This is Nialler9’s regularly updated guide to Irish album releases in 2026, featuring upcoming and recently released albums from Irish artists across indie, folk, electronic, rock and more. Updated weekly.
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Irish Album Release Dates 2026 – upcoming
August 7th
Really Good Time – Affirmations
Dublin alternative rock trio’s debut album Affirmations.
August 21st
Paahto & The Bull – The 123
John Francis Flynn’s guitar duo with Patrick “Paahto” Cummins has bluegrass influences and is built on a long music relationship over 15 years. Released on Claddagh Records.
September 4th
girlfriend. – Carousel
The Dublin-Limerick band girlfriend. returned with a new song ‘Horses’ as premiered here.
Last Apollo – I’ll Walk Towards You
Lucy Rice’s debut album was shaped over three years, following Rice’s move to London after her bandmates relocated and she went through her first true heartbreak.
SPOOKLET – HAVE YOU SEEN MY BODY? EP
Dublin-based experimental electronic artist releases a three-track project that sits somewhere between deconstructed club music, ambient, sound design and experimental pop, built around themes of self-erasure, emotional survival and transformation.
Swimmers Jackson – Komorebi
London-based Irish musician and singer Niall Jackson returns with his third solo album of indie-rock and pop on Wonky Karousel Records, recorded live with his band in the room of One Cat Studios in Crystal Palace by engineer Jon Clayton with some overdubs in Headford in Co. Galway to record some overdubs with Irish sound engineer Rob Cotter and a few special guests, Brian Kelly (So Cow) and Rob Corcoran. The album was produced by Jesse Gander (Japandroids) at his Rain City Recorders in Vancouver, BC. Influences include Elliott Smith, Low, R.E.M. , Phoenix, Tom Petty, Lou Barlow, The Shins, Neil Young, Pavement, Cass McCombs, Big Thief and Kurt Vile.
Miriam Ingram – Mariana Trench
Miriam Ingram is an experimental singer/songwriter from Dublin who last released a debut album Trampoline 20 years ago, and says this new one is a “lifetime in the making,” along with “a mesmerising blend of folk, impressionism and indie rock.”
It is also a deeply personal, autobiographical aural memoir – a time-lapse study of sorts. As Miriam says: ‘I didn’t set out to make something along the lines of a Richard Linklater film like ‘Boyhood’ (in aural form), but that’s kind of what happened. I started writing and recording ‘Mariana Trench’ around 2008. In fact, there are a couple of songs on it that pre-date even that time. The songs have their own personal value, but the unintended personal element of the record comes from the fact that it was made over such a long period of time. Children were born and grew, loved ones died – life happened.’
September 9th
Strange Boy – Say Nothing (rap / trad)
Second album from the Limerick personal rapper whose recent single features Rebel Phoenix.
September 11th
Sorcha Richardson – Draw The Outline
Dublin songwriter and indie vocalist returns with a new album on Faction.
September 18th
The Mary Wallopers – Paddywhackery
Third album from the trad-rock band was recorded with James Skelly of The Coral. Lead single is ‘Crowns Of England’ and a big 3Arena date in December also announced.
Sarah Crean – Heirloom
Brighton-based Irish artist Sarah Crean’s second album Heirloom is entirely created by women and loosely based on the myth of Calypso, using that story to explore turmoil, life-altering change and the reconciliation that follows.
September 25th
Gurriers – Nobody’s Coming To Save You
Second album from the Dublin alt-rock band out via Play It Again Sam.
Gilla Band – Pugnello
The Dublin quartet’s new record is out Friday September 25th on Rough Trade Records, with intimate UK shows and a huge US/UK/EU tour to follow. Singles ‘Placeholder’ and ‘Giraffe’.
Morgana – The Whole Thing Was Very Emotional
Morgana MacIntyre co-founder of Saint Sister – has announced her long-awaited debut album.
