In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on February 27, 2026:
Mitski, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me
Mitski has followed up 2023’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We with Nothing’s About to Happen to Me. As beautifully pastoral as her last record, with live instrumentation by the band that accompanied her on The Land tour, Mitski’s startling eighth album gestures at a cohesive narrative rather than breathing life into a series of interconnected vignettes. Still, there’s more than one way to connect the dots: from one song to the next, from new to old, nothing to everything. Just listen, though, and you might find her longest album (at 35 minutes) to also be her boldest statement to date. Read the full review.
Gorillaz, The Mountain
Gorillaz are back with their ninth album, The Mountain. As grandly ambitious as you’d expect, the album was inspired by India – and features Indian artists such as Asha Bhosle, Asha Puthli, and Anoushka Shankar – while concerning itself with loss and grief. Its 15 tracks also include collaborations with Ajay Prasanna, Amaan & Ayaan Ali Bangash, Bizarrap, Black Thought, Gruff Rhys, IDLES, Jalen Ngonda, Johnny Marr, Kara Jackson, Omar Souleyman, Paul Simonon, Sparks, Trueno, and Yasiin Bey.
Bruno Mars, The Romantic
Bruno Mars’s first solo album in a decade, The Romantic, has arrived. Clocking in at just over 30 minutes, the record prizes succinct pop songcraft and pristine production while proudly wearing its ’70s influences on its sleeve. It was preceded by the single ‘I Just Might’, and today’s release is accompanied by a music video for ‘Risk It All’ that sees Mars fronting a mariachi band.
Nothing, a short history of decay
Nothing‘s fifth album and Run for Cover debut, a short history of decay, arrives six years after The Great Dismal. That gap allowed Frontman Domenic “Nicky” Palermo to reflect on both his upbringing and the toll of keeping the band going with a renewed perspective. One of the inspirations he talked about in our interview is Williams H. Gass’ The Tunnel, which is about a professor writing a book about World War II that turns into more of a biography of his life. “As he’s writing, it becomes more and more increasingly clear that his life is built around things not to be super proud or happy about,” he explained, “to the point where it’s so devastating for him to read himself. It very much just came really close to home here about me feeling inadequate or ashamed of what I’m writing about along this process.”
Buck Meek, The Mirror
On his new album The Mirror, Buck Meek infuses moments of playfully tender intimacy with a touch of the surreal. He’s joined by his brother and keyboardist Dylan, bassist Ken Woodward, harpist Mary Lattimore, and Big Thief bandmates Adrianne Lenker and James Krivchenia, the latter of whom also produced the record. Jesse Quebbeman-Turley, Jonathan Wilson, Kyle Crane, and Krivchenia make up its rotating cast of drummers, while Germaine Dunes, Staci Foster, Jolie Holland, and Lenker sing as a choir on several tracks.
Maria BC, Marathon
Following 2022’s Hyaline and 2023’s Spike Field, Maria BC‘s new album places an emphasis on songwriting over the gauzy, fragmented production that marked their earlier work. Hazy synths, twitching rhythms, and a blur of overlapping instrumentation still add nuance and density to the songs, but you can imagine them stripped of their textural brilliance, still hauntingly resonant. In our recent conversation, Marissa Nadler – with whom the Oakland musician is currently touring – told Maria BC: “The interesting thing about being vaguely ambient musicians for both of us is that without the verb, and without the dream zone additions, I think that your music still stands up very strongly, even if you were to play unplugged on the street. That’s, to me, the mark of a great songwriter.”
cootie catcher, Something We All Got
cootie catcher have come through with their second album, Something We All Got, via Carpark. Mixed by Water From Your Eyes/This Is Lorelei’s Nate Amos, the record deftly balances playful irreverence with honest frustration, twee sensibilities with an undercurrent of melancholy. Sophia Chavez, Anita Fowl, and Nolan Jakupovski have distinct songwriting perspectives, but their lyrics – and voices – intertwine in ways that highlight the Toronto band’s cohering vision.
