No snappy intro this week as we ease back into remembering how to Google stuff. We’re happy to know tens of you look forward to this every week! Below is a consolidated list of new releases for January 30th, 2026. 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 catch you all soon. Besides reviews, stay tuned for even more interviews, essays, contests, and other fun! Countdown starts in 3… 2… 1…

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– List of Releases: January 30th, 2026 –

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A.G. Cook – The Moment (The Score)
Genre: Electro House / Bubblegum Bass
Label: A24

Arcane Roots – A Wave, Across the Sea
Genre: Art Rock / Post-Hardcore
Label: Big Scary Monsters

Blackwater Holylight – Not Here Not Gone
Genre: Doomgaze / Heavy Psych
Label: Suicide Squeeze

Buzzcocks – Attitude Adjustment
Genre: Post-Punk / New Wave
Label: Cherry Red

By Storm – My Ghosts Go Ghost
Genre: Experimental Hip-Hop / Folktronica x Neo-Psychedelia
Label: deadAir

Cast – Yeah Yeah Yeah
Genre: Britpop / Power-Pop
Label: Scruff of the Neck

Course of Fate – Behind the Eclipse
Genre: Progressive Metal / Art Rock
Label: Rock of Angels

DaBaby – BE MORE GRATEFUL
Genre: Trap / Miami Bass
Label: Interscope

Dead Air Divine – The Answer
Genre: Alternative Metal / Djent
Label: [independent]

Defaced (CHE) – Icon
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Technical Death Metal
Label: Massacre

Demob Happy – The Grown-Ups Are Talking.
Genre: Alternative Rock / Stoner Rock
Label: Milk Parlour

Don Toliver – OCTANE
Genre: Trap / Memphis Rap
Label: Cactus Jack

Francis Rossi – The Accidental
Genre: Pop Rock / Blues Rock
Label: earMUSIC

Geologist – Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Krautrock
Label: Drag City

Hällas – Panorama
Genre: Hard Rock / Progressive Rock
Label: Äventyr

The Hirsch Effekt – Der Brauch
Genre: Progressive Metal / Post-Hardcore
Label: Long Branch

Ichika Nito – The Moon’s Elbow
Genre: Math Rock / Progressive
Label: [independent]

Infected Mushroom – IM30
Genre: Psytrance / Complextro
Label: Monstercat

Jordan Ward – BACKWARD
Genre: Contemporary R&B / Neo-Soul
Label: Interscope

Joachim Nordwall & Aaron Turner – Malign Seeds
Genre: EAI / Noise
Label: Ash

Joyce Manor – I Used to Go to This Bar
Genre: Power-Pop Punk / Alt-Country
Label: Epitaph

Kula Shaker – Wormslayer
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia / Baggy
Label: Strange F.O.L.K.

Labrinth – COSMIC OPERA ACT I
Genre: Alternative R&B / Pop Rap
Label: Columbia

Lord Elephant – Ultra Soul
Genre: Stoner Metal / Blues Rock
Label: Heavy Psych

Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon – As of Now
Genre: Abstract Hip-Hop / Drumless
Label: Lex

møl – DREAMCRUSH
Genre: Blackgaze / Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

Old Sorcery – The Outsider
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal / Dungeon Synth
Label: Avantgarde

plantoid – FLARE
Genre: Dream Pop / Neo-Psychedelia
Label: Bella Union

Red Vox – Retcon
Genre: Indie Rock / Neo-Psychedelia
Label: ScreenWave

Ronker – Respect the Hustle, I Won’t Be Your Dog Forever
Genre: Post-Punk / Art Rock
Label: Labelman

Sébastien Tellier – Kiss the Beast
Genre: French Pop / Synthpop
Label: Because

Shackleton – Euphoria Bound
Genre: Tribal Ambient / Ambient Dub
Label: AD 93

The Soft Pink Truth – Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?
Genre: Modern Classical / Electroacoustic
Label: Thrill Jockey

Softcult – When a Flower Doesn’t Grow
Genre: Shoegaze / Baggy x Dream Pop
Label: Easy Life

Therion – Con Orquesta [Live Album]
Genre: Symphonic Metal / Progressive Metal
Label: Napalm / Adulruna

URNE – Setting Fire to the Sky
Genre: Progressive Metal / Sludge Metal
Label: Spinefarm

Whitelands – Sunlight Echoes
Genre: Shoegaze / Dream Pop
Label: Sonic Cathedral

Ye Vagabonds – All Tied Together
Genre: Irish Folk Music / Celtic Folk Music
Label: River Lea

Yumi Zouma – No Love Lost to Kindness
Genre: Indie Rock / Alt-Pop
Label: Nettwerk

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