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 13, 2026.
sunn O))) – ‘Glory Black’
sunn O))) have announced their self-titled album and first for Sub Pop. It’s out April 3, nd today they’re sharing the volcanic closer ‘Glory Black’. The record was co-produced and mixed by the band and Brad Wood (Hum, Tar, Sunny Day Real Estate, Liz Phair), and was recorded at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, in January 2025. “The vast tracking room had big windows looking out on trees,” Stephen O’Malley recalled. “We could go hiking and be out in the woods, spend time outdoors. That became a big part of it.”
Arlo Parks – ‘2SIDED’
Arlo Parks has announced a new album, Ambiguous Desire, which arrives April 3 via Transgressive. The follow-up to 2023’s My Soft Machine features a guest spot from Sampha. “At its core ‘2SIDED’ is about yearning and tension,” Parks said of the sparkly lead single, which is out alongside a Molly Burdett-directed video. “It’s about being struck by a bolt of desire and building up the courage to put language to that feeling, to make it real.”
deathcrash – ‘Somersaults’
“This record comes from a place of growing up, and giving up on adolescent dreams,” deathcrash said of their just-announced album Somersaults, which they’ve previewed with the opening title track. It does start almost like a lullaby, and it makes the surrender sound like a homecoming. “Matt presented to us this beautiful nostalgic song, more or less fully formed, and he’d called it ‘Somersaults’ before the vocals were ever written for it. It became a symbol for the record more or less instantly.”
Alexis Taylor – ‘Out of Phase’ [feat. Lola Kirke]
Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor has announced a new solo album, Paris In the Spring, that features contributions from Air’s Nicolas Godin, The Avalanches, Étienne de Crécy, Lola Kirke, Pierre Rousseau (Paradis), Ewan Pearson, Elizabeth Wight (Pale Blue), Oli Bayston (Boxed In), and Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside. It’s out March 13 via Night Time Stories, and the bouncy, ethereal lead single ‘Out of Phase’ is out now. “There are daydreams full of dread sometimes – thankfully not all the time,” Taylor reflected. “The mind can be filled, or overloaded, and mystery can be misleading – or leading. And soon you are on a Lost Highway. This is the first song Oli Bayston and I made together, and was a much-needed tonic for carrying on with making this album. This process involved finding incredible musical partners and then sometimes losing them altogether, as life gets in the way – just as much as it was also about losing friends literally to death. But the new musical partners are to be celebrated as much as the death of friends is to be focused upon. Nashville singer Lola Kirke was the missing ingredient in this song – her voice takes a lonely cowboy’s mystery into a modern duet of love, yearning and searching.”
Anjimile – ‘Like You Really Mean It’
Anjimile has accompanied the announcement of his new album You’re Free to Go with the breezily tender ‘Like You Really Mean It’. “I wrote this to make my girlfriend want to give me a kiss. We live about an hour apart, and I was just by myself thinking about her. Thinking about wanting a kiss. What could I do to get a kiss from my sweetheart? Write a song about it! Anyway, it worked.”
Robber Robber – ‘The Sound It Made’
Robber Robber have announced their first album since signing with Fire Talk, Two Wheels Move the Soul, with the thrillingly kinetic ‘The Sound It Made’. It comes paired alongside a Wes Sterrs-directed video.
Xiu Xiu – ‘Dancing on My Own’ (Robyn Cover)
Xiu Xiu have a new covers compilation on the way titled Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ Xiu: Vol. 1, and today they’ve shared a stirring, quivery cover of Robyn’s classic ‘Dancing on My Own’. “I was so afraid to do this one,” Jamie Stewart commented. “An all-time favourite, but so beloved we didn’t want to upset anyone. A true masterpiece and emotional pop. I envy this song in the sweetest way.”
Fcukers – ‘L.U.C.K.Y’
Fcukers have announced their debut album, Ö. Produced by Kenneth Blume (fka Kenny Beats), with production from Dylan Brady of 100 gecs across three tracks, the album is out March 27 on Ninja Tune. It’s led by the clubby new single ‘L.U.C.K.Y’.
