There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s onerous 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 very best of which shall be added to our Greatest New Songs playlist). Under, take a look at our observe roundup for Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
MUNA – ‘Wannabeher’
MUNA’s newest single, ‘Wannabeher’, is billed as “our model of Bikini Kill’s ‘Insurgent Lady’,” which makes it a simple promote. “It’s concerning the expertise of actually admiring somebody and feeling confused about whether or not you wish to be them or be with them or each,” they elaborated. “A homosexual canon occasion.” The dazzlingly catchy observe, lifted from Dancing on the Wall, arrives with a video directed by Dante Capone.
Snarls – ‘No Lock, No Prayer’
Snarls have introduced a brand new EP, In Heaven There’s Rainbows, arriving on June 26. The grungy, propulsive lead single ‘No Lock, No Prayer’ comes paired with a video from director Alex Scalzo-Brown.
Nation of Language – ‘More durable Than the Relaxation’ (Bruce Springsteen Cowl)
There’s a lineage of nice ‘More durable Than the Relaxation’ covers, together with from indie-leaning acts like Angel Olsen and Digicam Obscura, and now Nation of Language have supplied their very own tackle the Tunnel of Love traditional. “Like so many younger New Jersey residents, I grew up listening to Springsteen, however this tune someway slipped by me throughout that formative period,” the band’s Ian Devaney defined. “I used to be actually solely uncovered to it inside the previous couple of years, and it’s adopted me round since then. I can bear in mind ending a very emotional present someplace deep in final 12 months’s tour, and our sound engineer, Skinny, began enjoying it as our exit music. It caught me so onerous that I stayed there, simply offstage, and listened to the remainder of the tune blasting, blended with the sounds of all the individuals milling concerning the venue. After we in the end endeavored that we would strive doing our personal model of the tune, we fortunately had a Yamaha CS-80 at our disposal, the identical synth mannequin which featured fairly closely throughout the Tunnel of Love classes again in ’87. Figuring out we had been working with among the identical textures as the unique made it rather less formidable to cowl Bruce.”
Tori Amos – ‘Gasoline Ladies’
Tori Amos has served up one other preview of the upcoming album In Instances of Dragons. Following earlier entries ‘Stronger Collectively’ and ‘Shush’, ‘Gasoline Ladies’ amps up the rock instrumentation, although in a considerably subversive method, on condition that it appears to be a couple of lesbian motorbike gang – allegorically, after all. “This can be a metaphor for a lot of totally different transformations – from a teenage woman turning into a lady, to shifts in gender identification or basic perception techniques, to the life adjustments that include being pregnant, motherhood and ultimately menopause,” Amos defined. “The tune explores the feelings that include leaving one model of your self behind and getting into one other.”
Deerhoof and The Sound Sactuary – ‘Vegetation! Prosper!’ and ‘Vegetation! Make Noise! Right here we’re’
Deerhoof are all the time as much as all kinds of weird collaborations. In simply ten days, the band’s Greg Saunier will launch a brand new album with Curt Sydnor, underneath the moniker of Bach Artillerie, enjoying the Goldberg canons of J.S. Bach. Immediately, they’ve acquired a brand new venture with The Sound Sanctuary, which you would possibly assume is an underground noise band. The truth is, it’s the “multi-species plant ensemble” housed within the workplace of the band’s label house, Joyful Noise, comprising a cash tree (Pachira aquatica) and 4 rubber bushes (Ficus elastica). I’m going to imagine the cash tree is the chief right here. Anyway, this explains the titles of those new tracks, which complete 22 minutes. Karl Hofstetter, founding father of Joyful Noise Recordings, frames the Sound Sanctuary because the “reverse of AI,” harnessing the curiously reactive nature of plant consciousness. Labelmates Kishi Bashi, Butthole Surfers’ JD Pinkus, and WHY?’s Yoni Wolf have lined up improvisational data with the ensemble.
Waxahatchee – ‘The place’s Your Love Now?’ (This Is Lorelei Cowl)
MJ Lenderman’s tackle This Is Lorelei’s ‘Dancing within the Membership’ was by far my favourite cowl of 2025, and there’s an excellent likelihood Waxahatchee’s model of ‘The place’s Your Love Now?’ takes that spot this 12 months. The observe has turn into a staple of Katie Crutchfield’s stay present, and the studio rendition, that includes backing from Nate Amos himself, arrives right this moment forward of the deluxe version of Field for Buddy, Field for Star. Crutchfield additionally simply kicked off her co-headlining tour with MJ Lenderman in Atlanta, the place she introduced her being pregnant. Congratulations are so as!
