Paste Music has curated a weekly playlist of standout new tracks, featuring artists such as Bill Callahan and Charli XCX. The selection spans introspective folk to experimental pop, highlighting fresh releases from established and emerging talents. This roundup offers listeners a mix of emotional depth and innovative sounds to explore.
Paste Magazine's latest weekly feature spotlights 10 compelling new songs released around November 13, 2025, presented in alphabetical order to guide music enthusiasts through the week's highlights. The playlist emphasizes variety, from Bill Callahan's introspective "The Man I’m Supposed To Be," where his baritone delivers lines like “I’ve been living too long in my head / not loving you enough in our bed,” framing mortality as a pragmatic daily task, to Charli XCX's contributions to the soundtrack of Emerald Fennell's upcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation. Her tracks "House," a collaboration with John Cale featuring sinister strings, and the ballad "Chains of Love" showcase her versatility beyond electro-pop.
Dry Cleaning's "Cruise Ship Designer," the second single from Secret Love, explores a designer's existential doubts through Florence Shaw's spoken-word style, with Tom Dowse's riff adding dissonance as she affirms, “I believe in design.” Grace Ives returns after a three-year gap since Janky Star, sharing "Dance With Me," a joyful track born from her recovery in Los Angeles, where she reflects on escaping a destructive period: “I was drinking, lying, and hiding.” Hayley Williams adds "Showbiz" as a bonus to Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, evoking The Strokes while pondering her split from Paramore's Taylor York: “Exit stage left / What might be the end / Showbiz, showbiz.”
Jana Horn's "Go on, move your body" delves into quiet survival amid dread, questioning “Is this all there is?” as harmonies fade unresolved. Mercury's "Heaven," led by Maddie Kerr, meditates on incomplete letting go, with Kerr's falsetto pleading “something’s got a hold on me.” Robyn's "Dopamine," co-written with Taio Cruz a decade ago, delivers euphoric pop with vocoder effects and a delayed beat drop: “I’m tripping on our chemistry.” This Is Lorelei's re-recorded "Holo Boy" by Nate Amos warms up its slacker rock with electronic touches, while Wendy Eisenberg's "Will You Dare," featuring Mari Rubio on pedal steel, captures love's passage: “It shapes you, and scrapes you.”
The list also notes other tracks like FKA twigs' "Predictable Girl" and Valerie June's "Rollin’ and Tumblin’," encouraging discovery via an ongoing 2025 playlist.
