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, August 4, 2026.
Susanna Hoffs – ‘Casablanca’
Susanna Hoffs bills her new album, The Frame, as the sound of gathering around a table with her closest friends, sharing stories about her life. It features contributions from Rufus Wainwright, Edie Brickell, Dan Wilson, Greg Leisz, Ryan Lerman, Desure, Jesse Harris, Ny Oh, Grant Milliken, Larry Golding, and Spencer Zahn. Hoffs’ framing rings true on the lead single ‘Casablanca’, which was inspired by a rewatch of the titular film as well as walking through the French Quarter with Bob Weir in 1988.
Helen – ‘Linda’s Head’ and ‘Dead Shark II’
Helen – the shoegaze trio made up of Grouper’s Liz Harris, bassist Scott Simmons, and drummer Jed Bindeman – are returning with their first album in over a decade. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared two tracks from Linda’s Head, the title track and ‘Dead Shark II’, which latch onto shoegaze and twee-adjacent signifiers in exquisitely dreamy fashion.
Hana Stretton – ‘From’
Hana Stretton’s intimately transportive new album, tiarn, is out at the end of the week, and today she’s shared one final preview. ‘From’, which opens as a hushed piano ballad, cuts to the record’s mournful core. “I made ‘FROM’ as a dark storm rolled over,” the artist explained. “I opened all the windows and recorded it with my dog Roo asleep next to me. I used a hairbrush for the guitar, played some synth and a tiny harp. I realise now that it’s about how to weather our own storms without hardening. To keep reaching for warmth and kindness in our stubbornly sharp world.”
@ – ‘Punish My Mind’
Have you ever heard “a chill song about self-torture”? That’s how Philadelphia based art-folk duo describe ‘Punish My Mind’, the latest single from their upcoming record Autosmile, which was first previewed by the title track, one of the best songs of June. “It has a fat wind arrangement and a of vocal harmonies. We hope you like it,” they added.
June McDoom – ‘Without You’
June McDoom has announced her debut album, Follow the Light, with the enchanting lead single ‘Without You’. “I wrote ‘Without You’ about that feeling of realizing how meaningless life can feel without the person/people you love, and how you can feel like nothing without them around,” the singer-songwriter explained. “I wanted the arrangement to reflect the emotional journey of that realization. The ending celebrates the awareness and commitment to never take that person for granted, because it’s never too late to change how you’ve been.”
Margaret Glaspy – ‘Reminder’
Ahead of the release of her fourth album I Am Both this Friday, Margaret Glaspy has served up one more preview, the gnawingly self-aware ‘Reminder’. “That song’s a message to myself for when it feels like I’m doing nothing of value, reminding me that it’s important to keep showing up in lots of little ways instead of giving up altogether,” the singer-songwriter reflected. “It’s an example of something I never would’ve written if I were still praying to the gods who told me everything needs to be neat and tidy and symmetrical.”
Told Slant – ‘Draw Blood’
If you’ve ever been to New York City, even briefly, you probably have strong feelings toward it. And part of those feelings may be captured in Told Slant’s sharply mournful new single, ‘Draw Blood’, from their forthcoming album What’s Up. “I think there is a frustration on this record, a set of grievances that feels so overwhelming to me, that the only way I felt I could express it was in religious appeals,” Felix Walworth remarked. “When you are defeated entirely, what do you have other than prayer?”
gash – ‘risking heaven’
Eau Claire experimentalists gash have shared ‘risking heaven’, the second single from their forthcoming album at least you know what you’re laughing at. It follows last month’s ‘good and bad’.
Graham Hunt – ‘Getting Older’
Graham Hunt has previewed his new album, American Pyramid, with a jaunty track called ‘Getting Older’. It follows earlier cuts ‘Riverboat Blues’ and ‘Waiting For You To Come Home’.
Charlotte Greve – ‘Own Lap’
German-born, Brooklyn-based saxophonist, composer, and singer Charlotte Greve has unveiled ‘Own Lap’, a sprawling cut from her forthcoming LP WATERBODIES that marks her first work to be adapted into an orchestral context. It’s dedicated to Greve’s late grandmother and two close friends who had recently suffered through hardship, “strong people,” in her words, “who had the ability and strength to keep their head up and keep going.”
Rowena Wise – ‘Unlearning of Love’
Patient and affecting, ‘Unlearning of Love’ is the final offering from Rowena Wise’s sophomore album, Bad Things Feel Good*, ahead of its release on Friday. “Non-monogamy was part of the context in which I wrote this song,” she explained. “I was experiencing the confusion of loving multiple people at once, but more than that, I was wondering what a new connection could become when there were fewer assumptions or expectations around it. There was a real tension in not knowing where friendship ended and romance began, or whether it needed to become either. That openness could feel scary and obscure, but it was also exciting, meaningful and incredibly expansive. Getting to know people in that more open way taught me as much about myself as it did about others – how differently people love, communicate, attach and move through the world.”
Black Bananas – ‘Eddie’s Album’
Black Bananas have dropped ‘Eddie’s Album’, the slinky second preview of their upcoming album Bad Bunch. Out September 4 via Fire Records, it marks the group’s first effort since 2014’s Electric Brick Wall.
HUG – ‘Catatumbo’
HUG is the trio of Devendra Banhart, Gyan Riley, and Noah Georgeson, who will release their self-titled collaborative album on September 11 via Luaka Bop. Today, they’ve shared the quietly wondrous ‘Catatumbo’, which is built on a loop that Georgeson and Banhart first created twenty years ago, when they were living together in Venice Beach.
Diary – ‘Drive It’
New York-based quintet Diary have shared a new single, ‘Drive It’, taken from their debut full-length, Spiral Bound. The hypnotic track comes paired with a video directed by Nadia Bedj and choreographed by Lilly Fridlyand.
