In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on April 10, 2026:
My New Band Believe, My New Band Believe
The phrase “My New Band Believe” was revealed to Cameron Picton during a bout of food poisoning while the musician was touring China with his longtime band black midi. Around 40 musicians play on this self-titled album, including Kiran Leonard, Caius Williams, Steve Noble, Andrew Cheetham, Black Country, New Road’s Charlie Wayne, shame’s Josh Finerty, and members of caroline. The result is delirious yet earnest, knotty yet improbably endearing. Ahead of its release, the group shared the single ‘Love Story’ as well as a couple of non-album tracks.
WU LYF, A Wave That Will Never Break
Produced by Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, A Wave That Will Never Break arrives 15 years after WU LYF’s debut album. It’s being released by the group’s L Y F community and is not available on any streaming services. Impassioned, skybound, and often hypnotic, the 8-track LP was previewed by the singles ‘Love Your Fate’ and ‘The Fool’. The group shared: “Way back in 2010 when we first sold the white on white bandana with the Heavy pop / Concrete Gold 12″—We foresaw a community of like-minds that would gather around the flame of our music, and through whose direct support we could operate with freedom, autonomy & the truth; to play our own (infinite) game—alas we were young, foolish, and didn’t have the means or the infrastructure for the impulse to reach its full potential. Now 15 years later here we are—the initial version of the L Y F membership platform has been an experimental proof of concept—we have learnt a lot from it over the past year and behind the scenes we have been building Version 2.0.”
Lime Garden, Maybe Not Tonight
Lime Garden have returned with their sophomore album, Maybe Not Tonight, following up their 2024 debut One More Thing. Despite emerging from a period described as a collective “mass breakup,” the album is vibrant and ambitious, tapping into the group’s adolescent dreams of making it. “By making this record, we’ve come back to what it felt like when we started the band,” Chloe Howard explained. “When we were 17 and thought we were the shit, and nobody could tell us different. We’ve got this fresh feeling that we deserve to be here. That’s a special thing.” She added, “Part of the ethos of the record is about addressing, rather than ignoring, all the shitty things you’ve done. You have to actually face up to yourself.”
Holly Humberstone, Cruel World
Holly Humberstone has released her sophomore album, Cruel World. Coasting on pristine and measured pop songcraft, it’s sunnier than British singer-songwriter’s 2023 debut Paint My Bedroom Black, though her songwriting still shines most in the moments of gothic introspection that dominate the album’s back half. “This feels like my work more than before,” Humberstone reflected in press materials. “I’m in control of everything. No is a complete sentence. I just wanted to make something I’ll be proud of looking back at, something that is mine.”
Hannah Lew, Hannah Lew
Hannah Lew of Grass Widow and Cold Beat has come through with her debut self-titled album. Equal parts hooky and dreamlike, the album was crafted with producer Maryam Qudus (Toro Y Moi, La Luz) and mastered by Sarah Register. It was led by the single ‘Another Twilight’, about which Lew said: “Another Twilight is a goodbye song. It’s about coming to terms with change and being OK with it. Kind of the turning point where lamenting over a break up turns into ownership of a current state, not dwelling on the past. It’s about moving on!”
Rachel Lime, STORIES
Five years after her otherworldly debut A.U., Rachel Lime has returned with another entrancing collection titled STORIES. The album is self-released, and Lime also painted the album cover, which she wanted “to look like old school fantasy art, the kind I would see on my favorite books at the library growing up.” Reflecting on the record’s lyrical world, she added, “It is an album about protagonists who seek pleasure, who are afraid of it, who are intoxicated by it, who grieve the loss of it. I wanted to create an album that situates the listener fully in their body, while still playing with the literary, cerebral themes I explored in my earlier work.”
Other albums out today:
Squarepusher, Kammerkonzert; Wesley Joseph, Forever Ends Someday; Snoop Dogg, 10 Til’ Midnight; Brown Horse, Total Dive; Gretel, Squish; Prism Shores, Softest Attack; Ella Langley, Dandelion; Rosa Pistola, Incorregible; gobbinjr, crystal rabbit moon; Immolation, Descent; El Ten Eleven, Nowhere Faster; Immolation, Descent; Zachary Mezzo, Home Movies; Love Rarely, Pain Travels; Thomas Stone, The Shunned Path.
