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, January 7, 2026.
Robyn – ‘Sexistential’ and ‘Talk to Me’
Robyn’s first new album in eight years is called Sexistential, and today we get to hear not one but two more songs from it, following November’s great ‘Dopamine’. ‘Talk to Me’, produced by Klas Åhlund and Oscar Holter, features Max Martin as a co-writer, marking their first collaboration since 2010’s ‘Time Machine’. “I wrote it during the pandemic when there was no way to be physical,” Robyn said. “I like talkers, that turns me on.” On ‘Sexistential’, Robynraps about looking for hookups while being pregnant via IVF. She wrote it after reading André 3000’s line about how nobody would want to hear him rap about a colonoscopy: “It was my cue. I have to do this, I have to write a rap about IVF.” Only someone like Robyn could pull it off.
Iron & Wine – ‘In Your Ocean’
Sam Beam is back with a new Iron & Wine album to follow up 2024’s Grammy-nominated Light Verse. Hen’s Teeth lands February 27 via Sub Pop, and it includes the previously shared I’m With Her collaboration ‘Robin’s Egg’. “To me it suggests the impossible. Hen’s teeth do not exist,” Beam explained. “And that’s what this record felt like: A gift that shouldn’t be there but it is. An impossible thing but it’s real.” New single ‘In Your Ocean’ fits that description, transcending physical boundaries through the language of love.
Bonnie “Prince” Billly – ‘They Keep Trying to Find You’
It’s only been about a year since Bonnie “Prince” Billly released his last album, The Purple Bird, and today he’s back with the announcement of his next LP. We Are Together Again may revolve around friendship and community, but ‘They Keep Trying to Find You’ addresses someone burrowing into loneliness: “Ignore everything that is frightening or strange/ Allow isolation to fully derange/ Becoming one with the darkness within.” It comes paired with a music video directed by Abi Elliott.
Buck Meek – ‘Gasoline’
Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek has announced a new album, The Mirror, arriving February 27 via 4AD. The lovely lead single, ‘Gasoline’, is all about how infatuation has the ability to rush us into a language of its own. This woozily frenetic pace is echoed in the accompanying video from director Noel Paul.
The Twilight Sad – ‘Designed to Lose’
It’s the Long Goodbye, the Twilight Sad’s first album in seven years, “had to contain every element of emotion I was feeling,” singer/lyricist James Graham explained in a press release. On the nervy, epic new single ‘Designed to Lose’, that feeling is grief; the album was partly inspired by Graham losing his mother to early onset frontotemporal dementia.
Gladie – ‘Future Spring’
Gladie’s follow-up to 2022’s Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out is called No Need to Be Lonely, and the cathartic new single ‘Future Spring’ feels like an elaboration of that title. According to the band’s Augusta Koch, it’s “about grappling with the isolation and loneliness that’s created by the cruelty of the world we live in. I wanted to capture the feeling of being in conversation with a friend, questioning why at times we can let outside influences shrink us. I think the world would be a lot better if we encouraged each other to be kinder to themselves and by extension others. It’s good to remind people that you are happy they’re here.”
Sassy 009 – ‘Someone’
‘Someone’ is the latest single from Sassy 009’s upcoming album Dreamer+, whose previous singles have featured Blood Orange and yunè pinku. It’s blurry yet enchanting.
PONY – ‘Swallowing Stars’
PONY have previewed their upcoming LP Clearly Cursed with another clearly excellent single, yet uniquely radiant, single called ‘Swallowing Stars’. “Swallowing stars is about being caught in the crosshairs of a relentless people pleaser,” singer Sam Bielanski explaned. “Drinking in every beautiful word they say, as if it wasn’t just a reflection of your own thoughts and ideas, and the ultimate let down when you finally see behind the curtain. It’s like the scene in The Wizard of Oz when the giant animatronic wizard’s head stops working and a little insecure man walks out from behind it.”
Mirah – ‘After the Rain’
Mirah has announced a new album called Dedication, which arrives on Febuary 20. The follow-up to 2018’s Understanding features Jenn Wasner of Flock of Dimes, Meg Duffy (aka Hand Habits), and Andrew Maguire as Mirah’s backing band, and its first single, ‘After the Rain’, is patiently stirring. “Turns out that I am the kind of person who can get almost nothing work-like done within the frame of a normal work-day but give me a week and I will write a whole album,” Mirah shared. “I was at the house in San Gabriel and this song just flew out of me. It wouldn’t have flown out in between school drop off and school pick up, with a bunch of errands and e-mails to deal with in between. This song needed the mountains in the distance, the weird suburban quiet of the days, the familiar strangeness of sleeping in not my own bed, the not my life life. I find a lot of truth in times like that, when I am just listening to me. What a gift.”
