In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on January 23, 2026:
Lucinda Williams, World’s Gone Wrong
Lucinda Williams sharpens her social commentary on World’s Gone Wrong, which is full of searing protest songs. It includes nine original tracks, as well as a cover of Bob Marley’s ‘So Much Trouble in the World’ featuring a standout appearance from Mavis Staples. “’So Much Trouble In The World’ was a song that hit me right away, and we had been messing around with for a few years,” Williams reflected. “When the new album started to take on a topical nature we knew that we absolutely had to get it recorded. It was a centerpiece of the record and who better to get to sing it with me than Mavis Staples. I am so thrilled that the two of us could finally do something together, and on such an amazing song.” The album was co-produced by Tom Overby and Ray Kennedy.
Megadeth, Megadeth
Megadeth, the thrash metallers’ seventeenth and final studio album, has arrived. It marks their only album with guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari, as well as their first since 2009’s Endgame to feature bassist James LoMenzo. In addition to its ten main tracks, it includes two bonus songs: a cover of Metallica’s ‘Ride the Lightning’, which Dave Mustaine helped write before his departure from that band, and ‘Bloodlust’. The singles ‘Let There Be Shred!, ‘I Don’t Care’, and ‘Tipping Point’ preceded the LP.
Searows, Death in the Business of Whaling
Northwest singer-songwriter and guitarist Alec Duckart has returned with a new Searows LP, Death in the Business of Whaling. As evocative as its title – taken from Herman Mellville’s Moby-Dick: “Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity” – the album finds Duckart using fiction to abstract the emotions and ideas in his songwriting. “I started letting myself write about whatever I was interested in without worrying about whether it conveyed something personal in an obvious way,” he said in press materials. Duckart decamped to Washington to record the album with producer Trevor Spencer at Way Out Studios.
Victoryland, My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It
My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It is the debut album by Victoryland, the project of Julian McCamman, whose band Blood split up a few months ago. Continuing his collaborative relationship with producer Dan Howard, the album was recorded between Julian’s Bed Stuy basement and Dan’s Williamsburg studio, landing “somewhere between lo-fi and hi-fi production,” per press materials. It arrives on Good English, which is also home to NYC’s bloodsports.
Other albums out today:
Ari Lennox, Vacancy; Poppy, Empty Hands; Roc Marciano, 656; Louis Tomlinson, How Did I Get Here?; The Format, Boycott Heaven; Van Morrison, Somebody Tried To Sell Me a Bridge; Jo Passed, Away; Katie Tupper, Greyhound; Clare Cooper & Jean-Philippe Gross, Nevers; MIKA, Hyperlove; Julian Lage, Scenes From Above; Emily Manzo, Time in Water.
