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, September 9, 2026.
Soul Glo – ‘February Theory’
Soul Glo have announced a new LP, NA I’M GON GRAB ALLAT, which arrives on January 15 on Epitaph. The Diaspora Problems follow-up features TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson, Commitment’s Tati Salazar, MIKE and Bbymutha, and Mannequin Pussy’s Colins “Bear” Regisford. Regisford and his bandmates also star in the video for the ferocious lead single ‘February Theory’. Frontman Pierce Jordan dedicates the album to “everyone who has known the joy and pain of loving a man. All different types of love: platonic, romantic, familial, self.”
Deerhoof – ‘Sun Like It Hot’
Deerhoof have a new album on the way. Following last year’s Noble and Godlike in Ruin, Divine Schism will be self-released on October 2. It will be available digitally on Bandcamp, and the physical release will be tour-only. The blistering 12-minute opening track ‘Sun Like It Hot’ leads the LP, whose description reads: “A child looks for a mother to communicate with, but can’t quite tune in. So many distractions in the vastness of space. The child is desperate for a mother’s love. The mother thinks the child has hidden itself deliberately as a show of independence. The mother doesn’t realize that she is needed. The child has been too childish. It has been behaving so badly as to make itself go extinct faster than it needed to. A mother outliving a child is sad, but that’s how it goes. Mom wins after all…living long enough to see the tragedy of many children.”
The War on Drugs – ‘Who’s That’
‘Who’s That’ is pretty much exactly what you’d expect from the return of the War on Drugs, and that’s a good thing. Wide-eyed and soaring, the band’s first new music in four years “was written in 10 minutes somewhere between first coffee and school drop off,” according to bandleader Adam Granduciel. “It’s a song about trying to love yourself despite things we can’t always control, like the anxiety, depression and self doubt that may stand in the way of living the life we truly desire.”
This Is Lorelei – ‘The Kid With the Crown’
We’ll have more to say about the great new This Is Lorelei album very soon, but ahead of its release on Friday, Nate Amos has dropped one more intoxicating single, ‘The Kid With the Crown’. The track “is the opposite of ‘Oh No Now My’,” he explained, referring to The Singer in My Band‘s previous single, “in that it was plucked and preserved at an early age. The album needed an untied shoelace and this is what I came up with.”
The Avalanches – ‘Far Away’ [feat. John Glacier & Khadija Al Hanafi]
After unveiling the tracklist of their new album No Bad Memories, the Avalanches have shared an intimate dance track, ‘Far Away’, which features UK rapper John Glacier and Tunisian footwork producer Khadija Khadija Al Hanafi. It follows ‘Can’t Get Over Losing You’ featuring Portraits of Tracy, ‘Blue Shadows’ featuring Karen O, ‘Every Single Weekend’ with Jamie xx, and ‘Together’ with Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza and Prentiss.
Jess Williamson – ‘High Heels and Blue Jeans’
Jess Williamson has unveiled ‘High Heels and Blue Jeans’, a pensive yet affirming cut from her forthcoming album, A Mile South of Heaven. “Being on tour has its own special way of amplifying whatever else is going on in your life, and this song was inspired by times on the road over the years when things felt hard,” Williamson explained. “There are moments in life, for us women especially, when the only way through is to put your makeup on, get dressed up, and carry on. I’ve had nights on tour where I was going through something in my personal life and fighting back tears trying to do my eyeliner before a show. I feel a big responsibility to the audience to give them the best show I can, and an even deeper gratitude that they showed up in the first place. So no matter what I’m carrying, it’s on with the show. I wanted the chorus to feel like a celebration because that’s exactly what being onstage is for me. Whatever else is happening in my life, I never lose sight of what a privilege it is to get to do this job.”
Lucy Dacus – ‘No Thank You, I Love You, Goodbye’
Lucy Dacus is reissuing her debut album, No Burden, to celebrate its 10th anniversary. To mark the announcement, the singer-songwriter has unveiled the previously unreleased fan-favourite ‘No Thank You, I Love You, Goodbye’.
Chastity Belt – ‘I Could Say Less’ and ‘Pavement’
Chastity Belt are back with two new songs, ‘I Could Say Less’ and ‘Pavement’. Both are quite melancholic, but build out in different ways. According to a press release, “The A-side sparked while the band crafted demos in Washington, grappling with wanting to be perceived while feeling flattened by misunderstanding. ‘Pavement’ came to life on tour in Australia, inspired by feelings of disappointment during an otherwise exciting time.”
Max Richter – ‘Now We Can Sing’
Max Richter has announced a new album, While the Flood Rages, which is set for release on October 16 via Decca Records. The record draws from a collaborative score with Wayne McGregor titled MaddAddam, which was co-commissioned by the National Ballet of Canada and the Royal Opera House. The impeccably serene title track is out today.
Liars – ‘Ice Pick, Kalamazoo’
Liars have announced a new album titled A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans, which drops on March 5 on Mute. The ominous, disorienting single ‘Ice Pick, Kalamazoo’ leads the LP, which takes its name from an actual Michigan law. In a press release, frontman Angus Andrew said the record has “more to do with the perception of things than modern pollution — how these things that can be a constant in your life become sort of ingrained and invisible.”
