There’s so much music coming out all the time that it’s hard to keep track. On those days when the influx of new tracks is particularly overwhelming, we sift through the noise to bring you a curated list of the most interesting new releases (the best of which will be added to our Best New Songs playlist). Below, check out our track roundup for Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
Shygirl – ‘Mantra’
Shygirl has offered another taste of her new album Swallow!, which comes out next month. Following ‘Alyse’ and ‘Lucky (Hymn)’, the clubby yet otherworldly ‘Mantra’ was co-produced with Clams Casino, Jd. Reid, and Karma Kid. The track comes paired with a music video directed by Austen Taylor Pease.
Jonah Yano – ‘Spin’ and ‘Holding On’
Jonah Yano has announced a new album, Spin, arriving January 29 via Innovative Leisure. Along with the news, he’s shared the short but delicately gorgeous title track, along with the more imposing ‘Holding On’.
Deer park – ‘Feathers’
New York-based artist and producer Deer park has announced a new LP, Matinee, out March 26. Ivy Knight and Astrid Sonne contributed to the album, which is led by the hazily pleasant ‘Feathers’. “One of the last songs finished for the album, it’s an introspective celebration of its themes- interlaced melodies washed in green,” he explained.
Marika Hackman – ’33’
Marika Hackman has a new album on the way called False Dogs, which is preceded today by the contemplative ’33’. The song “grapples with the dull ache of nostalgia, the apprehension of the future and the celebration of the moments in between,” the singer-songwriter explained. “Keep pushing, it’s worth it.”
Bleachers – ‘Blood Brothers’
A few months after the release of their fifth album, Bleachers are back with a stirring new song, ‘Blood Brothers’. It arrives ahead of a run of European shows kicking off next month.
June McDoom – ‘Human Angel’
June McDoom, our latest Artist Spotlight subject, has shared the final single from her debut album Follow the Light ahead of its release on Friday. Though originally written as a folk song, the track developed into one of the singer-songwriter’s first experiments blending folk with reggae instrumentation.
Catherine Elicson – ‘I’m on Fire’ and ‘All Sound’
Empath’s Catherine Elicson has previewed her debut solo album, River of Fat, with a pair of tracks. Equally bleary and loud, “‘I’m On Fire’ is a song about feeling trapped in your internal world and the void that creates. It has a meditative quality to it; I like to get lost in the repetitive heaviness,” according to Elicson. “The video was shot on a friend’s cedar tree farm in New Jersey by my girlfriend Halle Ballard and bandmate Johnny Costa. I rented a generator from Home Depot and played the song as the sun set. Shaun Sutkus, who also recorded the album, captured the live sound.” Of ‘All Sound’, Elicson added: “‘All Sound’ is built entirely on improvised guitar and vocals. I wanted to preserve the song’s intuitive, unedited energy, so I deliberately kept the little imperfections in. It has a levity that breaks up some of the heavier moments on the album.”
Gwenifer Raymond – ‘Bird Songs for Atomic Skies’
Welsh fingerstyle wizard Gwenifer Raymond, freshly signed to Fat Possum, has released a raucous new track titled ‘Bird Songs for Atomic Skies’. “’Bird Songs for Atomic Skies’ is a mutant rag, a blues gone awry,” she explained. “Lyrebirds are perched in irradiated nests and have grown new heads. Foxes bark in the night, but the barks are all wrong. This song is an assembly of sounds run through the wringer of an atomic age; New limbs are springing up by the hour.”
Land of Talk – ‘Dogs’ and ‘Cats’
Land of Talk – the Montreal-based project of Lizzie Powell – has shared a pair of songs, ‘Dogs’ and ‘Cats’. They’re consecutively sequenced on their forthcoming album LASTS, which arrives next month. ‘Dogs’ finds Powell attempting “to write a song that sounds the way listening to The Cure makes them feel,” according to a press release. They commented, “I wasn’t sure exactly what that meant, but was thinking it would lend itself to looking back on loves lost, yearning, regret. What came out was a simmering rage borne from living under the patriarchy.” About ‘Cats’, Powell added: “When I listened back to the finished track, I found those parts unintentionally sounded not unlike mischievous cats breaking into our studio after hours and jumping all over the instruments.”
