Ezra Collective announce fourth album Here Because of Hope (Sep 18, Partisan) with "Only Love", a West African-rooted collab with Pa Salieu built on Femi Koleoso's Gambian-inspired bassline. https://go.stereobar.net/inzpddr
#BestNewMusic2026 #Week22 #EzraCollective #PartisanRecords

Kristin Hersh announces 12th solo album Sugar on Blackstone (Sep 18, Fire Records) with "Dark Eyed Junco", a stark and personal single about her brother and a childhood home that stopped being one. https://go.stereobar.net/12fp4bk
#BestNewMusic2026 #Week22 #KristinHersh #FireRecords

Gilla Band are back with "Giraffe", first new music in four years: noise rock opening, abrupt pivot into a skittering beat-driven breakdown halfway through. Out now on Rough Trade. https://go.stereobar.net/ypk9swq
#BestNewMusic2026 #Week22 #GillaBand #RoughTradeRecordsUk

KNEECAP bring in Killer Mike for a new version of "Smugglers & Scholars" from their number one album FENIAN. Transatlantic solidarity, dark bass-heavy production, and a verse that fits like it was always there. https://go.stereobar.net/ipeqvcv
#BestNewMusic2026 #Week22 #Kneecap #HeavenlyRecordings

Pip Blom revisits "Hours", the very first song they ever released, for PB10, a tenth anniversary project collecting four re-recorded catalogue tracks. https://go.stereobar.net/ptevhgk
#BestNewMusic2026 #Week22 #PipBlom #ToasterRecords

Grace Cummings announces fourth album Bloodhorse! (Aug 14, ATO) with lead single "My God", a piano track recorded while she had pneumonia, about the dark forces we scroll through every day. https://go.stereobar.net/jfmwhi9
#BestNewMusic2026 #Week22 #GraceCummings #Ato

Cornelius recruits Sean Ono Lennon for "Aeons", first single from new album Refractions (Aug 19, Eat Your Own Ears). https://go.stereobar.net/6tphc29
#BestNewMusic2026 #Week22 #CorneliusSeanOnoLennon #Cornelius

Brooklyn six-piece TVOD announce sophomore album The Farm (Oct 16, Mothland) with "Rerun", a burnout anthem built on stubborn bass and twitching guitars. https://go.stereobar.net/j37f5l2
#BestNewMusic2026 #Week22 #Tvod #Mothland

Fontaines D.C.'s Carlos O'Connell and Tom Coll flip "catch these fists" into something darker and seedier on this FDC DJs remix, out ahead of moisturizer (deluxe) on July 10. https://go.stereobar.net/r0i9o8u
#BestNewMusic2026 #Week22 #WetLeg #DominoRecordingCo

Cheekface opt out of the economy, the workplace, and the war machine on "I Don't Work Here", the fourth Podium single. https://go.stereobar.net/d1lu1st
#BestNewMusic2026 #Week22 #Cheekface