Here’s a rundown of new releases out today, including new albums and EPs on DSPs and physical releases in record shops this week.
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New Albums and Releases
New Albums
Gorillaz – The Mountain
The ninth studio album from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s cartoon band was first performed in full in 2025 Gorillaz’s 25th anniversary House of Kong show, and is the first released on the band’s own label Kong.
The album is inspired by the pair’s time in India after they experienced the loss of close family members prior spending time there, and thus the album is a conceptual work exploring ideas of death and the afterlife.
The Mountain features posthumous appearances from previous guests Dennis Hopper, Bobby Womack, David Jolicoeur from De La Soul, Tony Allen, Proof, and Mark E. Smith along with Kara Jackson, IDLES, Yasiin Bey, Omar Souleyman, Johnny Marr, Black Thought and more.
Mitski – Nothing’s About to Happen to Me
The eighth album from Mitsuki Laycock / Miyawaki on Dead Oceans returns with live instrumentation by touring band The Land with ensemble arrangements. Patrick Hyland produces.The album arrives while Mitski is currently writing the music and lyrics for the musical adaptation of The Queen’s Gambit and shortly after the release of her concert film/live album Mitski: The Land.
Bill Callahan – My Days of 58
The gentleman singer-songwriter releases his eighth solo album and first since 2022.
Recorded with live band – guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi and drummer Jim White – and Bill rehearsed with each member one on one before embellishing the basic recordings he made with them. They were joined by Richard Bowden on fiddle, pianist Pat Thrasher, bassist Chris Vreeland, trombonist Mike St. Clair and pedal steel player Bill McCullough.
“With this record I kept thinking of it as a ‘living room record.’ I’m not talking about fidelity at all here. Living room attitude. Living room vibe. Not too loud, not otherworldly. I asked for the horns to be relaxed like someone on the couch playing, not a blast from heaven or hell.”
“The goal of every record at the recording part of the process is to get thrown out of Eden. Every session starts in Eden but you have to get out of there at some point.”
E the Artist – Six
Leitrim label Nyahh Records takes on an alternative style than recent releases of trad and ambient but sticks with the off-kilter with the debut longform release from Nigerian-born, Dublin-based E The Artist, whose work inspired by AfroPunkism recontextualises contemporary black club genres with emphasis on noise.
Six is billed as “an incendiary opus of blown-out electronics and daring sonic abstractions, inspired by the seven seals, that posits E as a daring force within the Irish underground.”
Guest features are drawn from friends Julia Louise Knifefist, Ruby Eastwood, Mel Keane and KRAF.
E The Artist plays Tengu on March 28th.
Rosie Carney – Doomsday… Don’t Leave Me Here
Hampshire-born, Irish singer-songwriter Rosie Carney’s new album was co-produced by Ross MacDonald of The 1975 and Ed Thomas and stretches her folk origins of her music with shoegaze, alt-pop, and electronic textures.
Also informing the record, was Carney’s experiences of “severe existential dread, and feeling like I’m about to die” after the release of second album i wanna feel happy.
Ria Rua – S.C.A.P.E.G.O.A.T
Irish alt-rock artist, drummer and producer Ria Rua releases a debut album with preoccupying themes of sex, power and freedom.
The music draws on grunge, electronic rock and industrial with a clarion call for a better future – “music that sounds like an angry soundtrack to the looming collapse.”
“S C A P E G.O.A.T. is a protest album. It’s personal – in that all the songs are about my experiences in the world – but at its core it’s about getting angry and standing up for yourself in a world that’s gone mad.”
Buck Meek – The Mirror
Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek’s latest love-centred solo work finds him teaming up with his band’s drummer and producer James Krivchenia settled on melding the band’s live sound with an “oblique electronic world,” as evident in Krivchenia’s own work.
Practically, this meant playing their instruments in a room together which triggered modular synthesizers. It also features Big Thief singer Adrianne Lenker on vocals, Adam Brisbin on guitar, Ken Woodward on bass while composer and ambient musician Alex Somers joined in on synthesizer, toy microphone, an old piano; Mary Lattimore on harp and a rotating cast of four drummers: Jesse Quebbeman-Turley, Jonathan Wilson, Kyle Crane, and Krivchenia. Jermaine Dunes, Staci Foster, Jolie Holland, and Lenker sing as a choir on many songs. Meek’s brother, Dylan Meek contributed piano, keys, and vocals. Adrian Olsen created a wide range of sounds and melodies with modular synths.
Geese – Live at Third Man Records
Just weeks before unveiling their highly anticipated third studio album Getting Killed, New York City’s Geese took the stage at The Blue Room at Third Man Records in Nashville, TN, to debut the record in full. The special performance — recorded live, direct-to-acetate — captured the band’s raw intensity and the electricity of a sold-out crowd hanging on every note.
Iron & Wine – Hen’s Teeth
“I’ve always wanted to use that title,” Sam Beam says of Hen’s Teeth, his eighth full-length album and his sixth for Sub Pop Records. “I just love it. To me it suggests the impossible. Hen’s teeth do not exist. And that’s what this record felt like: a gift that shouldn’t be there but it is. An impossible thing but it’s real.”
Hen’s Teeth and his previous album, Light Verse, are siblings of a sort. They were recorded during the same sessions after a year’s-long dry spell, with the same band, at Waystation studio in Laurel Canyon. “When I’ve been on a writing kick, and the band can meet me where I’m at, they push me into something I hadn’t imagined. I’m at a point in my life where spontaneity is a lot more important to me. I don’t have as much to prove as I used to. I’m a lot freer and I love making music more than ever. There are no right or wrong answers. You just pray for your luck and try your best.”
Archive – Glass Minds
South London collective, whose music crosses electronic, trip hop, avant-garde, post-rock and progressive rock and who started out in 1994 return with their thirteenth album.
Initiated by the core quartet, the record embraces a minimal, down-tempo sound with expansive, emotive space.
Also released this week
- Calum Agnew – Bad Boy EP
- David August – Hymns
- DEADLETTER – Existence is Bliss
- Joey Valence & Brae – HYPERYOUTH (afterparty)
- Lala Lala – Heaven 2
- Maria BC – Marathon
- Master Peace – Stupid Kids
- Polar Bolero – Singing and Sailing Away EP
- RJD2 & Supastition – According To…
- Saltaire – Only Midnight EP
- Tinlicker – Dreams of The Machine
- Various – Toy Tonic presents Wild Style House Vol. 1
- Voxtrot – Dreamers in Exile
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