In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on April 3, 2026:
Thundercat, Distracted
Thundercat is back with a collaboration-heavy album called Distracted. It’s his first album in six years but continues the exploration of grief that marked its predecessor, It Is What It Is. The LP features a collaboration with the bassist and singer’s late friend Mac Miller, as well as guest spots from A$AP Rocky, Tame Impala, Lil Yachty,m Channel Tres, and Willow. Kenny Beats, Flying Lotus, and the Lemon Twigs contributed additional production. “I don’t think the heartbreak ever stopped,” he said in press materials. “If it ain’t a girl, it’s taxes. If it ain’t taxes, it’s World War III. If it ain’t World War III, it’s a new update to the phone.”
Wendy Eisenberg, Wendy Eisenberg
In both sound and spirit, Wendy Eisenberg is all about embracing the possibility of togetherness. The revelatory self-titled album from the guitarist, songwriter, and composer, out now on Joyful Noise, follows 2024’s Viewfinder, though it first started materializing in 2020 when Eisenberg moved from Massachusetts to Brooklyn. Joining them during the recording were bassist Trevor Dunn, drummer Ryan Sawyer, and co-producer Mari Rubio, who handled pedal steel, synth, and string arrangements. “I was finally around people who accepted me,” Eisenberg reflected. “Many of the songs on this record were written in that new feeling. I wanted it to be incredibly comforting as it describes some massive changes in self-understanding and self-regard. It’s about relief.”
Robber Robber, Two Wheels Move the Soul
Robber Robber’s new album, Two Wheels Move the Soul, was recorded in the wake of an apartment fire that left Nina Cates and Zack James displaced. Relying on the generosity of the Vermont music community, they couch surfed for months, and while that infrastructure may have now seemed like a distant dream, music remained their only constant – “a new familiar place,” to quote ‘Backup Plan’ from their first LP, Wild Guess. Once again, the pair, along with guitarist Will Krulak and bassist Carney Hemler, returned to Little Jamaica Studios to lay down their new album for Fire Talk, Two Wheels Move the Soul, with engineer Benny Yurco. At once groovier and grimier than their debut, it hammers down on the same themes of shaky communication and perpetual unrest as if almost no time has passed between records. Yet through the rubble, they find new ways to navigate their shared space. Read the full review.
Makthaverskan, Glass and Bones
You might have taken one look at Makthaverskan’s name and assumed they were some kind of Scandinavian metal band. The Gothenburg quintet are more of a dream-pop act, and Glass and Bones is their fifth album. I’ve only taken a cursory interest in their music before, but the new record totally changed that: from the moment Maja Milner’s voice comes wailing in, it’s time to fully start paying attention. Even when the songs sound wrought from despair, their exuberant energy – punctuated by dynamic drumming and chiming, prickly guitars – never lets up. “It feels like the aim with this album was to lean even further into who we are,” the band said in press materials. “A fully distilled version of the Makthaverskan sound.”
Arlo Parks, Ambiguous Desire
Arlo Parks has returned with a new album, Ambiguous Desire. Preceded by the singles ‘Get Go’, ‘Heaven’, ‘2SIDED’, and ‘Beams’, the follow-up to My Soft Machine was inspired by the dance music the singer-songwriter was exposed to while club-hopping in Brooklyn and Queens. As she keeps blurring the edges of her sound, Parks’ writing is only getting more incisive in its introspection. “I danced more than ever as I made this record, I made more friends than ever too, found myself in the weird underbelly of New York juke nights, unleashed, laughed and laughed and laughed,” she recalled. “This record has desire at its center. Desire is a life force, it’s a wanting, a yearning, a momentum – we are all alive because there is something or someone we want – desire is an engine. But it is also mysterious, tangled, random, enlightening and HUMAN.”
Angine De Poitrine, Vol. II
After their KEXP session at France’s Rennes Festival went viral, Angine De Poitrine have unleashed another album of confoundingly dancey math-rock. Mining the intersection between party and prog music, Vol. II follows on from 2024’s Vol. I and features the early single ‘Fabienk’. The anonymous duo is composed of “Khn de Poitrine” on microtonal guitars and vocals and “Klek de Poitrine” on percussion and vocals. The band is supporting the release with a world tour, which kicks off today in Montréal.
deary, Birding
Birding is the wondrous debut LP from deary, the dream-pop three-piece of Ben Easton (guitar), Dottie Cockram (vocals, guitar), and Harry Catchpole (drums). “I got really into reading about birds and all these historical stories and poetry about them,” Cockram explained. “You find these beautiful images of birds that represent hope, but they’re also animals. Some of them, like vultures and crows, are a sign of death to some people. They represent all these different elements, which I think sum up a lot of the album.” Easton added, “The album is all about human consequences. Consequences on each other, our own minds, on mental health, on nature. One idea that was quite tangible to us is the idea that humans have the biggest consequences on innocent, vulnerable, sentient beings, like birds, for example. It goes with the vulnerability of our inner selves, or the child in us, which pairs with the album art—a kid trying to fly. It’s very ethereal, but it also has a lot of sad undertones to it as well.”
Sunn O))), Sunn O)))
After signing to Sub Pop, Sunn O))) have returned with their first album in seven years. The drone-metal duo’s self-titled album is incessantly noisy and primitive-sounding, inspired by the natural landscape that surrounded them while recording at Bear Creek Studios, Woodinville, Washington. “The vast tracking room had big windows looking out on trees,” Stephen O’Malley recalled. “We could go hiking and be out in the woods, spend time outdoors. That became a big part of it.” And while their recent work has been heavily collaborative, O’ Malley and Greg Anderson are the sole performs on the LP, which they co-produced with Brad Wood. “What’s been happening with our performances over the last couple years with the two of us and no other collaborators has been really fresh and exciting,” Anderson added.
MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt, SURF GANG, POMPEII // UTILITY
MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt, and SURF have linked up for a new joint tape, POMPEII // UTILITY. The 33-track effort is a double LP, with MIKE handling the first 15 songs and Earl leading the last 18. Disc 1 features Anysia Kym, Jadasea, Niontay, and Na-Kel Smith, while Lerado Khalil guests on the second disc. “I relate to MIKE like my actual sibling,” Sweatshirt said in a recent interview with The Face. “That’s the foundation that made it easy for the project to come together.”
Other albums out today:
Katie Alice Greer, Perfect Woman Sound Machine, Vol. 1; Bruce Hornsby, Indigo Park; Knumears, Directions; Maria Taylor, Story’s End; 41, Area 41; Charley Crockett, Age of the Ram; Larrison, Original Recordings, 1992-1999; Joe Pernice, Sunny, I Was Wrong; Swae Lee, Same Difference; Poison Ruin, Hymns from the Hills; Division of Mind, Exoterror; Ber, Good, Like It Should Be; Sofía Rei, Antónima; Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Frédéric D. Oberland, Eternal Life No End ليلة ظلماء ملعونة، كحياة طالبيها; Los Retros, Odisea; Billy Fuller, Fragments; Sam Barber, Broken View; Sophia Yau-Weeks, Misty Mountain.
