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 13, 2026.
@ – ‘I Know You Are (But What Am I Thinking)’
Ahead of the release of their new album Autosmile, @ have shared one last single, ‘I Know You Are (But What Am I Thinking)’. “My style is constantly changing/ My smile consistently aging/ My symptoms seem to be worsening/ I’m simply not a person,” Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak sing in poignant harmony.
Dummy – ‘N of 1’
Dummy have shared one last single from their upcoming LP, do you love the color of the sky?, which is out Friday. The hypnotically kinetic ‘N of 1’ comes paired with a music video directed by the band’s Emma Maatman. Guitarist Joe Trainor commented: “I liked the idea of taking glacial guitar drones and cutting ‘em up into a new context of the jungle inspired drums. To me, so much of the record is like the remixed versions of pop songs you’ll never hear.”
Sour Widows – ‘Lullaby’
‘Lullaby’ is an invigorating taste of Sour Widows’ forthcoming album Sigil. Commenting on the track, which addresses the genocide in Gaza, Maia Sinako commented: “I’m Assyrian. I belong to an ethnic minority indigenous to the Middle East who for hundreds of years have been persecuted, murdered and forced into diaspora as pawns in the West’s colonial game of world domination. I see the horrors Palestinian people have faced now for almost one hundred years and I feel tied to their struggle,” Sinako explains. “I’m also Jewish. I am implicated in the Zionist project of the illegal state of Israel. The suffering of my ancestors has been weaponized and corrupted to justify the genocide of Palestinians. I believe there is no freedom for the Jewish people in Zionism, only the destruction of our humanity and the humanity of Palestinians. As a Jew and an Assyrian I reject the hypocrisy and evil of Zionism, and I pray every day for a free Palestine.”
Aesop Rock and Blockhead – ‘Coyote Summer’ [feat. Hanni El Khatib]
Aesop Rock and Blockhead have enlisted Hanni El Khatib for ‘Coyote Summer’, the latest cut from their upcoming collaborative album Trouble Mountain. It arrives alongside a video from director Evan Gütt.
Sadurn – ‘the weight’
Sadurn have unveiled ‘the weight’, the opening track of their new album The Underworld, which drops this Friday October 16. “The hard becomes routine, and it dulls out everything/ So you can no longer be sure/ What’s still there at the center,” G DeGroot sings, breezily introducing the album’s heavy emotional themes.
Lael Neale – ‘Joan of Arc’
Lael Neale has shared ‘Joan of Arc’, a beguiling single from her forthcoming album As Killers Do. “In many areas of life I grapple with unhealthy perfectionism, but in approaching music in my own primitive way I’ve found a therapeutic respite, a kind of freedom from the tyranny of the mind,” the songwriter said. “As a listener, what really cuts through and speaks to me is music that is direct, that hasn’t been overthought and overwrought. What’s real is becoming much harder to discern day to day. And for that reason, I hunger for it more strongly.”
fish narc – ‘Emma’
Another artist with an album out on Friday has shared its final advance single. fish narc, the project of Olympia, WA-based songwriter Ben Funkhouser, has shared a fuzzy, unabashed love song called ‘Emma’, which will appear on the Alex Farrar-produced Uncle.
Party Dozen – ‘Full Powers’
Sydney duo Party Dozen have dropped a fiery new single, ‘Full Powers’, from their upcoming LP 21 Bum Salute. “There’s ‘Full Powers’ good and there’s ‘Full Powers’ bad,” the band remarked. “The good is when you’re personally becoming too powerful, an angel pisses on you, everything is going very well and suddenly you’re gliding down the street like King Swinging Dick. The bad is when one side has all the power and more is not enough. Powerlust, greedmongering, gluttonous fiends. This track switches between the two. It has a really strong, confident feel that gets a little uneasy as the track progresses.”
Purple Pilgrims – ‘Outside’
Purple Pilgrims have unveiled a graceful, ethereal ballad called ‘Outside’, lifted from their upcoming album Given to the Night. “This song is an ode to outsiders. A term that once felt heavy, now feels like an anointed privilege,” the band explained. “Relishing a space of one’s own. The feeling of putting on headphones and walking through the world – of it and others at the same time — is a sacred space that most of us can relate to, we think. From that space, ‘Outside’ ponders some fairly existential feelings in passing — from all of our beginnings as pure energy, where and how could we transcend beyond. How isolating it is to go/grow through something transitional — how it is beautiful too, when broken down into quantum forms.”
