Best New Music – Week 16, APRIL 17 2026
- h-music8
- May 11
- 2 min read
Updated: 1 day ago
Another week, another selection of the best new releases across indie, alternative, jazz, electronic and beyond — new music handpicked for open-minded listeners. With TOMORA, Lucy Liyou, Nine Inch Nails, Sean Solomon...
COME CLOSER by TOMORA, AURORA, The Chemical Brothers
Electronic / psychedelic / art pop
Otherworldly, euphoric, genre-spanning
MR COBRA by Lucy Liyou
Via Orange Milk Records
Free jazz / Musique concrète / experimental pop
Visceral, fractured, darkly funny
Nine Inch Noize by Nine Inch Nails, Boys Noize
Via Interscope Records
Electro-industrial / industrial techno
Brutal, feral, dancefloor-ready
The World Is Not Good Enough by Sean Solomon
Via ANTI- RECORDS
Indie folk / singer-songwriter
Confessional, intimate, bittersweet, disarming
horseshoe by beaming
Via Rose Garden
Indie pop / dream pop / folk / rock
Playful, bittersweet, infectious
Nude descending staircaise headless by teen suicide
Via Run For Cover Records
Indie rock / sludge / experimental rock
Sludgy, cathartic, ambitious
Fidelity by yaya bey
Via drink sum wtr
R&B / soul
Soulful, introspective, timeless
True Bypass by Manual
Via Darla Records
Electronica / ambient / IDM
Warm, glitchy, contemplative
Something is a shell (EP) by Sofia Isella
Alt-pop / experimental / industrial
Fierce, unsettling, feminist, unflinching
The Nightlife by Honey Dijon
Via SOS / Blacktopia
House / electronic / soul
Sleek, groovy, soulful, club-ready
Younge by Adrian Younge
Via Linear Labs
Soul / orchestral funk / cinematic jazz
Cinematic, soulful, vintage-tinged
Little Miss Sunshine by Eaves Wilder
Via Secretly Canadian
Indie pop / Indie rock
Bright, witty, guitar-driven, youthful
The Stories of Paper Planets by Dionisaf
Via Chitra Records
Ambient / drone / field recordings / soundscapes
Atmospheric, textured, fragile, introspective
All picks are featured in this playlist
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