By far the busiest week of 2026 for new releases so far, plenty of high quality as well.
Deathcrash Somersaults
London-based slowcore quartet. Thematically, ‘Somersaults’ began to deal with a more discreet, more complicated, second “coming of age” period.
Buck Meek The Mirror
Conceptually, The Mirror emerged from the idea to combine Meek’s band’s live, kinetic energy with an oblique electronic world.
Dog Chocolate So Inspired, So Done In
Fourth album of chewed up punk, post-punk, noise and pop from UK-based four-piece FFO: Deerhoof, Huggy Bear, Minutemen, Unwound, Dry Cleaning.
cootie catcher Something We All Got
With Nate Amos (Water From Your Eyes, This is Lorelei) steering the ship, the outcome is a proper jangly affair, hypercharged with spiralling synths, electronics and scratched samples found out in the wild.
Bill Callahan My Days of 58
The twelve tunes here open uncanny depths of expression as Callahan continues to blaze one of the most original songwriting-and-performance trails out there.
Heavenly Highway To Heavenly
As fiercely independent as any punk band, but as sweetly melodic as any chart-topping act, Heavenly combine sharp-edged politics with shamelessly joyful pop music.
The Wave Pictures Gained / Lost
Via classic songwriting and virtuoso musicianship, Gained / Lost brings together 60s garage rock, 70s classic rock and 90s American indie with the DIY spirit that has guided the band for nearly three decades.
Iron & Wine Hen’s Teeth
Fully formed but sitting as a sibling record, of sorts, to 2024’s acclaimed and Grammy-nominated Light Verse
Lala Lala Heaven 2
Catchy guitar-pop songs about being stuck in the ups and downs of life, the struggle to stay sober, to leave town, to blow up your life.
Maria BC Marathon
The album is both expansive and immediate, ranging sonically from aerial acoustic songs, to glitchy distorted tracks channeling chaos and disillusionment, all while maintaining a lyrical through line.
Bill Pritchard Haunted
The album spans vintage drum machines, brass flourishes, chiming guitars, lush harmonies, and even a touch of psychedelia. The result is a refreshingly European pop record, organic, eclectic, and deeply resonant.
Shelf Lives Hypernormal
Debut that finds them redefining the boundaries of modern punk and electronic music.
Autumn Fires Bloom EP
Their style of pop punk refashions the magic of the music they loved, from The Story So Far and Tonight Alive to Knuckle Puck, into something all their own, embracing a sunshine-and-showers duality.
Anna Prior Firefly EP
Metronomy drummer with what she describes as “a collection of moments – some fleeting and some stubbornly lingering… each track came together almost by accident but now feels to me like they’ve always belonged together.”
Ken Park Ken Park EP
Shaped by the sounds and memories of his California upbringing, he draws equally from the radiant harmonies of the ’60s and the hazy roar of ’90s indie rock to create music that feels both timeless and contemporary.
Virginia MacNaughton The Thread
The record reflects her range of influences, pulling together pop, rock, folk and classical orchestration to dramatic effect.
Grace Inspace Heavy Hair EP
Each song on the record unearths a side of herself that had been buried or forgotten, forming an introspective journey threaded with both pain and joy.
The Dream Machine Flowers on the Razor Wire
A Ramones-referencing, Berlin-written rush of radio-ready new wave rock.
Melonball Take Care
German band built on a foundation of fast, technical, politically charged punk.
Magoo What A Life
Progressive bluegrass act blends soaring instrumentals with heartfelt lyricism.
Noémi Büchi Exuvie
A painterly synthesis of pop, orchestral Romanticism, electroacoustic music, video game OSTs, anime music, hip-hop & more
Bruecken Years That Answer
An immersive journey—balancing crushing metal and hardcore moments with fragile, atmospheric depth.
Glorious Bankrobbers Intruder
The record spans the band’s signature high-energy action rock while showcasing new creative horizons—including a powerful orchestrated ballad that underscores the band’s fearless evolution.
kent watari subtraction in spiral
Tokyo-based experimental musician crafts deep, immersive sonics, threading quantum-percussion and collapsing post-IDM glitchscapes.
Paerish The Soissons Sessions EP
Re-imagined tracks recorded and filmed live at a medieval church.
Necrofier Transcend Into Oblivion
Tempestuous squalls of extremity are punctuated by sinister, melancholic, otherworldly melodies, twinkling in the gloom like will-o’-the-wisps on a black night.
