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, February 11, 2026.
Kim Gordon – ‘Dirty Tech’
Kim Gordon has shared ‘Dirty Tech’, the second single from her forthcoming album Play Me. Unlike the dreamier ‘Not Today’, it finds her back in sardonic spoken-word mode, uttering lines like, “I like it when you talk dirty tech to me.” In a press release, she explained: “I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot? We’re the first ones whose lights are going to go out – not the tech billionaires. It’s so abstract that people can’t comprehend.” Thankfully, Kim Gordon is great at communicating the abstract and making it sound all the more absurd.
Ekko Astral – ‘lil xan goes to washington’
Ekko Astral have announced their second LP, the beltway is burning, with a track titled ‘lil xan goes to washington’. It comes out April 22, and trust me, you’re going to want to mark your calendars. The new single should be proof enough. “In times when Nicki Minaj is tight with the president, it feels right that Lil Xan becomes a lobbyist,” the band’s Liam Hughes explained. “This song was pulled out of thin air in the studio while most of the album was written and ready to record beforehand. We only had the lyrics finished for this one. But once we started messing around, the music wrote itself in minutes, and we all knew we had something special.”
Flea – ‘Thinkin Bout You’ (Frank Ocean Cover)
Flea’s upcoming album, Honora, features a few covers, including a take on Frank Ocean’s ‘Thinkin Bout You’ that’s out today. Last fall, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist posted a video of him playing the song on trumpet for his son Darius, but the recording is lush and wistful, fleshed out by Anna Butterss’ upright bass and Nate Walcott’s string arrangements. “Channel Orange! When that record came out, it really blew me away,” Flea shared. “I listened to it ten million times. It was something I just couldn’t stop listening to. I loved it so much and still do. Just one of those real watershed moment records for me. “Thinkin Bout You” is one of the many great songs on that record, and I thought it would be fun to play on trumpet.
“Then I went to Nate Wolcott, who plays keyboards on Honora on several tunes,” he continued. “He did that string arrangement for me. He stepped up to the plate and really did something beautiful. I just wanted to get the honest beauty of the melody because it’s a great song.”
Victoria Monét – ‘Let Me’
Victoria Monét is back with new music. ‘Let Me’ is a lavish R&B tune produced by Camper, with help from Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman, Branden “B Mack” Rowell, and Cashmere Brown. It’s artfully stretched out to nearly five minutes, ensuring it takes less than a full listen for the hook to get stuck in your head. I’m confident I’ll be hearing this one in a variety of different settings, and I won’t be mad about it. I might even let myself hum along.
Kevin Morby – ‘Javelin’
Kevin Morby made an album with Aaron Dessner as a producer, and it’s called Little Wide Open. The breezy first single, ‘Javelin’, comes with a video starring Morby and comedian Caleb Hearon, cameos by Katie Crutchfield and Tara Raghuveer. “This is a song I wrote about being in love with someone you keep circling around the globe, relentlessly traveling through the air and down highways, and then returning home alone to middle America,” Morby said. “[Amelia Meath, of Sylvan Esso and Mountain Man] shines here, with her incredible vocals. I had invited her into the studio and asked that she create a backing choir out of just her voice – but her presence is so special that her ‘backing vocals’ can’t help but take the lead.”
Lowertown – ‘I Like You a Lot’
New York duo Lowertown have announced a new album, Ugly Duckling Union, with the nervously infatuated lead single ‘I Like You a Lot’. The new track “was written about the hope of a new crush, and the intoxicating feelings of admiring and fantasizing about someone from afar,” according to the band. “Loving someone without yet knowing them, and being filled with the idea of the potential time spent together. This thinking can become obsessive and compulsive, almost like a sickness taking over the body, but maybe not in a particularly bad way. It is also about the insecurity and the uncertainty about these feelings being reciprocated or un-reciprocated.”
Hiss Golden Messenger – ‘In the Middle of It’
Hiss Golden Messenger has a new album on the way. I’m People, the follow-up to 2023’s Jump for Joy, is out May 1, and it’s led by the sprightly folk rock jam ‘In the Middle of It’. Having written it in a corner room of the El Rey Court hotel, MC Taylor referes to it as a “Santa Fe song,” citing “Highway 10 through the desert towns, Los Angeles to El Paso … Art Bell’s Coast to Coast droning from a bunker in the middle of Nevada. Ghosts and UFOs and vagabonds. The engine sings out over the long lightning fields. In the middle of it: the country, the story, the relationships.”
Mei Semones – ‘Koneko’
Before releasing her debut LP Animaru last year, Mei Semones impressed us with 2024’s Kabutomushi EP. Today, she’s announced another EP, Kurage, comprised of three songs all featuring guest contributors. The first single, ‘Koneko’, is an exquisite duet with her friend, the British-Brazilian singer-songwriter Liana Flores. “I wrote this song about my first time in London in April of 2025,” Semones recalled. “I was staying with Liana, and the imagery in the lyrics is inspired by our time together: we walked along the canal, drank tea, ate strawberries and cookies, played with her cat, and went to the park to look at the birds 🙂 I hope that the song will make people smile and remind them of the pureness of a good friend <3.”
Frost Children and Ninajirachi – ‘Sisters’
Frost Children and Ninajirachi have joined forces for a new single, ‘Sisters’. It’s basically an updated version of ‘Sister’, the affecting title track from Frost Children’s 2025 LP. A few months ago, Frost Children remixed Ninajirachi’s ‘Fuck My Computer’.
