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 Monday, March 16, 2026.
Death Cab for Cutie – ‘Riptides’
“‘Riptides’ is about the challenge of dealing with personal struggles as the world around us experiences tragedy and loss on an unfathomable scale,” Ben Gibbard said in a statement about Death Cab for Cutie’s new single, which leads their upcoming album, I Built You a Tower. “And how when these two elements intertwine themselves in our psyches, it feels utterly paralyzing.” It’s driving and progressively disorienting, with Gibbard singing, “I’m too tired to stop/ I can’t bring you up to speed/ There’s too many riptides in this ocean to proceed.”
Lily Seabird – ‘Demon in Me’
Lily Seabird has shared her first single of 2026, ‘Demon in Me’. It arrives on the heels of the singer-songwriter’s excellent 2025 album Trash Mountain, and it suggests that whatever Seabird has on the horizon is lusher and more exuberant, even as the new single leans on “the dark side, probably a symptom of anxiety or depression.” Seabird went on, “The beginning of the song I talk about this longing for freedom. Whether it’s freedom from the demon or letting the demon be free, I’m not really sure, but by the end the music is supposed to embody that.”
Gladie – ‘I Want That for You’
Gladie’s killer new album No Need to Be Lonely is out this Friday, and today they’ve dropped another single from it. ‘I Wnat That for You’ gives the record its title; “It’s the last song we wrote for the record and kind of encapsulates to me the whole message of No Need to Be Lonely,” Augusta Koch explained. “It came from a conversation with a beloved friend that was having a hard time. We were talking about how it’s strange and difficult to be a human sometimes. I often think about how easy it is to see the beauty and wonderful qualities in someone else but how hard it is to apply that same love to yourself. ‘I Want That for You’ is basically about encouragement and wanting everyone to stick around, even when it’s really hard, including ourselves.”
Anna Calvi – ‘Is This All There Is?’ [feat. Matt Berninger]
Ahead of the release of her new duets EP Is This All There Is? on Friday, Anna Calvi has unveiled the title track. Following collabs with Perfume Genius and Iggy Pop, she’s teamed up with the National leader Matt Berninger for an expansive ballad that’s “about the bravery it takes to hope,” in Calvi’s words. “It’s the willingness to ask questions, even when knowing you’ll never get a definitive answer…The tone of Matt’s voice has such an epic, almost ancient quality to it, which felt perfect for a song asking such a big existential question. We’re both searching for answers — together and yet somehow always apart, which I find beautiful. He brings an intimacy to the song that I couldn’t have imagined.”
Bloodworm – ‘Alone In Your Garden’
Nottingham’s Bloodworm have shared a brooding, frosty new track, ‘Alone In Your Garden’. “This song was written during Autumn over a particularly cold couple of days,” frontman George Curtis explained. “I was inspired by the very unique feeling of that time of year, the smell of the air, the falling leaves, the damp stillness that all feels so specifically English. I was trying to invoke those feelings within a song. The song was an attempt at mixing old English folk, with all its folklore and emphasis on tales, with the gothic sound that I am drawn to.”
Truthpaste – ‘Bus Song’
Truthpaste, a group of five multi-instrumentalists, have shared the mesmerizing ‘Bus Song’ via Dirty Hit/Memorials of Distinction. The band’s Esme described it as our emo rock song. It’s another side to Truthpaste that its time people heard outside our live set. We don’t stick to one thing, if it sounds good we’ll do it.” Euan added: “This song was knocking around my head for a couple of weeks, it wasn’t until we got together as a band and decided to make it a duet that it really started to feel like it has come to be.”
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