Here’s a rundown of recommended 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
Album of the week is Nine Inch Noize – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross with Boys Noize – whose Coachella Sahara tent set last weekend was declared one of the festival’s greatest-ever, and whose companion album lands today ahead of a second Coachella appearance this Saturday. It’s a one-off: no tour, no future dates, just this.
Also today: TOMORA, the debut from Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers and Aurora; M.I.A.’s seventh album, a Biblical concept record made in seven countries; Tiga’s first album in over a decade, Yaya Bey’s most emotionally expansive record, Jessie Ware’s sixth album Superbloom, From Ireland: Cable Boy debut with Forever, NO PHOTOS debut with Strand, a Sister Ghost EP, and Spacing’s debut EP.
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Nine Inch Noize – Nine Inch Noize (The Null Corporation/Boysnoize Records)
What started as a film score connection became a live experiment became one of Coachella 2026’s defining moments. The seeds were planted when Boys Noize (Alexander Ridha, German-Iraqi DJ and producer) turned Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s Challengers score into a continuous dance remix, then contributed additional production to Tron: Ares. From there, Reznor invited Ridha to join Nine Inch Nails on a second stage during the Peel It Back tour – a small platform in the middle of the crowd, delivering electronic reworks of NIN material while the main set played around them. The chemistry proved undeniable. “The creative fulfillment of working on the Challengers and TRON scores with Boys Noize led me to think that including him in the Peel It Back tour could be an interesting way to express NIN in more purely electronic terms,” Reznor explains. “The result was so much fun for us we felt it was worth expanding and formalising in some way.”
On a whim, Reznor proposed a full set as Nine Inch Noize in Coachella’s Sahara tent. With Reznor’s wife Mariqueen Maandig – singer of How to Destroy Angels – completing the live lineup, the Weekend One set has been mentioned more than once as one of the festival’s greatest performances in memory. The album, recorded across studios, hotels, planes and live settings, mirrors that setlist in track order. 12 reimaginings: ‘Vessel’, ‘She’s Gone Away’, ‘Heresy’, ‘Copy Of A’, ‘Me I’m Not’, ‘Closer’, ‘Came Back Haunted’, ‘As Alive As You Need Me To Be’ from Tron: Ares; plus a cover of How to Destroy Angels’ ‘Parasite’ and Soft Cell’s ‘Memorabilia’. Released as Halo 38 in the NIN numbering system.
Reznor has made it clear this is a one-off: no tour, no future dates beyond this Saturday’s Coachella appearance. “I’m taking Sunday off and excited to be working on new Nine Inch Nails music Monday – I’ll see you when I come up for air. Listen LOUD.”
Jessie Ware – Superbloom (Island/EMI)
The sixth studio album from the London singer-songwriter who cemented her place as one of the finest disco-pop artists around with What’s Your Pleasure? (2020) and That! Feels Good! (2023).
13 tracks, produced with James Ford, Barney Lister, Karma Kid, Jon Shave (Charli XCX) and Stuart Price (Madonna, Pet Shop Boys), mixed by Ben Baptie (Sault, Little Simz, Adele). Ware A&R’d the record herself, as she has done since What’s Your Pleasure?.
“Since What’s Your Pleasure? I’ve been trying out this fantasy world and escapism,” she explains. “While I love dance music, I wanted to dig deeper with this record – to connect with real relationships and appreciate the love I have, and the fears I have of losing it.” Lead single ‘I Could Get Used to This’ is a lush disco-R&B opener featuring her first-ever key change, co-written with Miranda Cooper and Jon Shave of Xenomania. ‘Ride’, ‘Automatic’ and the title track have followed. Grace Jones, Whitney Houston and Barbra Streisand are cited as key touchstones.
TOMORA – Come Closer (Capitol/Fontana)
The debut album from TOMORA – the collaboration between Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers and Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora. Their relationship goes back to Aurora contributing to three tracks on the Chemical Brothers’ 2019 album No Geography, and then Rowlands producing on her 2024 album What Happened to the Heart?. The duo began studio sessions without any intention of making an album, Rowlands says: “We made it without obligation or expectation, just a joy in creation. It’s the sound where we meet, the landing zone of our musical escape pods.”