Charlotte Cornfield – ‘Hurts Like Hell’
Charlotte Cornfield is back with news of her sixth album and Merge debut, Hurts Like Hell. Out March 27, it’s the the first she’s recorded since the birth of her daughter in 2023. The country-inflected lead single is stunning; that’s Big Thief’s Buck Meek on backing vocals, and Feist, Christian Lee Hutson, and Maia Friedman also sing on the album. “This song is about someone getting over deep insecurities and inhibitions and putting themselves out there,” Cornfield explained. “These two characters in the song have clearly experienced a lot of pain and are pushing themselves to move past it and connect with one another. It’s a shy people love story. The pedal steel/full band/country-tinged approach felt fitting for this one, and Buck’s backing vocals really sent it.”
José González – ‘Against the Dying of the Light’
José González has announced his fifth solo studio album, Against the Dying of the Light, to be released via City Slang on March 27. “It’s a song reflecting on humanity in 2025; about accepting who we are and what led us here, since the past can’t be changed,” the singer-songwriter said of the hushed title track, which is out now. “Then about refocusing our attention on the challenges ahead, like pervert incentives and algorithms that aren’t in line with human flourishing. And even though we have enormous opportunities with new technology that can eventually design and copy itself, we don’t have to build it right away if it has the potential to make us obsolete. We can rebel against these replicators, rebel against the dying of the light.”
Nothing – ‘toothless coal’
Nothing have dropped ‘toothless coal’, the latest single from their forthcoming LP a short history of decay. The dizzyingly industrial track follows previous offerings ‘cannibal world’ and ‘purple strings’.
Jana Horn – ‘Come on’
Ahead of the release of her self-titled album on Friday, Jana Horn has shared one final single, ‘Come On’. It comes paired with a self-directed video.
Converge – ‘We Were Never the Same’
Converge have previewed their upcoming album Love Is Not Enough with an abrasive new single called ‘We Were Never the Same’. “I wrote these words in the parking lot of a funeral home while reflecting on loss,” Jacob Bannon said in a statement. “Why do we gather to mourn but not to cherish? It’s an honest question that exposes our collective distractions and shortcomings. Grief brings clarity— We all must do better.”
Mute Swan – ‘Phantasms of the Living’ [feat. Sonoda]
Mute Swan have announced their second album, Skin Slip, which arrives on March 6. The kaleidoscopic ‘Phantasms of the Living’, featuring Sonoda, is out now. Mike Barnett commented: “Several years ago I got into reading books about non-duality. The lyrics of this song were inspired by a British non-dualist named Tony Parsons but the title actually comes from a 19th century book about ghosts of people who are still alive. There’s a connection there but, anyway, we were very excited after writing this song together. This song is one of our favorites. And Lisa (Sonoda) singing on it was the absolute cherry on top.”
Landowner – ‘Rival Males’
Massachusetts post-punks Landowner have announced a new album, Assumption, set for release on February 27 via Exploding in Sound. At just over 90 seconds, the lead single is as tightly coiled as it is haunting. “As the album progresses, I am increasingly addressing my own assumptions, specifically the assumption that the world is doomed and my kids will experience increasing suffering,” vocalist Dan Shaw explained. “I end up reminding myself that this view is indeed itself an assumption, or is at least simplistic, and I am not an all-knowing prophet. This insight has been deeply valuable to me, in learning to cope with personal-level crises and anxieties, or more global-scale worries. Things usually turn out differently than I assume, and that’s a simple but deeply valuable thing to realize.”
Remember Sports – ‘Nevermind’
Remember Sports have shared a new single off their upcoming album, The Refrigerator. About the defiantly bright ‘Nevermind’, singer and guitarist Carmen Perry shared:
Fighting means different things for different people. You’ll know for yourself what to fight. Grandma told me fighting can be making peace. She said sometimes we move forward by looking back and sometimes the onward can be knowing when to stop.”
