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, July 29, 2026.
Tony Iommi – ‘World Alone’
Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi has announced his first solo LP in 21 years, From the Dark. Vocalist Jorn Lande, bassist Becky Baldwin, and drummer Karl Brazil join the legendary guitarist on the album, which was co-produced with longtime collaborator Mike Exeter. It’s out October 23, and the lead single ‘World Alone’ is out today, alongside a music video from director Ryan Mackfall.
Sour Widows – ‘Blood in the Grass’
Sour Widows have announced the follow-up to 2024’s Revival of a Friend. Produced by Jay Som’s Melina Duterte, Sigil is set to land on October 23 via Julia’s War Recordings. The stirring lead single ‘Blood in the Grass’ was written by the duo’s Susanna Thomson for Babehoven’s Maya Bon. “‘Blood in the Grass’ is about fate, creating family, and finding refuge in one another in times of spiritual and physical pain,” Thompson explained. “It’s a gift to share pain with someone you love while you are alive because you can’t do that after you die. This song is set in the natural world because all living things are the same when they are born. In nature, the state of vulnerability is a fact that is fundamental to life and can’t be obscured.”
Coco & Clair Clair – ‘Coldplay’
Coco & Clair Clair are back with their first single in two years, ‘Coldplay’. Equal parts bouncy and ethereal, it’s the first half of a two-track release, with a companion song to follow soon. “This song encapsulates that one scene in Zola where the white girl is hanging out of the roof of the car and bouncing around with her tongue out before all hell breaks loose,” the duo explained. “It illustrates the duality of women and how we contain multitudes… Black Cars and yellow cabs, cashmere and beer, longing for someone and hating him at the same time, expecting a private entrance into a dive bar, etc.”
Dinosaur Jr. – ‘Blowin’ Up’
Dinosaur Jr. have dropped ‘Blowin’ Up’, the second offering from their forthcoming album, There Near. As caustic as it is melodic, it’s one of two album tracks penned by Lou Barlow and includes lines like, “There’s nothing quite as bad as a bored edge lord/ The dreaming and the scheming get so dark.”
Julia Holter – ‘My Lost One’
“‘My Lost One’ is a witchy folktale inspired by children’s books with creepy rhymes and nonsense syllables, trees growing through living rooms, and animals doing things in clothes,” Julia Holter said of the mesmerizing new single from her forthcoming album Materia. “I imagine wildlife moving into my home, a superimposition of the outdoors and the indoors. I think about a squirrel cooking a meal on my stove. What are we conjuring, and what are we truly longing for?”
Peter Gabriel – ‘One by One’
‘One by One’, the latest preview of Peter Gabriel’s upcoming effort o\i, stretches out to nearly 10 minutes, reamining gentle all the way through. “This is another song that comes out of the brain show that I am working on and the character has been effectively torn apart and is trying to reassemble himself one piece at a time,” he expounded. “I needed a character for the story and I’d always wanted to do a little more with Mozo, who I had introduced many years back, and I thought, well, let’s give him another blast here. He’s been brought back from the dead. What was interesting for me about Mozo was that he was not fully of the world and not fully outside it. For the original second album narrative, he was found on this waste tip, and there was a reference to alchemy, and how you only really get the opportunity to create gold out of the lowest material; shit. In Japanese culture, they also have kintsugi (kin: gold, tsugi: repair), where a broken cup is repaired with gold or precious metals and the repaired cup with its faults showing ends up more valuable than the original. It’s a beautiful symbol for humanity, because we’re remarkably easy to break and trying to reassemble self, psyche, and sanity, is really the journey of the song.”
“There are two or three story songs on the record, and I actually like the length of time they occupy, and I like the fact that you have to stay in it for the ride to understand the story,” Gabriel added. “It’s like when you arrive in some hut in the woods and it takes a while just to settle in and get yourself tuned-in to the pace of that place. I wanted a bit of that in the song. If people are on for the full ride, they’re going to take it through to the end. It’s a long journey, but I think its place in the show, which is percolating in my head, it’ll be towards the end, if not the end.”
