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, March 24, 2026.
Fire-Toolz – ‘Balam =^..^= Says IPv09082024 Strawberry Head ‘
Oh, you listen to Fire-Toolz? Name one of their songs. No, say the title of this song right in front of you. Excitingly, Angel Marcloid’s unpindownable project has signed to Warp, which will release the wonderfully titled Lavender Networks on May 8. It features contributions from Zola Jesus, Jennifer Holm, Brothertiger, Nailah Hunter, Lipsticism, and Sling Beam, and you can hear its dizzying lightbeam of a lead single below.
Jim Legxacy – ‘idk idk’
Hot on the heels of his black british music mixtape, Jim Legxacy has dropped a standalone single, ‘idk idk idk’, which is chaotically vibrant. The London rapper is set to head to North America to play Lollapalooza, Osheaga, and Outside Lands in the months to come.
Future Islands – ‘Sail’ and ‘Find Love’
Future Islands are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new compilation album, From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth, arriving May 22 via 4AD. It features “alternate hits, rarities, and fan favorites,” including two new songs, the meditative ‘Sail’ and characteristically propulsive ‘Find Love’, that are out today. “I’ve always loved the imagery of that lyric,” bassist William Cashion, who chose the title, commented. “The hole in the floor is the everyday, but the fountain is the magic that happens when the life you dreamed about actually becomes the one you’re living. It’s the dream and the reality existing in the same room… This is for everyone who has carried these songs with them, from the first house parties to the rooms we’re playing today.”
Tori Amos – ‘Shush’
Following ‘Stronger Together’, a duet with her daughter Tash, the second single from Tori Amos’ upcoming LP is a hauntingly atmospheric ballad about an alternate reality in which she’s married an evil billionaire “lizard demon.” Here’s what she had to say about ‘Shush’: “He represents what we’re dealing with right now. He sees congressmen, senators, and even probably presidents as people who answer to him and other billionaires, who don’t think you and I should vote. He’s trying to develop the kind of feudal system we had hundreds of years ago. But it doesn’t look like it once did. We don’t look like we’re in the trenches, in the muck. We have all the cool, digital devices now. So it looks different. But it has the same philosophy.”
Courtney Barnett – ‘One Thing at a Time’
“I don’t know where to start,” begins Courtney Barnett’s new single, “When every thought at once/ Comes flooding til I’m underwater.” Perhaps the overanalytical mind never stops running, but ‘One Thing at a Time’ cools into that headspace while opening itself up to change. Plus, it’s got Flea on bass, as well as a delightful video directed by Lance Bangs. Barnett’s new album, Creature of Habit, is out this Friday.
Pulp – ‘Marrying for Love’ and ‘Cold Call on the Hot Line’
‘Marrying for Love’ and ‘Cold Call on the Hot Line’ serve as B-sides to Pulp’s recent cover of Johnny Cash’s ‘The Man Comes Around’, but they’re not to be glossed over. Both tracks are quite easygoing, which means you can really appreciate Jarvis Cocker’s spoken word.
mary in the junkyard – ‘Crash Landing’
mary in the junkyard have announced their debut album, Role Model Hermit. It’s slated to arrive on July 3 via AMF Records, and it’s led by the slow-burning ‘Crash Landing’. “It’s about fear and how men often rely on keeping their emotions secret, and how you have to crack them open,” Clari-Freeman Taylor commented. “To be the only one that’s seeing one side of someone, it’s trapping.”
Spencer Krug – ‘Timebomb’ [feat. Elbow Kiss]
As Wolf Parade’s ‘I’ll Believe In Anything’ is enjoying a resurgence thanks to Netflix’s Heated Rivalry, Spencer Krug has announced a new solo LP, Same Fangs, out May 15. Its first single, ‘Timebomb’, is a spare, poignant duet with Elbow Kiss. “‘Timebomb’ is a song about a song about a band on tour, or rather, about the failed revision of that song, upon sadly realizing that its original message no longer rings true,” Krug explained. “This is me lyrically folding myself into the murky layers of self-made lore.”
Fruit Bats – ‘The Landfill’
Fruit Bats has announced a new album, The Landfill, due out June 12 via Merge Records. It’s led by the breezy, winking title track, which is accompanied by a music video from director Adam Willis that made me laugh out loud. Eric D. Johnson commented: “This is my 6th video with the great Adam Willis, AKA Brother Willis. Another in our long line of collabs which are often funny with cold opens and strange characters plumbing the depths of the human psyche.The very first brainstorm session, we landed on Close Encounters of the Third Kind as an initial reference. Especially the notion of a man at a crossroads who is haunted by a mysterious shape. Later that morphed into the idea that, for some strange reason, I live a double life as a tortured art star in Europe. And that my music career there is completely unknown. Truth be told, Fruit Bats have had a strange journey as more or less a cult band for a long time. Things have gotten bigger in recent years in North America but we ARE still quite obscure in Europe. This is a less than subtle nod to that fact.”
