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, July 7, 2026.
Gilla Band – ‘Placeholder’
Gilla Band have announced a new album, Pugnello, to be released September 25 on Rough Trade Records. The quizically abrasive ‘Placeholder’ is out now, and vocalist Dara Kiely has offered quite a bit of insight into it: “In this track I try to analyse my mental quirks by exploring my comfort distractions. Reverting back to childhood nostalgia – as an escape. The memories seeping into my day-to-day adult life. Representing personal mental health behaviours via outdated pop culture such as the anxious tension set by Davina McCall’s silence when announcing a Big Brother eviction, or the fight or flight that Harold Lloyd surely experienced when holding on to a clock for dear life, and all for our entertainment.”
Kiely added: “I mention Power Rangers at the end of this. It was another comfort vice. They were a huge thing for me as a child. I remember I was at some sort of Christian summer camp when I was about 6 and was asked what I want to be when I grow up. I said ‘a Power Ranger.’ I was laughed at and was told the shocking truth that they didn’t exist and it is not a profession worth pursuing. I’ve never forgiven them for that.”
U2 – ‘Street of Dreams’
U2’s first album in almost a decade is on the way, though yet to be announced, and ‘Street of Dreams’ is the first single. It is… interesting. The accompanying video was shot in Mexico City in May, where the band attended the 2026 Street Child World Cup Finals Tournament at Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco.
Green Day – ‘I’m Never Gonna R.I.P.’
Green Day recorded a new song for Nimroads, the upcoming road-trip comedy about a punk band on a mission to open for them. The rip-roaring ‘I’m Never Gonna R.I.P.’ accompanies the announcement of the soundtrack, which features plenty of their old hits.
Bonobo – ‘Fire on the Water’ [feat. Aroof Aftab] and ‘Drift’
The upcoming Bonobo LP Distance In Static has some interesting features, including Nilüfer Yanya, Nicole Miglis, and Arooj Aftab. The Aftab-assisted ‘Fire on the Water’ is mesmerizing, and it comes into contrast with the pulsating instrumental ‘Drift’, also out today. “When that song happened, that’s when I could first see an album coming into shape. We were both like, ‘Oh, this is really special,'” Bonobo said of the collaboration. Aftab added, “I had the dreamiest time making this song with Simon in the Redwoods. He is a boyish joy and a beautiful soul. The lyrics, written by my dear friend Yasra Rizvi, live in that tender place where time keeps moving but desire remains. There can still be fire on the water.”
Kelela – ‘the bridge’ [feat. PinkPantheress]
Kelela’s new album new avatar arrives on Friday, and today she’s dropped its most noteworthy collaboration – and one of its more unconventional tracks. ‘the bridge’, featuring PinkPantheress, follows ‘idea 1’, ‘linknb’, and ‘point blank’.
Told Slant – ‘Manhattan’
Told Slant’s first new album in six years, What’s Up, is billed as their “New York album,” so it’s only fitting that the first single is called ‘Manhattan’. That one’s specifically inspired by “New York becoming a shrine to capitalism and the underground being unable to mount any effective resistance,” but also “this whole other set of knowledge of what living in the city as an artist could be, both from living it, and from my parents… The defeat of the song is all of those people’s dreams being crushed.”
Slow Pulp – ‘Not for Nothing’
The first single from Slow Pulp’s new album, ‘Better Man’, made our list of the best songs of June, and now they’re back with the second one, a glistening piano ballad called ‘Not for Nothing’. “This song is me just trying to externalize very complex emotions – of feeling stuck, of not being able to change how I feel, of my emotions permeating my life, and the heartbreak of my life changing in ways both unexpected by myself and by others,” Henry Stoehr said of the Melodie cut. “I feel so many people have felt something similar, and I wanted to write a song that would reach people where they are, and give them something concrete to grasp onto in the midst of a feeling that is hard to put into words.”
Wishy – ‘All the Rage’
Here’s how Wishy singer Kevin Krauter introduces the irresistible new cut off Nature’s Pill, the band’s sophomore LP: “Hello Lovelies and welcome to the official Wishy press blurb for the second single !!!! Yayyy the song is out we are so happy!! 🙂 Some *~Fun Facts~* about this song number 1. i wrote it after seeing artificial go and good flying birds play an awesome show major inspo 2. my roommate judah gave me some good pointers while i was writing it shoutout to him and 3. the band played all together while recording this one 🙂 ok thanx enjoy!!!”
Snooper – ‘Recess’
Snooper’s US run kicks off tonight, and they’re marking it with the release of their own summer anthem, ‘Recess’. The music video was shot in an abandoned high school during the demolition process, which is fun. Later this year, they’ll support Wednesday and Mannequin Pussy’s co-headlining tour.
