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, September 1, 2026.
Oso Oso – ‘know you know me better’
Oso Oso have announced a new album, An Exchange of Information, arriving on November 6. It marks the inaugural release on Feral Twin, a new label founded by Hop Along’s Mark Quinlan, and the radiant, tuneful lead single ‘know you know me better’ is out now. “I’ve spent most of my life around independent music, as a musician, an agent, a talent buyer, touring, booking shows, and working with artists,” Quinlan said in a statement. “Feral Twin grew out of wanting to take everything I’ve learned from those different sides of the industry and build something intentional where every release matters. I’m not interested in putting out records just to fill a release schedule. I want Feral Twin to be a home for music and ideas I genuinely believe in, made by artists I respect, and to give those works the kind of care and attention they deserve.”
Kali Malone – ‘Heavy With Fruit’
Kali Malone recorded her just-announced album, Burning Song, at the historic Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany, where J.S. Bach was cantor for the last 27 years of his life and was then buried. The first musician to perform contemporary works on the church’s Bach Organ, Malone is joined on the record by Lucy Railton on cello and Stephen O’Malley on bowed acoustic guitar, and the five-minute ‘Heavy With Fruit’ is a mesmerizing first preview.
Pet Fox – ‘Balance’
If the new Oso Oso single is up your alley, definitely give a listen the uproarious title track from Pet Fox’s just-announced album, Balance. The follow-up to the Boston indie rockers’ debut A Face in Your Life lands on October 23, and it was produced by Alex Farrar, whose work on Truth Club’s Running From the Chase is cited as an influence.
Lily Seabird – ‘Lightspheres on Their Way’
Ahead of the release of her new album Lightspheres on Their Way on Friday, Lily Seabird has shared another breathtaking preview in the form of the title track. “Lightspheres are so many things throughout this record, UFOs, memories, dreams, people, an unknown force pushing and pulling us through,” Seabird expounded. “Without being too specific I think in a lot of ways this song deals with the feeling of loving someone through a great distance. I was also thinking a lot about Brent Mydland who was the keyboardist of the Grateful Dead from 1979-1990, the end of this song is really inspired by his song ‘I Will Take You Home,’ specifically the studio version which is on Built to Last (1989). Recording this song was really fun and figuring out the arrangement me Daniel and Rick really worked this one out together. The outro of this song is my favorite part which we completely improvised and kept.”
Death Valley Girls – ‘Basic Witch’
Death Valley Girls have previewed their upcoming album, Welcome to Earth, with a boisterous new single called ‘Basic Witch’. The track comes paired with a music video featuring Exene Cervenka of Los Angeles punk legends X. The band’s Bonnie Bloomgarden summed the song up as being “about taking control of your own boundaries. It’s about taking responsibility for your choices without needing blame, fault, victim, or perpetrator to consume you. Because when you stop looking outside yourself for someone to blame—or someone to save you—you get your power back.”
Eliza Edens – ‘Death Drive’
Eliza Edens has announced a new album, Death Drive, which is set for release on October 30 through First City Artists. The title track is out today alongside a self-directed video, about which Edens said: “This video was inspired by the location. I spotted this antique car place off the side of the road in Stephentown, New York, not far from where I grew up in the Berkshires. I had been passing it my whole life—hundreds of charmingly dilapidated vintage automobiles in a giant field. It felt more like a museum than a junkyard, with all of the vehicles arranged by make and model. I drove past it again last fall after a visit to my dad and it hit me as the perfect location to shoot a music video—especially for a song named ‘Death Drive’. I sent a cold email to the owner, Bob, and he kindly let us shoot there. Then I wrote and self-directed for the first time.”
Alana Markel – ‘Not Likely’ and ‘Not Likely 2’
Alana Markel has previously described her music as “cold weather music,” but the Brooklyn-based composer’s new double single elicits a hazy, playful warmth. “The song is about having the bravery to honestly share your desire and life force with the world,” Markel said of ‘Not Likely’, which is accompanied by a stripped-back rendition.