Lucy Liyou – ‘Crisis (Identity)’
Lucy Liyou’s new album MR COBRA doesn’t arrive until April 17, but its accompanying perfomrance piece debuts on Saturday at Performance Space New York. Following the introductory ‘Yoohoo (An Overture)’ and ‘Babygirl’, the artist has today shared ‘Crisis (Identity)’, the LP’s spine-tingling centerpiece, featuring saxophone from Patrick Shiroishi and electronic contributions by Nick Zanca. “There’s clarity in the beginning. She calls this a crisis. She calls her body a narcissist,” Liyou remarked. “But in reality, this is not her crisis. It’s the titular character’s problem, who has to attempt to understand and contain this kooky breadth of her being. Babygirl starts with explanations (‘I liken me to an actress’), but soon her language (d)evolves into commands (‘look at me’) until her words become nonsensical in phrase and nature.”
Brennan Wedl and Waxahatchee – ‘Six O’Clock News’ (Kathleen Edwards Cover)
Nashville singer-songwriter Brennan Wedl has signed to ANTI- Records, and to mark the news, she’s teamed up with Waxahatchee for a lovely cover of Kathleen Edwards’ ‘Six O’Clock News’. “I absolutely love this so much and am humbled that my song gets to live a new life with Katie and Brennan,” Edwards commented. “25 years ago, my audience looked a lot different than theirs does today – it’s incredibly cool to see young women love the songwriting that means so much to me, too.”
Cole Berliner – ‘The Black Door’
You may be familiar with Cole Berliner’s work as one half of Sharpie Smile, who unveiled their pop-minded debut album last year after years of leading the psych-rock outfit Kamikaze Palm Trees. Now, Berliner is gearing up to release his solo debut, and it finds him leaning in an entirely different direction. The Black Door is out May 29 on Drag City, and the leading title track is a stunningly folky instrumental that serves as “an ode to the sweetness and darkness of memory, both in one’s immediate life and in the context of history. The inspiration was drawn from the mystical sounds of American (and proto-American!) folk music and swing, filtered through the lens of heart-string pullers like Bert Jansch and Jim O’Rourke, and carved into something both personal and simultaneously universal.”
Styrofoam Winos – ‘Pearls’
Nashville’s Styrofoam Winos have announced a new album, Any River – out June 19 on Dear Life Records – with the lead single ‘Pearls’. The riveting, playful track was inspired by the Frank O’ Hara poem ‘Today’. “I liked its celebration of little things as surprising sites of meaning – the pearls in particular,” the band’s Lou Turner reflected. “I went on a walk after that and found an oyster on the ground in the middle of the sidewalk. Uncanny. All of this was inspiration for the lyrics, the idea of finding meaning where you least expect it, especially within someone else. That’s what it’s like to make music and play shows, too. It was very fun to figure out how we wanted to sing the syllables of each place together.”
Portrayal of Guilt – ‘Object of Pain’ and ‘Death From Above’
Portrayal of Guilt have dropped a pair of singles, ‘Object of Pain’ and ‘Death From Above’. Taken from their forthcoming …Beginning Of The End, the eerie, sludgy tracks come with videos from Craig Murray.
Mikaela Davis – ‘Starlite Tonite’
Mikaela Davis has previewed her forthcoming LP Graceland Away with a mesmerizing new song, ‘Starlite Tonite’, which she describes as such: “Now entering mankind’s long, dark night of the soul. Mother earth’s resources depleted, natural wonders destroyed, our only home turned to dust in the name of money and power. But amongst the barren landscape, there will still be a glimmer of hope as we look up to an ever-present reminder of a universe far beyond. Walk me out in the Starlite Tonite.”
New German Cinema – ‘Eyes’
Ahead of the release of her debut solo album, Pain Will Polish Me, this Friday, New German Cinema (the solo project of Fear of Men’s Jessica Weiss) has shared its final single, ‘Eyes’. It’s accompanied by a video shot whilst on tour in Japan last year, about which she said: “It is such a visually rich and very precise culture, that can feel enticing but also slightly unknowable to outsiders. That tension felt very apt for the energy of the song. We filmed fragments as we moved through cities and train stations, neon streets and quiet corners, trying to capture that feeling of being both immersed in a place and slightly outside it, with the recurring motif of landline phones suggesting emotional relationships beyond the frame. The video became a kind of travel diary, but also a visual echo of the song’s inner landscape.”
