In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on February 20, 2026:
Baby Keem, Ca$ino
Baby Keem has returned with a new album, Ca$ino, following up 2021’s The Melodic Blue. It spans 11 tracks and boasts guest appearances from his cousin Kendrick Lamar, Too Short, Momo Boys, and Che Ecru. The record’s announcement was accompanied by a YouTube documentary that featured Lamar describing Keem’s upbringing. “I understand the hardships before he was born,” he said. Knowing his mom, that’s my first cousin. “I already knew what she was going through, just the history of our family in general. We don’t call ourselves the hillbillies for nothing. This is a story of a warfare environment and a warfare, psychologically, to try and change our generational curses.”
Peaches, No Lube So Rude
Dance-punk icon Peaches is back from a decade-long hiatus with the rambunctious, unabashedly sultry new album No Lube So Rude. Marking her first release on the storied label Kill Rock Stars, the record slithers from one fired-up anthem to the next, taking cues from the rise of hyperpop while switching up the provocateur’s palette on songs like ‘Pana Cotta Delight’, ‘Take It’, and ‘Be Love’, which are almost soulful by contrast. Recorded with producer The Squirt Deluxe in Berlin, it doesn’t end without scatologically affirming Peaches’ own status: “I’m iconic, you’re colonic.”
Mumford & Sons, Prizefighter
Mumford & Sons recorded their sixth studio album with producer Aaron Dessner at New York’s Long Pond Studios. Prizefighter, the folk trio’s first LP since 2019’s Rushmere, features guest appearances from Gracie Abrams, Hozier, Chris Stapleton, and Gigi Perez. “We feel like we’re hitting our prime as a creative force,” Marcus Mumford said in press materials. “We’re putting everything we have into this now, and we’re using everything about our experience so far to embrace exactly who we are. We’re comfortable in our skins these days. And Prizefighter is us going for it – serious and playful, sometimes bruised and always hopeful. We’re nowhere near done yet.”
Liz Cooper, New Day
“I lie about my height but I’m honest with my heart,” Liz Cooper sings on the title track of her new album New Day, opening the door to her playfully sincere songwriting. With roots in Nashville’s Americana scene, Cooper found herself amplifying her guitar and livening up her introspective songs with psychedelic production. “I struggled so much while writing this record,” Cooper reflected in press materials. “I felt like I wasn’t allowed to come out – I was dealing with a lot of internalized homophobia. Celebrating my queerness and understanding who I am has been a long process. Every day is a new day of coming out to myself and to everyone around me. I’m very proud to be making music that feels honest to me and my experience.”
Hen Ogledd, DISCOMBOBULATED
Hen Ogledd have unveiled a kaleidoscopic, fanciful new album of avant-folk titled DISCOMBOBULATED. The British four-piece – Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson, and Sally Pilkington – laid down the LP with producer Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle. “There’s something to Hen Ogledd that’s really not like a normal band,” Dawson said in a press release. “It’s something… else.” Pilkingto added: “Maybe Hen Ogledd is more like a family than a band. There’s something really special about having kids’ voices in the music.”
Other albums out today:
Hilary Duff, luck… or something; Mx Lonely, All Monsters; The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, Deface the Currency; Moby, Future Quiet; Christina Vantzou, The Reintegration of the Ear; Nathan Fake, Evaporator; Leigh-Anne, My Ego Told Me To; New Found Glory, Listen Up!; Lucid Express, Instant Comfort; Arthur Clees, All of the Days That Go By; Naïka, ECLESIA; Dominique Fils-Aimé, My Wo; Marielle V Jakobsons, The Patterns Lost to Air.