Niis – ‘Earthquakes’
Los Angeles band Niis have signed to Rise Records, which will release their new EP, Play Niis, on October 23. The bouncy lead single ‘Earthquakes’ arrives today with a video directed by Jake Woodbridge. “It’s a song about growing through pain and heartbreak,” vocalist Mimi Doe explained. “Coming to terms with lost love and the profound scars it can leave on your heart. In a way, it’s a love letter to heartbreak itself. Working with Rise has been a dream. They truly are a label who have cultivated such an amazing environment for us to thrive and experiment.”
Sadurn – ‘can’t stop’
Sadurn have unveiled ‘can’t stop’, a hushed, affecting preview of their forthcoming album Underworld. “I made ‘can’t stop’ on GarageBand – it was supposed to be a demo that we recreated to be more nice and official, but the feel just wasn’t the same, so we kept the original,” songwriter G DeGroot recalled. “I’m proud of that. It has some reversed pedal steel on it, and there’s this one vocal sample at the end from a time some friends were singing in a tunnel in the woods – the same tunnel is featured on the cover of the album, which feels significant in this secret little way. The song speaks to the feeling of being stuck on a past relationship, revisiting things over and over and looking for glimmers of hope that it could be real again. This is a big theme in the album – being stuck on the past – although each song has its own subtle emotional valence to that experience.”
Jess Kerber – ‘Changing’
Nashville artist Jess Kerber has announced a new album, The World Is Dark, but I Want It to Be Funny, arriving November 6 through Felte. The gorgeously poignant lead single ‘Changing’ is out today. “Everything is always cycling through, big and small, and in these songs I am realizing how much energy even little things require,” Kerber said of the song.
Soft Cell – ‘The Rainbow Room’
Soft Cell deliver an ode to early 80s New York on their latest single, ‘The Rainbow Room’, from the forthcoming Danceteria. “And I did celebrate my birthday – my 21st or 22nd – at The Rainbow Room in the Rockefeller Center…” frontman Marc Almond told John Earls at Classic Pop. “The story of that view is true, too, I really did think: ‘Imagine falling down there’ at the time. It was important to mention the Twin Towers, to acknowledge that this song about the future had a poignancy to it, knowing how dark that future would become.”
BODEGA – ‘Literary World’
New York outfit BODEGA have previewed their upcoming LP All Inside Aquarium with a dreamy, anthemic new single, ‘Literary World’. “Regardless of neoliberal propaganda, I believe in the dignity of the artist,” vocalist Ben Hozie reflected. “I also believe it is the duty of an artist to emerge new ways of thinking and being, which extends far beyond ideological didacticism. This isn’t an argument for apolitical art —> The modern artist should work alongside the rising global political consciousness (brought about by new tech and the revelation of extreme injustice) not only through practical action (such as sharing information or raising money with their audience) but through empathetic honest works that imagine alternative modalities.”
Gurriers – ‘Pins’
Dublin’s Gurriers continue to tease their forthcoming album, Nobody’s Coming To Save You, with the swaggering ‘Pins’. The LP lands September 25 via their new label home, Play It Again Sam.
June McDoom – ‘Get Out of My Life’
June McDoom has shared an enchanting new single, ‘Get Out Of My Life’, from her upcoming debut full-length, Follow the Light. The track comes paired with a music video directed by Bella Newman.
Hour – ‘Pearls’
Hour have unveiled ‘Pearls’, the second offering from their forthcoming record Ghost Bridge, arriving October 9 via Dear Life Records. It’s accompanied by a music video by William H. Travis filmed at the first full band rehearsal for the album. “Anyone who has tried to schedule anything can appreciate the precarity of getting thirteen musicians plus two photographers to be in the same place at the same time,” bandleader Cormier-O’Leary commented. “I’m proud to say we managed to get nearly everyone–shout out to our flute player Adelyn who was on tour in Europe with Skullcrusher when this filmed. We missed her a lot.”
Sylvie – ‘Rina’
Sylvie – the project of Los Angeles artist Ben Schwab – has announced their new album and first for Ghostly International, New Season, out November 6. The breezy new single ‘Rina’ was originally written by Ben’s father, John Schwab of Mad Anthony, and features vocals by collaborator Alex Amen. “‘Rina’ is an all-time favorite,” Schwab explained. “It was tough to record because I wanted to honor the original my dad wrote while bringing something new to it. Rina reminds me of the beauty and strength found in people the world overlooks. Alex understood that and gave the song exactly the touch it needed.” Amen added: “I’ve loved this song since the first time I heard it off the Mad Anthony tapes. As a song, the writing is about as good as it gets… the chords, the melody, the lyrics. It’s just perfect all around. It’s one of those rediscovered songs that makes you wonder how many other timeless things have been written and recorded and are just collecting dust in some warehouse or closet on some forgotten tape. I’m really excited to have been able to sing on this new version of Rina and hope the song finds a new life and can reach new ears.”
