“2am” is one of those tracks that keeps changing shape as it goes. Gianna spends its quieter moments floating over little more than piano, before Latham suddenly pushes the song somewhere completely different with bursts of oversized breakbeats. Across its five and a half minutes, “2am” moves freely between balladry, trip hop and hazy club music. At one point, it feels like it might explode into something anthemic, but instead it goes in the opposite direction, settling into something more intimate and levitating. It also comes with a visualizer, which you can watch below.

Her first full length, Greatest Swamp Hits, arrives October 2 via 10K Projects. The record pairs ethereal electronic production with the darker atmosphere of the landscapes she grew up around. There is also a more academic side to the project: Talgø’s current research looks at the role nostalgia plays in contemporary music production, something that naturally feeds into music already interested in memory, atmosphere and blurred digital textures.

Alongside the announcement, lene 3000 has shared the album’s lead single, “Lights Off”. The track moves between eerie ambience and pulsing club breakbeats and pushes her sound into something both ghostly and surprisingly physical. It arrives with a video directed by Charlotte Dion, which starts as a tea party in the middle of a forest before turning into something totally surreal. Watch below, and stream “Lights Off” in our Forecast Tape playlist alongside the most notable releases from the past few days.

Now “sw33t” gets a second life as “so sw33t”, featuring one of our favourite artists, the very in-demand Nourished By Time. Marcus Brown slips into the track with a brand new verse about the lingering pull of love, his smooth, slightly bruised delivery fitting surprisingly naturally into DJ Suzy’s sparkling pop production. “I absolutely love what Marcus added to this song. His melodies are incredible, and he’s such an amazing artist. He brought something really special to it,” Suzy says. Brown was equally taken with the original: “Sweet is really deceptive complex pop song that really struck me melodically and harmonically. I’m excited for people to hear much more DJ Suzy.” And so are we.

For now, this new version isn’t featured on the Kira Krash tracklist, although who knows, maybe a deluxe or expanded edition is somewhere down the line.

Listen/support to “so sw33t” below, and you can also stream the song in our Forecast Tape playlist on Spotify, alongside the most notable releases from the past few days.

Executive produced by 100 gecs’ Dylan Brady and made between Los Angeles and Lebanon, the nine track project brings together the different sides of Thoom’s music without trying to separate them. “I would be lying to my listeners if I tried to separate what seems the most natural to me,” she says. “The contradiction is the point.” She describes the mixtape as “part diary, part mythology” and as “messy, pop, Arabic, experimental, and unapologetic.”

The project closes with “I’m Going Back To Lebanon”, one of its strongest tracks and a song that made it into our Best Songs of 2026 playlist. Produced by Dylan Brady, Frost Children, Spencer Light and Count Baldor, it looks at the idea of going home when home itself can feel uncertain. “Did the summer end? / Is it war again? / Am I going back to Lebanon?” she asks in the chorus, mixing questions about a relationship with her own experience of living between Lebanon and the US. This is clearly a bop, and good news, it now comes with a video directed by Neve Abcari.

Shygirl describes Swallow! as a reintroduction, one shaped by falling in love and entering a new chapter of her life after Nymph. Written across loose, unhurried sessions with Karma Kid and Casey MQ, the record brings indie songwriting into the electronic world she has built over the years, without abandoning the latter completely. She first opened the door to this new era with “Alyse”, a surprisingly cinematic track that already suggested something softer, grander and more romantic was taking shape.

With “Lucky (hymn)”, the contours of Swallow! come into sharper focus. Choral voices and piercing flashes of violin give the track a sweeping, almost devotional quality, while Shygirl zooms in on the tiny details that suddenly become enormous when you start falling for someone, from the crease around their eyes to the corner of a smile or the sound of a sigh. Alongside “Alyse”, the single seems to confirm a real change in palette, with Shygirl drawing from 90s indie and leaning into a more cinematic and orchestral kind of songwriting.

“Lucky (hymn)” also arrives with a video co directed by Shygirl and Austen Taylor Pease, filmed in one continuous take. It expands the visual universe introduced with “Alyse”, moving between Shygirl as Alyse and a new character called Kay, both tied up and beaten inside an otherwise ordinary kitchen. Watch below.

Her first full length is called The Greatest Album Of All Time, which is a pretty fun title for album number one, and it arrives October 16 through A24 Music. Stel produced the record herself, and the songs released so far suggest she is leaning further into the tension that already made her earlier work interesting: big, emotional club music on one side, quieter and more inward looking writing on the other. “Bitches Talk Shit”, “Molly In the Club” and “Now I’ve Got A Lot You Know” have each shown a slightly different version of that world, moving between rave euphoria, intimacy and a certain detached coolness. “The album is about believing in yourself and believing in love and is dedicated to my brothers Luke and Royce,” Stel says.

The brand new single, “I Do”, also plays on that contrast. The track has the rush of trance music, but Stel sings through it with a much softer presence, her voice processed and weightless rather than pushed to the front. Directed by Stel’s close friend Scarlet Ross, the accompanying video takes a similarly restrained approach. Stel wanders around New York, stopping by the Diamond District and casually looking at jewellery rather than giving us the obvious club fantasy the song could easily invite. In conclusion: “I Do” is a banger. Watch the video below, or stream the song in our Best Songs of 2026 playlist.

Our favourite song on the record is “Wasp In the Fig,” a gorgeous track that now has a suitably surreal video. Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, the visual follows Eartheater across the earth and through the sky on horseback. Eventually, rider and animal merge and she becomes a centaur. The opening and closing scenes were filmed above Drewchin’s country property in Pennsylvania, which gives the cosmic imagery a connection to the landscape around her home.

For Huang, the idea began with the song’s title and the unusual reproductive life cycle it evokes. “When I first heard ‘Wasp in the Fig’ I was so moved by the urgency of the song and was inspired by the title alluding to the mother wasp’s journey to die inside a fig to give birth to new life. The song’s running beat made me think of hooves, so for this video I envisioned Eartheater as a centauress galloping toward a distant star beckoning her home.”

We already knew Eartheater was a polymath, but apparently dressage is another talent to add to her palette. In fact, the concept developed further when Drewchin brought those skills into the project. Huang describes the final image as a “mythical sci-fi centaur mother goddess,” and we’d expect nothing less from her.

The latest offering comes with “Sparkle Dub/I’ll Dream Instead,” a woozy track that turns insomnia and loneliness into something strangely tender. “I want to kiss you / I’ll dream instead,” Runciman sings before waking up alone after just three hours of sleep and reaching for her phone. The track arrives with a glittery video, shot, directed and edited by Monika Kraska and Phil Osborne, which adds a playful shimmer to that mix of exhaustion, consuming desire and late night solitude.