17 New Songs Out Today to Listen To: L’Rain, The Tallest Man on Earth, and More – Our Culture

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 Tuesday, August 11, 2026.

L’Rain – ‘elymra’

Ahead of the release of her new album fata morgana this Friday (August 14), L’Rain has unveiled another transfixing single, ‘elmyra’. Cascading around the refrain “All teeth when I see you,” it comes paired with a video choreographed by Elliot Reed and directed by Andy Swartz, starring dancers Coco Villa and Maleek Slade.

The Tallest Man on Earth – ‘Deliver Me From Trying’

The Tallest Man on Earth has announced a new album, Just Beyond Endless Mountain, arriving October 9 via Anti-. Along with the news, he’s shared ‘Deliver Me From Trying’, alongside a video shot in the Swedish countryside. “Somewhere along the way I’d developed this immature aversion to the whole cultural inheritance I grew up with,” Kristian Mattson reflected. “But now I live here again. I’ve read an incredible amount—not just about the music, but about how people actually lived in the old days. I think that’s part of why this record feels more like me than anything I’ve made before. This album really comes from somewhere.”

Caroline Rose – ‘Chow Mein’

Caroline Rose has announced a new album titled Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall, which lands on October 23. Produced by John Congleton, it’s led by the wonky, propulsive single ‘Chow Mein’, about which Rose said: “A lot of my songs I think of as scenes in a movie. I relate to characters who are a little strange, who are outsiders, who seem to fuck up a lot or find themselves in awkward situations. Most of these stories are just pulled directly from scenes in my own life, so the character is basically always some version of myself. This is a story about trying too hard to be cool and act normal, but everything is going wrong.”

Shabazz Palaces – ‘Ahh World (I Won the Alpha Bet)’

Ishmael Butler has announced a new Shabazz Palaces album, It’s a Style Sport, which is slated for release on October 23 through Sub Pop. Following the mini-albums Exotic Birds of Prey and Robed in Rareness, it’s led by the meditative single ‘Ahh World (I Won the Alpha Bet)’.

Slow Pulp – ‘Still’

Slow Pulp have shared ‘Spill’, the final single from their upcoming album, Melodie. Following the piano ballad ‘Not for Nothing’ and the infectious ‘Better Man’, it strikes a kind of middle ground, and was actually the first song written while the Chicago-based band was working on 2023’s Yard. “Once we started working on Melodie it felt like a song that could live within the world we were building, so it made it onto the album,” Emily Massey explained, adding: “The song itself is about feeling stuck in a pattern of casual relationships that felt they had some barrier to expressing real love. It’s that delicate dance where you wait for someone else to take the leap. Too afraid to say it too soon but also too afraid to say it too late, waiting to see how it will all play out.”

Chat Pile – ‘Same Rules’

‘Same Rules’ is a haunting preview of Chat Pile’s forthcoming LP Who Loves the Sun, if not quite as heavy as earlier cuts. Bassist Stin described it as “first real Chat Pile song mostly recorded on 4-track cassette. Ray B. had given us the challenge to write a trip hop song and this is what we came up with. Unfortunately he’s rejected ‘Same Rules’ from the challenge as he claims it’s not trip hop at all and that we have to try again. Perhaps we’ll get it right next time.”

Jess Williamson – ‘Tracking the Tropics’

Jess Williamson has previewed her upcoming album A Mile South of Heaven with a gorgeously poignant track called ‘Tracking the Tropics’. “I was in a situation where my confidence had really taken a hit, and all I wanted to do was get in my car, drive as far away as I could, and be back at this one particular little honky-tonk bar in East Austin where I spent so many weekends with my friends throughout my twenties before I moved away (the bar is still there, shout out to The White Horse),” the singer-songwriter explained. “It’s a song about wanting to escape, and longing for a simpler time and for the people and places that make you feel truly known and accepted.”