The project was first teased with Rowlands playing unannounced tracks in DJ sets in mid-2025, before ‘Ring the Alarm’ was released in December. The name TOMORA – which is also Japanese for “friendly companion on earth” – began appearing on festival lineups including Coachella, generating considerable press speculation. Coachella this weekend; summer festivals include Oya, Down The Rabbit Hole, NOS Alive, Bilbao BBK Live and Sziget. Heineken Greenlight show this May in Dublin.
M.I.A. – M.I.7 (OHMNIMUSIC)
The seventh studio album from M.I.A. – seven tracks, recorded in seven places in seven days across London, L.A., Ethiopia, Egypt, India and Australia – released independently via her own OHMNIMUSIC label.
Described as her “answer to a gospel album,” M.I.7 takes its structural inspiration from the Book of Revelation, offering “a spiritual lens for understanding our current times.” More intimate, more ancestral and more existential than her previous work, and – unusually for M.I.A. – the press release specifically says the album “leaves politics at the door.” She’s also released a line of 10G Blocking Merch.
Tour alongside Kid CuDi from late April.
Cable Boy – Forever
The debut album from Dublin five-piece Cable Boy (Jason Aikhionbare, Fionn McLoughlin, Liam Murray, Semilore Olusa and Corneille Tshibasu) who have been building steadily since 2018. Forever was produced by the band with Adam Shanahan and David Tapley of Tandem Felix.
The album cements the band moving away from their earlier dreamy indie sound into a “goth disco” thing with fuzzy guitars, shoegaze, surf pop, power-pop, and jangle sounds.
Irish tour to follow: Croilar, Athlone (April 17th) Belfast Oh Yeah Music Centre (April 25th), Róisín Dubh Galway (May 1st), Wavelength Cork (May 8th), Grand Social Dublin (May 15th), London Irish Centre (May 17th)
NO PHOTOS – Strand
Debut album from Dublin alt-pop three-piece NO PHOTOS who are vocalist Zach Okay, vocalist/guitarist Casper Ivy and producer Erik Konijn and who started out as a bigger band.
Strand is a “melancholic alt-pop album about losing friends and time passing by,” with nature-inspired sounds and dips to and alternative hip-hop and acoustic indie pop. It’s a much softer and gentler sound from the band’s early work – informed by those recent times, and changing from a six-piece to a three-piece in the process of making the album in a cabin Denmark.
This project, Strand, has been growing and transforming along with us, new songs were being written about what we were going through and old songs were gaining entirely new meanings. Over time this project started to become a physical, ever-changing part of us and a testament to this difficult time we went through as a group.” He adds, “getting the album finished and released has been the light at the end of the tunnel we’ve been following for the past year.”
Honey Dijon – The Nightlife
A new album from Chicago-born, New York-based DJ and producer Honey Dijon, rooted in club culture but expansive in scope moving between intimacy, euphoria and release. At its core the record is about connection: the fleeting, the physical, the spiritual, told through a distinctly modern house lens, balancing reverence for the music’s foundations with a forward-facing personal sound.
The guest list is deep: the title track opens the record with Chlöe; ‘Slight Werk’ features Bree Runway; ‘Just Friends’ brings together bassist Adi Oasis, Danielle Ponder and SUNI MF for something built on late-night tension and restraint; ‘Rush Me’ with Mahalia takes a softer, more vulnerable turn; ‘I Like It Hot’ with Greentea Peng goes hazy and psychedelic; ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ features Madison McFerrin; ‘Private Eye’ and ‘New Wave Groove’ both feature Rochelle Jordan, the latter stretching deep into rhythmic, hypnotic dancefloor territory. ‘Satisfied’ featuring Jacob Lusk – soulful, devotional and quietly powerful, built around rich instrumentation and Lusk’s soaring vocal, channelling longing and fulfilment in equal measure.
The album arrives alongside an intimate Nightlife tour – a deliberate move back into smaller, community-driven venues. She’s already played Fold in London with a listening event at 180 Studios. Upcoming dates include Knockdown Center New York (April 24th), Time Warp Miami (April 25th), Field Day London (May 23rd) and AVA Festival Belfast (May 29th).