Chat Pile – ‘PEN I S MALL’
Chat Pile have previewed their forthcoming LP, Who Loves the Sun, with ‘PEN I S MALL’, which bassist Stin describes as “…the heaviest Chat Pile song to date.” He added: “The song and title refer to a stretch of time when Raygun was working as a maintenance man at one of the local shopping malls here in OKC. He screamed himself into a pretty brutal headache tracking this one if I remember correctly.” Ray B. added: “If survival wasn’t so brutal in the United States, a maintenance job at a local mall could in theory be a fun gig… “Of course, the awful beast known as Capitalism is extremely rickety with not enough to truly go around in fair share as those in the lower and even middle positions know all to well.”
Sad13 – ‘Locust Releaser’ and ‘Mean, Vindictive, Arrogant’
Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis recently announced her first Sad13 project in over five years, 1331, a 13-track mixtape of “1 minute long-ish songs.” It’s out Friday, and today we get to hear two more tracks, ‘Locust Releaser’ and ‘Mean, Vindictive, Arrogant’. “I wrote ‘Locust Releaser’ at the start of the cicada double-brood emergence in 2024, considering biblical plagues and two individual cases of housing advocates releasing bees and cockroaches,” Dupuis explained. “In the years since, I’ve read stories of maggots, crickets, and other critters released to protest genocide, transphobes, and police. Bugs: innocent, but I admire the clarity of conviction needed to incite nuisance.”
Son Lux – ‘Want You To Love’
Son Lux have released ‘Want You to Love’ the second offering from their forthcoming record, Out Into. “‘Want You To Love’ is a banger built on a couple bits of band improvisation, flipped like samples,” the group’s Ryan Lott commented. “The result feels more boom-bap than anything we’ve done in the past, and it’s as close I’ve come to screaming into a mic. It’s a song about how we trade what is priceless for things of no value. Why is it so easy to forget ourselves?”
Nation of Language – ‘The Conversation’
After sharing a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Tougher Than the Rest”’ for a limited-edition 7” single, Nation of Language have unveiled its B-side, ‘The Conversation’, a hauntingly understated track from the Dance Called Memory sessions. “’The Conversation’ is a song that’s been haunting me for a few years now – one of my personal favorites I’ve written, yet it’s never found a home on an album,” the band’s Ian Richard Devaney reflected. “It’s extremely contained in the sense that when I write out the lyrics it reads more like a standalone poem than most of our songs, and it dabbles in storytelling in a much different way than I’m used to doing. It’s a vignette, centered around two people whose lives are so intertwined, and have been moving towards this one conversation, this inflection point, where the things that need to be said might finally be said.”
Ibibio Sound Machine – ‘Give Me Peace’
Ibibio Sound Machine have linked up with Nigerian musician and longtime Fela Kuti collaborator Dele Sosimi for ‘Give Me Peace’, the latest preview of their upcoming album Chopping Mountain. “‘Give Me Peace’ is about finding calm in a world that is trying to tear us down,” the band remarked. “Once we established that direction, the song seemed to write itself.”
Graham Hunt – ‘Riverboat Blues’
Wisconsin-based songwriter has shared a wrangly, playful new song, ‘Riverboat Blues’, from his upcoming LP American Pyramid. It follows lead offering ‘Waiting For You to Come Home’.
Robyn Hitchcock – ‘Yesterday’s Rain’
Robyn Hitchcock has released a new song, ‘Yesterday’s Rain’. It comes paired with a music video directed by Scott Jacobson, who, in addition to writing for Bob’s Burgers and The Daily Show, has made clips for The National, Dinosaur Jr., Nick Lowe, Superchunk, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and more. “The sins of the past call the shots for the future,” the British songwriter reflected. “And on the way, you get the flag, the lilac tomb, and the crocodile on skis. It’s all good! More classic Brit-rock, played as only Americans can.”
gash – ‘good and bad’
gash is the latest signee to Angel Tapes, Fire Talk Records’ emerging artists imprint, and you can get a taste of their liminal yet cathartic style on the new single ‘good and bad’. Later this month, they’re set to perform at the Eaux Claires festival curated by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, who had this to say: “gash is [Eau Claire’s] great export right now. And I think they’re just doing such inventive work, and I just love their music, and they represent, I don’t know, Eau Claire’s identity of always do your own thing. And do it for yourself.” ‘good and bad’ will appear on their forthcoming album at least you know what you’re laughing at, which lands on September 25.
