The Music’s Friday Finds: The Week’s Best New Music – 2 October

2 October 2026 4:07 PM

With the playlist Friday Finds: This Week’s Best New Music, The Music’s team gathers the best new songs you need to hear every Friday. Here are our picks released this week, 2 October 2026.

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Another week, another ten bangers are coming your way.

Each week, The Music sifts through streaming services, our inboxes, and chats with each other to come up with ten new songs to feature on our weekly updated playlist, The Music’s Friday Finds: The Week’s Best New Music.

The playlist is updated on Spotify and Apple Music and includes the hottest songs from Australia and around the world. This week, we’ve gathered new songs from Dom Dolla, Dental Plan, Noah Kahan, Holly Humberstone, Kaiit, Fontaines D.C., and much more.

Before you check out each song, though, here’s a short breakdown of each track that’s been added to our playlist this week.

Dom Dolla, Solomun, Skepta - DANGER DANGER

Australian sensation Dom Dolla has joined forces with rave icon Solomun and English grime MC Skepta for a dance-ready epic, DANGER DANGER. If this is what danger sounds like, we’ll have some more, thanks.

Special Features - Fun!

Brisbane alt-rockers Special Features know how to bring gloomy sounds to life, all while juxtaposing them with a track called Fun! The dark, grunge-inspired single is the ultimate soundtrack for introverts.

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Dental Plan - No Solution

No Solution, the riff-filled new single from Melbourne rockers Dental Plan, is filled with fuzz, grit, and undeniable energy. How can you not headbang to that melody?

Noah Kahan - Draw You Out

For a track featuring in the upcoming The Hunger Games film, Noah Kahan trades the dystopian feelings of previous entries in the franchise for something hopeful and beautiful on Draw You Out.

Holly Humberstone - Too Cute to be Lonely

The latest single from British indie-pop singer Holly Humberstone opens with a rom-com-ready synth melody, with her inimitable vocals soaring as she insists that she’s way too cute to be lonely.

Kaiit - Lemon Squeezy

Kaiit’s soulful blend of singing and rap is so slick on their latest single, Lemon Squeezy. How does she do it so easy? It might be a lyric from the track, but listening to the jazz-fused number, we can’t help but wonder the same.

Telenova - Happy

With Happy, Telenova have displayed what might be their most honest, personal songwriting. Moving seamlessly between balladry and a punchy chorus, it’s a single that demands your attention and repeated listens.

Radio Free Alice ft. Rachel Brown - Big Ideas

Teaming up with Water from Your Eyes’ Rachel Brown, Aussie band Radio Free Alice showcase their brand of jangly-inspired indie rock while they tell a tale of lost love. Harmonising with Brown, the devastating lyrics to Big Ideas carry extra weight.

Becca Hatch - Extra Time

There’s no one making music like Becca Hatch right now. Her voice is undeniably stunning, and on Extra Time, her embrace of R&B and dance music channels nostalgic bangers while bringing her own style.

Fontaines D.C. - Tongue

The band that made Dogrel sounds very different on Tongue, but it’s no less enthralling. Fontaines D.C. have never sounded this ambitious—who could have imagined hearing a slow-burn song that has trip-hop-inspired drums and keys from them? It rules.