In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on June 26, 2026:
Beth Orton, The Ground Above
Beth Orton’s last album, Weather Alive, had a revelatory air to it, meditative in nature but nebulous in its rich sonics, striving for a coherent mood more than any set of answers. The Ground Above is naturally framed as the wakeful and, well, grounded follow-up, situated at least one level above the subconscious. Orton still treasures liminality – “I’ve been waiting at the edge of a dream/ To jump and fly and find my beautiful wings,” she sings at one point. The Ground Above is about coming alive to each day with a wondrous sense of alertness, neither unweathered nor unkind to the dirt below. Read the full review.
Tasha, You Are Spring!
Summer is pretty much in full spring, and it’s the perfect time to soak in Tasha’s beautiful new album. Opening with a title track that features Jamila Woods and L’Rain, You Are Spring! was produced with frequent collaborator Gregory Uhlmann. Commenting on the early single ‘Quick!’, the New York-by-way-of-Chicago artist reflected: “When writing the song on a warm day last June, I was thinking about how summer time always reminds me of every summer I’ve ever had. It’s a reflection on time and holding on to precious moments – but releasing scarcity. Every moment is precious but preciousness is abundant and never ending.”
Chanel Beads, Your Day Will Come
Chanel Beads’ transfixing new album, Your Day Will Come, has arrived. That sentence was true a couple of years ago, when the New York artist released his first album with the same title. He may be laughing at the marketing gods a little with that one, but it’s easy to sink into the new record’s hazy swell of songs, which certainly aren’t retreading old ground. The LP features contributions from Tchad Cousins (Urika’s Bedroom), Mari Maurice (more eaze), Anastasia Coope, Bella Litsa, and Isaac Eiger (Threshold).
Sari Lightman, The Way I Saw You
With her twin sister Romy, Sari Lightman has made music under the monikers Tasseomancy, Lightman & Lightman, and Lightman Sisters. Today, she’s releasing her debut solo album, The Way I Saw You, which was produced by Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, with whom Lightman shared a neighbourhood after relocating to Los Angeles. “As my friend, and also just as a producer, I knew they were just a sensitive and really thoughtful musician,” she said in our Artist Spotlight interview. “I wanted it to be this flow back and forth between us, like when we go on our walks, or even the way our friendship is – it’s very easygoing. There was no strife.”
knitting, Souvenir
knitting have followed up their 2024 debut, Some Kind of Heaven, with a new album called Souvenir. The Montreal grungegazers recorded and produced the album in-house, with guitarist Sarah Harris helming the engineering and the rest of the band – frontperson Mischa Dempsey, bassist Piper Curtis (Sunforger), and drummer Andy Mulcair – contributing to the production. The studio sessions took place between Dempsey and Mulcair’s home of Montreal, Quebec, and Harris’ home of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. The early singles ‘I Want to Remember Everything’, ‘I Wasn’t Fully Cooked’, and ‘Here Comes’ previewed the LP.
Harmony, Lifetime
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Harmony Tividad, formerly of Girlpool, has dropped her sophomore album. Dreamier and altogether stronger than her solo debut, Gossip, the new album was preceded by the tracks ‘Best Dressed’, ‘Mulholland Drive’, and ‘I’m Still Learning How To Leave You’. “‘Lifetime’ is my yellow brick road,” Tividad said in a press release. “It’s me trying to negotiate with ‘living in truth’ and to accept life’s many complexities and nuances. This life is messy and it contains so much mystery that we simply have to surrender to. That is the beauty and the pain of it.”
Brutalismus 3000, Harmony
In a funny coincidence, Brutalismus 3000 have also released their second studio album, and it’s called Harmony. The Berlin-based duo’s blend of hardcore techno and dubset is at its most ferocious on the follow-up to 2023’s Ultrakunst, which features collaborations with Boyz Noize and Underworld, as well as a spoken-word interlude from Anya Taylor-Joy (fresh off her appearance on a Rolling Stones music video). Read about lead single ‘I Bring My Gun to the Function’ in our list of the best songs of April 2026.
Dari Bay, Surprise Wish
One of the main songwriters in Robber Robber, Zach James has dropped his latest album as Dari Bay, Surprise Wish. Ahead of the release, he shared a series of hooky singles: ‘The Joke’, ‘We’re Gonna Be Okay’, ‘Chevy’, and ‘On Your Side’. That’s nearly half the album, and the rest is just as casually enjoyable. “There’s a lot of pressure to act like you know exactly what’s going on and be smart all of the time,” James said in the album’s bio. “A lot of the record is like, ‘Fuck that.’”
Other albums out today:
Muse, The Wow! Signal; proun, Maybe Luck; Pomelo, Loreless; cate kennan, shadows; Truck Violence, The Weathervane Is My Body; Spacemoth, Inward Eye; Girl Trouble, As Is; Downtown Boys, Public Luxury; Alien Nose Job, How A Mosquito Operates; Aliya Ultan, Looks Far Woman; Basic Rhythm, 8 Bar Techno; Bernardo Castro, Cycles; Amy Rose Mills, I Think We’ve Met Before; Temples, Bliss; Push for Night, That Porous Line.
