There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s onerous to maintain monitor. On these days when the inflow of latest tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift by way of the noise to deliver you a curated checklist of essentially the most attention-grabbing new releases (the very best of which can be added to our Finest New Songs playlist). Under, take a look at our monitor 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 consuming/ 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 looks like household. I hope you’re not in a bar once you hearken 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 distinct form of honesty on this report,” the band’s Charles Spearin commented, which reverberates by way of the brand new tune. “We’ve had success, we’ve misplaced associates, we’ve misplaced dad and mom, 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 an announcement. “There’s a lightness to that tune however actually it’s about connection, and making an attempt 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 one among them.
Mandy, Indiana – ‘Sicko!’ [feat. billy woods]
Mandy, Indiana bought billy woods to visitor on the newest 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, usually which 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 needed to attempt one thing totally different, leaning into the way in which folks eat artwork on social platforms. We requested creators to make 30 second movies based mostly round “illness” as a theme, drawing inspiration from the monitor. It was an experiment to see what a music video could be like if we current distinct, usually conflicting, visible types side-by-side. The movies have been then matched with totally different sections of the monitor in a sequence that felt proper. By transferring by way of and watching every brief, you’ll hear the total tune.”
Ratboys – ‘Penny within the Lake’
Forward of the discharge of their new album Singin’ to an Empty Chair, Ratboys have unleashed another single. Ever since I bought the advance of the report, ‘Penny within the Lake’ is a tune I preserve turning over in my head, particularly the “Child, you’re my Ringo Starr” lyric. Julia Steiner elaborates: “I wrote this tune on a sunny summer season 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 needed every little thing to really feel dwell and unfastened, and we selected to depart the ultimate recording as unadorned as doable. Chris [Walla] dubbed this strategy ‘photographic realism,’ and I really like to think about the tune that means, as a snapshot of our band in a room taking part in a tune collectively, dwelling within the second and having a good time.”
Buck Meek – ‘Ring of Fireplace’
Later this month, Huge Thief’ Buck Meek will launch his new album The Mirror, and at the moment 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 truthfully fits its lovingly tongue-in-cheek nature. Like each tune on the report, it options Adrianne Lenker on backup.
Bizarre Nightmare – ‘May See You There’
Alex Edkins, the Toronto frontman recognized for fronting METZ, is again with new music from his power-pop mission Bizarre Nightmare. Its sophomore LP, Hoopla, was co-produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno and arrives Could 1. Lead single ‘May See You There’ is extremely hooky, and Edkins had this to say about it:
‘May 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 at the moment’s extremely linked 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 associates. I discover it straightforward to romanticise that point in my life, although I used to be, with out query, a disgruntled child who badly needed to flee my environment and see the world.
I used to be listening to plenty of the Irish bands The Undertones and Protex whereas penning this one, and I believe there’s a good bit of their affect. Simply the simplicity and large bar chords largely.
Seth Manchester and I have 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 good Julianna Riolino sings with me on the choruses, too!
Alexis Taylor – ‘For a Toy’
Scorching Chip’s Alexis has previewed his upcoming solo LP Paris within the Spring with a twinkly, susceptible new tune referred to as ‘For a Toy’, which options vocals from Elizabeth Wight. “‘For a Toy; is about self-destructive habits – however 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} tune which shares a lyric with a robust grunge monitor by Neil Younger may sound this gorgeous. The refrain explodes in an surprising means with plenty of sonic bombast – so the tune 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 tune is caught repeatedly asking ‘why do I do that?’ Music itself is usually a plaything or toy you can get hooked on – as a lot because the songs will 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 tune to life.”
Koyo – ‘Irreversible’
Koyo have introduced a brand new LP, Barely Right here, which is ready 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 really 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 facility 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 won’t 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 at the moment 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 tune of scenes from two worlds,” the band stated of the sleek lead single. “Conversations together with your boss. Acute office mediocrity. Using house and consuming fish sticks with your folks. For UK audiences, a fish stick is a fish finger, ideally Alaskan-caught cod. The tune comes packaged in Fenceline, an album about conversations with outdated associates, 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.”
