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, June 17, 2026.
Tiny Habits – ‘Anything He Was’ [feat. Matty Heal]
Though there are always rumours of a new 1975 album swirling in the air, we haven’t heard a new Matty Healy vocal in quite a while. Today, he appears on ‘Anything He Was’, the tenderly poignant lead single from Tiny Habits’ just-announced album Keepers. Out August 28, the LA-based band’s latest was made with a production team including Philip Weinrobe, Ryan Linvill, and Jeremy Schmetterer. “‘Anything He Was’ speaks to a specific loneliness brought on by someone else’s discontent,” the group shared. “They’re constantly using you to fill a space that can only be filled by someone else who is no longer there for them. Knowing this deep down, you still try; you show up. You make them laugh. You’re intimate with them. You perform gestures of kindness and grandeur in hopes that someday it’ll be enough, that your hard work will blossom into something more than just a bittersweet delusion. But it won’t (womp womp). You’ll never amount to them or the cherished moments they shared together. To those who share this experience (current or past), may this song soothe that loneliness and be a little gift on your path to find the love that you deserve.”
Saul Williams – ‘Conspiracy’
Poet, actor, director, singer, and graphic novelist Saul Williams has detailed Leap Life, his first album in seven years. Out August 28 via Big Dada, the record features contributions from Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja, Kamasi Washington, Carlos Niño, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Surya Botofasina, while Gonjasufi and Moor Mother appear on the immersive lead single ‘Conspiracy’.
Sad13 – ‘Am Now Completely Invisible’, ‘Art Institute’, and ‘Watermelon Manicure’
Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis is bringing back her Sad13 project for a new mixtape called 1331, comprising 13 “1 minute long-ish songs.” Its opening tracks – ‘Am Now Completely Invisible’, ‘Art Institute’, and ‘Watermelon Manicure’ – are out today. In press materials, Dupuis said the album’s production was inspired by seeing Rebecca Black and the Hard Quartet during the same week, and you can catch glimmers of that peculiar combination in the new songs.
Two Shell – ‘Thing About You’
Two Shell are following up last year’s surprise-dropped Icons with a new album called Infinite Now. It’s not coming out until October, but we’ve already heard the singles ‘The Nightmare’, ‘Follow’, and ‘Smile’, and today they’ve shared a bubbly, glimmering new track, ‘Thing About You’.
Pretty Sick – ‘home2hide’
I thought so much about what you said that morning/ It really stuck with me/ About parties and people/ And my prerogative as you perceive it,” Sabrina Fuentes sings on ‘home2hide’, the hypnotically intimate lead single off her third album Anarchy. The LP arrives September 11 and was recorded primarily with producer Oscar Scheller. “Not caring to follow rules or meet expectations for any reason other than doing things for yourself — that’s the through line,” Fuentes remarked.
Perennial – ‘What’s New On the Beat Scene’
Perennial have announced a new album, Modernism, out September 18 via Ernest Jenning Record Co. They once again recorded with producer Chris Teti and are once again releasing through Ernest Jenning Record Company. The Connecticut-based mod-punk trio are previeweing the record today with the frantically energetic ‘What’s New On the Beat Scene’.
Sondre Lerche – ‘Follow the River’
Sondre Lerche has previewed his forthcoming album Acrobats with a breezy 9-minute epic called ‘Follow the River’. This one doesn’t make excuses for being completely overcome with feelings of love and desire,” Lerche commented. “So naturally I thought, ‘I need a gospel choir on this,’ because it’s almost indulging, maybe, as an act of defiance, in the beauty of two humans finding each other, reveling in all the little, mundane moments of that.”
Truck Violence – ‘Gerard, be quiet’
Ahead of the release of Truck Violence’s new album The weathervane is my body, the band has unveiled its folkiest single, ‘Gerard, be quiet’, which reflects on Karsyn Henderson and Paul Lecours’ youth in rural Alberta. “This is an ode to the times when we would weave word and melody at random, on the bus, narrativising and putting to use both our small personal observations and tropes seen in media,” The song is built around a central poem, one that is intended to be an impression of childhood in rural Alberta, where sweet, semi-improvised sounds layer around it, reflecting the jumbled recollection one has of their early years.”
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