October 9th
Basht. – Poor Advice
Dublin alt-rock.
Meryl Streek – Stories They Don’t Teach You At School
Dublin punk artist Meryl Streek has announced his third album which features Crass’ Steve Ignorant, Pete Holidai, Phil Jupitus, Gallows guitarist Laurent ‘Lags’ Barnard, Adebisi Shank’s Vinny McCreith, Meditations for The Anxious Mind’ Frankie McNamara and more.
The Wran – Stone Man
Comeragh Mountains trad-folk band with a punk edge release their debut album. The Wran’s second single is a version of Pecker Dunne traveller ballad. ‘Sullivan’s John’ builds with banjo, guitar delay and timpani into upbeat slip-jig ‘Hardiman the Fiddler’, a transition inspired by Jordan O’Leary (ex of The Scratch), with a banjo riff, punky bassline and distant flute.
Clare Sands – They Tried to Bury Us
‘They Tried To Bury Us’ is a collection of songs that gives voice to the silenced: the endangered curlew; Lí Ban of Lough Neagh; lost words of our native tongue; the Rostrevor oak; those seeking refuge on our shores and the Palestinian poets whose words embody defiance and inspire generations. All songs have a deep North of Ireland connection – the album was written across Ulster with an incredible array of musicians based in the Northern counties, alongside producer Seán Óg Graham (Beoga, Karen Casey). It is an album that rises from the earth against oppression and insists that love and hope will never be buried.
October 15th
Fontaines D.C. – Dopamine Chamber
Dopamine Chamber – a play on the D.C. of the band’s name – arrives as the most potentially radical turn yet in a catalogue that has refused to repeat itself at every stage. Where Romance held its tension in balance, this record tips it. Cold synthesiser tones, marching drums, samples and triggers, several songs with no guitars at all, and the swooning strings of 1960s Italian pop pulled into something synthetic. Chatten spent time among the faded grandeur of Venice, Vienna and Sicily in search of lyrical inspiration. The album was made with James Ford between London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Chatten recorded vocals in a makeshift booth built from mattresses and cushions.
Francis Harris & Gareth Quinn Redmond – Eyes Bright and Low
A collaborative album between Irish ambient and fiddle player and new York musician Francis Harris combines analogue and digital synthesis with piano + guest vocals from Rachael Lavelle.
Christian Cohle – Queen of Ashes
Christian Cohle’s latest music as his third album approaches has moved from electronic textured songwritring to throwback heart-on-sleeve alternative art-rock with soft edges, taking cues from Talk Talk, Bowie and Roxy Music.
October 23rd
Jazzy – Peace and Patience
Irish smash hit dance pop producer and vocalist’s debut album.
November 13th
20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan
Features Irish artists The Murder Capital, Madra Salach., Kingfishr, The Mary Wallopers, Camille O’Sullivan, Cronin, Liam Ó Maonlaím Lisa O’Neill, Moya Brennan, U2 and more.
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Irish Albums 2026 released
January 16th
John Blek – The Midnight Ache
January 30th
Ailbhe Reddy – Kiss Big
Ye Vagabonds – All Tied Together
Dani Larkin – Next Of Kin
PILGRIMS – Paul Noonan and Brian Crosby of BellX1 – Wintering
February 6th
A.S. Fanning – Take Me Back To Nowhere
Music City – Welcome To Music City
Ordnance Survey – Autotelic
February 13th
Cardinals – Masquerade
February 20th
Big Sleep – Holy Show
Ebauche – Nine Times
Thumper – Sleeping With The Light On
Consolers – Deep Breaths
February 27th
Rosie Carney – Doomsday… Don’t Leave Me Here
Ria Rua – S.C.A.P.E.G.O.A.T.
