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 Wednesday, April 29, 2026.
Cornelius – ‘Yumenemi’
Japanese composer Keigo Oyamada has returned with a new song by his project Cornelius. ‘Yumenemi’ is a cover of a classic Yosui Inoue song that dates back to 1989 and whose title roughly translates to “dreaming.” It marks a new chapter of Oyamada, who’s signed to Eat Your Own Ears after going viral on TikTok and being included in Rosalía’s Vogue playlist of all-time favourites.
Brutalismus 3000 – ‘I Bring My Gun To the Function’ [feat. Boyz Noise]
Brutalismus 3000 have enlisted Boyz Noise, hot on the heels of the Nine Inch Noize, for the abrasive, uproarious lead single of their new album. It’s called ‘I Bring My Gun To the Function’, and the LP, out June 26, is titled Ultrakunst. It also features Underworld, 100 gecs’ Dylan Brady, and even Anya Taylor-Joy.
Jura – ‘You Make a Fire, You Make a Camp’ [feat. ML Buch, Ydegirl, Clarissa Connelly, and Helene Due]
Jura, the project of Ani Liv Kampe, has assembled a remarkable lineup of avant-pop favs for the nine-minute new single ‘You Make a Fire, You Make a Camp’, enlisting ML Buch, Ydegirl, Clarissa Connelly, and Helene Due. It’s an intimately entracing track whose premise is described as such: “Far away from the continental war, and set on the freezing deserted island of South Georgia, Jura distills and discards the core elements of marooned-on-a-deserted-island tropes in a scenario in which five strangers, comfortable and safely isolated, are going to spend five years together without the classic elements of a survival scheme and explorer expeditions.”
The Menzingers – ‘Chance Encounters’
The Menzingers have announced their eighth album, Everything I Ever Saw, with the soaring new single ‘Chance Encounters’. “So much changed in our lives and in the world while we were making this record, and somehow, it all pulled us deeper into the band and deeper into our friendship,” guitarist Tom May said. “Twenty years in and this is the most connected we’ve felt to what we’re doing. I’d always heard “bigger kids, bigger problems,” and there’s truth in that, but there’s also bigger answers and deeper meaning. There’s a kind of hard-won hope you can only find on the other side of real change. In all the uncertainty of life and the world it’s easy to go straight to cynical. Easy to say fuck it all. With Everything I Ever Saw, we wanted to lean into all of it, head on. The whole damn thing.”
Finn Wolfhard – ‘I’ll Let You Finish’
Finn Wolfhard’s debut solo album, Happy Birthday, last June, but he’s already announced a new one. Fire From the Hip is out July 10. Made with Kai Slater of Lifeguard and Sharp Pins, the album was inspired by growing up “in such an incredible time for pop culture,” which can be heard on the new single ‘I’ll Let You Finish’.
Hyd – ‘Freak’
Hyd has released a euphoric new single, ‘Freak’, from the forthcoming album Hold Onto Me Infinity. It comes paired with a Kelly McCormack-directed video.
Ibibio Sound Machine – ‘Return to Sender’
Ibibio Sound Machine are back with an immediately vibrant new song called ‘Return to Sender’. According to press materials, the song is about a car accident in which singer Eno Williams felt the steering wheel jump out of her hand. “Reflecting on this afterwards, it felt, from the perspective of traditional Nigerian thinking, to be a spiritual attack by unseen forces,” Williams said. “The phrase ‘return to sender’ is a common response to such an event, invoking the rejection of any evil spirits that may have been looking to cause harm.”
lots of hands – ‘Grapevine’
lots of hands have unveiled a bleary, haunting new tune called ‘Grapevine’. Following their Fire Talk debut, into a pretty room, it sticks to the UK duo’s lo-fi origins. “I’m finding myself upstate/ I’m searching for a different time/ Drawing down a different line/ All coming down the grapevine,” Billy Woodhouse sings.
Kneecap – ‘Irish Goodbye’ [feat. Kae Tempest]
Kae Tempest has joined Kneecap for ‘Irish Goodbye’, the latest single ahead of the release of FENIAN on Friday, and a deeply affecting one at that. It comes paired with a 12-minute short film shot by Thomas James.
The Bug Club – ‘A Good Day for Dying’
The Bug Club have dropped a new single, ‘A Good Day for Dying’, which is punky and casually existential. It’s taken from their upcoming LP Every Single Muscle.
Cusk – ‘Blu Tac Piano’
Brooding and poignant, ‘Blu Tac Piano’ is the debut single by London’s Cusk. It marks their second release for The Bird, the label from Mita De and Black Country, New Road’s Charlie Wayne.
