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 27, 2026.
Gilla Band – ‘Giraffe’
Gilla Band are back. The discombobulating post-punk of ‘Giraffe’ marks the group’s first music in three years, and it comes with a video from Cuan Roche and Chanthila Phaophanit. In a statement, frontman Dara Kiely said that his head “can be a very scattered and sometimes lonely place. Feeling unloved and finding it difficult to articulate what I’m actually thinking. The song’s outro indirectly details a kind of confirmation that affection toward me does exist. While I appreciate it, I still find that hard to believe.”
Cornelius – ‘Aeons’ [feat. Sean Ono Lennon]
Cornelius has collaborated with Sean Ono Lennon for his latest single, ‘Aeons’. “As the world and my surroundings changed at an intense speed, I think all of that inevitably shaped this work,” the Japanese producer said of the slinky tune. “Rather than expressing these ideas directly, I approached them structurally – exploring continuity, transformation, and multiple coexisting states within a single, uninterrupted flow of time.”
Wild Pink – ‘Round of Applause at the End of the World’
Wild Pink made an album at Asheville’s Drop Of Sun studio with producer Alex Farrar, bringing along the likes of Hand Habits and MJ Lenderman for the ride. Leading Still Coming Down is ‘Round of Applause at the End of the World’, which brought to mind Destroyer’s ‘Hydroplaning off the Edge of the World, a song that instantly became one of my favorites of last year. I’m getting a similar kind of feeling with this one, which centers around the refrain, “I don’t know what my idea of fun is anymore.”
The Durutti Column – ‘Liars’
The Durutti Column are returning with Renascent, their first new album in 16 years. Vini Reilly’s trio will follow up 2010’s A Paean to Wilson on July 31 via London Records, and the dolefully hypnotic lead single ‘Liars’ is out now. The LP was recorded with producer/instrumentalist Keir Stewart and drummer/percussionist Bruce Mitchell.
The Tallest Man on Earth – ‘Colors’
The Tallest Man on Earth has returned with a new song, ‘Colors’. Recorded at home, it marks the Swedish singer-songwriter’s first music in three years, and as lo-fi folk rock songs go, it’s especially vibrant.
Melaina Kol – ‘Lifeheart’
Melaina Kol, the moniker of Nashville musician Logan Hornyak, has signed with Philly label Julia’s War Recordings, marking the announcement with a phantasmagoric new song, ‘Lifeheart’. It leads the curiously titled LP Okay that’s a great idea because if I do that then, which is out August 14. The song’s eerily chopped-up vocals sounded strangely familiar on first listen, which made sense upon discovering they come from Lowertown’s Olivia O. “With this album, I was obsessed with not singing,” Hornyak explained. “I kept imagining vocal lines that didn’t really fit my voice, so most of the other vocals on this album come from chopping up Olivia O’s vocal feature on the title track, including this song, ‘Lifeheart’. I spend a lot of time playing guitar and am obsessed with two dueling guitar parts that are completely different but serve to accomplish a uniform sound. The rest of the instrumental comes from some pedal stuff, and I was able to record harp in a studio my roommate works at.”
Lockstep – ‘Ash in the Water’
Nashville’s Lockstep have signed to Profound Lore, which will release their debut LP I Know What I Saw on July 24. “This record is, hands down, our most dialed material yet in every sense,” singer/drummer Austin Rolison commented. “We put a lot of trust and focus into our sonic instincts and ended up with eight songs that I feel truly define everything Lockstep is at this point.” It’s led by the churning, uproarious ‘Ash in the Water’.
Holy Wave – ‘s33.u.in/HAL’
Holy Wave have announced a new album, i’m DADA, arriving in July. The mesmerizing lead single ‘s33.u.in/HAL’ is out now, and the band’s Ryan Fuson had this to say about it: “‘s33.u.in/HAL’ is like a prayer to the God of shortcomings, a child God that we are raising to one day be our savior. It was one of the first ideas we worked on for the album, but also one of the last songs we finished. I was listening to a lot of Wagon Christ at the time and wanted the song to basically be a Wagon Christ rip-off, but it just didn’t feel right. Big surprise, that was a tall order. So the song was shelved to the “maybe the next album” part of the new song catalog. Then, late in our demoing phase, Joey and Julian showed up to practice with some ideas for it. We played around with them, and the song literally just started to write itself. We finished that day with essentially the song done, sans lyrics and some finishing details, and it instantly became one of our favorites. I still hope we put out the other version some day, but this is by far the better of the two.”