Tiga – HOTLIFE (Secret City Records)
The fourth album from Montreal’s Tiga and his first in over a decade: 12 tracks of relentless electro-pop, techno and dancefloor hedonism on his own Turbo Recordings. The guest list spans Boys Noize, Fcukers, MRD, Gesloten Cirkel, Paranoid London, Maara, and Montreal studio duo Priori and Patrick Holland. Closer ‘Ecstasy Surrounds Me’ – co-written with Matthew Dear – has been circulating as a DJ ID since 2023 and is finally here. ‘Silk Scarf’ with Fcukers was the pre-album single that suggested exactly what kind of album this would be: fearless, genre-agnostic, built for the party, and carrying Tiga’s signature self-aware charm intact.
KhakiKid – Girl Bites Dog EP (10k Projects)
The fourth project from Dublin-born Irish-Libyan alternative rapper and singer KhakiKid is five tracks produced collaboratively by F3miii and London-born Louis Stanley Isaac. The title flips the old newsroom phrase “man bites dog”. He arrives here fresh from selling out the 3Olympia Theatre, a venue he had printed out in black and white and sellotaped to his wall years earlier as a target.
The five tracks move across upbeat alternative rap, funk chord progressions and bass riffs. Guests include Kojaque on ‘Rude’ and Kildare singer Joe Butler on ‘Shoes Up’ with Jedward featuring in the Trinity Ball-set video. Previous singles ‘Favela’, ‘Moved On’ and ‘Soul’.
Yaya Bey – Fidelity (drink sum wtr)
The Queens-born R&B songwriter returns less than a year after do it afraid with a 16-track album that is by some distance her most ambitious. Self-produced, on her own label. Following the death of her father in 2022, Bey’s music has been working through grief and identity in increasingly complex ways; Fidelity arrives with a new resolve, refusing to shy away from the emotional deluge of the decade, whether in personal loss or the continued weight of living as a Black woman in America. The lead single ‘Blue’ is a flute-kissed ode to accepting sadness rather than outrunning it: “Baby, you look blue, and baby, the sky is, too.”
Spacing – Rayleigh Scattering EP
Debut EP from Spacing, the project of Wicklow musician Evan Bruton, out today. Five tracks of billowy synth and electronic-laden shoegaze vocal productions.
Taking its title from the optical phenomenon that causes the sky to appear blue – white light scattered by particles in the atmosphere, its shorter wavelengths bending more than longer ones – the EP’s title gives a sense of the kind of expansive, light-bending sound Bruton is reaching for.
I’m With Her – Sing Me Alive (Rounder Records)
A live album from the American folk trio of Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan, drawn from eight shows across their 2025 tour in support of Wild and Clear and Blue – the album that won the Grammy for Best Folk Album earlier this year. Twenty tracks recorded across Atlanta, Santa Fe, Toronto, Davis, Charleston, Nashville and Denver, including ‘Ancient Light’, ‘Call My Name’, ‘Wild and Clear and Blue’, and a cover of Paul Simon’s ‘Obvious Child’. O’Donovan grew up in a family steeped in Irish traditional music and has been a fixture of the American folk scene since her Crooked Still days; Watkins came up through Nickel Creek; Jarosz has been one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of her generation since she was a teenager.
Ye Vagabonds feature on this.
Sister Ghost – Oracle EP
Four tracks from Derry musician Shannon Delores O’Neill, the project she describes as a spectral fusion of art-rock and dark power-pop – drawing on the raw grit of the Seattle sound, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith’s poetic rebellion and Kate Bush. Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Brad Wood (Liz Phair, Veruca Salt, Smashing Pumpkins, Placebo) and drummer Jeff Friedl (A Perfect Circle, Devo). The same team recorded her 2025 debut album Beyond The Water, which was shortlisted for the NI Music Prize.
Beyond the music, O’Neill founded Girls Rock! NI in 2016, a grassroots initiative empowering female and gender-expansive musicians across the North of Ireland.
Also released this week
- Adrian Younge – Younge
- Burned As Witches – Burned As Witches (Ash drummer solo project)
- Flying Lotus – 1983
- Om Unit – Oracles EP
- Mother Mary – Mother Mary: Greatest Hits (Anne Hathaway film)
- ROSALÍA – LUX (Complete Works) – vinyl version now on streaming
Previous New Albums features:
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
