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, June 10, 2026.
Sylvan Esso – ‘Hot Slob’
Sylvan Esso are back with a new song, ‘Hot Slob’, which is dancey and anthemic. Sounds like a new era! The track was recorded at the duo’s studio Betty’s in Chapel Hill, with drums from TJ Maiani and electric guitar and additional vocals from Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner.
Slow Pulp – ‘Better Man’
Here’s another indie rock band returning in explosively anthemic fashion: Slow Pulp’s ‘Better Man’ leads their just-announced album Melodie. “I realized that I had let go of the controls of my own life and instead was fully prioritizing what I thought people around me wanted from me,” the band’s Henry Stoehr, who wrote the song, reflected. “I reckon that I did this, at least in part, because I felt really chaotic and out of control of my emotions and actions as a kid and in my early twenties, in a way that I’ve always been very self conscious about. In my mid 20s, I entered a phase in my life that felt really stable. I had felt so turbulent emotionally up until that point and I desperately wanted to feel that I deserved to experience that. Naively, I thought that I could just extinguish that kid that fucked up all the time and couldn’t control himself. This song is me both letting go of control but taking control of myself in a new way, and accepting myself for who I am, and hoping that can be accepted by everyone else.”
L’Rain – ‘soulless cycle’
Taja Cheek has announced her fourth album as L’Rain, fata morgana, which comes out August 14. The lead single ‘soulless cycle’ spirals through harrowing waves of distortion in just three minutes, and it should get you very excited about the new LP.
Nick Hakim – ‘I Can See’
Nick Hakim has announced a new album, I Can See – out July 24 – and shared the stunning title track. The singer-songwriter worked on the follow-up to 2022’s Cometa with producer Andrew Sarlo.
Jack White – ‘Dollar Bill’
Jack White has announced a new album, Frozen Charlotte, with the squiggly, ferocious ‘Dolar Bill’. The LP features the previously unveiled tracks ‘Derecho Demonico’ and ‘G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs’.
Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal – ‘Unfinished Concrete Initials’ [feat. Hemlock Ernst]
Open Mike Eagle and producer Kenny Segal have announced a collaborative LP, DOOMED!: Rap Songs About a Relationship That Ends in Every Possible Universe. It will be released bia Backwoodz, billy woods’ label, on August 14, and the woozy yet vibrant lead single ‘Unfinished Concrete Initials’ features Hemlock Ernst, the rap moniker of Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring.
The Mountain Goats – Shallow Grave’
“I got the idea for ‘Shallow Grave’ at a stoplight and recorded the first bits of it a capella into my phone,” John Darnielle said of the sprightly new single from the Mountain Goats’ new LP Days. “Came home and blazed through the rest old school style. Got very excited! Sent it to friends! Everybody bopped! Carrie White’s mom, or Carrie White’s arm? The jury is still out! Poetic license strikes again! Please enjoy what has already been called, by me, ‘the song of the summer’: Shallow Grave! Shallow Grave! Shallow Grave!”
Lambchop – ‘Stella’
Lambchop have shared ‘Stella’, another gorgeous track from their upcoming album Punching the Clown. “Had a long dream last night where I ended up deep in the woods playing guitar and singing,” Kurt Wagner explained. “When I was done and walking back to my car there were a few people in the woods who voiced their approval. Felt pretty good. I have no idea what that was about. Some songs are like dreams, ‘Stella’ was one of those.”
Daisy* – ‘Punch’
Daisy Warne, who used to make music as BABii, has shared her debut single under the new moniker Daisy*. (“Due to creative differences with myself,” the electronic artist wrote to fans, “I have decided to leave BABii and start my solo project, Daisy*. Red pen in hand, I’m crossing out BABii and anything nonessential. This is a correction* a revision* an edit* of what was.”) ‘Punch’, which is hypnotic and, indeed, punchy, leads a self-titled EP that’s out July 29.
Sari Lightman – ‘Give It All Up’
Sari Lightman has previewed her upcoming solo debut, The Way I Saw You, with a mesmerizing track called ‘Give it all Up’. “I originally wrote this song for Lightman & Lightman’s Sister Smile, absorbed in the spiritual themes of feminine mysticism,” she reflected. “‘Give It all Up’ is a post humous interview between two contemporary female mystics, the singing nun, Jeanine Deckers and the Jewish diarist, Etty Hillesum. The song is conversational: The leading line asking the question, the second line responding. This is a supernatural interview and naturally, the responses are ominous and prophetic. Meg Duffy, my beloved friend/producer/guitarist of the track, suggested a stripped down version and it lent for a more meditative feeling. Also, I’ve always wanted to pull a Neil Young and pay homage to the self with a personal cover.”
Finn Wolfhard – ‘Tunnels’
Finn Wolfhard has dropped ‘Tunnels’, the latest offering from his forthcoming sophomore album Fire From The Hip. It follows previous cut ‘I’ll Let You Finish’.
Graham Hunt – ‘Waiting for You to Come Home’
Graham Hunt has announced a new album, American Pyramid, arriving August 28 via Run For Cover. Led by ‘Waiting for You to Come Home’, it was mostly laid down at Minnesota’s Pachyderm Studios, straying from his usual home-recording approach.
proun – ‘Wall’
proun, the project of songwriter and guitarist Jamie Weed, has dropped the final single off their upcoming debut album, Maybe Luck, ‘Wall’. “The chorus harps on the idea that attempting to come to terms with your trauma can bring you closer to a version of yourself that existed before those things happened,” Weed explained, “returning to an almost idealistic sense of self that experiencing trauma can destroy and the nearly impossible nature of radical acceptance and moving forward. We’re meant to return to ourselves, but I have restraints coming.”
GB – ‘Starsound’
Gustav Berntsen, aka GB, has announced his new full-length, Herzsprung, which lands on August 21 via the Copenhagen artist’s new label home, AD 93. The wondrous ‘Starsound’, which follows ‘Adrenaline’, accompanies the news.
