In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on June 19, 2026:
Tierra Whack, WHACK’S MUSEUM
Tierra Whack is right in her comfort zone on WHACK’S MUSEUM: “Aura so bright, it could light arenas,” she sings on the mixtape’s focus track, ‘Totem’. Self-described as her “first true rap project,” it boasts 12 tracks and no features. “A single bar can hold three different meanings,” Whack said in press materials. “Sometimes, I’m saying one thing on the surface but underneath it breaks down into double and triple entendres. WHACK’S MUSEUM isn’t meant to just be heard. It’s meant to be examined.”
Styrofoam Winos, Any River
Nashville’s Styrofoam have followed up 2024’s Real Time with a playful, shapeshifting new album called Any River. Its songs emerged out of jam sessions at Lou Turner and Trevor Nikrant’s home studio before being recorded in Louisville with Roadhouse bandmate and Equipment Pointed Ankh mastermind Jim Marlowe. The cover photo was shot near the studio and shows the band in front of the south fork of Beargrass Creek, an inlet of the Ohio River. Bonnie “Prince” Willy had this to say about the record in press materials: “It’s a sweet alignment of forces, cooperative and collaborative. Music City has reasons for reputations good and not-so-much; here on Any River we feel the sunlight-creep of solid vibes, carrying with them reasons to anticipate the forever-uplift of gentle groove.”
Pond, Terrestrials
Pond are back with Terrestrials, the follow-up to 2024’s Stung!. When they started working on the album, the Australian psychedelic rock band set a few boundaries for themselves: No fuzz pedals, no ballads, and no “Pink Floyd shit.” They drew inspiration from ’80s post-punk, new wave, and goth rock, aiming for a “goths at the pub” sound particularly influenced by the Church, Magazine, Midnight Oil, and the Sisters of Mercy. The record was preceded by the title track, ‘Two Hands’, ‘Through the Heather’, and ‘Skyworks’.
Tucker Zimmerman, Dream Me a Dream
Dream Me a Dream is the final studio album of Tucker Zimmerman, who passed away in January at the age of 84. The record was set to be announced the week of Zimmerman’s death, but wasn’t detailed until March, along with the release of the single ‘Sun in Scorpio’. The cult-beloved singer-songwriter gave his label, Big Potato, the following description of the gorgeous LP: “The Little Prince by way of the pen of Antoine de Saint Exupéry said ‘Draw me a sheep’ and I said to the the Little Prince ‘Dream me a dream’ overheard by Nick HOO (Big Potato Nick) who said ‘Record me a song’ so I recorded a song and then one or two more and just like that whip crack away and snap dragon fingers we had an album and just like that pump up the jambalaya and kick the chandelier Nick’s got the tracks mixed and mastered and pressed into 12” discs that say hallelujah and great balls of fire on the cover and that’s all I’m going to say about the outer wheels of this wagon as it rolls into your life the inner clockworks too intricate and deep to make language suffer so if you want more go to the Little Prince ask him to draw you a Dream of Now and Memory…”
Other albums out today:
Swamp Dogg, Swamp Dogg Contemplates The Afterlife; Daniel Lanois, Belladonna Nocturne; Office Dog, Prime Corner; Wild Up, Julius Eastman Vol. 5: Gay Guerrilla; Hard-Fi, Sweating Someone Else’s Fever; Swim Deep, Hum; PJ Morton, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning; Seabuckthorn, Never the Same River; Quiet Houses, we’re all in love; Sha Ray & DJ Haram, Critical Thot; Peaceful Image.exe, Right Here, Right Now; Lindsay Schoolcraft, Harrowing; Zoon, HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL; Simi Fyda, In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn.