Rosie Carney – ‘Sixteen’
Rosie Carney has unveiled ‘Sixteen’, a poignant single from her fourth studio album, Doomsday… Don’t Leave Me Here. “It’s a song about false starts, feeling lost and lonely, and realising I’m better off leaning on my sisters than some idiot who probably wouldn’t give a shit anyway. It’s about making the right decision as opposed to the easiest one.”
Tigers Jaw – ‘Ghost’
Tigers Jaw have released an anthemic new single, ‘Ghost’, from their forthcoming album Lost on You. “The genesis of ‘Ghost’ was a chance run-in with a person I grew up with,” frontman Ben Walsh revealed. “A run-in that would have been warm, welcomed and cherished at one point in my life held no significance after the slow steady passage of time and growing apart. The quick flash of memories with this person felt like a glimpse into a past life, or like seeing a ghost. Some people don’t stay in your life forever and that’s OK, but it’s very interesting which memories get dredged up when you see a once familiar face.”
Searows – ‘Dirt’
Searows has unveiled a new track from his upcoming LP Death in the Business of Whaling, ‘Dirt’, which has a beautiful way of grounding its melancholy. “This song is about inevitability. We all have the knowledge that we and everything around us is finite, and we all have a different way of dealing with that fact. It isn’t something that has ever been comfortable for me, but I can’t spend my life uncomfortable with it. We all inevitably return to the dirt, but you can’t ease the anxiety over it by trying to dig the hole early. If we can acknowledge the end, maybe we can remember we’re alive now.”
The Reds, Pinks and Purples – ‘New Leaf’
The Reds, Pinks and Purples’ swooning new single, ‘New Leaf’, marks the first taste of a new album to arrive this year. “People read some of the more humorous lines in my songs as irony, but honesty is funnier,” Glenn Donaldson shared. “These songs are just me, even if the sentiments seem exaggerated. There’s enough abstraction in the images on this one that the listener can find their own messages”
Fotocrime – ‘Plowjob’
Fotocrime have announced a new album, Security – out March 13 – with the pulverizing new single ‘Plowjob’. The LP features contributions from Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg, Napalm Death’s Barney Grenway, Young Widows’ Nick Theinman and Evan Patterson, Bleakness’ Nico and Phab, and all three members of Sumac. “The new album has some synth textures, but for ‘Security’ we had a different sort of goal,” Ryan Patterson expounded. “We recorded most of the music live, and what you’re hearing is primarily guitar, bass, and drum machine. So there are plenty of Soviet-era analog synths, but not anywhere near the amount that there has been with Fotocrime previously.”
MxLonely – ‘Return to Sender’
Previewing their debut album All Monsters, New York outfit Mx Lonely have shared a resonant new single, ‘Return to Sender’. “‘Return to Sender’ is about trying to understand the other side of someone feeling indifference towards you,” Rae Haas expounded. “When this sentiment has been expressed to me in my life, it has the capability to send me into an absolute spiral – I would much rather have an unambiguous emotion, like hatred, directed towards me. It’s easier to process. This song was written off the dome, and was me trying to write from a viewpoint outside of my own head. The repeated phrase ‘Return to sender’ that makes up the chorus was an attempt to accept this outside perspective. If you know that your side of the street is clean, others’ opinions are not your burden to carry.”
Joe Pernice – ‘The Black and The Blue’
Veteran singer-songwriter Joe Pernice has announced a new album, Sunny, I Was Wrong, which features contributions from Aimee Mann, Norman Blake, Rodney Crowell, and Jimmy Webb. It’s out April 3, and the straightforward lead single ‘The Black and the Blue’ is out now. “This is one of those songs that came to me so completely and quickly that it was almost like I was watching someone else write it,” Pernice commented.
Big Special – ‘SLUGLIFE’
Big Special have unleashed a new single, ‘SLUGLIFE’, which Joe Hicklin describes as “a song about living low to the ground and going slow. Feeling guilt for needing a bit of time to pull yourself up by your boot straps. It’s about working through the self hate that can come through hard times.”
Anna Tivel – ‘Memphis’
Portland, Oregon-based songwriter Anna Tivel has unveiled ‘Memphis’, an understated B-side from her 2025 album Animal Poem. “I started writing ‘Memphis’ on an airplane after meeting an electric eyed ex-convict heading to an evangelical gathering in Tennessee,” she recalled. “He was magnetic, ecstatic, possibly manic, and so in love with life. He got me thinking about the things we reach for when reality is too painful to accept.”