New Idea Society – ‘Dancing Horse’
New Idea Society, the project led by Mike Law (Wild Arrows, Eulcid) and Stephen Brodsky (Cave In, Mutoid Man), are releasing their fourth full-length, Fire on the Hill, on May 15 via Relapse. The contemplative lead single, ‘Dancing Horse’, is out now. “Part of ‘Dancing Horse’ first appeared all the way back in 2007 and it took a lot of forms over the years that never quite worked,” Law recalled. “Then out of nowhere it arrived somehow fully re-formed and totally realized into one of my favorite songs I’ve ever been a part of. The original idea started on an August night in Budapest and was tied together one August morning in 2024 back in Massachusetts. It was one of those moments where Steve reached deep and found something that had been floating around in another universe and brought it to ours.”
Brodsky added: “I remember listening to Mike’s original demo for ‘Dancing Horse’— it was a shoegaze thing with one lyric that shone brightly through the sonic haze: ‘There’s a dancing horse on my roof.’ My fiancé had just hung a horseshoe above the front door of our home. A native Texan, she explained that a horseshoe points up to catch luck and then flips over to rain it down… suddenly, that one line from the demo spawned a whole other thing in my head. I’m grateful that Mike was receptive to me taking a brilliant seed of his imagination and going off to the races with it.”
Accessory – ‘This Is Not Your Life (Static)’
Accessory, the solo project of Dehd’s Jason Balla, has dropped ‘This Is Not Your Life (Static)’, a gorgeously intricate track off his debut album Dust. “I wanted to capture that feeling of that moment in love when you cease to be the central figure in your own story,” Balla shared. The song “is about vulnerability and commitment and the beauty of submission. It’s life in the service of something beyond. As the song continues it becomes less about transcendence and slides into the realm of obsessive regret, depression and the lasting grip of intimacy now past.”
Joe Pernice – ‘I’d Rather Look Away’ [feat. Norman Blake]
Joe Pernice has teamed up with Norman Blake from Teenage Fanclub for ‘I’d Rather Look Away’, the rambling new single from Sunny, I Was Wrong. “This song was not on my list to make the record,” Pernice commented. “It was among the 20 or 30 songs I sent my old friend Warren Zanes and when I told him it was not on my list, he said, and I quote, ‘Joey, Joey, Joey, are you nuts?’ Okay, okay. To quote Robert Evans, ‘The kid stays in the picture.’ Pete Mancini plays all of the beautiful electric guitar tracks on the song. His parts and cues are spot on. And I knew I had to have my old friend Norman Blake add a vocal harmony arrangement, and he generously obliged. Norman is, among other notable things, the best harmony vocal arranger/singer I’ve ever met. It’s part of his natural way.”
Rachel Lime – ‘Nacrée’
Rachel Lime has previewed her upcoming record, STORIES, with a new song, ‘Nacrée’, which sways with longing. “This is a spring 2020 lockdown song I wrote about desire when I wasn’t able to fulfill it,” the Brooklyn-based artist commented. “The lyrics are completely unaltered from that first iphone notes app draft and I built the song around the words, playing around with sampling my own vocals, sighs, breaths. I wanted sounds that brought to life the lyrics, the ‘long blue afternoon’ and ‘sea and milk,’ the ‘black strand’ of the seashore as evening falls. Water, and specifically the ocean, has always had such a sensual, sexual connotation for me—the salt! The grit of sand on your skin. The sun and water touching every part of you. It’s funny because I’m definitely repressed in that I struggle to take myself seriously singing a, idk, kind of sexy song, but it’s exactly this kind of boldness I wanted to bring to this album. Less lonely, intellectual pining—more risk and drama.”
Alela Diane – ‘In My Own Time’
A perfect song to wind down your day, ‘In My Own Time’ is the latest single from Portland-based singer-songwriter Alela Diane’s forthcoming Who’s Keeping Time?. “It is so hard to stay present and not get caught inside the web of distraction that is the modern world,” she expounded. “This is a song for those of us who waste our own precious time, but strive to go outside and smell a rose instead. I am someone who could just fester away inside my house forever, but that isn’t what I want for myself. I want to feel alive! To breathe the air! To take the dog for a walk! To go out and see live music! I am doing more of these things, but I really do take my own time to get there.”