Gladie – ‘Brace Yourself’
No Need to Be Lonely, another reason to be stoked. Gladie’s upcoming album (that’s the title in italics) comes out in a little over a month, and today they’ve shared another killer single, ‘Brace Yourself’. According to the band’s Augusta Koch, it’s “a song about worrying about the health of a friend I love. Moments like that tend to shake you and can sometimes completely reorient you to what is actually important. It’s so easy to get trapped in the monotony of day to day life and focus on things that don’t actually matter, Brace Yourself is about trying to pay more attention to the things that do.”
Melvins and Napalm Death – ‘Tossing Coins Into the Fountain of Fuck’
Melvins and Napalm Death’s collaborative album, Savage Imperial Death March, will be released on April 10. Sharing a name with the bands’ Savage Imperial Death March tours from 2016 and 2025, the LP was tracked at Melvins’ Los Angeles studio, with Buzz Osborne (vocals/guitar) and Dale Crover (drums) joined by Napalm Death’s Barney Greenway (vocals), Shane Embury (bass), and John Cooke (guitar). “Napalm Death are one of my favorite bands ever,” Osborne shared. “It was an absolute pleasure and a dream come true to do this collaboration with them. We wrote songs together. I would write a riff and we would learn it and record it right there. They wrote stuff, and we would learn it immediately as well. It was truly a 50/50 partnership.” You can tell that was the case by its first single, ‘Tossing Coins Into the Fountain of Fuck’.
Greenway added: “Funny how life turns out sometimes… collecting hard-to-find Melvins 7-inches on Bleecker Street in 1989 and then touring twice and doing an album with them within the following 35 years. Had a great time with it all, and nice to work with fellow travelers in the Melvins who also couldn’t care about pandering to “demographics.” I felt myself almost babbling lyrically during the recording, and that alone made for very fun recording times.”
E L U C I D & Sebb Bash – ‘Make Me Wise’
E L U C I D has dropped a new track from I Guess U Had To Be There, his album-length collaboration with Swiss producer Sebb Bash. The swirling, eerie ‘Make Me Wise’ follows last month’s ‘First Light’.
Carla J. Easton – ‘Oh Yeah’
Carla J. Easton has announced her third album, I Think That I Might Love You, due May 8, with the ebullient new single ‘Oh Yeah’. Produced by Howard Bilerman, the record was inspired by her time making the film Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands, and includes co-writes from Simon Liddell (Frightened Rabbit, Poster Paints), Hen Hoose’s MALKA (Hen Hoose), Glasgow’s Man of the Minch, Canadian singer-songwriter Brett Nelson, and Hefner’s Darren Hayman.
Touch Girl Apple Blossom – ‘The Springtime Reminds Me Of…’
Is it too early to think about springtime? Even if you think so, Touch Girl Apple Blossom’s jangly new single might change your mind. It leads the Austin band’s debut album Graceful, which arrives May 15 via K/Perennial. That’s certainly good timing!
Tinariwen – ‘Imidiwan Takyadam’ [feat. José González]
Hearing Swedish singer-songwriter José González on a Tinariwen single is a pleasant surprise; the only other guest on the Tuareg musical pioneers’ upcoming LP Hoggar is Sudanese artist Sulafa Elyas. González sings in Spanish on the acoustic lament ‘Imidiwan Takyadam’, about which Tinariwen’s Ibrahim Ag Alhabib shared: “Friends, look at what is unfolding before us. This is a song I wrote long ago, yet today its echo feels stronger than ever. It speaks of our people, the Tamasheq, scattered across distant lands, slowly losing the threads of their culture and their ancestral heritage. It is a call to memory and to conscience — a reminder not to forget our brothers and sisters who endure suffering under the tyranny of short-sighted and foolish leaders.”
Cashier – ‘Part From Me’
Louisiana band Cashier’s debut EP, The Weight, is coming March 13 via Julia’s War Recordings. New single ‘Part From Me’ is hooky, but there’s a jagged tension that’s in line with its subject matter. “I had a lot of fun writing this song,” Kylie from the band said. “Musically, it’s a love letter to singing, and a celebration of rock guitar. I was trying to find something playful for the verses, and I created this melody that goes back and forth with the guitars. Lyrically, the song seeks connection, exploring the distance between two people; the push and pull of coming back around to each other, but the connection never quite making it – like when two magnets repel – and the invitation to be/not be a part of another person’s life.”
Elder Island – ‘Pink Lemon’
Bristol trio Elder Island have announced their third LP, Hello Baby Okay, arriving March 8. ‘Pink Lemon’ is a pleasantly groovy jam about the often “disparagingly mundane rhythm of our daily lives. Or, as the band tells it: “‘Pink Lemon’ is about escaping monotony and dreaming of being whisked away from the everyday. We wanted it to sound like old analogue holiday photographs, with a sun glare on the image, the light and warmth of golden moments. We used classic 90s filters (famously used by Daft Punk), like the Mutronic Mutator and the Electrix Filter Factory, to bring in a slight vintage character, but kept the focus on letting the bright, silky guitar riff shine for that sunny, soul-pop feel.”
Tenderness – Day of Atonement [feat. Deep Throat Choir]
Tenderness – the London-based solo project of Katy Beth Young – has shared a mournful new single, ‘Day of Atonement’, featuring Deep Throat Choir. “‘Day of Atonement’ is a kind of collage of images and sounds and dreams and different relationships,” Young said of the track, which is taken from her debut album True. “I wanted the song to be both abstract and tangible, in the way that dreams can be. It’s a bit of an outlier for me –I usually try to write towards clarity, but this song is more impressionistic because it’s about parts of myself that I struggle to look at squarely, which are experiences around care and codependency and addiction. The recording was made from many layers with a huge bed of drones by Euan, Jim White-inspired drums from Olly, melancholy pedal steel by Harry and improvised, ethereal backing vocals by some of my friends from Deep Throat Choir.”’
