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 23, 2026.
They Are Gutting a Body of Water – ‘kool marder’ [feat. Cashier], ‘the rook’, and ‘free willy’
They Are Gutting a Body of Water have announced a new mixtape, KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II, which boasts an impressive range of features. Out on October 16 digitally and November 20 physically via ATO/Julia’s War, the 29-track project includes collaborations with RXKNephew, Greg Mendez, Spirit of the Beehive, Hotline TNT, Full Body 2, DJ Manny, Total Wife, LUCY (Cooper B. Handy), and more. The Cashier-assisted ‘kool marder’, the slow-burning ‘the rook’, and the grittily propulsive ‘free willy’ are out now. “The word mixtape initially meant a homespun tape that you typically listened to yourself or gave to somebody else,” bandleader Doug Dulgarian said in a statement. “For me who was born later, it meant mashups of all my favorite artists by local DJs. And so that’s what I did with this one, mashups of all my favorite artists. Shoutout DJ WHITEOWL, RIP.”
Queens of the Stone Age – ‘Where the Goth Girls At?’
Drake Queens of the Stone Age have released a new single called ‘Where the Goth Girls At?’. Taken from their forthcoming album Perfecth, it’s inspired by frontman Josh Homme’ youth in a Palm Desert suburb. “Watching the goth girls working the counter at JCPenney and giving goth makeovers to the old ladies, that’s when I knew the only place I want to be is where the goth girls at,” he recalled. “Teenage love, ain’t it grand?”
RIP Magic – ‘Stadium Drive’
RIP Magic have announced their debut album, 1,2,3, which is set for release on October 30 via section1. The London outfit’s grubby, buoyant new single ‘Stadium Drive’ arrives today, following precious cuts ‘5words’ (produced by James Murphy), ‘Screwdark’, and ‘Light Over There’.
Sharp Pins – ‘How Can I Explain What She Does to Me?’
Sharp Pins have a new EP on the way, Electric My Icebox, which lands January 15. It’s led by the sun-kissed ‘How Can I Explain What She Does to Me?’, which follows the previously released ‘Saturday Sun’.
Sour Widows – ‘Choke Chain’
Sour Widow have previewed their forthcoming LP Sigil with a beguiling, luminous new song, ‘Choke Chain’. “In Egyptian mythology, when someone dies, the god Anubis weighs their heart against a feather to determine the fate of their soul — I like to think that when I’m dead, the relationships that caused me hurt will probably feel amusing,” the band’s Susanna Thomson shared. “It’s difficult to talk about the inherent consequences of desire as a woman without projections of cynicism and misogyny. The lyrics say it best.”
Jeff Parker – ‘Miles’ Mode’ [feat. Chris Speed, Kaveh Rastegar, and Aaron Steele]
In celebration of John Coltrane’s 100th birthday, Jeff Parker has shared a new rendition of ‘Miles’ Mode’, recorded with Chris Speed (The Bad Plus) on tenor saxophone, Kaveh Rastegar (Kneebody) on electric bass, and Aaron Steele (Chrome Sparks) on drums. “John Coltrane has been a steady muse for me ever since I started to study his music at a young age,” Parker commented. “It’s an honour to pay tribute to him on the occasion of his centennial with three of my favourite musicians from the Los Angeles music community.”
This Is The Kit – ‘Skim a Stone’
This Is the Kit, the Paris-based band led by Kate Stables, have announced a new record called Ghost Coat, which will be released on January 15 via Memphis Industries. Recorded at Rockfield Studios, it features Richard Dawson, Sam Amidon, Ben Howard, guitarist brothers Valentin and Marceau Portron (of Portron Portron Lopez), and Emma Broughton aka Blumi. The driving, curious lead single ‘Skim a Stone’ is out now. “What are the things that we wish on,” Stables reflected. “An eyelash? More than three skims of a stone? A folded crisp? What magical thinking do we employ in the hope that things will be OK and go our way. What repetitive behavior do we notice. How does it calm us down. How do we explain why things happened and then decide it’s OK to move on in life.”
DJ Python – ‘Forgetful Angel’ [feat. Tony Bontana]
DJ Python is back with a new EP, to accomplish many things, out October 23, to follow up to 2025’s i was put on this earth. The languid, gauzy first single, ‘Forgetful Angel’, features Birmingham rapper Tony Bontana and comes paired with a Vladyslav-directed video.
saoirse dream – ‘killer bees’
Portland hyperpop-emo artist saoirse dream has dropped ‘killer bees’, the abrasive yet colorful final preview of her new album grimdark. The record is out October 9 via Lauren Records.
Sammy Weissberg – ‘String Quartet No. 2 Mvt. II’
Sammy Weissberg – the Brooklyn, New York-based composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist who has recent and forthcoming work with The Lemon Twigs, more eaze, June McDoom, Caroline Rose, and Allegra Krieger – has announced a new album, Music for Strings and Brass. Arriving November 13 via Dear Life Records, it’s preceded today by ‘String Quartet No. 2 Mvt. II’, about which Weissberg said: “This was the first movement I composed for String Quartet No.2. “I used the melodic material as a foundation to write the rest of the piece, and it’s loosely based on the traditional symphonic form. The quartet was composed with a conventional structure, but this movement was written intuitively, almost like a stream of consciousness. I wrote the melodies while singing on my bike. It feels more lyrical, like a folk song.”
Alice Barlow – ‘Garden’
Alice Barlow has unveiled a quietly mesmerizing new track, ‘Garden’. “It’s about my deep love for nature and the world, and the collective denial of so many difficult things happening in it – climate change, genocide, war,” Barlow explained. “It reflects on small things within daily life like dreams or walking my dog, and the dissonance of experiencing them with the backdrop of so much suffering. I made it in my own garden a couple of summers ago using just guitars and my voice, and making it was a cathartic experience – it became a vessel to process a lot of those feelings.”
Stephanie Gilbert – ‘An Elf in the Modern World’
Stockholm singer-songwriter Stephanie Gilbert has announced her debut EP, Elvish – out November 6 – with the fuzzy new single ‘An Elf in the Modern World’. “It started to scare me that I had once been so free, as if I was someone from a different time, as if I had been plopped down in this timeline from another,” Gilbert reflected. “I used to not know the trends of popular culture. I was so happily unaware, not because I was trying to be special but because my interests simply guided me inward and toward another place, to books, to writing, to frolicking in nature to long-lasting mornings and remembering my dreams so vividly when I woke up I truly knew that life was not as it seemed in the modern world. But I somehow got caught up in the web of consumerism, and became accustomed to the algorithm knowing my thoughts in real time. It became a blanket in which I wrapped myself in the morning, in the daytime and in the evening. I wrote this song as a way to call her back. The elf in the modern world. She lived on her own wavelength, and she spoke of ideas outside of the internet ideals and she didn’t even know how special that was.”
