New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026

Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this story_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 Olivia Rodrigo, Madonna, Ariana Grande, Paul McCartney, Drake, Broken Social Scene, Muna, Rostam, The Field, Lykke Li, Aldous Harding, Iceage, Kurt Vile, Tyla, Boards of Canada, Kevin Morby, Death Cab for Cutie, Vince Staples, Ana Roxanne, Olof Dreijer, Thaiboy Digital, and plenty more. This guide features streaming and digital release dates and will be updated regularly.

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May 5

Alabaster DePlume: Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue [International Anthem]

May 8

Aldous Harding: Train on the Island [4AD]

Basement: Wired [Run For Cover]

Black Milk: Ceremonial [Computer Ugly]

Broken Social Scene: Remember the Humans [Arts & Crafts]

Cola: Cost of Living Adjustment [Fire Talk]

Croz Boyce: Croz Boyce [Domino]

Fire-Toolz: Lavender Networks [Warp]

Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben Tzur, and the Rajasthan Express: Ranjha [World Circuit]

JWords: Sound Therapy [Self-released]

The Lemon Twigs: Look for Your Mind! [Captured Tracks]

Little Simz: Sugar Girl EP [AWAL]

Loraine James: Detached From the Rest of You [Hyperdub]

Lykke Li: The Afterparty [Neon Gold/Futures]

Muna: Dancing on the Wall [Saddest Factory/Secretly Group]

Namasenda: Limbo [Year0001]

Olof Dreijer: Loud Bloom [DH2/Dirty Hit]

Thaiboy Digital: Paradise [Bank of Star Sound System]

Tygapaw: Together You Gather All Power Applied Worldwide [Tresor]

New music releases for Friday, May 8, 2026, include: Lykke Li: The Afterparty [Neon Gold/Futures]

May 15

Dua Saleh: Of Earth & Wires [Ghostly International]

Drake: Iceman [OVO Sound/Republic Records]

horsegiirL: NATURE IS HEALING [RCA Records]

ETA IVtet: Happy Today [International Anthem]

The Field: Now You Exist [Studio Barnhus]

Kevin Morby: Little Wide Open [Dead Oceans]

Peter Frampton: Carry the Light [UMe]

Rostam: American Stories [Matsor Projects]

Smerz: Easy EP [Escho]

Spencer Krug: Same Fangs [Pronounced Kroog]

Touch Girl Apple Blossom: Graceful [Perennial/K Records]

New music releases for Friday, May 15, 2026, include: Kevin Morby: Little Wide Open [Dead Oceans]

May 21

Jpegmafia: Experimental Rap [AWAL]

May 22

Aja Monet: The Color of the Rain [Drink Sum Wtr]

Bleachers: Everyone for Ten Minutes [Dirty Hit]

Ecca Vandal: Looking for People to Unfollow [Loma Vista Recordings]

Ed O’Brien: Blue Morpho [Transgressive]

Gun Outfit: Process & Reality [Upset the Rhythm]

Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt: Almost Waking [Unheard of Hope]

Marisa Anderson: The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music [THRILL JOCKEY]

Ted Lucas: Images of Life [Third Man Records]

Visible Cloaks: Paradessence [RVNG Intl.]

May 29

Boards of Canada: Inferno [Warp]

Dogstar: All in Now [Dillon Street]

Doublespeak: Doublespeak [London Records]

Greg Mendez: Beauty Land [Dead Oceans]

Iceage: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter [Mexican Summer]

Káryyn: Physics Universal Love Language (Pull) [Mute]

Kikù Hibino / Merzbow: Rococo ∞ Echomatter [Superpang]

Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me [Verve]

Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane [MPL/Capitol]

Willie Nelson: Dream Chaser [Legacy Records]

Young M.A.: Kween [M.A. Music / 3D]

New music releases for Friday, May 29, 2026, include: Boards of Canada: Inferno [Warp]

June 5

Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin [Thirty Tigers]

Converge: Hum of Heart [Deathwish]

Death Cab for Cutie: I Built You a Tower [Anti-]

DJ Seinfeld: If This Is It [Ninja Tune]

Hammok: When Does This Place Become Our Scene [Sargent House]

horsegiirL: Nature Is Healing [RCA Records]

Lee “Scratch” Perry: Spatial, No Problem [Domino]

Lizzo: Bitch [Atlantic/Nice Life]

Lyra Pramuk: Hymnal (Resung) [Pop.Soil/7k]

Of Montreal: Aethermead [Polyvinyl]

Pleasure Systems: Leave It in the Sand [Ending Music]

Tara Clerkin Trio: Somewhere Good [World Of Echo]

Vince Staples: Cry Baby [Loma Vista]

Widowspeak: Roses [Captured Tracks]

New music releases for Friday, June 5, 2026, include: Vince Staples: Cry Baby [Loma Vista]

June 12

Baauer: U [LuckyMe]

CFCF: L.U.V. [BGM Solutions]

Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! [RVNG Intl.]

Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God [Dirty Hit]

Olivia Rodrigo: You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love [Geffen]

Ruth Garbus: Profound [Orindal]

Sublime: Until the Sun Explodes [Atlantic]

New music releases for Friday, June 12, 2026, include: Olivia Rodrigo: You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love [Geffen]

June 19

Tucker Zimmerman: Dream Me a Dream [Big Potato]

Warning: Rituals of Shame [Relapse]

June 26

Beth Orton: The Ground Above [Partisan]

Book of Love: Book of Love [reissue] [Rhino Records]

Chanel Beads: Your Day Will Come [Jagjaguwar]

Downtown Boys: Public Luxury [Sub Pop]

Girl Trouble: As Is [K Records]

Madeon: Victory [Mom+Pop]

Muse: _The Wow!