There’s so much music coming out all the time that it’s hard to keep track. A particularly overwhelming day when the influx of new trucksg, we sift through the noise to bring you a carefully selected list of the most interesting new releases (the best of which will be added to our list) Best new songs playlist). Check out the track roundup for Tuesday, January 20, 2026 below.
Snail Mail – “Dead End”
Snail Mail’s first album since 2021 Valentine I’m on my way. Ricochet The song was recorded with mom Aaron Kobayashi Rich at Fidelitorium Recordings, and the producer and bassist’s fingerprints are all over lead single “Dead End.” That guitar riff shoots for the stars before the “nah nah nahs” rushes in. The whole song is great. “We shot the video for ‘Dead End’ in a random location in rural North Carolina between 5pm and 4am on the coldest night of my life,” Lindsey Jordan said of the music video she created with Elsie Richter. “The goal was to be inconspicuous with the fireworks, but someone called the police on us.”
Courtney Barnett – “Sight Unseen” [feat. Waxahatchee]
Courtney Barnett is back with news of her next album. creature of habitToday’s announcement comes in conjunction with the release of a new single, “Sight Unseen,” featuring harmony vocals from Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee. “We made three separate attempts over two years to track this song, and each time it either wasn’t finished or didn’t sound right, and each time we had to start from scratch,” Barnett explained. “I kept hearing this really high harmony in my head, so for the fourth and final version, I asked Katie if she could sing with me. I’m a huge Waxahatchee fan. I really love Katie’s songwriting and her voice, so it was an honor to have her sing it.” I can’t see the site”
Bill Callahan – “Stepping Out for Air”
It’s good to go outside and get some fresh air. Perhaps we should take advantage of this moment to do it. “Stepping Out for Air”: Good song. It was actually really good. This is the third single from Bill Callahan’s new album. My days at 58 years oldfollowed by “The Man I’m Supposed to Be” and “Lonely City.” “This is the song with the oldest origins on the album, but it wasn’t fully completed until just before the 58 sessions. The song existed in some form about 15 years ago when it was intended as part of a record I was planning to make with Jim White and Warren Ellis. With Cave touring, the logistics seemed impossible and that project evaporated. Maybe it’ll rain down on us someday. This song has been around for a long time and the world has come back to it with relevancy and it finally found a home on this record.”
Kat Clyde – “Another Time”
Canadian singer-songwriter Kat Clyde releases new album. mud blood boneswill be released on March 13th via Concord Records. Produced by Drew Vandenberg (Toro y Moi, Faye Webster, S.G. Goodman) and featuring co-writing with Courtney Marie Andrews, the record is led by the swinging “Another Time.” “While writing this song, I was thinking about my experiences with connection and intimacy, along with the reality that life is always moving and changing,” Clyde reflected. “I think about the power of hoarding and leaning on meaningful moments and memories. I think about how bittersweet beautiful moments can be, knowing that everything becomes a ripple in time. I wonder about different timelines – time is not linear. We have the power to shift ourselves and our reality into new timelines and different selves. This song speaks to sadness and the ever-evolving joy.”
Cardinals – “I Like You”
The Cardinals are preparing to release their debut album. masqueradewill be released within a month. Today, the Cork band have released the emotional ‘I Like You’, with frontman Ewan Manning saying: “This is the first song I wrote with an album in mind. After a very long period of not working on anything, I started working on it in my practice studio on a bright morning in February last year and finished it. After months of feeling a little lost, it was a moment of complete grounding and a catalytic moment. He added, “The first lyric is excerpted/paraphrased from a song called ‘My Funny Valentine.’ I don’t think Chet Baker wrote it, but that’s the version we know.”
Horsepower – “Force Quit”
Horsepower, the project of Brooklyn-based musician Charlotte Weinman, has released a new song co-produced with Ruben Radlauer of Model/Actlyz. But don’t expect “Force Quit” to sound like Lalauer’s band. It’s much closer to the fork that Charlotte’s brother Noah Weinman makes as a runner, silently, that is, silently until it explodes. This song follows the previous single “Flute”. “If ‘The Flute’ is a story of striving for peace, ‘Forced Termination’ is a story of exhausted surrender,” Weinman explained. “I wanted to develop the song carefully at first and then let it completely unravel. When it was time to unravel, I had a lot of fun building this giant wall of guitars. I would scream into the pickups, I would scream into the mic I had on the amp, I would scream into the vocal mic, and I would squeeze it all into the final section.”
Liz Cooper – “Baby Steps”
‘Baby Steps’ is ‘the start of a new day for me’, says Liz Cooper of lovely new single from upcoming album new day. “I wanted this to be the last song on the record as a sort of hopeful sendoff because I was falling in love through heartbreak over and over again. All the songs and stories are connected to this song.”
Immaterialize – “Everything But Myself” [feat. Fire-Toolz]
Immaterialize, the Chicago-based dream-pop duo consisting of Lipsticism (aka Alana Schachtel) and DJ Immaterial (aka Erik Fure), is releasing their debut album. perfection This Friday. The final single, the mesmerizing “Everything But Myself,” features Fire-Toolz, who mastered the LP. The phrase “I shared everything but myself” is the kind of hook that gets stuck in your head.
Telescreen – “The Preacher”
New York’s Telescreens has released an evocative new single, “Preacher,” with a video directed by Jack Cohen. “‘Preacher’ is about the debauchery that we as a society worship,” frontman Jackson Hamm said in a statement. “We build people up as heroes, symbols, and masters of culture, only to enjoy the spectacle of their downfall. This song is about being a dancing monkey, the dark nature of addiction, the highs that come from the spotlight and the lows that follow. And all the while they call you a preacher.”
Jackie West – “Course of Action”
Jackie West releases heartfelt, sneakily propulsive new single ‘Course of Action’ from upcoming album silent century. The record will be released by Ruination Record Co. on February 27th.
Hen Ogred – “Clara”
Hen Ogred have released the second single from their upcoming album, ‘Clara’. discombobute. The idyllic and whimsical track features Will Guthrie (drums, percussion), Faye McCalman (saxophone, clarinet), Chris Watson (horse snort recording), Laura Phillips (projector recording), and includes sleigh bells courtesy of Dawn Boswell.
Source: Our Culture – ourculturemag.com
