Big release week, which means no time for all the album art. Feel free to jam the playlist below, request reviews from staff and contributors, let us know what you’re looking forward to this week (in music or otherwise), and we’ll see you next week (no jinx hijinks?).
– List of Releases: September 18th, 2026 –
Abstracted Mind – Break Down Your Fears
Genre: Symphonic Metal / Progressive Metal
Label: [independent]
Actress – Radical Frame
Genre: Microhouse / Ambient Techno
Label: Ninja Tune
After – Fell Asleep in the Sun
Genre: Alt-Pop / Indietronica
Label: Mom + Pop
Agnes Obel – The Meaning of Flowers
Genre: Art Pop / Post-Minimalism
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Anthrax – Cursum Perficio
Genre: Groove Metal / Thrash Metal
Label: Megaforce
beabadoobee – Pylon
Genre: Indie Rock / Post-Grunge
Label: Dirty Hit
Beck – Ride Lonesome
Genre: Chamber Folk / Americana
Label: Capitol
Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree – In Between Strides
Genre: Heavy Psych / Post-Metal
Label: Magnetic Eye
Bella Poarch – Picnic at the Cemetery
Genre: Alt-Pop / Contemporary R&B
Label: Last Gang
Blood Red Shoes – Stay Lonely
Genre: Garage Rock Revival / Indie Rock
Label: Jazz Life
Boy Harsher – Get Mean
Genre: Darkwave / Synthpop
Label: Atlantic
Carly Rae Jepsen – Day and Night
Genre: Dance-Pop / Sophisti-Pop
Label: Interscope
Cartel – Learning How to Cope
Genre: Pop Punk / Emo-Pop
Label: Field Day
Ch’ahom – Anthropic Rights of Sublimation
Genre: War Metal / Dissonant Black Metal
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Chaka Khan – Chakzilla
Genre: Synth Funk / Nu Disco
Label: BMG
Corella – A Beautiful World to Lose
Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Punk Revival
Label: FLG
Dragonflies – Dragonflies
Genre: Art Rock / Post-Minimalism
Label: Dark Horse
The Drin – I Lost My Way for Centuries
Genre: Post-Punk / Coldwave
Label: Feel It
Echo & the Bunnymen – Apples for Issac
Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Punk
Label: BMG
Emma Ruth Rundle – These Killing Times
Genre: Alternative Rock / Noise Rock
Label: Errant Child
Empress Of – Dream House
Genre: Dance-Pop / Electropop
Label: Major Arcana
Ezra Collective – Here Because of Hope
Genre: Jazz-Funk / Afroswing
Label: Partisan
Feldup – Towards Happiness
Genre: Indie Rock / Post-Punk Revival
Label: Talitres
Games We Play – I Wish I Never Quit
Genre: Slacker Rock / Pop Punk
Label: Nettwerk
Gia Ford – A Room Within a Room
Genre: Alt-Pop / Indie Rock
Label: Chrysalis
Holding Absence – Modern Life is Lonely
Genre: Post-Hardcore / Alternative Rock
Label: Sumerian
Hypaethral – Odyssean
Genre: Technical Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal
Label: [independent]
Jake Xerxes Fussell – The Old Beloved Path
Genre: Americana / Piedmont Blues
Label: Fat Possum
Katie Pruitt – Fools for the Fleeting
Genre: Contemporary Folk / Country Pop
Label: Rounder
Krallice – Scour Order
Genre: Black Metal / Avant-Garde Metal
Label: Profound Lore
Lizzy McAlpine – Angel
Genre: Chamber Folk / Ambient Pop
Label: RCA
Long Dark Moon – Cold Atlantic
Genre: Alt-Country / Americana
Label: Factory Belt
Luke Bryan – Signs
Genre: Bro-Country / Contemporary Country
Label: MCA Nashville
Miley Cyrus – Bass Persuades
Genre: Electropop / Dance-Pop
Label: Atlantic
MNEK – Bulldozer!!
Genre: Alternative R&B / Juke
Label: Universal
Moon Shot – Thunderlust
Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Hardcore
Label: Reaper
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts – Second Song
Genre: Folk Rock / Contemporary Folk
Label: Reprise
Nonpoint – The Last Word
Genre: Alternative Metal / Nu Metal
Label: 361 Degrees
Now Always Fades – Coalesce
Genre: Trip Hop / Baggy
Label: Northern Underground
Orville Peck – Mule
Genre: Country Rock / Indie Surf
Label: Warner
Ozric Tentacles – Harmonic Mind
Genre: Space Rock / Psybient
Label: Kscope
Palace – Ox
Genre: Indie Rock / Dream Pop
Label: AWAL
Playgrounded – A Flower to Water
Genre: Post-Rock / Progressive Metal
Label: Pelagic
Porch Light – Hush
Genre: Indie Rock / Midwest Emo
Label: Mom + Pop
Revel in Flesh – Flesh for the Kult of Death
Genre: Death Metal / Melodic Death Metal
Label: War Anthem
Rhiannon Giddens – Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Genre: Country Soul / Americana
Label: Nonesuch
Riley Green – That’s Just Me
Genre: Contemporary Country / Country Pop
Label: Nashville Harbor
Rodrigo y Gabriela – OurHome
Genre: Flamenco nuevo / Progressive Folk
Label: ATO
Roger Taylor – Violence Insane in a Beautiful World
Genre: Pop Rock / Art Rock
Label: Columbia
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – Conversations 12
Genre: Ambient / Modern Classical
Label: NOTON
Secrets – Searching for the Things We Don’t Wish to Find
Genre: Metalcore / Electronicore
Label: SBG
Slothrust – What They Grow in the Garden
Genre: Indie Rock / Slacker Rock
Label: Equal Vision
Slow Pulp – Melodie
Genre: Dream Pop / Indie Rock
Label: Anti-
Son Lux – Out Into
Genre: Art Pop / Trip Hop
Label: City Slang
Storefront Church – Blue Movie
Genre: Baroque Pop / Chamber Pop
Label: High Room
SUBMASQ – Spirit Animal
Genre: Progressive Metal / Symphonic Prog
Label: Willowtip
Tokyo Tea Room – Feel Forever
Genre: Bedroom Pop / Dream Pop
Label: Nice Guys
Tove Lo – Estrus
Genre: Electropop / Dance-Pop
Label: Pretty Swede
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Shapes of Midnight
Genre: Doom Metal / Heavy Psych
Label: Killer Candy
Velveteen Queen – The Greater Good
Genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Label: Silver Lining
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