There’s a lot music popping out on a regular basis that it’s exhausting to maintain observe. On these days when the inflow of recent tracks is especially overwhelming, we sift via the noise to carry you a curated checklist of essentially the most attention-grabbing new releases (the perfect of which will likely be added to our Finest New Songs playlist). Under, take a look at our observe roundup for Monday, March 16, 2026.
Loss of life Cab for Cutie – ‘Riptides’
“‘Riptides’ is in regards to the problem of coping with private struggles because the world round us experiences tragedy and loss on an unfathomable scale,” Ben Gibbard mentioned in an announcement about Loss of life Cab for Cutie’s new single, which leads their upcoming album, I Constructed You a Tower. “And the way when these two parts intertwine themselves in our psyches, it feels totally paralyzing.” It’s driving and progressively disorienting, with Gibbard singing, “I’m too drained to cease/ I can’t carry you on top of things/ There’s too many riptides on 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 wonderful 2025 album Trash Mountain, and it means that no matter Seabird has on the horizon is lusher and extra exuberant, whilst the brand new single leans on “the darkish facet, most likely a symptom of hysteria or melancholy.” Seabird went on, “The start of the tune I discuss this eager for freedom. Whether or not it’s freedom from the demon or letting the demon be free, I’m probably not certain, however by the top the music is meant to embody that.”
Gladie – ‘I Need That for You’
Gladie’s killer new album No Have to Be Lonely is out this Friday, and at this time they’ve dropped one other single from it. ‘I Wnat That for You’ provides the document its title; “It’s the final tune we wrote for the document and form of encapsulates to me the entire message of No Have to Be Lonely,” Augusta Koch defined. “It got here from a dialog with a beloved buddy that was having a tough time. We had been speaking about the way it’s unusual and tough to be a human generally. I usually take into consideration how simple it’s to see the sweetness and fantastic qualities in another person however how exhausting it’s to use that very same like to your self. ‘I Need That for You’ is principally about encouragement and wanting everybody to stay round, even when it’s actually exhausting, together with ourselves.”
Anna Calvi – ‘Is This All There Is?’ [feat. Matt Berninger]
Forward of the discharge of her new duets EP Is This All There Is? on Friday, Anna Calvi has unveiled the title observe. Following collabs with Fragrance Genius and Iggy Pop, she’s teamed up with the Nationwide chief Matt Berninger for an expansive ballad that’s “in regards to the bravery it takes to hope,” in Calvi’s phrases. “It’s the willingness to ask questions, even when understanding you’ll by no means get a definitive reply…The tone of Matt’s voice has such an epic, virtually historic high quality to it, which felt excellent for a tune asking such a giant existential query. We’re each trying to find solutions — collectively and but one way or the other all the time aside, which I discover lovely. He brings an intimacy to the tune that I couldn’t have imagined.”
Bloodworm – ‘Alone In Your Backyard’
Nottingham’s Bloodworm have shared a brooding, frosty new observe, ‘Alone In Your Backyard’. “This tune was written throughout Autumn over a very chilly couple of days,” frontman George Curtis defined. “I used to be impressed by the very distinctive feeling of that point of 12 months, the scent of the air, the falling leaves, the damp stillness that every one feels so particularly English. I used to be making an attempt to invoke these emotions inside a tune. The tune was an try at mixing outdated English people, with all its folklore and emphasis on tales, with the gothic sound that I’m drawn to.”
Truthpaste – ‘Bus Track’
Truthpaste, a bunch of 5 multi-instrumentalists, have shared the mesmerizing ‘Bus Track’ through Soiled Hit/Memorials of Distinction. The band’s Esme described it as our emo rock tune. It’s one other facet to Truthpaste that its time folks heard outdoors our reside set. We don’t stick to 1 factor, if it sounds good we’ll do it.” Euan added: “This tune was knocking round my head for a few weeks, it wasn’t till we obtained collectively as a band and determined to make it a duet that it actually began to really feel prefer it has come to be.”
