Album: Empired – Strikes Back
A couple years after their debut and with the world at least twenty times worse, Empired return with an album speaking more truth to power than ever before.
Will Sisskind
Single: Honey I’m Home – Pretty
The Dutch punkers press on the shoegaze and ’90s grunge in a send-up to “prettiness” as a replacement for personality.
Single: Viruette – SWAYA
“Red-blooded” funky indie from Boston-based trans-Atlantic rockers gets the blood pumping ahead of their new album.
Single: Onesie – Meetcha at Minnies (The Captain’s Song)
A harrowing hostage tale from Ben Haberland’s history gets set to sensational song in the Brooklyn band’s first single from their upcoming album.
Single: Sunkicker – Deeper Water
Summery and somewhat vintage, the second track from Australia’s Sunkicker takes a dip into the waters of healing.
Album: Kvisa – A Pathetic Excuse For A Feeling
Kvisa, in Hebrew – כביסה – means “laundry” or “washing”. I did not know that
Single: HANK – maybe
Chill out with bedroom pop from Hong Kong that finds peace with the current moment.
Album: Bleak Streak – Peak Bleak
Sweden’s Bleak Streak rave on about the lowest lows of life with punk rhythms written to raise your spirits, regardless of the lyrics.
Single: Desk Job. – Maybe Someday
Through processing grief, NYC’s alt-punk outfit Desk Job. have created a triumphant tribute.
Album: The Pretty Flowers – Never Felt Bitter
The Pretty Flowers’ third album uses the ideas of space and community to produce a big sound, one more massive than the sum of its parts.
Album: SSAANN – Higher
The Milwaukee dream gaze band’s debut album sequences lush synths into a symphony for introspection.
Single: Madeleine Rose – Strangers
In her return to recording music, Madeleine Rose reconnects with her voice and herself on her “debut” single
EP: Against The Voices – HAPP-EP
Against The Voices’ new EP is a musical Trojan horse, wrapping unsettling subject matter in inviting indie-pop warmth.
Album: Mindy Gledhill – The Phone Booth Sessions, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
On Vol. 2 of The Phone Booth Sessions, Mindy Gledhill continues her talks with her inner adolescent, weaving the edges and roughness of her younger days into her music.
Single: group therapy – little warning
Toronto’s group therapy channels holding back the pain of being inauthentic to survive in their first single of 2026.
Single: Vesuvian – Cassandra (The Ox Is On My Tongue)
Blending classic mythology with indie punk vibes, Vesuvian returns with the first track from their upcoming self-titled album
Single: Color Palette – Barcelona
Color Palette’s dreamy sound on their newest single sounds like the romantic escape of its lyrics.
Single: Sun Salon – Air on a Minute
Folks, we here at Start-Track write a lot about music you should listen to. But
Album: Elly Kace – The Seventh Gate
Elly Kace brings us ten new “sound medicine songs” for healing and release from the world’s many trappings.
Single: Against The Voices – Fake Happiness
On their first single from the upcoming HAPP-EP, Against The Voices boldly urge listeners to be happy with not being happy.