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, July 15, 2026.
Fiona Apple – ‘Horns of a Bull’
Fiona Apple’s new song, ‘Horns of Bull’, was written as the theme for the Apple TV series Lucky, but it might as well have been lifted from the sessions behind Fetch the Bolt Cutters. Apple co-produced the track with her drummer Amy Aileen Wood, and Wood’s wife Cassie Pappas is one of the show’s two showrunners. Though only a minute and 40 seconds long, it demands your attention.
Beck – ‘In the Night’
A few months ago, Beck shared ‘Ride Lonesome’, which turns out to be the title track of his first album in 7 years. Today, he’s official announced the record with the lush, haunting single ‘In the Night’, which comes with a video starring Denis Lavant.
Logic1000 – ‘All in for You’ [feat. KUČKA]
Logic1000 has announced a new album, Confirmation!, which is out October 2 and features Christine and the Queens, Jam City, FAUZIA, KUČKA, and yunè pinku. The KUČKA collab accompanies the announcement, an effervescent, intimate track called ‘All in for You’. “I’ve realised that being ‘confirmed’ isn’t about arriving at a final version of yourself,” Logic1000 explained. “It’s about feeling aligned with who you are today, while knowing you’ll continue to grow. It’s about having faith in yourself.”
Meshel Ndegeocello – ‘I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)’ (Aretha Franklin and George Michael Cover)
Cat Power, Chaka Khan, Brandi Carlile, Bill Callahan, Chris Thile, Nick Hakim, Madison Cunningham Lianne La Havas, Moses Sumney, ANOHNI, Willow, and more appear on Meshel Ndegeocello’s new album, Synonym. Out October 2, it serves as a collection of “classic songs that…have diverse tones, representing various genres and intentional grooves,” according to the Grammy-winning singer. She’s enlisted Cynthia Erivio for a cover of the 1987 Aretha Franklin and George Michael duet ‘I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)’.
“This project is an expression of queer liberation as a synonym for liberation of all kinds,” Ndegeocello added. “The queer community claimed me when others didn’t and for a long time that felt too far away from other communities to which I belong but now I recognize the ways in which it all overlaps. Once again, I went back to my elders: Audre Lorde told us that there is no single issue struggle. Similarly, these arrangements are synonyms for their originals – these different sounds still mean the same thing.”
Arab Strap – ‘Glamour Magick’
‘Glamour Magick’ is the latest single from Arab Strap’s upcoming LP, Half-Told Tales, following previous cuts ‘You You You’ and ‘Fighting For You. “‘Glamour Magick’ is about the pressure to look youthful, and how far we might go to hide our natural selves,” singer Aidan Moffat expounded. “I started with a few things I use regularly in middle age – caffeine shampoo, whitening toothpaste, eye cream etc. – and then I wondered how much further I’d be willing to go. New teeth, new hair, liposuction, eye-lifts, facial fat injections … how long until there’s nothing really left of me? It’s nothing new, of course – the end of the song mentions the Fountain of Youth and Greek goddess Hebe – and looking young has always been an inherent human desire. Time is our enemy, and we’re all spending money on trying to fight it – it’s just a question of how much we’re willing to pay.”
No Joy – ‘Barking at the Sun’
‘Big Life’, the title track from No Joy’s upcoming Fire-Toolz-produced EP, landed in our list of the best songs of June. The new cut ‘Barking at the Sun’ is full of pummeling, intricate aggression, but weaved in the middle is one of the band’s most ethereal passages.
Dry Cleaning – ‘I Have the Key’ and ‘Grass’
Dry Cleaning have unveiled a deluxe edition of their latest LP Secret Love, which features two new tracks along with the recently released ‘Sliced by a Fingernail’. ‘I Have the Key’ and ‘Grass’ are both accompanied by music videos Bellyache, who made visuals for all of the LP’s original tracks. “‘Grass’ is about grieving for someone still alive,” vocalist Florence Shaw explained. “The lyrics use some metaphors from nature inspired by two trips; one to see the melting Rhône Glacier in Switzerland and the other to Laurissilva, the ‘living fossil’ ancient forest on the island of Madeira. Whilst it has lots of imperfections and was a bit improvised, Cate [Le Bon, producer] had a real affinity for the vocal performance we chose for this track.”
”The lyrics to ‘I Have the Key’ came from a feeling of sadness and helplessness at the state of the world. The genocide in Gaza had begun around the time I was writing some of the lyrics. The saxophone part was improvised by Bruce Lamont at the Loft studio in Chicago, and the structure and delivery of the vocal, as well as the choice of words came as a response to his playing.”
