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, May 13, 2026.
The Strokes – ‘Falling Out of Love’
The Strokes have dropped the second single from their first album in six years. ‘Falling Out of Love’ follows last month’s ‘Going Shopping’, and the band will debut it live on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert tomorrow. It will be interesting to see how they pull that off; not only is it a midtempo ballad that drags on for over six minutes, but Julian Casablancas’ vocals are also heavily filtered.
The Mountain Goats – ‘Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds’
‘Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds’ is a delightful title for a lead single, and I’m happy to report that the Mountain Goats’ just-announced album, Days, has plenty more where that came from. It’s hooky and driving, and as John Darnielle notes, “Most songs here are in major keys but don’t let that fool you. If you do let that fool you I have a bridge to sell you; there is nothing on the other side of the bridge. Still, you shouldn’t let that deter you. Who am I to tell you what kind of bridge you need, or where the bridge you need should lead? Nobody, really. Nobody at all.”
Tove Lo – ‘I’m your girl right?’
Tove Lo has shared a new single called ‘I’m your girl right?’. It’s taken from her forthcoming album, Estrum, arriving September 18.
Hovvdy – ‘Try Try Try’
Hovvdy are returning with a new album, Big World, which is led by the bleary yet propulsive ‘Try Try Try’. “When it comes to the music, there’s literally never questions between Charlie and me, only answers,” Will Taylor commented. “We can always show up and not have to worry about the music, and that continues to amaze me.”
Eartheater – ‘Paradise Rains’
Eartheater has announced a new album, beautifully titled Heavenly Body: If I’m the Bottle You’re the Message, set for release on July 12. Exploring themes of pregnancy and motherhood, the album features co-production from TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek and a guest appearance from Oklou. The wondrous, mercurial ‘Paradise Rains’ is out today. “‘Paradise Rains’ is a song about buying back my childhood farm after being estranged from it for 20 years,” Alexandra Drewchin said in a press release. “I conceived my baby the day we first stepped back on the property. So many memories, good and bad, were resuscitated being back, and calloused tensions dissolved and got washed away by the showers of deep love with my new little family.”
Alex Cameron – ‘Red Hook Rain’
Alex Cameron is back with news of his fifth studio album, Late to Set, arriving July 24. The throbbing lead single ‘Red Hook Rain’ was “written on the edge of a hurricane with the sky shaking like the heads of so many disapproving Gods,” per a press release.
mmj – ‘nobody knows’
mmj is the new solo project of Megan James, one half of Purity Ring. Having signed to Captured Tracks, today she’s shared the project’s first single, ‘nobody knows’. It reminds me of the direction the members of Let’s Eat Grandma, another indie pop duo, have taken on their solo efforts this year: more subdued but no less hypnotic. “‘nobody knows’ is close to the sun for me. It resonates a little differently every time I play it,” James said of the track. “The opening line is: ‘nobody knows a fallen star from wildfire ash raining down on the yard.’ It presents the ways we know so little, but also the things we deny and can see if we choose to, and what we should see and be in order to survive in this place; what we deserve to have and be as individuals and collectively. ‘nobody knows’ is circular, a fractal glimpse of humanity in the span of a song. I hope you feel it.”
Sari Lightman – ‘The Way I Saw You’
Sari Lightman, who cut her teeth in the projects Tasseomancy and Lightman Sisters with her twin sister, Romy, has announced her solo debut. The Way I Saw You, out June 26, was produced by Meg Duffy (Hand Habits, Perfume Genius) and features Pat Kelly (Perfume Genius, St Vincent), Aaron Otheim (Mega Bog), Jesse Quebbeman-Turley (Buck Meek, Cherry Glazer), and Evan Cartwright (Cola, U.S. Girls). The delicate, inward-looking title song was inspired by Eve Babitz. “A journalist sits across from the writer Eve Babitz, decades into Babitz’s reclusive period after an accident left her disfigured,” Lightman reflected. “She yearns to be remembered the way she was in her writing – sensual and carefree. To live in the rose, immortal, blossoming inside a body of work. There is a lot to be said about an Artists’ myth when in reality, the human experience is much messier, undignified – not to mention the cruelty pelted onto beautiful women as they age. Instead I went down a theological rabbit hole with the rose. I thought about Dante’s Paradise and all those feminine saints stashed in the petals, like an exquisitely scented sexy hotel. ‘Let Eve live here’ I thought.”
Brian Fallon – ‘Not Bad For New Jersey’ and ‘Better Before’
Brian Fallon, frontman of the Gaslight Anthem, has served up a pair of new tracks, ‘Not Bad For New Jersey’ and ‘Better Before’. “‘Not Bad for New Jersey’ is my way of celebrating what I do and where I’m from,” the New Jersey-based artist explained. “I wrote that song looking back on my life the way you do after almost ending up in a crash – like, ‘How did I make it through that?’ I really could’ve busted myself open somewhere along the way, but somehow I’m still here, and I’m still in one piece.”
Jacques Greene – ‘What You Say’ [feat. umru]
Jacques Greene has joined forces with umru for an exhilarating new tune, ‘What You Say’. “Working with umru seems to follow a certain pattern,” Greene remarked. “He comes to the studio in Montreal, the track materializes out of thin air as quickly as we can keep up, and the results ignite inspiration in me for months to come. ‘What You Say’ was made in my studio last year, and it has stayed with me as a lightning bolt on my hard drive. Freshhhhh energy into 2026.”
Baby Rose – ‘But, Nvm’
Baby Rose has detailed a new album, YEARNALISM, which will be released on July 10 via Secretly Canadian. The striking, laidback lead track ‘But, Nvm’ comes with a video directed by Amaya Segura and Rae Blackman.
