There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s laborious to maintain observe. On these days when the inflow of latest tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift by the noise to convey you a curated record of essentially the most fascinating new releases (the perfect of which can be added to our Greatest New Songs playlist). Beneath, try our observe roundup for Tuesday, February 3, 2026.
Mitski – ‘I’ll Change for You’
Mitski’s second single from Nothing’s About to Occur to Me is right 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 ingesting/ Why’s that gotta imply/ I can’t name you ‘bout you and me?” she sings, calling again to ‘Bug Like an Angel’, an early single from her earlier album, and its line about how typically a drink seems like household. I hope you’re not in a bar while you take heed to it.
Damaged Social Scene – ‘Not Round Anymore’
Damaged Social Scene’s first album in 9 years, Keep in mind the People, is on the way in which. It’s led by the shimmery but wistful ‘Not Round Anymore’. “There’s a special type of honesty on this report,” the band’s Charles Spearin commented, which reverberates by the brand new music. “We’ve had success, we’ve misplaced buddies, we’ve misplaced mother and father, we’re at this ‘what occurs subsequent?’ stage in life.”
Friko – ‘Seven Levels’
Friko’s just-announced album is aptly titled One thing Price Ready For, and its first single, ‘Seven Levels’, may be very a lot value your time. “I’ve searched and I’ve crawled
I’ve drank at each bars “For a very long time I believed the saying was ‘seven levels of separation’ and never ‘six,’” vocalist/guitarist Niko Kapetan defined in a press release. “There’s a lightness to that music however actually it’s about connection, and attempting to remain near the folks you care about.” At one level, he sings,: I’ve searched and I’ve crawled/ I’ve drank at each bar.” I’m guessing Mitski will need to have been at certainly one of them.
Mandy, Indiana – ‘Sicko!’ [feat. billy woods]
Mandy, Indiana bought billy woods to visitor on the most recent single from their new album URGH, which arrives on Friday. It guidelines. As a substitute of pairing it with a conventional music video, the band cobbled collectively clips from seven totally different filmmakers within the type of an interactive carousel. “Social media has modified the way in which we eat artwork and music, typically that means that we hardly ever see a full music video in the way in which it was supposed to be skilled,” they defined. “For ‘Sicko!’, we wished to strive one thing totally different, leaning into the way in which folks eat artwork on social platforms. We requested creators to make 30 second movies primarily based round “illness” as a theme, drawing inspiration from the observe. It was an experiment to see what a music video is likely to be like if we current distinct, typically conflicting, visible types side-by-side. The movies had been then matched with totally different sections of the observe in a sequence that felt proper. By transferring by and watching every quick, you’ll hear the total music.”
Ratboys – ‘Penny within the Lake’
Forward of the discharge of their new album Singin’ to an Empty Chair, Ratboys have unleashed yet another single. Ever since I bought the advance of the report, ‘Penny within the Lake’ is a music I preserve turning over in my head, particularly the “Child, you’re my Ringo Starr” lyric. Julia Steiner elaborates: “I wrote this music on a sunny summer time day whereas sitting outdoors in my yard, after which we recorded the album model up on the Driftless Cabin in Wisconsin, about as near nature as we may get. We wished all the things to really feel stay and unfastened, and we selected to go away the ultimate recording as unadorned as potential. Chris [Walla] dubbed this strategy ‘photographic realism,’ and I like to consider the music that method, as a snapshot of our band in a room taking part in a music collectively, dwelling within the second and having a good time.”
Buck Meek – ‘Ring of Fireplace’
Later this month, Massive Thief’ Buck Meek will launch his new album The Mirror, and immediately he’s bought a brand new single referred to as ‘Ring of Fireplace’. It sounds nothing just like the well-known ‘Ring of Fireplace’, which actually fits its lovingly tongue-in-cheek nature. Like each music on the report, it options Adrianne Lenker on backup.
