Nine new releases land June 22, 2026 listening

From queercore punctures to existential anthems, June 22, 2026 brings nine new songs and fresh albums: Team Dresch, Sam and Louise Sullivan, Wild Pink, Dari Bay, Angèle, BODEGA, Parts & Labor, Elephant Gym, and Margo Mann.

On June 22, 2026, the hardest part isn’t the listening. It’s deciding where to start.

Team Dresch return with ‘One Song’—a new full-length titled Furthermore arriving September 18 via Jealous Butcher Records. thirty years after their last album. Kaia Wilson sings and plays guitar in a record she describes as “lungs full of grief expelling. eyes and guts wide open. ” moving through metal-flange-goth-grunge-punk-ass-rock-and-roll and “Donna Dresch’s soaring guitaring” before the band’s own layers lock into place. About the track itself. Team Dresch call it “a love song to our young selves from our present selves. ” with hope and power aimed at “all the young queers who are dragged into the struggle. ” and also a message for elders who built defenses through “years of working and caretaking and being pounded by life.”.

If you want something that feels built for late-night headphones. Sam and Louise Sullivan offer ‘Down on Love’—the lead single from their new album Love & Devotion. out July 24 via Historic New Jersey. Louise Sullivan frames it as “one of our wonky attempts at pop music. ” aiming for “a down-the-middle love song” before ending up with “a manic. chromatic. folk-rock thing.” The band’s process got specific: Sam Sullivan says Sam was in a phase insisting that Kevin record “two drum takes on top of a drum machine for every song. ” and that Emily Moales sings backups. Even the riff comes with a story—Sam calls it “a misremembered beat from a rap song that was popular circa 2012.”.

Wild Pink keeps the opener mood going with ‘Box Store,’ a harmonica-led track that was among the last songs John Ross wrote for the upcoming Wild Pink LP Still Coming Down. Ross says it “kind of reminded me of Warren Zevon,” so he “leaned into that direction with it.”

Then Dari Bay turns the volume into a kind of permission slip. ‘On Your Side’ is the radiant new single from his imminent Dari Bay LP Surprise Wish. and Zack James calls it “like a ‘welcome to the real world’ moment spun positively.” He describes it as freeing rather than a harsh wake up call. with a “touch grass” message—an antidote to getting attached to things on the internet that “have no real place in your life. ” or feeling “paralyzed by endless content.” When he reaches that point. James says. “I have to go outside and walk around for a while. ” and he’s trying “to prioritize the real world every day.”.

Angèle goes in the opposite emotional direction—more inward, but louder about what it asks from you. The Belgian pop singer has announced a new album, INSTINCT, and shared the pulsating new single ‘Dis-le’. Angèle explains that the song is “an invitation to give voice to our inner thoughts. ” and that it urges listeners to “break the silence. ” “free ourselves. ” and “boldly affirm our individual identity.”.

BODEGA, meanwhile, frames joy as something you can hold even when it turns existential. The New York City quartet has announced their fourth album. All Inside Aquarium—out October 9—and shared the title track. ‘All Inside Aquarium. ’ described as “a soaring rocker” that manages to be “no less fun than it is existential.” Guitarist/vocalist Ben Hozie calls it “an attempt at an existential anthem. ” where pain—after it subsides—can bring you closer to “a beatific perspective. ” and where the dichotomy disappears into a sense that “all is connected.” He adds that “nobody can really mess with your head except yourself when you take responsibility for your reality.”.

Parts & Labor arrive with abrasion, and they don’t soften it. ‘Seamripper’ is another abrasive preview of Set of All Sets, their first new album in 15 years. The riff is “so beefy and distorted. ” Dan Friel says. that it’s “probably Parts & Labor’s heaviest song.” With two drummers and Chris Weingarten back in the band. Friel says he was excited to do something inspired by Melvins/Big Business albums—but “the sludgy dungeon synth riff became something else entirely.” He insists. “I don’t think it sounds much like anything else we’ve done. ” and adds that he likes to think it “doesn’t sound much like anyone else either.”.

On the experimental end of the spectrum, Elephant Gym brings ‘Highway,’ a dynamically liminal standalone single via Topshelf. The experimental trio formed in 2012 in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, weaves together jazz, electronic, and classical music. In their reflection. they talk to anyone “on the road—whether walking. driving. or riding a high-speed train. ” where passing scenery becomes a reminder: “we are growing. and also dying; that we are setting out. and slowly making our way home.”.

Finally, Margo Mann offers ‘Shapeshifter’—a stirring new single from Naarm/Melbourne songwriter Margo Mann. Mann frames the song in terms of intimacy and risk. saying. “True intimacy lies in seeing and being seen. ” and warning that avoiding that risk can turn life into “one long and lonely performance act.” ‘Shapeshifter’ is described as charting “the process of someone waking up from this conditioning. ” while still being “not yet fully disentangled from it either.”.

The day’s releases don’t just pile up; they rhyme with each other in tone. Grief and hope in Team Dresch’s queercore circuitry. pop awkwardness and obsessive craft in Sam and Louise Sullivan. and the talk of real-world attention in Dari Bay all land beside songs that treat identity as a daily decision—Angèle affirming individuality. BODEGA staking out responsibility. and Margo Mann describing the slow break from conditioning.

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