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, October 6, 2026.
Jess Williamson – ‘Hum of the City’
Ahead of the release of her new LP A Mile South of Heaven on Friday, Jess Williamson has shared one more preview, the vividly evocative ‘Hum of the City’. “I’m kind of a wanderer by nature, and this song is about my complicated relationship with the idea of home,” Williamson explained. “I’ve spent years feeling pulled between the excitement of life in the city and the peace of a more rural life, never quite sure where I belong.”
She went on: “There’s a romance to being in hotels alone. I love checking into my room, going down to the hotel bar, and talking with the bartender. I once checked into a hotel and realized I was staying in the very same room I’d been in years earlier (room 12, from the song), during a completely different season of my life, right before a major life change. There’s something uncanny about the anonymity of a hotel room holding such a personal memory. The song imagines a conversation with the hotel bartender, asking him to change the music. Sometimes contemporary music feels a little weird if you happen to have history with the person singing it. But old country music always hits.”
Robbie Bennett – ‘Sister’ and ‘The Light on Your Face’
Robbie Bennett, the longtime keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist of The War on Drugs (who just returned with ‘Who’s That’), has announced two solo double albums, Steloken and Circulation. Ahead of their December 11 release (via American Dreams), Bennett has today unveiled a track from each record, ‘Sister’ from Steloken and ‘The Light on Your Face’ from Circulation. They’re both exquisitely pretty. “I want the music to be like you’re walking through an unfamiliar place you want to keep exploring and never have to circle back to where you started,” Bennett remarked.
Oso Oso – ‘it’s all bait’
Oso Oso have ‘it’s all bait’, another hooky single from the forthcoming an exchange of information. “The narrator is begging the listener or themselves or a lover or something to not give up on this dream because everything else is designed to make you give up and it’s all bullshit-it’s all bait,” songwriter Jade Lilitri said of the track, which is accompanied by a music video.
Indigo Sparke – ‘Weird Fish’
Indigo Sparke’s debut album was produced by Adrianne Lenker; her second was helmed by Aaron Dessner. For her third album and first in four years, There Is a Light on the Horizon Line, the singer-songwriter teamed up with producer John Parish, recording in Bristol while she was 33 weeks pregnant. “At its heart, ‘Weird Fish’ is a meditation on the strange intelligence of love,” Sparke said of the lead single. “How intimacy asks us to shed old patterns and imagine new ways of being together.”
Ex:Re – ‘Sleep’
Ex:Re, the alt-pop project of Daughter’s Elena Tonra, has a new album on the way called Save As. She wrote the nocturnal, intimately textured new single, ‘Sleep’, alone in Paris, where she recorded a demo in her hotel. It’s “something that I’d dance to,” she said in a press release.
The Tallest Man on Earth – ‘In The Silver Wire Up The Hill’
The Tallest Man On Earth, aka Kristian Matsson, has previewed his upcoming album Just Beyond Endless Mountain with a vibrant new song, ‘In The Silver Wire Up The Hill’. It comes paired with a music video.
Awning – ‘Little Green Book’
Awning , a five-piece band from Auckland, New Zealand, have announced their signing to Winspear with a wiry, explosive song called ‘Little Green Book’. “This song is about grief, gritty stuff that feels almost too much to put into song format,” bandleader Christian Dimick explained. “This is why all the lyrical imagery is open, cryptic and layered up. When things feel too personal lyrically, I like to create a little distance between the listener and myself. The lyrical obscurity allows me some privacy but also opens the song’s meaning up, allowing someone to insert their own meaning. I like that about music. In saying that, there are some pretty on-the-nose lyrics as well. ‘I want to remember what you said’ and ‘Grief is a corner…’ I mean, you get the gist. We carry people’s words around for them after they are gone.”
Clara Mann – ‘Oblivion’
“Loving is accepting the light and the dark of something, or of someone – often when someone burns very bright, it’s matched by a great capacity for heaviness,” Clara Mann reflected in a statement about her spine-chilling new single, ‘Oblivion’, off Wishbone. “Someone said to me, at a very heightened time in my life, that sometimes falling in love feels like looking into oblivion’. I went home and wrote the first verses of this song- and then I let it be for a few months, unable, at that point, to resolve it.”
