Comically late Warm Selections, I apologize! I’m losing step! This isn’t like me! I’m not owned, I’m not owned!

Well, now that I’m a corncob, here are a few tracks I was enjoying this week, including new jams from Oneohtrix Point Never, Born At Midnite, Cate Kennan and more.

You can listen to all these and more on my Best of 2026 Tidal Playlist HERE.

Born At Midnite – “Wash You Out” [Arbutus]
Like I wrote last week, or whenever week that was about Paycheque, Warm Visions is a pro-TOPS cinematic universe blog. In this case we see the cartoony band Born At Midnite, comprised of guitarist and producer David Carriere and vocalist Amery Sandford. Their new song “Wash You Out” is a total jammer + off their debut album Eternal BAM Nation arriving June 26th via favs Arbutus Records. It’s pure pop with fat, candy-coated synthesizers, some nice hand percussion in the background and a punchy drum machine backing. It feels basic in almost a rebellious way, just two folks making clearly catchy music in a ramshackle kind of way. Can’t wait to hear the rest of the record.

Cate Kennan – “Devil’s Hour” [kranky]
New kranky signing Cate Kennan has a new album, Shadows, arriving June 26th. From the two teaser singles out thus far, it’s set to be living up to its title. Dark, vintage-photo touched vignettes that allow only the light given to them in, no artificial or overhead lighting here. “Devil’s Hour” purrs and clanks along with warm and fuzzy organ and synthesizer, as Kennan peacefully sings along, embracing the casted darkness. 

Chanel Beads – “Song for the Messenger” [Jagjaguwar]
Chanel Beads have a new album, familiarly titled Your Day Will Come, out June 26th via Jagjaguwar. Their first go at an album named Your Day Will Come in 2024 was a slow-grower on me, and the song “I Think I Saw” continues to be a favorite of mine. This new single “Song for the Messenger” feels a bit similar to my 2024’s fav wide, windswept soundstage. Something about the swirling strings and bending guitars gets me. We’ll see how the rest of the record is; excited to hear it.

Deerhunter – “Breaker” [Matador]
I’ve been having a moment with Deerhunter ever since Aquarium Drunkard posted a video of them in their Halcyon Digest era performing live for some video feature. I went back to reappraise their two most recent albums, 2015’s Fading Frontier and 2019’s Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared, two albums I was a bit lukewarm upon release. Well sure enough, both albums are better than a lot of new music today. We had it so good! “Breaker” was obviously a single from the record and a popular song from their catalog, but I never appreciated it until now. Fantastic track! We need you back, Deerhunter!

Little Barrie – “Luggin’ Hurt” [Easy Eye Sound]
Not usually my cup of tea but the production / mixing on this thing makes it sound like a Can song. That guitar solo? They don’t make music that sounds like this no more!

Miss Grit – “It Feels Like” [Mute]
The new Miss Grit record Under My Umbrella is another fantastic entry in their cyberpunk-like discography, and “It Feels Like” is the high watermark on the album, for me anyways. I got to see the song performed “stripped down” the other week, with Miss Grit playing acoustic guitar alongside two violinists, whose swirling strings in the chorus sounded incredible. It’s a song that engulfs, it submerges. The chorus melody feels like you’re being progressively pulled underneath a malevolent current, being swallowed whole.

mui zyu – “Parallelisme” [Father / Daughter]
Any musician covering tracks from likely my favorite city pop, or at least Japanese 80s synth pop record, Miharu Koshi’s Parallelisme, gets a co-sign. And this is a really cute cover, too!

Nicolas Jaar – “Garden” [Other People]
This is a track off Nicolas Jaar’s 2020 album Cenizas, and has stuck with me since its release. Sometimes I’ll just experience weeks where I listen to it at least every day, then reshelf it for next time. On its face it’s a beautiful solo piano melody, but listen a bit more intently and you’ll start to notice how it sounds. At the beginning of the track, it sounds like the microphones on the piano are within the piano itself, as you can hear the felt mallets strike the strings. It’s soft, almost womb-like. As the track progresses, more reverb and delay is placed upon it, taking you further and deeper into its beating heart. It’s a beautiful, peaceful track with a mysterious energy. One of the best solo piano compositions I’ve heard all decade.

Nina Winder-lind – “This is Our Life” [Transgressive]
I’m not familiar with The New Eves, the band that Nina Winder-Lind is most well-known from, but give me a classic, jangly guitar backing and a unique vocal and I’m IN. Real raw energy, raucous and wild. The obvious similarities here to something like Life Without Buildings, Beat Happening, Horsegirl… this rocks. 

Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize – “Heresy” [Interscope]
I made the very smart decision of getting a resale ticket to the Nine Inch Nails / Boys Noize tour last October, despite not being a massive NIN fan, because I knew it would be a SHOW. And a show it was, so much so that the versions of the songs that NIN and Boys Noize, the tour’s opener did together in the middle of the arenas they played, made it onto their own album. Hard to pick a single song here, but “Heresy” slapped. Whole record is awesome, big fan.

Oneohtrix Point Never – “Dim Stars” [Warp]
Expect another Oneohtrix Point Never song, albeit an older one, on next week’s Warm Selections, as I just saw OPN at Pioneer Works here in NYC. I’m assuming “Dim Stars” is an extra track recorded during the Tranquilizer sessions, as it absolutely rips like the rest of the album. It gurgles with so many ideas and details throughout its length, morphing and flipping pages between different beats. Incredible work. He can’t miss.