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, April 7, 2026.
Iceage – ‘Ember’
After releasing the excellent single ‘Star’ last month, Iceage have officially announced their new album: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter is out May 29 via Mexican Summer. The jittery, chaotic new single ‘Ember’ finds Elias Rønnenfelt characteristically singing “I love you in an ominous way.” The accompanying music video was directed by the band and Ira Rønnenfelt. “The songs needed to be immediate, urgent, raw, and fast,” Rønnenfelt said of the record, which was produced with Nis Bysted. “We wanted to try to shed any unnecessary weight. Catching outlets of energy is what excites us the most.”
Kurt Vile – ‘Chance to Bleed’
Kurt Vile has announced a new album, Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me, proving his titular point with the lead single ‘Chance to Bleed’. The track features Slint’s Ethan Buckler, Optic Sink’s Natalie Hoffman, and the Oblivians’ Greg Cartwright on guest vocals. Vile commented: “‘Chance to bleed’ is some new kinda higher energy rager. Recorded with my band of bros the Violators in Athens, GA… and then on down the road to Memphis, TN where we got town legend Greg Cartwright to rip with us (KV lead gtr on the left and Greg lead on the right!) I finished this jam out in L.A. with Rob Schnapf at the mixing board and by then it was flyin, baby. The video is a hoot: I invited my Memphis friends back out for that and there’re a ton of other legendary guests so keep your eyes peeled. (Yo, Schoolly D!) Love, KV.”
Harmony – ‘I’m Still Learning How to Leave You’
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Harmony Tividad, formerly one half of the duo Girlpool, has announced a new album. Lifetime, the follow-up to 2024’s Gossip lands June 16 via KRO Records. Produced by Yves Rothman and recorded at the famed Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, the soaring, emotional lead single, ‘I’m Still Learning How to Leave You’, is “about the continued strength to surrender responsibility over a person you no longer have the strength to take care of,” according to Tividad. “The pain of how strong the urge continues to be even when you are worlds apart.”
Carla dal Forno – ‘Under the Covers’
Like Iceage’s ‘Star’, Carla dal Forno’s last single, ‘Going Out’, made our list of the best songs of March. Today, she’s back with a new track from the upcoming Confession called ‘Under the Covers’, which is patiently hypnotic. “This song is about the quiet kind of love—the kind that builds slowly in shared routines, small gestures, and the comfort of being understood without needing to explain yourself,” dal Forno explained. “I wanted to capture a love that isn’t dramatic or fleeting, but steady and lived-in—where intimacy shows up in ordinary moments, and understanding becomes its own kind of language between two people.”
Dari Bay – ‘We’re Gonna Be OK’
Dari Bay, the band fronted by Robber Robber’s Zack James – who just released their great second album – have announced a new LP, Surprise Wish, arriving June 26 via Double Double Whammy. About the hooky, luminous new single, James said: “‘We’re Gonna Be Okay’ is about being grateful for what you have because it can all be taken away from you. Around the time that I was writing this song my girlfriend and I were facing some obstacles in our lives, like housing displacement, some health issues, and a lot of general uncertainty. Just some “welcome to the real world” stuff hitting us from different angles all at once. It was a strange and intense time, knowing we had reached a new low point but as a result feeling really lucky to have the stuff that we did have, like our community, and each other and a hope and excitement for the future.”
runo plum – ‘pink moon’
runo plum has unveiled another track for the upcoming EP Bloom Again. The hushed, entrancing ‘pink moon’ was written the evening after the singer-songwriter irst date with her soon-to-be girlfriend and collaborator Noa Francis. “The love I was experiencing felt like a ‘once in a blue moon’ situation–but we are both girls, so it felt cute to make it a ‘pink moon,'” plum recalled. “It really is just a very tender love song, written after my first date with my girlfriend Noa. Looking back on it a year and a half later, it’s definitely a good example of the intensity of the “honeymoon” phase. I recorded it while I was lounging in bed, the night after our date, and there was just something really special about the feeling of the first time playing it that felt impossible to re-create.”
youbet – ‘Undefined’
youbet have previewed their upcoming self-titled album with one final single, the mesmerizing ‘Undefined’. “I wrote ‘Undefined’ while waiting for a guitar student and started to work out this interesting melody and chords,” vocalist and guitarist Nick Llobet said. “The verse came quick which isn’t always the case with my songwriting, sometimes it takes me a while to develop a fully fledged section of a song. Things that come this naturally to me usually make the cut in terms of what I want to play with the band live or record.”
Stephen Becker – ‘Careless’
Stephen Becker has shared a rowdy, driving new song, ‘Careless’, from his forthcoming album Gravity Blanket. “I was stuck on the word careless, and how adding a space flips its meaning entirely,” Becker said. “In relationships, it’s hard to know whether someone’s just being careless (silly, impersonal) or if they actually care less (harsh). I tried to capture that ambiguity with a wily post-chorus guitar riff in the vein of Jonny Greenwood and Ed Rodriguez.”
Thomas Dollbaum – ‘Coyote’
Prepare yourselves for the beauty of a Thomas Dollbaum record that comes out next month, titled Birds of Paradise, with one of its standouts. ‘Coyote’ sees the singer-songwriter harmonizing with Jake Lenderman on drums, joined by bassist Nick Corson (The Convenience, Video Age) and guitarist Josh Halper (Lily Haitt, Peter One). “This song is about a few separate memories I have that blended over time,” he explained. “The first memory is convincing a friend who was drunk and could barely stand to not jump off a roof into a pool. Another memory is of my friend lighting his uncle’s RV on fire after an argument, and then many memories of controlled burns and coyotes crossing roads in the area of Florida where I grew up.”
Hrishikesh Hirway – ‘Things Change, Even Now’
We’ve heard some lovely previews of Hrishikesh Hirway’s upcoming album In the Last Hour of Light, including collabs with Iron & Wine and Fenne Lily. Today, the singer-songwriter has shared the poignant ‘Things Change, Even Now’, a song about his father, who was hospitalized after an accident a few years ago. “When [producer] Phil Weinrobe told me that we were going to record this album live, including the vocals with everyone in the same room, without overdubs or the chance go to back and edit or re-do any of the music, I was terrified,” Hirway shared. “But then, I realized it was probably the most appropriate way to record a song like this. The whole album, but especially this one, is about confronting and accepting how little control I have over so many fundamental aspects of my life. You can only try your best. And I feel like that really came through in the recording.”
Tomorrow Woman – ‘Ultrasound’
Tomorrow Woman, the project of California-born, Paris-based artist Betsy Roszko, has shared an intoxicating tune, ‘Ultrasound’. “I started out just wanting to make something dark and clubby and fun, and then the song kind of took on a life of its own,” Roszko remarked. “I hope it unlocks a slightly concerning version of you on the dance floor.”
Grandmas House – ‘DOG’
Bristol’s Grandmas House have shared a raucous new single, ‘DOG’. “‘DOG’ is about a feeling, written whilst struggling with a chronic illness that no professional could explain,” the band said of the track, which was recorded with producer Ali Chant. “We all have something that burdens us in life, be it mental health, chronic illness, grief, trauma or heartbreak. It’s always there, waiting around the corner.”
