of the brand new EP, the band—Luke Eaton (bass and vocals), Job Gregory (drums), and Oliver Sammels-Moore (guitar)—will embark on a brief UK tour in October culminating in a hometown present at The Stage in Nottingham promoted by the band and alluring mates and bands they admire to hitch them on the invoice together with fellow Below the Radar favorites Swallowtail. By Dom Gourlay
5. Melody’s Echo Chamber: “Within the Stars”
This week Melody’s Echo Chamber introduced a brand new album, Unclouded, and shared a brand new music from it, “Within the Stars,” through a music video. She additionally introduced some 2026 tour dates. Unclouded is due out December 5 through Domino.
Melody’s Echo Chamber is the mission of French musician Melody Prochet.
Unclouded’s title is impressed by a quote from Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and author/director of such classics as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Ponyo, The Wind Rises, and The Boy and the Heron. He was talking about attaining equilibrium when he mentioned: “It’s essential to see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the nice in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is nice. Pledge your self to neither facet.”
“I used to really feel nostalgic rising into maturity,” Prochet says in a press launch, “however now that I perceive that idea of impermanence, I don’t take it as personally anymore.”
She provides: “The music I create unusually inhabits the liminal zone between realism and fables. However the extra expertise I’ve of residing, the deeper I really like life and the much less I want to flee. If my coronary heart nonetheless belongs to the blue hour, it additionally looks like I’ve gathered up all of the items of myself that had been scattered in all places and glued them along with gold like Japanese kintsugi.”
Sweden’s Sven Wunder co-produced Unclouded and contributed to the writing. The album additionally options Josefin Runsteen on strings, Dina Ögon’s Daniel Ögen on guitar, Love Örsan on bass, British drummer Malcolm Catto (of The Heliocentrics), Reine Fiske (of Dungen) on guitar, and Leon Michels of El Michels Affair.
Beforehand Melody’s Echo Chamber shared the album’s first single, “Daisy,” that includes El Michels Affair.
In 2022 Melody’s Echo Chamber launched a misplaced album, Unfold, in addition to a reissue of her self-titled debut, each through Fats Possum. The identical 12 months she launched the brand new album, Emotional Everlasting, through Domino.
Learn our interview with Prochet about Emotional Everlasting right here. By Mark Redfern
6. The New Eves: “Whale Station”
7. Whitelands: “Look”
8. Jordana: “Like That”
9. Molly Nilsson: “Get a Life”
10. Snõõper: “Star *69”
11. Tremendous Furry Animals: “Rock ‘n’ Roll Flu”
12. Keep in mind Sports activities: “Throughout the Line”
Honorable Mentions:
These songs virtually made the Prime 12.
Chanel Beads: “The Coward Forgets His Nightmare”
The Charlatans: “Deeper and Deeper”
Dorothy: “50s music”
mud: “Stressed”
The Early Years: “The River”
GUPPY: “Again to the Factor”
HighSchool: “Sony Ericsson”
Horse Jumper of Love: “Mansion”
Jane Inc.: “what if”
Momma: “Cross Your Coronary heart”
My Morning Jacket: “The Satan’s Peanut Butter”
The New Eves: “Crimson Brick”
plantoid: “Dozer”
Skullcrusher: “Dwelling”
Tortoise: “Works and Days”
Westerman: “About Leaving”
Right here’s a useful Spotify playlist that includes the Prime 12 so as, adopted by all of the honorable mentions:
