In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on June 5, 2026:
Death Cab for Cutie, I Built a Tower
Death Cab for Cutie are back in top form on I Built a Tower, their 11th LP. As mournful as it is revivifying, the follow-up to 2022’s Asphalt Meadows was previewed by the singles ‘Stone Over Water’, ‘Riptide’, and ‘Punching the Flowers’. “There’s this need to find a place in ourselves to put loss and grief,” Ben Gibbard explained. “A place that can hold it so we can move on with our lives. But there are these moments where the trauma breaks out of that shell we created for it.” Bassist Nick Harmer added: “The whole experience of this record got us back to the earliest versions of this band: If the musicians in the room like what we’re working on, that’s enough. We reconnected with the confidence that comes with that.”
Vince Staples, Cry Baby
“As the world burns, I have decided to release this album,” Vince Staples said in a press release for Cry Baby. “Thanks for listening.” Anchoring in live instrumentation, it’s propulsive and polemical nearly all the way through. Ahead of its arrival, the rapper shared the singles ‘Cotton’, ‘Black Marmalade’, and ‘White Flag’. Following a series of records in partnership with Def Jam and Blacksmith, it marks his first LP for Loma Vista.
Skrillex, SOMA
Just in time for his headlining set at Primavera Sound (which I will be reporting), Skrillex has surprise-released a new album. SOMA spans 13 tracks, including the previously released cuts ‘Duro’, ‘Smoke’, and ‘Thistle’, the record features collaborations with Tracey, Blawan, RHR, Young Miko, Anita B Queen, and more. It follows his 2025 album F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3 as well as the EPs Kora and Hit Me Where It Hurts X. In addition to his performance on the festival’s main stage, Skrillex will present a curated lineup at Primavera Sound’s Cupra Pulse stage on Saturday, which can be livestreamed.
Modest Mouse, An Eraser and a Maze
Modest Mouse have returned with their first independent release in almost 30 years. An Eraser and a Maze, which is both vibrant and viscerally emotive, follows 2021’s The Golden Casket. The group’s eighth studio album initially took shape as an EP for Isaac Brock’s Ugly Casanova side project. “For this one, I turned off my filter and just let it all happen,” he said in press materials. “Even though every goddamn musician says that when they put out a record. I mean, go ahead and listen to the three-minute mark of any interview between a musician and Terry Gross …”
Zoh Amba, Eyes Full
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Zoh Amba makes their debut as a singer-songwriter with Eyes Full, out today via Matador. Featuring Jim White on drums and Kevin Hyland on guitar, with Amba on vocals and mostly acoustic guitar, the searing LP was tracked at Asheville’s Drop of Sun studios. “In my heart, with the writing, it feels like just one soul – it’s not like I split my heart in half, split my brain in half,” Amba said in our Artist Spotlight interview. “So it’s all the same thing. Everything I was trying to do with the saxophone music is everything I’m trying to do in this.”
Widowspeak, Roses
Widowspeak decamped to the Greek island of Hydra to record Roses, but unlike other artists who have recently made records there, they weren’t suffering from the heat. Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas, along with longtime touring members Willy Muse, John Andrews, and Noah Bond, spent time at the Old Carpet Factory last January, a time when the island is remarkably quiet but no less beautiful. Widowspeak’s music opens itself up to daydreaming no matter the time of year, and Roses – languid, entrancing, blissful – is no exception. It’s another album out today whose sound was shaped in part at Drop of Sun, with the studio’s Alex Farrar on mixing duties; mastering was handled by Greg Obis at Chicago Mastering.
Rosa Walton, Tell Me It’s a Dream
At the start of the year, Let’s Eat Grandma’s Jenny Hollingworth released her debut solo album as Jenny on Holiday, and her bandmate Rosa Walton contributed to it. Now, Rosa Walton has come through with her solo debut, Tell Me It’s a Dream, which was co-produced by LEG collaborator David Wrench. Guitarist John Victor, bassist Kam Khan, and drummer Elena Costa play on the record, while Hollingworth sings on ‘Prettier Things’. “The idea of doing a solo project was never about stepping away or doing something on my own for the sake of it,” Walton reflected. “It started as writing to process things and stay grounded, and it grew into something shaped by the people around me and the joy of making music together.”
Bedouine, Neon Skin Summer
Azniv Korkejian started writing her gorgeous new album as Bedouine, Neon Skin Summer, after visiting her family in Saudi Arabia. “For my 20s and much of my 30s, I couldn’t sit still. I was so curious about my own independence that it just didn’t occur to me for the longest time to mourn the past. But after that trip to Saudi Arabia, I came home and was so devastated. I couldn’t place the feeling immediately, but as I started writing, I realized I was processing that I wasn’t ready to stop being somebody’s kid.” She added, “I felt so frustrated about the places that I’m from becoming war torn or difficult to return to. My family has been split apart time and time again, immigrating between Armenia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. I wanted to document and honor my family’s stories.”
Other albums out today:
Of Montreal, Aethermead; horsegiirL, NATURE IS HEALING; SLIFT, Fantasia; Lee “Scratch” Perry, Spatial, No Problem; Deer Tick, Coin-O-Matic; Laura Misch, Lithic; Tara Clerkin Trio, Somewhere Good; Niall Horan, Dinner Party; Bella White, A Sign In the Weather.
