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 18, 2026.
Sleep – ‘Have Spacesuit Will Travel’
Doom metal legends Sleep have returned with their first new song in eight years. It also marks their first music without guitarist Matt Pike; in a press release, bassist and songwriter Al Cisneros – the band’s only returning member, in fact – wished Pike “the best on his earthbound maneuvers.” The new lineup also features Bubba Dupree, of the seminal D.C. hardcore band Void, and Melvins drummer Dale Crover. “The vibe of the first jam was obvious,” Cisneros recalled. “It was blue sunglasses-era Iommi in the quality, and equally awesome is Bubba is also one of the coolest people I’ve been able to make music with.”
Dan Deacon – ‘Brothers’ [feat. Eric André]
Dan Deacon has written the original soundtrack for Little Brother, the upcoming Netflix film starring John Cena, Michelle Monaghan, and Eric André, who plays upright bass on the vibrant new track ‘Brothers’. “Blending a live orchestra of strings, woodwinds, and brass with percussion and electronics created a sonic palette that becomes a through-line for the film,” Deacon shared. “The highlight of the recording sessions was having Eric André play upright bass on the score. Watching him channel his signature energy into a classical instrument was pure joy. He brought raw energy. Sampling his voice for the loops in the main theme opened up the piece, letting me explore it more, like one of my album tracks.”
Hana Stretton – ‘Stove’ and ‘Salt’
Australian ambient-folk artist Hana Stretton has unveiled two wonderful tracks from her just-announced album, tiarn. The first, ‘Stove’ was written for an opera singer and string quartet, building a kind of miniature electronic opera etched inside the album; the other, ‘Salt’, is evocative of the icy salt water where Stretton would swim while living in isolation near the ocean.
Phosphorescent – ‘If I Could Only Fly’ and Uncle Lucius – ‘Election Day’ (Blaze Foley Covers)
There’s a new Blaze Foley tribute album on the way, Sittin’ with Blaze, which features contributions from the likes of Lucy Dacus and Lucinda Williams. Today, Lost Art Records has shared Phosphorescent’s beautifully lonesome cover of ‘If I Could Only Fly’ as well as Uncle Lucius’ blazing cover of ‘Election Day’. “I came to Blaze a while back. Like anybody who’s interested in songwriting you’re going to eventually find Lucinda, Townes Van Zandt, Blaze, Guy Clark,” Matthew Houck of Phosphorescent commented. “But Blaze was kind of a mystery to me. It wasn’t hard to capture the lonesomeness of ‘If I Could Only Fly’. So really, it was just kind of, like, stay true to the song.”
“Driving a cab in Austin and trying to make it in music brought me a lot of Blaze stories,” Uncle Lucius’ Kevin Galloway added. “Blaze is this big man with the biggest heart and nobody was below him. And he was a little eccentric as South Austin is or used to be. And that’s perfectly okay. That’s what makes him what he is.”
Alex Cameron – ‘Jesus Never Had No Porno’
Alex Cameron’s new single is called ‘Jesus Never Had No Porno’, but wait for the punchline: “Jesus never had no porno/ Jesus never had no cocaine/ Jesus never had Ibiza/ He never even went to Spain.” It’s the first in a series of many, yet the singer-songwriter’s humour is strangely overriden by the track’s doleful atmosphere. “‘Jesus Never Had No Porno’ is a song that happened to three men in a room,” Cameron recalled. “Afterwards there was a loud bang. The next day LA caught on fire.”
boycomma – ‘Comme Ci Comme Ça’
Orange County-based emo outfit boycomma have unleashed a grungy, eruptive new single called ‘Comme Si, Comme Ça’. The crescendo is particularly devastating: “I thought you knew I’d rot for you,” vocalist Brad Warriner repeats.
Pond – ‘Skyworks’
Just a day before the release of their new album Terrestrials, Pond have dropped the kaleidoscopic focus track ‘Skyworks’, which explores the complex history of Australia Day. “The skyworks happen every year on the day Australia was invaded and claimed by the crown,” Nick Allbrook shared. “They explode over the river in a gaudy display of drunkenness and patriotism, sponsored by the Lotto. We love a flutter. The river is bejewelled with magical glittering lights, and loud bangs that remind some of canons and muskets. The river is ablaze, magic, filthy, like a Hieronymus Bosch picture, strewn with bottles and shit in the morning. It’s a confusing time for a confused people. Joe Ryan wrote the main chord progression for this one and then it grew in weird ways.”
Félicia Atkinson – ‘Sans Visage IV’
Félicia Atkinson has shared one more preview of her forthcoming reimagining of the score for Georges Franju’s cult 1960 horror classic Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face). ‘Sans Visage IV’ is especially sparse in its eeriness. “This is Christiane’s theme,” Atkinson explained. “The music accompanies her final gesture of liberation: opening the cages, releasing the captive creatures, and vanishing into the darkness.”
Lawrence English – ‘One Line Sky’
Lawrence English has unveiled ‘One Line Sky’, the second offering from his forthcoming LP The Rest Is My Ghost. “I spent a good deal of time researching in mega-cities whilst making this record,” he expounded. “‘One Line Sky’ was a term passed to me by a friend in Hong Kong. It has numerous readings, many of which float around the experiences of being at the bottom on these long canyon of buildings. which form the one line sky. The sky then is a slither of something else we can see beyond the immediate towers of architecture. I like the sense of escapism that is promised in that view, that outside of these places we build and sometimes cage ourselves into, a whole other possible life exists.”
abracadabra – ‘face card’
abracadabra have announced the peel away EP – out August 7 on Melodic – with the funky, playful ‘face card’. The track “asks the question: do you really think you earned all you’ve got by yourself, and that you should keep it all for yourself?” vocalist Hannah Skelton explained. “What if those of us who received such fateful benevolence schemed about a way to bring it to a larger scale? Let’s grow a lush world together.”
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