deathcrash, Somersaults
With Somersaults, deathcrash have delivered an unabashedly nostalgic yet optimistically communal follow-up to 2023’s Less. “This record comes from a place of growing up, and giving up on adolescent dreams,” bassist Patrick Fitzgerald said in press materials, though its sense of place is intercontinental, amplifying the songs’ emotional breadth. Vocalist/guitarist Tiernan Banks added, “Adolescence is feeling like you’re gonna live forever, but also that you want to die right now – and they’re basically the same feeling. And then growing up is somewhere much more in the middle. It’s less exciting, but it’s more sustainable. It’s like losing the idealisation of the beginning stages of a relationship – you and them against the world – and being sad that it’s gone, but also – thank God. Because what you now have is real.”
Bill Callahan, My Days of 58
The title of Bill Callahan’s new album came at the suggestion of his 10‑year‑old son, who, naturally, had to ask how old his dad was before pitching My Days of 58. It’s framed as a “living room record” in the warmest sense of the word, capturing the feeling of a band playing in the same space, mistakes and all. But it’s still Callahan’s disarming, and maturing, honesty that jumps out of these songs – and how he’d like it to be different from the kind that’s thrown at him on a song like ‘Empathy’, where he addresses his father: “When I was thirty, you said you got by without a father, so you figured why should I have one.” It’s the kind of truth he’s learned to diffuse, soften, and complicate.
Lala Lala, Heaven 2
“Heaven is a moment/ Hell is a life/ I’m forever broke/ Neck against the knife,” Lillie West sings on the title track of her hazily soaring new album, Heaven 2. Produced by Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and mixed by Al Carlson, it marks Lala Lala’s fourth album and first on Sub Pop, following 2021’s I Want the Door to Open. “It’s such a basic spiritual thing,” West said in press materials, “Resistance is the root of all suffering, and I did not know that. I thought that I could dictate the course of my life.”
Iron & Wine, Hen’s Teeth
Iron & Wine has released Hen’s Teeth, a pleasantly sorrowful “sibling album” to 2024’s Light Verse. Sam Beam tracked it during the same sessions and with the same backing band at Laurel Canyon’s Waystation, explaining: “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.”
Ira Dot, In Blue Time
In Blue Time is the debut LP by Ira Dot, the project of Canadian musicians Ryan Akler-Bishop and Eddy Wang. “Melancholia is a big theme in the album. And I feel blueness is the most melancholic of colours. In fact, William Gass calls blue the colour most suited for interior life,” Wang said in our Artist Spotlight interview, adding: “Though blue is melancholically tinged, it’s able to move between states like bright, high, smooth, heavy, etc. I feel that captures the formal dynamics of the album, which is invested in this kind of always moving-ness, interior movement that blue offers.”
GENA, The Pleasure Is Yours
Karriem Riggins and Liv.e have dropped their debut collaborative full-length, The Pleasure Is Yours, which is as lavish as it is emotionally delicate. The duo’s moniker is short for “God Energy, Naturally Amazing,” loosely drawing inspiration by Gina from Martin. The record, released via Lex Records, was preceded by the singles ‘Lead It Up’, ‘HOWWEFLOW’, and ‘Circlesz’.
Other albums out today:
Rosie Carney, Doomsday… Don’t Leave Me Here; Heavenly, Highway to Heavenly; Erin LeCount, PAREIDOLIA; Crooked Fingers, Swet Deth; Landowner, Assumption; Tōth, And the Voice Said; Exek, Prove The Mountains Move; The Wave Pictures, Gained / Lost; Magoo, What a Life; Voxtrot, Dreamers In Exile; Caterina Barbieri & Bendik Giske, At Source; Dog Chocolate, So Inspired, So Done In; Hey Colossus, Heaven Was Wild; Shane Parish, Autechre Guitar; Asher Gamedze, A Semblance of Return.