Smidley – ‘Love in Every Direction’
Last month, Smidley, aka Conor Murphy of Foxing, announced his new album Murphy Horse with ‘Captsone’, a single whose tender, loving nature was reinforced by a guest appearance from Lucy Dacus. Today’s offering, ‘Love in Every Direction’, is buoyed by a similiar sentiment. As Murphy said upon announcing the record, “These songs summarize a year of confusion and doubt where the only thing I was actually sure of is that I married the love of my life. Those two ideas were the basis for every song here.”
Billboard Style – ‘Billboard Style’
Billboard Style is an exciting new band formed by Ben Guterl of Forth Wanderers and Dan Howard of Victoryland. Their eponymous single is out today, the first taste of their debut album Pull of the Moon, arriving October 16 via Good English. “This song is about desire and wanting someone so bad it’s like a little parasite that nestles in your brain and rewires your thoughts,” Guterl commented. “It’s about how you always lose a part of yourself in pursuit of someone else and how you might not care because love is intoxicating and maybe that’s the shit life is all about.”
Elanor Moss – ‘Fixer’
London-based singer-songwriter Elanor Moss has unveiled ‘Fixer’, another striking track from her debut album, The Knife, The Needle. “‘Fixer’ is a song about vulnerability, that double-edged sword,” Moss explained. “It came to me first as this image of how when you love someone it’s like you are a little animal, rolling over and showing your little white belly, exposed and endangered to the power of the other. Everyone has their own particular vulnerabilities, and when you love someone you have to show them; you put that power in their hands. That’s scary. They could hurt you. But that exposed place, that vulnerability, can also be a doorway into something else, some kind of healing. This is the song where the album title comes from.”
Dis Fig – ‘The Account’ [feat. the wind between]
Dis Fig, the project of Berlin-based, New Jersey-raised producer and vocalist Felicia Chen, has announced her sophomore album, What to Make of These Mortal Hands – out October 23 via Thrill Jockey. The discombobulating lead single, ‘The Account’, opens with the voice of poet the wind between. “I liked teasing it by opening with a voice that wasn’t mine,” Chen explained. “I felt like I really needed someone to set the stage for what was about to unfold, like a Greek chorus or narrator, and it was clear to me that he was the right person to do it.”
Pretty Sick – ‘City Kid’
Pretty Sick, the project of Sabrina Fuentes, has a dizzying new single out today called ‘City Kid’, from her forthcoming Anarchy. “This song is about growing up in New York, and reflecting on all the experiences I’ve had that have led me to where I am now, for better or for worse,” Fuentes said. “Obviously a pretty unique experience, growing up somewhere so big and fast-paced, and being out on your own from a really young age has its benefits and setbacks. In most of my music, I reflect on my own life and look around at the kids I grew up with and try to make sense of the past hectic 25 years and figure out how we got here, through both the life events as well as the music and art that shaped us.”
Tokyo Tea Room – ‘Always in the Sun’
Margate’s Tokyo Tea Room have dropped a new single, ‘Always in the Sun’, from their upcoming album Feel Forever. “The track, almost utopian in spirit, is simply as joyful as it gets and captures everything that’s good about love,” the group commented. “Beth’s toplines paired with the groovy bassline and the instrumental make it an essential for summer evenings with that special someone.”
saoirse dream – ‘death vs dying’
saoirse dream has announced a new album, grimdark – out October 9 via Lauren Records – with the vibrant lead single ‘death vs dying’. “’death vs dying’ was the tone-setter for grimdark,” Portland artist Catherine Egbert explained. “I have a hard time writing from a place of anger, but the exercise of writing for a fictional character opened that up for me. It probably won’t surprise you to hear a trans woman say she’s got a lot to be angry about. In finally feeling that anger for myself, the record poured out of me.”