A lot of this record was written while I was very depressed, and felt like I was fighting something every second of every day, including myself. This quote spoke to me because it made me realize that the knowing when to stop fighting was important, and made me finally want to ask for help.
It’s about the little ways I dared myself to ask for help without actually asking, like holding a hand, dancing around the kitchen, or making a drawing, that seem so small in retrospect, but can really take all you have at a time when all you have is not that much. It’s being brave and showing love and truth for just a second before it becomes too much and you have to change the subject or turn on the TV, but a million times over until you feel a little more like yourself again.
Ora Cogan – ‘Honey’
Ora Cogan has announced her Sacred Bones debut, Hard Hearted Woman – out March 13 – with an enchanting new single called ‘Honey’. The track comes paired with a video directed by Paloma Ruiz-Hernandez, who commented: “The idea was to enter into an existence of absurdity where everyone is simultaneously isolated in their own loneliness and drowning in collective longing and lust.”
Kee Avil – ‘itch’
We’ve been fans of Vicky Mettler’s experimental work as Kee Avil since her 2022 debut Crease. Today, the Montreal producer announces a new project, Vapor, which will be released one track at a time over the course of a year. The first single, ‘itch’, tingles with yearning. “Vapor is a deconstructed album that I’ll be releasing song-by-song throughout 2026, a sort of sonic diary,” Mettler commented. “Creative inspiration is often like vapor, appearing and dissipating quickly. This album represents what inspires me in the moment, it’s my attempt at capturing fleeting moments of creativity, and finishing them quickly while they’re still fresh and breathing. For me, it’s a way to let go and make music without thinking too far ahead. Once a song is finished, I move on. I don’t try to link the songs: each tells its own story. My hope is that at the end, a natural cohesion appears, a concept reflecting a frozen moment in time, a process from start to finish.”
trauma ray – ‘Hannibal’
Looking for something “Stone Temple-y, Alice in Chains-y”? That’s how vocalist Uriel Avila describes trauma ray’s new single ‘Hannibal’, which leads their new EP Carnival. “It’s a song about the feeling of doing your best as an individual yet still falling short in the eyes of those you hope to make proud. A lot of it stems from internal battles I faced growing up with my father, role models, and religion. Some of it comes from more recent experiences of being put under the microscope by my peers. It’s a gut wrenching sensation that I was able to tie lyrically to the visceral mood of the instrumentation that kicks off the track and begins the journey through Carnival’s overall theme.”
Draag – ‘NSPS’
Draag have dropped ‘NSPS’, another hypnotic single off their forthcoming EP Miracle Drug. “I wrote ‘NSPS” on my 10 year sobriety anniversary,” the band’s Adrian Costa revealed. “I’ve come very far in my sobriety journey and don’t struggle as much as I used to. Sometimes I miss my drunken days, but without needing to go back. On my 10 year sobrieversary, I spent a lot of time reflecting on past relationships and saw how many were taking advantage of me. I remember the person I was back then, and I wanted approval so bad, even if it meant being abused by so called friends and partners. When I drive through the valley (818), I often drive through specific locations and landmarks in my life where abysmal and ridiculous events occurred during my drinking days. I still love this place and it’s still my place of comfort.”
ME REX – ‘Angel Hammer’
ME REX have returned with ‘Angel Hammer’, the first taste of a forthcoming project. About the striking single, Myles McCabe expounded: “The category is ‘Things That Fall’. I got sober when I was 20, I’m 34 now and I’ve been looking back on the years leading up to that and the sense of inevitability I felt about the way I was living. Between myself and a host of people I knew it seemed like there was always some kind of increasingly major mental or emotional crisis happening to one of us. For me this culminated in surviving a serious fall I had in blackout with relatively minor injuries. This song is reflecting on what led up to that accident and the things I saw happening to the people around me in those years.”
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