E the Artist – Six
March 1st
Autumn Owls – Here in the Bardos
March 6th
Seamus Fogarty – Ships
NIMF – Sirenscape
March 11th
Carrie Baxter – Seven
Eamon Harkin – The Place Where We Live
March 13th
Chalk – Crystalpunk
Foy Vance – The Wake
Basciville – Love In The Time Of The State
The Scratch – Pull Like A Dog
March 20th
Joshua Burnside – It’s Not Going to be Okay
Curtisy – Get A Life!
Ellie O’Neill – Time Of Fallow
March 23rd
Fixity – Assurance
March 27th
How I Became A Wave – How I Became A Wave
Pheono – Comfort In The Knowing
April 3rd
Laurie Shaw – Felted Fruit vi
Dermot Kennedy – The Weight Of The Woods
April 10th
Stephen Star – Newt
Singer-songwriter on MirrorWorld with contributions from Nashpaints, Ellie O’Neill, Isaac Jones and more.
David Kitt – The Big Romance (Kittser’s Version)
( indie / folk singer-songwriter / re-recorded)
April 17th
Cable Boy – Forever
( indie rock / alternative)
April 24th
Glen Hansard – Don+t Settle – Transmissions East
(singer-songwriter)
Goodtime John – Good As Gold
(singer-songwriter, folk, indie)
crying loser – the ick
(alternative rock / post-punk)
May 1st
Kneecap – Fenian
(Irish rap)
Rua – Rí – Tell Your Mother I Saved Your Life
(folk, Soft Boy records)
Rónán Ó Snodaigh & MylesO’Reilly – Mise Tusa
(trad, folk)
Blue Niall – Oisín Tape 2: CÚMHA
(rap / Irish / alt)
Video Blue – Eyes On Sticks
(indie / alt /songwriter)
$ONA BLU€– BLU€’s heartbreak
(alt R&B / pop)
May 8th
Insufficient Funs – Chunk
(jazz)
Lemoncello – Perfect Place
(folk / singer-songwriter)
Mick Flannery – The House Must Win
Music from his stage musical featuring Anaïs Mitchell, Susan O’Neill, Jenn Grant, Lisa Hannigan, Jeffrey Martin and more.
May 22nd
One Leg One Eye – CRONE
(drone, black folk)
May 29th
Wynona Bleach – Animal Style
(alternative rock)
AE MAK – Folk Songs for Mama & Papa
(alt-pop)
Chuck Squires – The Late Great Chuck Squires
(Irish country supergroup?)
June 5th
Dea Matrona – Hate That I Care
(classic rock / retro)
LOAH – Materia Medica
The title for the record comes from an ancient pharmacology textbook about healing plants. Materia Medica draws on her friends and collaborators – it was co-produced with Brian Dillon (of Meltybrains? and The Line) and Daniel Forde. Also featuring are Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu, Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, her sister Fehdah, Gambian kora player Suntou Susso, harpist Allanah Thornbourgh, producer Ben Bix (Meltybrains?), drummer Dylan Lynch (Soda Blonde, Little Green Cars), and the Crash Ensemble amongst other musicians and producers, along with samples of 16th century lute music and Rachmaninoff to more contemporary sounds like 808 and Afrobeats.
Beat up Face – What’s So Funny About Peace Love & Understanding?
The alt-rock Drogheda/Dublin-based experimental band formerly known as Spit.
June 19th
HAVVK – Time Will Kill
Fourth album from the grungy rock duo.
June 26th
Goldbug – Swings & Roundabouts
Goldbug is the moniker of Dublin-based Irish/French artist Danilo Ward, raised in a religious commune in rural Provence and priming one of the more quietly singular albums to come out of Ireland this year.
