New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026
A regularly updated guide to the new albums, EPs, mixtapes, and projects getting released in the coming weeks and months
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 Cameron Winter , Haruomi Hosono , Carly Rae Jepsen , The Avalanches , Troye Sivan , Gilla Band , This Is Lorelei , Fontaines D.C. , Tinashe , Diiv , Beck , Dawn Richard , Queens of the Stone Age , Bloc Party , Julia Jacklin , Johnny Marr , @ , Remi Wolf , Echo and the Bunnymen , Greg Freeman , Cornelius , Blondshell , Emily A. Sprague , Ezra Collective , and plenty more. This guide features streaming and digital release dates and will be updated regularly.
Czarface / Frankie Pulitzer (Tom Hardy): Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer [Silver Age]
Diego Raposo: Hola Como Estas? Hola, Bien y Tú? bien, y Qué Haces? Nada y Tú? Nada. [Point]
Hakushi Hasegawa: Honest Feeling Album (素直な気持ちアルバム) [Brainfeeder]
Liim: A Sunflower Garden in Harlem Is Hard to Find [Three Times Louder]
New music releases for Friday, August 28, 2026, include: Interpol: This Mirror Weighs a Ton [Partisan]
Melissa Auf der Maur: Bass Womb Room: My ’90s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings [Envision]
Alex G: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Original Score) [Waxwork]
New music releases for Friday, September 11, 2026, include: This Is Lorelei: The Singer in My Band [Matador]
Big Benny Bailey (Shamir Bailey and Ben Pierce): Business Spice [Thirty Tigers]
Dragonflies (Dhani Harrison and Nigel Godrich): Dragonflies [Dark Horse Records/BMG]
Rhiannon Giddens: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers [Nonesuch]
New music releases for Friday, September 18, 2026, include: Carly Rae Jepsen: Day and Night [Interscope]
Tom Morello: Everyone Gets Everything They Want [Commandante LLC/Mom+Pop]
The Yummy Fur: Everybody Talks About the Weather [Upset the Rhythm]
New music releases for Friday, September 25, 2026, include: Julia Jacklin: The Gem [4AD]
The Beatles: Rubber Soul - Special Edition [Calderstone Productions Limited/UMG]
The Chicks: Taking the Long Way (20th Anniversary Edition) [Columbia]
Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition) Box Set [UMe]
Jon Hassell: Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume Three) [Ndeya]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Ruin: It’s Not Just Music [Someone Special]
The Tallest Man on Earth: Just Beyond Endless Mountain [Anti-]
New music releases for Friday, October 9, 2026, include: Cameron Winter: Live at Carnegie Hall [Partisan/Pias]
Rachel Chinouriri: I Think I Spoke Too Soon [Atlas Artists/Parlophone/Warner Records]
New music releases for Friday, October 16, 2026, include: The Avalanches: No Bad Memories [Modular]
Alchemical Sisters: Alchemical Sisters [Interdimensional Transmissions]
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black (20th Anniversary Edition) [UMR/Island]
Anderson .Paak and Cordae: Heavy Is the Crown [Apeshit/Mass Appeal/Empire]
Caroline Rose: Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall [Suck]
New music releases for Friday, October 30, 2026, include: Diiv: ZIRP! [Fantasy]
Various Artists: Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 - Out of the Blue / Vol. 3 - Into the Black [Killphonic]
Various Artists: 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan [Rubyworks]
