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 Thursday, March 5, 2026.
Cass McCombs and Chris Cohen – ‘Steel Reserve’ and ‘Ignis Fatuus, Hinkypunk, Sharkfins and Ambergris’
Cass McCombs and longtime collaborator Chris Cohen have teamed up for a two-song 7″ single. ‘Steel Reserve’ is laidback and searching, while ‘Ignis Fatuus, Hinkypunk, Sharkfins and Ambergris’ is almost as fun as saying its title. “Chris composed the music, and I did the words,” McCombs said in a statement. “Our longtime friend and mutual collaborator Trevor Shimizu drew the artwork. Chris has weaved throughout my music over the years — he played guitar on my first LP, A, as well as on ‘County Line’, he co-produced Interior Live Oak, and he is a remarkable musician and songwriter. Both songs are somewhat cracked meditations on dignity. ‘Steel Reserve’ explores the bushes, hidden away. Public life has nothing to offer dignity. ‘Ignis Fatuus’ is a pirate’s treasure collected from an Earth stained with blood and madness — stolen from W.B. Yeats.”
Cohen added: “Cass and I go back to early 2000s Bay Area. I’ve always thought he was an amazing songwriter so I was very happy when he sent me lyrics. I took it as a dare, as the words were tricky and the forms unusual ones for songs, but I followed them exactly as they were. The music is my reaction to the words as I understood them. Also Cass is a killer guitar player so I had him come in and put some classical guitar on top of ‘Steel Reserve’. We both harmonize and trade verses on ‘Ignis Fatuus’ so it is our first proper duet.”
Anne Hathaway – ‘Burial’
Anne Hathaway plays a pop star in A24’s upcoming film Mother Mary, and she performs the songs on its soundtrack that were co-written by Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX. Charli’s husband, the 1975’s George Daniel, also helped write and produce the new song ‘Burial’, which Hathaway sings in the trailer.
Rosa Walton – ‘Sorry Anyway’
A few months after Jenny Hollingworth released her debut solo album, the other half of Let’s Eat Grandma, Rosa Walton, has announced her own. Tell Me It’s a Dream is led by the bright, soaring new single ‘Sorry Anyway’, which finds her singing, “If you want the lightning/ There’s gonna be thunderbolts and rain.” Walton explained: “This song is about not letting anyone hold you back, whether in a relationship or in chasing your ambitions. It’s about doing your own thing, embracing who you are, and not caring about fitting into boxes, and also trying to inspire others to have this attitude. We had fun making it – it’s the flippant, messiness that makes the song, and it was also the beginning of a new vocal style for me. I’m owning all parts of myself.”
Craig Wedren – ‘Nothing Bad’
Craig Wedren has announced The Dream Dreaming Deluxe, an expanded version of his 2024 album, due April 10 via his Tough Lover imprint. It features five unreleased tracks as well as 5-track acoustic EP. One of the bonus tracks, the whirring ‘Nothing Bad’, is out today. “In the spirit of telling a fuller (but never the whole) story – showing a little more leg, as it were – I’m sincerely excited to share The Dream Dreaming Deluxe,” W When I set out to make The Dream Dreaming,” Wedren shared. “I wanted to make a video for every song, collaborating with friends and directing/shooting/editing many of them myself. At a certain point, however, I just needed to put the thing out and move on, both creatively and life/work-wise, even though I’d only gotten about 3/4 of the way there with the visual side of things. With the deluxe release, I aim to finish the job and right all wrongs.”
Otracami – ‘Perfect Reach’
Otracami, the project of Brooklyn-based songwriter and composer Camila Ortiz, has shared a beautifully ornate single, ‘Perfect Reach’, from her upcoming album Runoff. “When it’s so dead of winter, things just need to play out in your head in a really full way,” Ortiz said of the song, which explores the feeling of being frozen in place. “Things feel so stuck that you start building out another dimension and playing things out there.”
Ronboy – ‘I Am Only Playing’
Julia Laws, the singer-songwriter and producer who records as Ronboy, has unveiled a cathartic new song called ‘I Am Only Playing’. She’s only been playing it live over recent tours, and she’ll have the chance to do so again on a run of dates supporting Matt Berninger. It’s taken from her forthcoming Get Rich EP. “I wanted to capture a parallel with the arc of the song and lyrics,” Ronboy said in a statement, “spinning and building into a sonic release of ‘I can’t keep my cool anymore.’”
Cowboy Hunters – ‘Shag Slags Not Flags’
Cowboy Hunters, the Glasgow-based outfit composed of Megan Pollock and Desmond Johnston, have released a wiry new single, ‘Shag Slags Not Flags, lifted from their forthcoming EP EPeepee. Here are some of its pretty funny lyrics: “Forty-three with a flag in her bio/ Said she hates blanks, but that is a typo/ The sexual frustration you could catch with your eyes closed / Lonely at night, so turn to a wino.”
Slow Crush – ‘Que Du Noir’ and ‘Hallowed’
Belgian shoegaze outfit Slow Crush have dropped two B-side singles from the sessions behind their album Thirst, ‘Que Du Noir’ and ‘Hallowed’. The first is especially striking. “”Que Du Noir’ is perhaps the darkest and most intense song we have ever written,” vocalist Isa Holliday remarked. “When it first took shape, I couldn’t make it through a single take without breaking down. Every time I sang the lyrics, I was overcome with emotion. It was born in Mykonos, Greece, during one of the warmest, most light drenchedweeks of my life. A striking contrast to the darkness it carries within.”
The Reds, Pinks and Purples – ‘Worthy of Love’
The Reds, Pinks and Purples have previewed their forthcoming LP Acknowledge Kindness with a lovely new song, ‘Worthy of Love’. “This album is probably about learning to live with your ghosts and trying to be alive in the present,” Glenn Donaldson commented. “There’s a certain kind of big sounding record I aspire to make, like California by American Music Club or 16-Lover’s Lane by The Go-Betweens, works that steer into the pain but become a transportational device for the listener.”