Bizarre Nightmare – ‘Would possibly See You There’
Alex Edkins, the Toronto frontman identified for fronting METZ, is again with new music from his power-pop undertaking Bizarre Nightmare. Its sophomore LP, Hoopla, was co-produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno and arrives Could 1. Lead single ‘Would possibly See You There’ is extremely hooky, and Edkins had this to say about it:
‘Would possibly See You There’ is about going again to go to my hometown and being flooded with teenage nostalgia. Small-town boredom and isolation nearly really feel like a present in immediately’s extremely related world. I really feel lucky for that point spent idly, down within the basement, studying the complete Rancid Let’s Go album on guitar with my buddies. I discover it straightforward to romanticise that point in my life, despite the fact that I used to be, with out query, a disgruntled child who badly wished to flee my environment and see the world.
I used to be listening to plenty of the Irish bands The Undertones and Protex whereas scripting this one, and I believe there’s a good bit of their affect. Simply the simplicity and massive bar chords largely.
Seth Manchester and I had been very into the thought of including piano and bells to the outro, akin to the Phil Spector-produced Finish of the Century album by The Ramones. The nice Julianna Riolino sings with me on the choruses, too!
Alexis Taylor – ‘For a Toy’
Sizzling Chip’s Alexis has previewed his upcoming solo LP Paris within the Spring with a twinkly, weak new music referred to as ‘For a Toy’, which options vocals from Elizabeth Wight. “‘For a Toy; is about self-destructive habits – nevertheless it’s not clear what the toy or plaything or distraction is that retains getting in the way in which of the trail the protagonist needs to be on,” he defined. “It’s amusing to me {that a} music which shares a lyric with a strong grunge observe by Neil Younger may sound this beautiful. The refrain explodes in an surprising method with plenty of sonic bombast – so the music actually opens up with drama. It’s as a lot about bathos as it’s about pathos. There may be some humor right here, within the grandeur of self-pity. However most significantly, this music is caught repeatedly asking ‘why do I do that?’ Music itself is usually a plaything or toy you could get hooked on – as a lot because the songs could be about getting hooked on one thing, or somebody, or some sample of habits.”
“Elizabeth Wight provides glacial, ghostly vocal tones and interjections, that are nearer to her opera singer upbringing than the deep goth home worlds she is understood for with Mike Simonetti as Pale Blue,” Taylor added. “She brings the music to life.”
Koyo – ‘Irreversible’
Koyo have introduced a brand new LP, Barely Right here, which is about for launch on Could 8. That includes appearances from Drain’s Sammy Ciaramitaro and Fleshwater’s Marisa Shirar, it’s led by the uproarious new single ‘Irreversible’.
Poison Ruïn – ‘Eidolon’
I like when heavy bands use Greek phrases, if solely as a result of I’m Greek and effortlessly know what they imply. ‘Eidolon’, the lead single from Poison Ruïn’s new album Hymns From the Hills, can imply each idol or phantom; it’s violent and exhilarating. “‘Eidolon’ is about being caught in a damaged actuality, a cog in a fate-machine doomed to play out the identical cursed loop till it totally breaks down,” Mac Kennedy expounded. “Those who had the ability to have an effect on change have deserted the scene. Their phantoms loom down in quiet disapproval of the catastrophe that slowly performs out beneath – Grim reminders of what may have, however is not going to be.”
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart – ‘daybreak | pulse’
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart have introduced their debut album as a trio, BODY SOUND, out March 20 by way of Worldwide Anthem. It’s preceded immediately by the pensive, serene composition ‘daybreak | pulse’.
mildred – ‘Fish Sticks’
mildred, who’re about to go on tour with Naima Bock, have introduced their debut album, Fenceline, out April 24. “‘Fish Sticks’ is a music of scenes from two worlds,” the band mentioned of the graceful lead single. “Conversations along with your boss. Acute office mediocrity. Driving house and consuming fish sticks with your folks. For UK audiences, a fish stick is a fish finger, ideally Alaskan-caught cod. The music comes packaged in Fenceline, an album about conversations with previous buddies, little cousins, ceaseless piles of mud in your crumbling duplex, loves and theologians and their books. Fencelines mark two locations however belong to neither. Neither nor, both or.”