Philip Shouse Side 1 EP
A lifelong student of classic rock and a self-professed Beatles devotee, Shouse embodies the heart of modern rock culture — blending reverence for tradition with creativity.
Utopia Development Corporation Industrial Area Swimming Centre
Post-punk quartets EP is inspired by The Fall’s ‘Bremen Nacht’.
Izzy and the Black Trees Kisses To Chaos
Polish band that has carved out an international reputation for their raw punk urgency and fierce, poetic rock’n’roll.
We’re In The Water The Steeple
The first instalment in an ambitious three-album musical trilogy which Fil will release across 2026 under the alter-ego We’re in the Water. Each of this year’s albums will feature 12 new tracks, with the entire 36 song cycle presented as both individual releases and eventually a unified body of work. The trio of new long-players draw on decades of DJ culture, club history and genre exploration.
Nevaris Sound Session EP
A soulful live recording that combines dub, funk, Afro-Latin rhythms, turntablism and extended improvisation.
Joe Wilkes Hope In My Chest, Fire In My Throat
A charged collection of traditional songs and original compositions that reflect the artist’s turbulent journey through, bereavement, disease, addiction and existential reflection.
Carpenter Brut Leather Temple
It dives into a raw, rhythmic, and restless energy, with each track working like a condensed charge. More cinematic and orchestral, yet also more direct, the album distils a saturated 90s electro atmosphere — dark and unflinching — driven by sharp beats, distorted layers, and unrelenting tension.
Cryptic Shift Overspace & Supertime
A crossover between the worlds of technical thrash/death metal and all things sci-fi.
David August Hymns
A deeply personal set of candid piano-led reflections that tell a simpler but far more distinctive story; rather than concentrate on the life cycle of humanity and civilization.
Fågelle Bränn min jord
It whispers and hollers with Swedish folk bleakness where energy bursts collide with lyrical passages.
Kevin Richard Martin Sub Zero
A stark album exploring drug-tech, dub noise, and frozen ambience.
Archive Glass Minds
Thirteenth studio album from unique, enigmatic and acclaimed collective who formed in Croydon, South London in 1994.
Mateus Asato Asato
From the high-energy bursts of “Kyoto’s Jam” to the peaceful, spiritual resonance of his acoustic work, ASATO utilizes the guitar as a vessel for complex emotions that words often fail to capture.
Gus Engelhorn The Broken Balladeer
Singer-songwriter psych-poet with Butthole Surfer Paul Leary in the producer’s chair.
Connie Converse How Sad, How Lonely
An expanded reissue of landmark first compilation of previously lost recordings from the groundbreaking cult singer-songwriter.
Inner Wave See You When I Get Back
It recalls the lush psych-pop of Tame Impala, the Sea and Cake’s cool-handed post-rock, and the glowing synth fantasias of Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo.
Motorpsycho The Gaia II Space Corps
It is post-psychedelic, pre-metal music, and is probably as close to making a true blue ‘classic hard rock’ album Motorpsycho ever will come.
Tinlicker Dreams of the Machine
Tinlicker’s move to entirely live performance, and long-held commitment to melodic, organic use of live instruments, soulful vocals & lyrics, emotional indie guitar & orchestral strands, alongside superb use of technology and production, makes them ideally placed to creatively confront the present & future of AI in electronic music and in our daily lives.
Common Holly They Will Draw Haloes Around Our Heads
This collection that highlights her signature introspective and perceptive lyricism, evocative vocals, and soft, understated instrumentation.
Peirant Plant EP
A conversation between their violin and guitar textured by the addition of earthy bass frequencies, unsuspected rythms and ineffable sampled noise.
Robert Humber into air
Four works, each one composed for multiples of the same instrument. Beginning with the SOCAN award-winning titular work for five violins, he moves on to mothmouth for three guitars, murmurations for six pianos and singing in circles, scored for solo cello and cello octet.
Final Gasp New Day Symptoms
An album steeped in nocturnal, death rock adventurism, driven with a post-punk anxiety that feels increasingly like the twitching heart of our modern age, and driven by hardcore punk intensity.
Chest never really here EP
“Formed in Norwich, the band credit the city’s alternative spirit and genre-diverse scene for giving them the space to evolve without being boxed in. “Norwich is full of oddballs and weirdos who are unapologetically themselves – that attitude is something we carry with us.””
