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 Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
Hannah Frances – ‘Circadian Heart’
Hannah Frances has returned with a new single, ‘Circadian Heart’, which comes paired with a music video. “‘Circadian Heart’ is a look into the relational pattern of choosing unavailable people and trying to get them to choose me back, only to find that I have to stop chasing and learn to choose me in the end,” the singer-songwriter explained, homing in on the psychoanalytical lens that marked 2025’s excellent Nested in Tangles. She continued, “How we’ll break our own hearts to feel familiar pain, until we choose a new way that is softer and more reciprocal.”
Whait – ‘Falling down’
Whait, the collaborative project of Wendy Eisenberg and Mari Rubio (aka more eaze), have announced a new album titled sympathy at home. It’s led by the new single ‘Falling down’, a homey, enchanting synthesis of the artists’ compositional proclivities. This week, the duo will be supporting Animal Collective’s show at the Knockdown Center in New York.
claire rousay & zander raymond – ‘can’t we have both’
Over the past month, claire rousay has released a collaborative album with Martyna Basta and a solo project called on holding. She’s already back with news of another collaborative LP, this time with zander raymond. something good is out January 29 on Thrill Jockey, and ‘can’t we have both’ is out today. Never quite clinging to form, the song, one of two vocal tracks on the album, is spine-tinglingly gorgeous.
Soul Glo – ‘Ppl Worried’ [feat. Tunde Adebimpe]
Soul Glo have joined forces with TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe for ‘Ppl Worried’, the electrifying new single from their upcoming LP NA I’M GON GRAB ALLAT. The LP also feautres Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson, Commitment’s Tati Salazar, Mannequin Pussy’s Colins “Bear” Regisford, MIKE, and Bbymutha.
Lambrini Girls – ‘The Basement’ and ‘Split’
On the latest pair of songs from their forthcoming No Refunds, Lambrini Girls showcase two contrasting sides of the record’s sound: ‘The Basement’ is typically ferocious and resentful, while ‘Split’ is starkly minimal. “It was exciting and challenging to do something that’s so different to the rest of the album and what we do in general, but to make it as powerful in its own way,” bassist Selin commented.
One Step Closer – ‘Blue Hour’ and ‘Was It Ever Enough?’
One Step Closer bring forward a similar contrast on ‘Blue Hour’ and ‘Was It Ever Enough?’, the double single that leads their new album Zero. The meditative ‘Blue Hour’, in particularly, is the closest I think they’ve sounded to the Linkin Park hit they’re named after.
Caroline Rose – ‘Valery (please don’t be mad at me)’
Ahead of the release of their new album, Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall, on Friday, Caroline Rose has dropped one more single, the hooky, anthemic ‘Valery (please don’t be mad at me)’. “A lot of this record pulls from stories from my hometown and fuses them with other stories from when I lived in NYC, so some characters might be a mix of two or three different people,” the singer-songwriter explained. “‘Valery’ is a combination of my best friend from my hometown, who passed away from a heroin overdose many years ago, along with another friend I loved so much who also became addicted to heroin and just had a really difficult life. I gravitate toward people in my life who have struggled, and they often come out as characters in my songs.”
sadie – ‘Little Things’
sadie has released a luminous new song called ‘Little Things’. “This is a song about living in the moment and not getting too existential about things,” she reflected. “It’s about not worrying what’s going to happen next. I was feeling sexy and flirty when I wrote it and it’s probably the only purely feel-good song I’ve ever written and may ever write…”
Lamplight – ‘Ring Stains’
Deliciously off-kilter and radiant, ‘Ring Stains’ is the latest preview of Lamplight’s new record, Lick The Spoon, Let It Soften, ahead of its arrival on Friday. “It touches on a familiar season, adding another ring to the tree one year at a time,” Ian Williams shared. “Things are changing, I’m getting older along with my friends’ kids, but we reliably come back to the yearly rituals that center us. I’m cleaning up after a group dinner, I’m dipping my toes in the river, I’m celebrating, I’m sun soaked.”
Liily – ‘CALLUS’ and ‘ERROR’
After sharing ‘FOREVER’ and ‘EVERYDAY’ earlier this year, Liily have announced their major label debut album, WAX, sharing another pair of tracks. ‘CALLUS’ and ‘ERROR’ are accompanied by a music video once again directed by the band’s guitarist Sam De La Torre. “This album was the easiest process we’ve ever had while simultaneously being the most intentional,” frontman Dylan Nash commented. “These last two years I’ve worked so hard towards being more compassionate to myself and others and that truly changed the way we create music. WAX was our stab at honest art. Whether it suits your tastes or not, I hope you hear something real.”
Nabihah Iqbal – ‘Heaven Can Wait’
Nabihah Iqbal has signed to Ghostly International, marking the announcement with a nervy, hypnotic new single called ‘Heaven Can Wait’. “‘Heaven Can Wait’ is a song about the happiness of friendship,” the musician offered. “It’s about loving life, feeling good and appreciating all the positive things that this world has to offer. The song is inspired by summers in London and New York City: it’s about having fun with your friends, and really, truly feeling alive. I wrote the song in a small, quirky, basement studio in the East Village, Manhattan and I wanted to channel the energy and freedom of this iconic New York neighbourhood.”
Dowsers – ‘Dogwood’ and ‘Three Forks of Cheat’
Gar Hole Records has signed Dowsers, the North Carolina/Illinois supergroup comprising Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan (Magic Tuber Stringband, Weirs), Austin Cash (Nathan Smearage), Oliver Child-Lanning (Weirs, Sluice, Fust), James Gibian (Beak Trio), and Alli Rogers (Alli Blois). Their debut LP is slated for 2027, and today, you can bask in the melancholy twang of ‘Dogwood’ and the explosive post-rock tune ‘Three Forks of Cheat’. “‘Dogwood’ is a song that I wrote in the spring of 2020 at my friend Hunter’s grandparents’ house in Hayesville, NC so it’s release has been a long-time coming,” Morgan expounded. “The reliability of certain seasonal markers, some familiar and some new depending on local ecosystems shifting conditions due to climate change, is something I think we all become increasingly aware of as we grow older. The Dogwood tree that grew outside this house in Hayesville was the center here for my reflection on humans growing older but natural cycles reappearing.”
“‘Three Forks of Cheat’ has always been one of my favorite fiddle tunes,” Morgan added. “The source fiddler for this one is Edden Hammons of Webster County, WV. I learned it from playing with Will Csorba who shared his obsession with me for Hammons family tunes. I think of the three unequal, ‘crooked’ lines of the B part as representing the three forks of the Cheat River. I wanted to try to draw out the atmospheric qualities of this strange tune with Dowsers, ending in a cacophonous sludge section inspired by the great Athens band Harvey Milk.”
