Brighton seven-piece Soft Top drop "Your Aching Words" via Crafting Room Recordings. Conceptual chamber-indie with cello, clarinet and a fourth-wall-breaking ending. Andy Shauf, Matt Maltese, Steely Dan territory.
#SoftTop #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #CraftingRoomRecordings
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Stereolab's tour-only 7" finally hits streaming. "Cloud Land": six minutes of wormy synths and percussive breaks. B-side "Flashes In The Afternoon" is an easy-listening instrumental. On Duophonic UHF Disks.
#Stereolab #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #WarpRecords
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Kloyd makes her Anjunadeep debut with "New Love". Built from a distorted, reversed vocal sample. Soft piano into a hypnotic industrial beat. Four Tet and Massive Attack territory.
#Kloyd #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #Anjunadeep
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Arise is out today. "We Don't Belong" is the slow-burn psych highlight — that bassline needs headphones, full volume. Album spotlight coming soon.
#HeliconXAlLover #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #Helicon
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Fan Girl drop "Easy Now", first single from EP 8HRS (Apr 24). Written across Guadalajara, Paris & Melbourne. Self-produced. Breakbeats, trip-hop, atmospheric rock.
#FanGirl #BestNewMusic2026 #W07
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Chalk drop "Tongue", last single before debut LP Crystalpunk (Mar 13, ALTER Music). Tense, abrasive post-punk with industrial beats.
#Chalk #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #AlterMusic
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Anna Calvi enlists Iggy Pop for "God's Lonely Man", lead single from new EP Is This All There Is? (Domino, Mar 20). Furious guitars, raw defiance. #AnnaCalvi #IggyPop #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #DominoRecordingCo https://go.stereobar.net/uyh2n18

Flea covers Frank Ocean's "Thinkin Bout You" as a trumpet-led instrumental ballad. Third single from debut solo album Honora (Nonesuch, Mar 27). Strings by Nate Walcott, upright bass by Anna Butterss.
#Flea #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #NonesuchRecords
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Kim Gordon takes on AI and tech bros on "DIRTY TECH", second single from PLAY ME (Matador, Mar 13). Nervous trap beat, sarcastic delivery, zero chill.
#KimGordon #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #MatadorRecordsUk
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DC punks Ekko Astral announce sophomore LP the beltway is burning (April 22, Topshelf). Lead single: Lil Xan goes to DC to lobby for addiction legislation, gets eaten by K Street.
#EkkoAstral #BestNewMusic2026 #W07 #TopshelfRecords
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