Tag: new songs

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, February 3, 2026.

Mitski – ‘I’ll Change for You’

Mitski’s second single from Nothing’s About to Happen to Me is here, and boy, is it good. Devastating and ornate, it comes with a video directed by Lexie Alley and edited by Rena Johnson. “Yeah/ I’ve been drinking/ Why’s that gotta mean/ I can’t call you ‘bout you and me?” she sings, calling back to ‘Bug Like an Angel’, an early single from her previous album, and its line about how sometimes a drink feels like family. I hope you’re not in a bar when you listen to it.

Broken Social Scene – ‘Not Around Anymore’

Broken Social Scene’s first album in 9 years, Remember the Humans, is on the way. It’s led by the shimmery yet wistful ‘Not Around Anymore’. “There’s a different kind of honesty in this record,” the band’s Charles Spearin commented, which reverberates through the new song. “We’ve had success, we’ve lost friends, we’ve lost parents, we’re at this ‘what happens next?’ stage in life.”

Friko – ‘Seven Degrees’

Friko’s just-announced album is aptly titled Something Worth Waiting For, and its first single, ‘Seven Degrees’, is very much worth your time. “I have searched and I have crawled
I have drank at every bars “For a long time I thought the saying was ‘seven degrees of separation’ and not ‘six,’” vocalist/guitarist Niko Kapetan explained in a statement. “There’s a lightness to that song but really it’s about connection, and trying to stay close to the people you care about.” At one point, he sings,: I have searched and I have crawled/ I have drank at every bar.” I’m guessing Mitski must have been at one of them.

Mandy, Indiana – ‘Sicko!’ [feat. billy woods]

Mandy, Indiana got billy woods to guest on the latest single from their new album URGH, which arrives on Friday. It rules.  Instead of pairing it with a traditional music video, the band cobbled together clips from seven different filmmakers in the form of an interactive carousel. “Social media has changed the way we consume art and music, often meaning that we rarely see a full music video in the way it was intended to be experienced,” they explained. “For ‘Sicko!’, we wanted to try something different, leaning into the way people consume art on social platforms. We asked creators to make 30 second films based around “sickness” as a theme, drawing inspiration from the track. It was an experiment to see what a music video might be like if we present distinct, often conflicting, visual styles side-by-side. The videos were then matched with different sections of the track in a sequence that felt right. By moving through and watching each short, you will hear the full song.”

Ratboys – ‘Penny in the Lake’

Ahead of the release of their new album Singin’ to an Empty Chair, Ratboys have unleashed one more single. Ever since I got the advance of the record, ‘Penny in the Lake’ is a song I keep turning over in my head, especially the “Baby, you’re my Ringo Starr” lyric. Julia Steiner elaborates: “I wrote this song on a sunny summer day while sitting outside in my backyard, and then we recorded the album version up at the Driftless Cabin in Wisconsin, about as close to nature as we could get. We wanted everything to feel live and loose, and we chose to leave the final recording as unadorned as possible. Chris [Walla] dubbed this approach ‘photographic realism,’ and I love to think of the song that way, as a snapshot of our band in a room playing a song together, living in the moment and having a great time.”

Buck Meek – ‘Ring of Fire’

Later this month, Big Thief’ Buck Meek will release his new album The Mirror, and today he’s got a new single called ‘Ring of Fire’. It sounds nothing like the famous ‘Ring of Fire’, which honestly suits its lovingly tongue-in-cheek nature. Like every song on the record, it features Adrianne Lenker on backup.

Weird Nightmare – ‘Might See You There’

Alex Edkins, the Toronto frontman known for fronting METZ, is back with new music from his power-pop project Weird Nightmare. Its sophomore LP, Hoopla, was co-produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno and arrives May 1. Lead single ‘Might See You There’ is incredibly hooky, and Edkins had this to say about it:

‘Might See You There’ is about going back to visit my hometown and being flooded with teenage nostalgia. Small-town boredom and isolation almost feel like a gift in today’s highly connected world. I feel fortunate for that time spent idly, down in the basement, learning the entire Rancid Let’s Go album on guitar with my friends. I find it easy to romanticise that time in my life, even though I was, without question, a disgruntled kid who badly wanted to escape my surroundings and see the world.

I was listening to a lot of the Irish bands The Undertones and Protex while writing this one, and I think there is a fair bit of their influence. Just the simplicity and big bar chords mostly.

Seth Manchester and I were very into the idea of adding piano and bells to the outro, akin to the Phil Spector-produced End of the Century album by The Ramones. The great Julianna Riolino sings with me on the choruses, too!

Alexis Taylor – ‘For a Toy’

Hot Chip’s Alexis has previewed his upcoming solo LP Paris in the Spring with a twinkly, vulnerable new song called ‘For a Toy’, which features vocals from Elizabeth Wight. “‘For a Toy; is about self-destructive behavior – but it’s not clear what the toy or plaything or distraction is that keeps getting in the way of the path the protagonist wants to be on,” he explained. “It’s amusing to me that a song which shares a lyric with a powerful grunge track by Neil Young could sound this pretty. The chorus explodes in an unexpected way with a lot of sonic bombast – so the song really opens up with drama. It’s as much about bathos as it is about pathos. There is some humor here, in the grandeur of self-pity. But most importantly, this song is stuck repeatedly asking ‘why do I do this?’ Music itself can be a plaything or toy that you can get hooked on – as much as the songs can be about getting hooked on something, or someone, or some pattern of behavior.”

“Elizabeth Wight adds glacial, ghostly vocal tones and interjections, which are closer to her opera singer upbringing than the deep goth house worlds she is known for with Mike Simonetti as Pale Blue,” Taylor added. “She brings the song to life.”

Koyo – ‘Irreversible’

Koyo have announced a new LP, Barely Here, which is set for release on May 8. Featuring appearances from Drain’s Sammy Ciaramitaro and Fleshwater’s Marisa Shirar, it’s led by the uproarious new single ‘Irreversible’.

Poison Ruïn – ‘Eidolon’

I love when heavy bands use Greek words, if only because I’m Greek and effortlessly know what they mean. ‘Eidolon’, the lead single from Poison Ruïn’s new album Hymns From the Hills, can mean both idol or phantom; it’s violent and exhilarating. “‘Eidolon’ is about being stuck in a broken reality, a cog in a fate-machine doomed to play out the same cursed loop until it fully breaks down,” Mac Kennedy expounded. “The ones who had the power to affect change have abandoned the scene. Their phantoms loom down in quiet disapproval of the disaster that slowly plays out beneath – Grim reminders of what could have, but will not be.”

Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart – ‘dawn | pulse’

Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart have announced their debut album as a trio, BODY SOUND, out March 20 via International Anthem. It’s preceded today by the pensive, serene composition ‘dawn | pulse’.

mildred – ‘Fish Sticks’

mildred, who are about to go on tour with Naima Bock, have announced their debut album, Fenceline, out April 24. “‘Fish Sticks’ is a song of scenes from two worlds,” the band said of the smooth lead single. “Conversations with your boss. Acute workplace mediocrity. Riding home and eating fish sticks with your friends. For UK audiences, a fish stick is a fish finger, ideally Alaskan-caught cod. The song comes packaged in Fenceline, an album about conversations with old friends, little cousins, ceaseless piles of dust in your crumbling duplex, loves and theologians and their books. Fencelines mark two places but belong to neither. Neither nor, either or.”