She continued: “A few months down the line after falling in love, I looked back and realised that there must have been a time when I could have chosen a different path for myself, and for us, but I don’t know where that crossroads was, and I don’t recall ever actively making a decision. Love was an inevitability, in some sense, something I already knew was going to happen, from the very start. I finished the song that day. ‘Oblivion’ is about tossing a coin and realising, as it turns, that you’ve already made your decision.”
Clinic – ‘Energies’
Clinic have dropped a hypnotic new single, ‘Energies’, lifted from their upcoming record Wild in the Streets. “‘Energies’ has a late-night party feel, a fun-filled combination of Funkadelic, Carl Douglas and Cabaret Voltaire,” the band’s Ade Blackburn commented.
Liily – ‘FOREVER’ and ‘EVERYDAY’
Liily are back with two new songs, ‘FOREVER’ and ‘EVERYDAY’, their first since signing with Atlantic Records. The nervy, abrasive tracks will appear on the Los Angeles band’s major-label debut album, which is due later this year. “‘FOREVER’ is about me trying to find humility in an industry of comparison while struggling to define our sound,” frontman Dylan Nash explained. “It’s been hard to deprogram the negativity that comes with being a struggling band. ‘EVERYDAY’ sounds self-deprecating but is part of my journey of introspection and becoming a more confident person. I speak about underperforming as a person, a son, a bandmate, and a partner, and trying to be more mindful of my place in my own life and the lives of others.”
Chastity – ‘So Alive I Cry’
Brandon Williams’ Chastity has a new song out today, the anthemic ‘So Alive I Cry’, from the forthcoming LP I Built This Prison Myself. It’s accompanied by a music video from director Justin Singer.
Morgan Garrett – ‘Honest Mistake’
Morgan Garrett has returned with his first new music since last year’s The Mirror, ‘Honest Mistake’, out now via his new label home, Julia’s War. Produced by YHWH Nailgun guitarist Saguiv Rosenstock, the discombobulating track also features former Show Me the Body drummer Jackie McDermot. “I’m making myself clear with music that’s more tangible, and getting my ideas across effectively as a result,” Garrett shared. “‘Honest Mistake’ is my arena rock opus. Everything is nearly in tune, but the tuning doesn’t matter. The instruments are huge yet still leave room for the nuance and detail of my voice and words to be heard. While writing it I felt like I was approaching some moment of finality in my life. The song is about uncertainty and the fear of looking back and reflecting.”
Twin Temple – ‘Nothing Matters’
Twin Temple have unveiled the final offering from their upcoming album DOOMED LOVERS. “‘Nothing Matters’ was born out of the bleakest, lowest point of depression and apathy following a devastating loss, functioning as a modern day Gothic lament for a love that refuses to die,” Alexandra and Zachary James stated. “Channeling a kind of Nihilistic and Byronic romanticism, the song tackles the abject feelings of hopelessness, disorientation, and loss of self that profound grief evokes. We wanted to make something beautiful out of that experience, pairing the tragic narrative weight with the lush, cinematic sweep of a 37-piece orchestra.”
Pink Fuzz – ‘Don’t You Wanna Go To Heaven?’
Denver trio Pink Fuzz have unleashed a rambunctious new track, ‘Don’t You Wanna Go To Heaven?’. The tune was mixed by All Them Witches guitarist Ben McLeod.
Anna McClellan – ‘Drank Earlier’
Anna McClellan – who contributed to Greg Freeman’s brand new LP, All Set the Bone – has announced her second EP of 2026, South of Dodge, out November 20 via Exploding in Sound. “‘Drank Earlier’ is about my addiction to the pain of being in love,” she said of the twangy, bracingly honest lead single. “It’s also about my addiction to drinking and the way the two worked in cahoots to keep me in a cycle of self-harm and immediate gratification. I wrote it in 2023 and didn’t finally stop drinking until early this year, January 25, 2026. I knew at the time I was perpetuating a cycle, I name that in the song, but it still took me a few years to break it.”