Fenne Lily – ‘Sleeping’

“I say what I mean and am a little bit mean in the process; it’s a thoughtful rage,” Fenne Lily said, reflecting on her new single ‘Sleeping’, which wastes no time getting in a contemplative groove. It’s the latest offering from Win Win, which arrives October 23 via Nettwerk Music Group.

Lael Neale – ‘Slip Away’

Lael Neale has released three compelling records for Sub Pop in recent years, but her latest, As Killers Do, will be self-released under her new imprint, Consensual Sound, on November 20. The reliably hypnagogic lead single ‘Slip Away’ is out now, alongside a homemade stop motion video.

Anxious – ‘Don’t Move’

Anxious are back with a new single, ‘Don’t Move’, just in time for their North American tour supporting Citizen. It’s an anthemic tune that could have easily landed on last year’s Bambi. “This song is about a relationship that defined my early twenties falling apart – then trying and failing to rebuild it,” vocalist Grady Allen. “It’s about disengaging with reality in hopes of reclaiming the bond you’ve lost with someone, but never feeling truly close in the process. ‘Don’t Move’ is about knowing that feeling, but trying to ignore it in the hope that things will change.”

“This song was the first song from a group of tracks I started writing at the end of last summer,” he added. “There were no expectations for a record, or for a cohesive idea of what that would mean – it just felt like there was a lot of space for ‘let’s just put together whatever comes naturally and see what happens.’ The bridge for this song came first and I was trying to channel some of the atmospheric building action that happens a lot on the B-side of Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity. I was also super inspired by Armlock, probably my favorite new band of the last several years. Their layered acoustic guitars and vocals was something I was trying to pull off on the bridge.”

Death Valley Girls – ‘Message From the Venus Flower’

Death Valley Girls’s newly announced album, Welcome to Earth, was inspired by the devastating wildfires that destroyed lead singer Bonnie Bloomgarden’s home in Altadena. It’s out October 9 via Suicide Squeeze, and the rambunctious first single, ‘Message From the Venus Flower’, is out now. “After the fire, Tommy, my best friend and dog, was not the same,” Bloomgarden explained. “I didn’t bring her medicine when we evacuated cause I didn’t bring anything, even my phone or car. My landlord, who lived in the house in front, drove us to her friend’s house, and it was weeks before we could go back. And when we could go back, everything was destroyed. I wasn’t sure if she was hurting because she wasn’t on her medicine, or if she was scared, or if she didn’t know why we left our home and was mad at me! Previously, we had done sessions with Animal Communicator Amy Wild, and they really helped. They had a session a month or so after the fire, and Tommy tried to tell me that her body didn’t matter, our connection was eternal, because we were eternal souls that reincarnate and meet up in many lifetimes, and moreover, we are always connected and together.”

“The illusion of separation is a very earthly human concept,” she continued. “I told her I don’t care about our souls, I just wanted to know if her body was ok!! Less than a year later, she left her body. I was broken. I had officially lost everything to 2025. After lying in bed wallowing, I decided I needed to try some life. I went on our normal walk and passed by a flower, a butterfly pea (Venus flower.) As I stood there, the flower sent me a message like a lightning bolt to my brain! In an instant the flower shared with me what Tommy had been trying to explain! The flower explained it: IS Tommy. Everything I love is Tommy, because love isn’t just something you feel, share, or do; love is more like a dimension! anything that gives me the feeling I get when I think of Tommy IS her. Because love isn’t just something you feel, share, or do, love is more like a dimension! And you tap into it, or remember often most easily through a physical manifestation like Tommy!”

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard h- ‘Kill for the Steel’

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have dropped ‘Kill for the Steel’, another taste of their upcoming techno album Alien Metal. It follows ‘Level 5’ and the title track.

Axis: Sova – ‘Blow Up’

Axis: Sova – the trio of Brett Sova, Jeremy Freeze, and Josh Johannpeter – have announced a new LP, Flowerage – out October 23 via Ty Segall’s Drag City imprint GOD? Records – and dropped the driving lead single ‘Blow Up’. It comes paired with a video from director Sean Pierce.

