New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026 and 2027


A regularly updated guide to the new albums, EPs, mixtapes, and projects getting released in the coming weeks and months
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New albums are getting announced and released constantly. It’s tough to stay on top of it all. So that’s where we come in. Pitchfork is tracking notable new music releases with our guide to upcoming albums. In the coming months, there will be big new releases from Blondie, Slayyyter, Björk, Wavves, Sufjan Stevens, Diiv, U2, Queens of the Stone Age, David Sylvian, Boys Noize, Shygirl, Lambrini Girls, and plenty more. This guide features streaming and digital release dates and will be updated regularly.

As always, see some of our favorite albums and songs in the Best New Music section. Plus, catch up every Saturday with 10 of our best reviewed albums of the week. Sign up for the 10 to Hear newsletter here.

November 6

Bad Brains: Are You Ready: The First Studio Recording [Trust Records]

Bassvictim: Peace + War [VOTB]

Boys Noize: 7LLVSION [ONES and ZEROS]

Carmen Quill: Harmless [Ruination]

Catherine Elicson: River of Fat [Community Music]

Daine: In Endless Awe & Agony [PACK.]

Dawuna: Love’s Arp [True Panther]

Kings of Leon: O My Beloved [Love Tap]

La Roux: Old Flames [Vertigo / Casablanca]

Lil Baby: Fresh [Quality Control/Motown]

Lou Turner: Strangels [Spinster]

Oso Oso: An Exchange of Information [Feral Twin]

Rex Orange County: Dream Fatigue [AWAL]

Sam Gendel: Advanced White Trash [self-released]

Shygirl: Swallow! [Because Music]

Skepta: The Form and Knife [Big Smoke/Epic]

Statik Selektah: Expensive Taste [Mass Appeal]

Sufjan Stevens: Worst Christmas Ever! [Asthmatic Kitty]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Origins 1971-1978 [UMe]

Tove Styrke: I Thought This Story Wasn’t About Me [Sony Sweden]

Twisted Teens: The Holy Cross Tigers [November 6]

UNIIQU3: Mass Appeal [Local Action]

Various Artists: Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 - Out of the Blue / Vol. 3 - Into the Black [Killphonic]

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New music releases for Friday, November 6, 2026, include: Shygirl: Swallow! [Because Music]

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November 11

2hollis: Pirouette [Interscope]

November 13

Aesop Rock and Blockhead: Trouble Mountain [Rhymesayers]

Anna Butterss / John Raymond / Ben Lumsdaine: Beginningless [Northern Spy]

Blackhaine: Saints in the Wethouse [XL]

Fucked Up: Year of the Rooster [Tankcrimes]

Jake Bugg: Alamo [Thirty Tigers]

Jan St. Werner: Squares Will Fall [Thrill Jockey]

Kim Deal: Live at the Barbican [4AD]

Krill: Secret Language [Exploding in Sound]

Radie Peat: No Human Tongue Can Tell [Rough Trade]

Snoh Aalegra: Legendary Love [Stem]

Tami Hart: Tami Hart [Don Giovanni]

U2: Carnaval De Luz [Island]

Various Artists: 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan [Rubyworks]

Wavves: Cherry Soda [I Surrender]

Westside Gunn: Heelmatic [Griselda Records/Mass Appeal]

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New music releases for Friday, November 13, 2026, include: U2: Carnaval De Luz [Island]

November 20

Bodywash: Laughing at Noise [Light Organ]

Julianna Barwick / Mary Lattimore: Threshold (OST) [Florid / Blue Pool]

Lambchop: Demoed [Merge]

R.E.M.: Reveal (25th Anniversary Edition) [Craft]

Sebadoh: Harmacy (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition) [Sup Pop]

Various Artists: Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album [Atlantic / Rock Star]

November 27

Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound, Live in Europe 2026 [The Flenser]

Beverly Glenn-Copeland: Keyboard Fantasies (40th Anniversary Edition) [Transgressive]

Björk: Björk Orkestral With the Hamrahlíð Choir [One Little Independent]

Bon Iver: 22, A Million (10th Anniversary Edition) [Jagjaguwar]

Peter Gabriel: o/i [self-released]

December 4

2 Chainz and Statik Selektah: Playaz Only Live Once [Million Dollar Habit]

serpentwithfeet: Sentinel [One Little Independent Records]

Slayyyter: Wor$t Man in America [Columbia]

Morphine: Cocoon [Partisan]

December 11

Panda Bear: PB Band Live 25 at Power Station [Domino Documents]

Robbie Bennett: Steloken/Circulation [American Dreams]

Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning [Mercury Studios]

January 8

Hot Chip: A Long Way From Kansas [Domino]

January 15

GIFT: Frenzy For The Thrill [Captured Tracks]

Kacey Musgraves: Tex Mex Tapes [Lost Highway]

Lambrini Girls: No Refunds [City Slang]

Mei Semones: Howl [Verve/Interscope]

Soul Glo: Na I’m Gon Grab Allat [Epitaph]

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New music releases for Friday, January 15, 2026, include: Lambrini Girls: No Refunds [City Slang]

January 22

Chvrches: All the King’s Men [Futures Music Group]

The Flaming Lips: The Teardrop Throbs [Third Man]

Kate Nash: Callin [Kill Rock Stars]

Knifeplay: What Is Truth [Double Double Whammy]

January 29

Bleep: Slug [Ninja Tune]

Blue Bendy: One Day This Will All Be Lore [Self-released]

Claire Rousay and Zander Raymond: Something Good [Thrill Jockey]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Burned [CYHSY]

Death From Above 1979: Private Lives [Last Gang]

February 12

Anna Meredith: Darling [Mercury KX]

Junior Boys: The Gore [City Slang]

Sugababes: Sugababes [Sacred Three/The Orchard]

February 17

Whait (Wendy Eisenberg and More Eaze): Sympathy at Home [Night School Records]

February 19

Everything But the Girl: Blue Reservoir [Buzzin’ Fly/Virgin Music Group]

Marika Hackman: False Dogs [Chrysalis]

February 26

Blondie: High Noon [BMG]

February 27

David Sylvian: The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing [NANOQ]

March 5

Liars: A Ban on Plastic Bag Bans [Mute]

March 12

Tindersticks: Dog Roses [City Slang]