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 8, 2026.
Your Old Droog – ‘I Don’t Care’ [feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow and Flying Lotus]
Your Old Droog has announced a new solo album, Bread & Butter, which is out September 25 and features contributions from Evidence, Oddisee, Conductor Williams, and more. Along with the news, he’s shared the snappy, hypnotic ‘I Don’t Care’, which boasts production from Flying Lotus and vocals by Georgia Anne Muldrow.
Gilla Band – ‘Alogia’
Dublin noise quartet Gilla Band have previewed their upcoming LP Pugnello with a new song, ‘Alogia’. Following lead single ‘Placeholder’, the dancey, whirring track arrives with a video directed by Cuan Roche. “Alogia means poverty of speech linked to mental health conditions,” vocalist Dara Kiely explained. “I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia while writing the lyrics. I thought I could just walk off the old mental illness but alas!”
Purple Pilgrims – ‘Innocence Lost’
Purple Pilgrims – the New Zealand-based dream-pop duo of sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon – have announced their third album, Given to the Night, arriving November 27 via AD 93. To mark the announcement, they’ve shared the spacious, mesmerizing ‘Innocence Lost’, along with the statement: “It often feels like our songs are little messages from our futures selves, communications from the other side of things. The meaning tends to reveal itself with time. This song was very much that. Heartbreak is an ultimate inevitability of love – the discomfort in trying to accept that duality, and the idea that even at one’s lowest ebb, it’s still possible to maintain a spark of hope, an endless fascination with life. Night as a metaphor in various guises appears throughout Given to the Night – in this song nighttime feels abundant with magic, mystery, possibility – albeit coloured with sorrow. ‘Innocence Lost’ is a smoldering spark of hope in the darkness, the feeling that although it’s pitch-black there might be something glowing just beyond, out of view.”
John Legend – ‘Daylight’
John Legend’s last album was an unlikely collaboration with Sufjan Stevens, who produced 2024’s My Favorite Dream. Now, he’s teamed up with Pharrell Williams for the new album Muse, which is led by the single ‘Daylight’. “I think my repertoire has always been very diverse, but the piano-driven ballads have gotten the most traction throughout my career,” Legend explained. “I wanted to shake up the formula and do something fresh and new.”
Ratboys – ‘Fix My Brain’ (The Marked Men Cover)
Ratboys have today announced a deluxe edition of their latest album, Singin’ to an Empty Chair, to coincide with the release of their NPR Tiny Desk Concert. The expanded album features covers of tracks by bands including PUP, Ducks Ltd., Wild Pink, Bad Bad Hats, and Free Range. Today, they’ve shared a raucous take on ‘Fix My Brain’ by The Marked Men, recorded during a SiriusXM Session. “The guys, especially Marcus, were already long-time fans of The Marked Men (and of Jeff Burke’s other band Radioactivity), but when I first heard it more recently, ‘Fix My Brain’ was a total revelation to me,” singer Julia Steiner recalled. “I hyper-fixated on the song in ways that are pretty rare for me these days: I would find excuses to steal away and listen to it on repeat, and, when we got home from tour, I immediately sat down with my acoustic guitar to learn the chord changes.”
Wishy – ‘Mona Lisa’
The rollout for Wishy’s new LP Nature’s Pill continues with ‘Mona Lisa’, which follows ‘All The Rage’, ‘Lovesick, and ‘Sensational’. Singer/guitarist Kevin Krauter described the track as such: “A courtroom drama starring love and apathy. Was all that pleasure worth all that pain? Will the opposing witness withstand cross-examination? You be the judge!”
Sports Team – ‘Billy’
Sports Team have returned with a rambunctious new single, ‘Billy’, which comes paired with a music video. “It’s a love letter to getting desperately, insanely drunk at a carpeted pub on a Tuesday night,” songwriter Rob Knaggs explained. “We recorded it live at RAK studios over the first weeks of summer with Seth Evans and Adele Phillips. It felt like a return to how we made the first album. Fast, and loose and loud.”
M(h)aol – ‘Scam Manifesto”
M(h)aol have dropped a twitchy one-off single called ‘Scam Manifesto’. “‘Scam Manifesto’ is a song I wrote during one of my semi-regular social media breaks,” singer/drummer Constance Keane explained. “My entire feed was ‘how to lose the last 5 lbs’ and obituaries for people I didn’t know. It’s about the guilt I feel about my own hypocrisy. Publicly, I say that as a woman it’s my right to be as ugly and old as I want and still value myself, while privately I was consistently fixating on a list of things I would change about my appearance. It’s about having one rule for others and another one for yourself.”
Charlotte Greve – ‘Lighter Blue’
Brooklyn-based, German-born artist Charlotte Greve has unveiled ‘Lighter Blue’, the entrancing final preview of her debut album WATERBODIES. “Tiptoeing around, feeling lost and ungrounded because something essential is missing,” Greve said in a statement. “In that state, doubt about all things arises, making space for insecurity to flourish. The moment music arrives again, suddenly everything makes sense, the path is lit and you can just walk on it. The forever torch, showing you the way to live your life, gifting you melodies that carry you through the day with purpose.”
Clara Mann – ‘Go Getter’
Clara Mann wrote ‘Go Getter’, the latest single off her forthcoming Wishbone, after cancelling a show for reasons out of her control. She remembers calling a friend who “had dreamt of her last night, well and laughing, in a room full of light somewhere in Europe,” according to a press release. “I really felt in that moment that I was not without hope,” Mann explained, “I wasn’t ok, I couldn’t see my way out of this, but someone else could.”
Kyla Marlena – ’21’
Toronto-based cellist and songwriter Kyla Marlena has announced her debut full-length, Hold Time, arriving November 6 via Idee Fixe. It’s led by the cathartic opening track ’21’. “To me, this record feels alive. Like it has a pulse,” Marlena remarked. “Its dynamic within and between songs, it can be unpredictable.”