Everything Is Recorded – ‘Cut Off Your Nose’

Everything Is Recorded will release a new EP, Cut Off Your Nose, this Friday via XL Recordings. Peter Gabriel joins producer Richard Russell on the record, which also features appearances from Jah Wobble, Roses Gabor, Samantha Morton, Rian Brazil, and  IDK. “Jah Wobble’s bass has been a foundation of so much music I love. he’s an incredible collaborator, a musical hero who’s a joy to work with – so much knowledge and humour,” Russell said, commenting on new single ‘Cuff Off Your Nose’. “For ‘Cut Off Your Nose’ we talked about him being the vocalist as well as the bassist, and he didn’t hesitate. Same conviction, same weight.”

Wobble added: “Working with Richard has been like a breath of fresh air for me. His sessions are always fun, imaginative and idiosyncratic. The way he works is reminiscent of the great Holger Czukay. He understands the importance of ‘the moment’. He’s unpredictable. That’s a pretty rare quality in itself.”

Telemakus – ‘2054’ [feat. Karriem Riggins, Chino Corvalán]

Bay Area artist Telemakus has announced a new album, Eight Ring Revival, which features Flying Lotus, Liv.e, Karriem Riggins (of GENA), Sparklmami, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Nicole McCabe, and more. It’s out October 20, and ‘2054’, and the slinky instrumental ‘2054’, featuring drummer Karriem Riggins and multi-instrumentalist Chino Corvalán, is out now. “Eight silver rings curl around my finger joints. They sleep with me, eat with me, play with me,” Telemakus remarked. “My doctor gave them to me to keep my fingers from hyperextending after I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. After releasing my previous project in 2021, I didn’t realize it would be the last record I made with my hands as I once knew them. One night during a flare, I called a friend in Paraguay and began building a song by asking for single notes, then chords, then structures. From there, a collective process formed: collaborators became extensions of my own expression. I later discovered I could also compose with my feet, developing pieces on a pillow, using toes and ankles to trigger harmony in ways that felt unexpectedly fluid. Recovery came in stages, shaped by clinics, collaborators, and unexpected mentors. What began as limitation turned into method on this album. Songs built across distance, through memory, dreams, and digital space.”

Queen of Jeans – ‘Sweet Devotion’

Queen of Jeans released have announced that their new LP, hard/SWEET, will arrive on October 9. The follow-up to 2024’s All Again was produced and engineered by Justin Bartlett. “We all have the ability to be hard or put up a wall,” the band said. “But we also share the vulnerability of waiting for someone to truly know us and break through.” The heartwarming lead single ‘Sweet Devotion’ is out now.

Grace Cummings – ‘Bloodhorse!’

“‘Bloodhorse’ is an archaic term thoroughbred racehorse that is expected to win,” Grace Cummings explained. “They’re extremely temperamental, full of anxious energy. They are powerful, and sometimes frightening, but they are also extremely vulnerable. When I go to sleep at night, I don’t rest. My eyes are shut but it’s like I’m waiting in the stalls, waiting, waiting. My dreams are full of nightmares. Nothing is calm. And as soon as I open my eyes, I start fucking running.”

‘Bloodhorse!’ is the title track of Cummings’ forthcoming LP, which arrives on Friday. “The lyrics to this song were inspired by a visit to a beauty clinic,” she continued. “I went for a facial, which was a gift to myself for my birthday, but the clinician gave me a mirror and told me to look in it and tell me what I didn’t like about myself. Everything, I thought, I hate everything. But I told him I didn’t like the way my brow was furrowed. He said to me: Grace, nobody needs to frown. He gave me botox, to take the frown away. I hated myself, but at least I’d look happier. I’d be a winner. But the thing is, I couldn’t move my face for the next three months.  When I felt something, it couldn’t come out, it felt trapped inside my face like so many other things trapped inside my head. When I cried, I couldn’t feel it come out of my body. And I hated it.”