Irish Album Releases 2025
January 10th
Skinner – New Wave Vaudeville
January 31st
Tayne – LOVE
February 7th
Annika Kilkenny – Me In The Mud EP
Ginnels – The Picturesque
Adrian Crowley – Measure Of Joy
February 12th
Alannah Thornburgh – Shapeshifter
February 21st
The Murder Capital – Blindness
Slightly Dishevelled – Dirty Dishes and the West Wing
February 28th
Joshua Burnside – Teeth of Time
Maria Kelly – Waiting Room
March 14th
Meljoann – Status
March 28th
Somebody’s Child – When Youth Fades Away
T-Woc – Scenes, Journeys & Color
April 4th
Jinx Lennon – The Hate Agents Leer At The Last Isle Of Hope
April 11th
Paddy Hanna – Olyegate
Lullahush – Ithaca
April 24th
Caoimhín – Ríocht Na Sí’
May 9th
Varo – The World That I Knew
May 16th
M(h)aol – Something Soft
Rob de Boer – Man to You
Confirmation Getup – Style Time
May 23rd
Search Results – Go Mutant
Laura Duff – Sea Legs
May 30th
Curtisy – Beauty In The Beast
BABA – Truth
June 6th
Kean Kavanagh – The County Star
Junk Drawer – Days Of Heaven
June 13th
49th & Main – Happy Tears
A.Smyth – Hello Goliath
July 4th
Stoat – I contain multitudes
Laurie Shaw – Magnetosphere
July 11th
Olafur Arnalds and Talos – A Dawning
Poor Creature – All Smiles Tonight
July 12th
Branwen – Mirrormouth
July 25th
Cormac Begley & Liam O Connor – Into the Loam
White Sage – Queen Maeve’s Grave
August 1st
Caimin Gilmore – BlackGate
August 8th
For Those I Love – Carving The Stone
August 22nd
Rún – Rún
Tebi Rex – Fin
August 29th
CMAT – Euro-Country
September 5th
Junior Brother – The End
Ian Nyquist – Gilded
Graham Smyth – Music For Babies To Rave And Sleep To
The Redneck Manifesto – Grushy
Gareth Quinn Redmond, Méabh McKenna and RF Chaney – Throwing Shapes
Good Skin – Saturation
September 10th
Cian Sweeney – As If I Always Knew
September 19th
Scustin – Confessions Of A Pub Talker
pôt-pot – Warsaw 480km
DUG – Have At It!
NewDad – Altar
Unique Freaks (THEE U.F.O) – Enjoyment Planted
September 26th
The Expert – Vivid Visions
Sprints – All That Is Over
God Knows – A Future of the Past
Elaine Mai – For Us
Inni-K – Still A Day
Blimp – The World Is Yours
October 1st
Alex Gough – Painful
October 3rd
Kettama – Archangel
MOIO – Earthday
Houseplants – Live At Beekeeper’s
Laura Elizabeth Hughes – Knots & Echoes
October 10th
Maykay – Maykay
A Litany Of Failures – Volume V
hyperlynx – Rest Energy
October 14th
The New York Salsa Company – Our Landscape Is Now
October 17th
Winnie Ama – DEKA
Daire Patel – What Means The World To You?
October 24th
Just Mustard – We Were Just Here
Lōwli – Window In the Woods
Imaginational Anthem vol. XIV : Ireland – Tompkins Square label compilation
Rory Sweeney – Old Earth
J Smith – I Stood there Naked
Delac – Close To Midnight
October 30th
bog band – Mocashno Days
October 31st
Bricknasty – BLACKS LAW
November 7th
The Altered Hours – The Altered Hours
Gareth Quinn Redmond – Múscailte
Olan Monk – Songs for Nothing
Zoid – Industrial Wind Quartet
Anamoe Drive – thank god it’s friday
Seán Mac Erlaine & Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh – Old Segotia
November 14th
Shampain – Millennium Madness
Huartan – Huartan
November 21st
David Keenan – Modern Mythologies
Ispíní na hÉireann – Poxtail Soup
Aux Phoenix – The And Is Now
November 25th
Curfew – Black Doll’s Eyes
November 28th
Aislinn Logan – Carry Me in From the Car
December 5th
Dove Ellis – Blizzard
December 12th