SPELLLING – ‘Ammunition’ [feat. Jean Dawson]
SPELLLING has teamed up with Jean Dawson for a brand new model of the Portrait of My Coronary heart observe ‘Ammunition’, which actually works effectively as a duet. It follows ‘Future Arrives’ that includes Weyes Blood and ‘Portrait of My Coronary heart’ that includes Turnstile’s Brendan Yates as the newest in a sequence of remixes from her newest album. “[This is] ‘Ammunition’ reimagined because the duet I all the time meant and heard it to be. We laced the unique’s romantic R&B right into a grittier, cathedral-of-synths model,” Chrystia Cabral shared.” A darkish fairytale turned electrical. Jean’s voice is a mirror to the tune’s unusual soul; our outsider hearts collide. I feel Jean channels that very same retro-soul weirdness I grew up on, and our chemistry makes the love story really feel extra pressing. We lean into being lovely misfits looking for refuge; co-produced and delivered to life by Psymun.”
Hearth-Toolz – ‘The place Is the Coronary heart? I’ve Searched My Total House’ [feat. Jennifer Holm]
The primary single from Hearth-Toolz’s upcoming album, ‘Balam =^..^= Says IPv09082024 Strawberry Head’, made our record of the very best songs of March. Immediately, we get to listen to one other one, ‘The place Is the Coronary heart? I’ve Searched My Total House’, which is extra outwardly soulful, thanks partly to a visitor look from Americana singer Jennifer Holm. “Now think about a Nashville mother who sings on nation albums and in her church band, being requested by an interfaith transfeminine anarchist from Chicago to sing on her screamy, noisy digital album,” Angel Marcloid stated in press supplies.
Hunx and His Punx – ‘Lifeless to Me’
Hunx and His Punx have a brand new EP on the best way, The Punkettes, which shall be launched as a 7” double single on Might 29 through Get Higher Data. ‘Lifeless to Me’, their tackle the traditional woman group revenge tune, is out now.
BCMC – ‘Kaleidosmoke’
Invoice MacKay and Cooper Crain have introduced their sophomore album as BCMC, Stash, due June 26 through Drag Metropolis. It’s led by the hazy, aptly titled ‘Kaleidosmoke’, which takes cues from Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, and Iron Butterfly.
Widowspeak – ‘No Driver’
Widowspeak have previewed their forthcoming album Roses with a mesmerizing new tune, ‘No Driver’. It “is about understanding and loving individuals who appear to thrive being on autopilot, a minimum of for some time,” in accordance with vocalist Molly Hamilton. “It’s written from the attitude of making an attempt to be supportive, and understanding it may be sort of magic whenever you’re in it, but additionally simply ready patiently for at any time when they’re prepared to maneuver on from harmful conduct. I additionally sort of wrote it to my youthful self. I’m 1000% on the opposite facet of my wilder years (stop consuming virtually seven years in the past and now have a child) however I positively felt aimless for a very long time. I care now, and caring about issues and other people and having a motive… is the entire level.”
The Laughing Chimes – ‘Behind Your Blue Fields’ and ‘Trapeze Child’
Athens, Ohio band the Laughing Chimes have introduced a brand new demos assortment, Behind Your Blue Fields – out Might 22 – and shared two jangly highlights, ‘Behind Your Blue Fields’ and ‘Trapeze Child’. It presents an alternate imaginative and prescient of their second album, earlier than the choice to “go goth.” Evan Seurkamp defined, “The idea of a ‘wow unreleased Chimes demo compilation!’ developed rapidly within the wake of a lo fi rock resurgence amongst our friends (Good Flying Birds, Sharp Pins, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Little Chair). I had dusted off my Tascam 4-track just a few months in the past and subsequently rediscovered a scattered assortment of demos that Laughing Chimes had recorded over the past a number of years. My authentic plan was to throw an EP’s value of songs up on Bandcamp, however as I continued to dig by my desk drawer of previous tapes, I abruptly amassed a set of 13-ish discarded tracks.”
Genghis Tron – ‘I Am All’
Genghis Tron have introduced their fourth full-length album, Sign Hearth, co-produced and blended by Seth Manchester (Mannequin/Actriz, Battles, Large Courageous). The pummeling, eruptive ‘I Am All’ leads the LP, which arrives June 12. “’Sign Hearth’ envisions a Kojima-esque dystopia of limitless proxy warfare,”vocalist and lyricist Tony Wolski (The Armed) shared, “the place the deluge of obtainable data has outmoded the human capacity to parse it. A world the place these amoral, shameless and crafty sufficient can actually reshape the truth at their whim by sheer insistence. Truthfully, that is in all probability about, like, late 2027…”
Terra Twin – ‘Parking Lot’
Terra Twin have introduced a brand new EP, Scumbag, arriving June 2, with the spindly, infectious lead single ‘Parking Lot’. “This tune exists as a funhouse that pits an ethereal dreamscape towards the uncooked actuality of a dysfunctional relationship,” the band stated in a press launch.