Mallory Hawk – ‘Four O’ Clocks’
Mallory Hawk has shared ‘Four O’ Clocks’, a tenderly nostalgic track from her debut album, Chinook. “This song is about the house I lived in from ages 6 to 16 in Fayetteville, North Carolina,” she explained. “It was eventually demolished by the city so they could build a highway that made it easier to get to the Fort Bragg military base from residential areas. Shortly after we moved, a tornado came through and damaged the house, which was really jarring and made us grateful to have left even though we never wanted to. I tried driving back there and got far enough to remember that it’s not even possible to visit or really identify where the house was—it’s a highway exit ramp now. ‘Four o’clocks’ are the flowers that lined the walkway to our front steps. They’re fragrant and magenta, and only bloom from 4 to 8 pm. They were always fresh when I got home from school and the smell just transports me there—it’s such a vivid memory for me, down to the sounds, colors, and textures. I really wanted to just feel the winds and smell the smells of my home and reflect on how far I’d come since then, but the reality is quite drab and anti-climactic.”
koleżanka – ‘Levers and Pulleys’
koleżanka has announced Zone 2, the follow-up to 2023’s great Alone With The Sound The Mind Makes. It’s out September 18, and it’s led by ‘Levers and Pulleys’, a playful piece of sophistipop. It marks Kristina Moore’s first release since severing her flexor tendon in her left finger in the fall of 2023, which resultted in months of surgery and recovery. “I wrote this song a few days before my surgery,” she recalled. “I was spending almost every day sitting for hours at this weighted yamaha keyboard I borrowed from my bandmate, Mitch, of Foyer Red. I often played a lot of nothing leading to nowhere, just wanting to indulge in a compulsion of making music however I could. But something stuck that day and I ran with it. The song has changed so much since it’s first conception and became so many different versions of itself it almost didn’t even make the record. Obviously there were no guitars at first, and I changed the bass part several times as I was relearning how to play before I finally just asked Ark (koleżanka’s other half) to take over with their ideas.”
”The end is particularly special to me – I had a clear picture of how I wanted it to sound, but all I could do was perform it twice between the two parts with my one hand in this clunky way,” she added. “After I had recovered and worked towards my final stage of my finger’s new range, I realized I had to learn how to play this part with both hands for recording. It was a very emotional experience, both learning and practicing the part as well as recording the final take and working with Elana on the clarinet arrangements.”
Soft Cell – ‘In Heaven (When We Dance)’
Marc Almond and Dave Ball have served up ‘In Heaven (When We Dance)’, the euphoric second single from their new album. “‘In Heaven (When I Dance With You)’ is a celebration of the early Eighties joyful disco scene,” Almond commented. “A coming together of the sentiments of the time. I wanted it to be that moment when you run to the dancefloor…”
GB – ‘The Next Day’
‘The Next Day’ is easily the sunniest single to be released from Gustav Berntsen’s upcoming album Herzsprung, but it’s no less intricate than previous cuts ‘Adrenaline’ and ‘Starsound’. The LP arrives August 21 via AD 93.
Big Red – ‘Isn’t He Funny?’
Big Red is the new project of Joseph Scarisbrick, who leads the London seven-piece The Orchestra (For Now). Drummer Charlie Hancock and bassist/vocalist Millie Kirby are also part of the band, whose debut single ‘Isn’t He Funny?’ is spindly and explosive, ultimately echoing Radiohead’s ‘Creep’, of all things. “I was playing a few shows with just a drummer and with this song I was improvising the lyrics on stage,” Scarisbrick explained. “The only line that stayed the same each time was ‘Isn’t He Funny?’. Afterwards I went home, wrote down the bits that I liked, and gradually pieced it together from all these different versions. I like that the song can’t quite decide whether it’s joking or breaking down. There’s all these threats and pull backs, small jabs and unease. It’s about trying to maintain control of how others see you while simultaneously losing control of yourself, and how actually it is best to not perform because you will go insane.”
daine – ‘Love Love (Love Love)’
Ninajirachi/underscores collaborator daine has announced their debut LP, In Endless Awe & Agony?, with the uplifting, instantly catchy new single ‘Love Love (Love Love)’. It’s set to drop on November 6.
Willi Carlisle – ‘Mason Jar at the Center of the World’
Willi Carlisle has announced a new album, The Universal Bubba, which was produced by Tyler Childers. It’s out November 6, and the new single ‘Mason Jar at the Center of the World’ is out now. “The universal bubba is somebody who can fix anything, somebody who is good for just about anything,” Carlisle explained. “Everywhere I go I meet these giant people — and what I mean is these men and women and folks who can do it all themselves. Something that’s really struck me about traveling around the world is that everywhere you go there are people who are tirelessly working to make things a little bit better without succumbing to modernity’s pitfalls. They’re somebody who has enough, and if it wasn’t enough they would make it enough.”
Nina Winder-Lind – ‘Headfirst’
Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nina Winder-Lind, best known as a member band The New Eves, has shared ‘Headfirst’, a nervy single off her debut solo album, Wild Love. “‘Headfirst’ is the amalgamation of two elements; a spoken poem that I made whilst out on a walk in my neighbourhood, and an odd two harmony guitar riff that I recorded on GarageBand and labeled ‘television guitar,’” she explained. “The song is a declaration of existence and an ode to movement and emotion. It’s an animal song.”
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