Lorg – ‘Marathonia’
Lorg, the solo project of SALES’ Lauren Morgan, has unveiled a languorous track called ‘Marathonia’. “My closest friend was moving away to NYC around the time my relationship was feeling out of reach/doomed,” Morgan explained. “I felt like the two people I really wanted around were not there anymore. Brings a little tear to my eye even now. I wrote this song for Daniel — athletic, self-assured, a beam of light. For the lyrics, I imagined going on a run with him. I’ve never been a great runner and I hope when I die whoever is on the other side gives me a good reason for that. Ever since we met, Daniel and I were fast friends and this song came out of me 100 percent complete. Songs like these give me energy for 10 more.”
Quadeca – ‘Dark Magic’
On the heels of his Kilby Block Party performance, Quadeca has released his first new single of 2026, ‘Dark Magic’. It comes paired with a video directed and edited by Quadeca and longtime collaborator Brendon Burton.
Félicia Atkinson – ‘Sans Visage I’
French musician Félicia Atkinson has shared ‘Sans Visage I’, the unnerving second single from her forthcoming album SANS VISAGE, a reimagining of the score for Georges Franju’s cult 1960 horror classic Les yeux sans visage. “Through the music, I decided to bring back their empowerment despite what they endure,” Atkinson reflected. “This is why the record is also dedicated to Gisèle Pelicot, whose trial happened while I was in the process of composing the music and kept thinking of her strength and her decision to share her trial in order to reverse the shame.”
knitting – ‘I Wasn’t Fully Cooked’
Montreal’s knitting have previewed their upcoming full-length Souvenir with a visceral new single, ‘I Wasn’t Fully Cooked’. Frontperson Mischa Dempsey explained: “I was on tour in early 2020 and got really scared that I would die in a freak accident and would be mourned as a girl, as my old name (this fear was eventually a big impetus for me coming out to people as non-binary and changing my name). ‘I Wasn’t Fully Cooked’ was a way for me to think about what death interrupts and what gets remembered…It might be our favourite knitting song yet.”
Daydream Plus – ‘Speed Limit’
Daydream Plus, a new math-rock band that features two members of the Toronto death metal band Tomb Mold, have a new song out. The deceptively breezy ‘Speed Limit’ is taken from the trio’s debut LP, Second Last Day of Summer, which features American Football’s Steve Lamos, Fox Capture Plan’s Ryo Kishimoto, and Joseph Shabason of Destroyer and The War on Drugs.
Blums – ‘Cashout’
Blums, the NYC project of songwriter and musician Kelsea Feder, has announced her debut album, Sunk Cost Fantasy, dropping August 7 via Take Care Records. About the propulsive, whimsical track and its accompanying video, Feder said: “Initially, I wrote this all on guitar and a GarageBand drum beat in 2022 or 2023, none of which made it into the final version. I came home from a night with a guy during which I had a pretty unpleasant memory pop up and wig me out during what was supposed to be a fun time. It unlocked a lot of unpleasant memories/anger during what was supposed to be a sexy, fun time, and I wanted to turn it into a celebration of catharsis. This song also points a lot to repeated patterns and how we find ourselves back inside of what we’re trying to get away from. I walked manically around Maria Hernandez Park for a couple of hours when we were close to being done and wrote layers of vocal parts that all go over each other at the end of the song. I had the video idea for ‘Cashout’ over 2 years before I was finally able to make it. I knew that I wanted some fever dream Coyote Ugly bar dance sequence interspersed with knife flipping on the side of the road where I grew up in South Jersey. The song deals with uncomfortable memories and feeling stuck/frozen, so I wanted to turn the video into a fantasy/celebration of the anger to express what couldn’t be in a previously frozen state.”
