In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on October 23, 2026.
Fine, Jazz dreams
“Once whatever was between the lines/ Somehow paints the picture out loud,” Fine sings on ‘Much to say’, a highlight from her new album Jazz dreams. That’s one way of keying into the Copenhagen artist’s liminal songwriting, which remains as beguiling as it was on her solo debut, Rocky Top Ballads, if a little more flexible. In bending the album’s arrangements to the logic – though not any particular tropes – of its titular elements, she draws a mercurial portrait of desire out of the hollow ends of days, the emptiness of words, the endless stream of reference points. Read the full review.
Caroline Rose, Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall
Caroline Rose has released a new album, Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall. Produced by John Congleton, the follow-up to 2023’s The Art of Forgetting and the 2025 Bandcamp exclusive year of the slug marks their first first fully independent release on their new label, SUCK Records. It includes the previously released singles ‘Valery (please don’t be mad at me)’, ‘Hello Again, Jim’, ‘Calm’, and ‘Yip Yip Yow’. “I relate to characters who are a little strange, who are outsiders, who seem to fuck up a lot or find themselves in awkward situation,” Rose said in press materials. “Most of these stories are just pulled directly from scenes in my own life, so the character is basically always some version of myself.”
Grumpy, Unfindable Ring
Grumpy have unveiled their sophomore album, Unfindable Ring, via Bayonet. Following a couple of EPs, it marks the Heaven Schmitt-led band’s first full-length since 2020’s Loser. Describing their process in a new interview with Our Culture (following our 2024 Artist Spotlight), Schmitt said, “With my band, my general philosophy is just to pick people whose tastes I really admire, and whose talent I’m attracted to, who are good people who I really love. And then, just let them fly. I generally like to just write a song and bring it to them, and they kind of have the instructions to inject themselves in whatever way they see fit. Especially with this past album, that’s when our sound really became a band because we were all together for every second of making this album.”
Fenne Lily, Win Win
“What do you feel like you’ve won?” Fenne Lily’s father asked the singer-songwriter in the wake of a breakup, which occurred shortly after she moved from England to New York. It inspired the title of her resonant new LP, Win Win, which follows 2023’s Big Picture and digs deeper into heartbreak’s destabilizing aftermath. Recorded during late-night sessions with collaborators from both places, it leans into Lily’s conversational intimacy in an effort to soften, however achingly, the sensation of lost time and empty space.
Sour Widows, Sigil
Sour Widows have followed up their 2024 debut, Revival of a Friend, with a new album called Sigil. Turbulent yet prayerful, the new album finds Maia Sinaiko and Susanna Thomson teaming up with producer and Jay Som mastermind Melina Duterte, recording in downtown Los Angeles. Out now via Julia’s War Recordings, the record was previewed by the singles ‘Lucky Star’, ‘Blood in the Grass’, ‘Choke Chain’, and ‘Lullaby’.
Claud, Me and the Music
Claud’s third studio album, Me and the Music, has arrived via Dead Oceans. Another album out today that was produced with John Congleton, the hooky, playfully exuberant effort follows 2023’s Supermodels. “I was just sick of taking everything so seriously – Supermodels was such a serious record, and I just sulked in feelings for so long,” Claud explained. “Such terrible things have happened in this country the last few years, but I’ve only grown closer to the people around me because of that. The world has shown me that the worst can happen, but it might just bring you closer to your community. There’s a difference between being sincere with life and taking life too seriously.”
Clara Mann, Wishbone
Clara Mann has a strikingly intimate album out today titled Wishbone. Following last year’s Rift, the South London-based singer-songwriter’s second album was produced by 4AD resident Fabian Prynn, building tracks from Mann’s demos and voice notes across a handful of long days at Norfolk’s Bam Bam Studios. “I was so not used to hearing my music expanded like this,” Mann remarked, recalling the first time she heard Prynn’s drums. “The purest expression of a lot of this music, as I had experienced it, had always been me alone in a big hall.”
Sen Morimoto, Time Is On Your Side
Sen Morimoto has dropped a new LP, Time Is On Your Side, via their own Sooper Records. The follow-up to 2023’s Diagnosis centers on the intimacy of Morimoto’s songwriting, embracing a more textural approach than 2023’s maximalist Diagnosis. “I’m not fighting time anymore,” Morimoto said in press materials. “I treat it as an ingredient. Some of these songs only need a pinch – a couple of improvised takes. Others sat for years, like wine in a barrel, until they became equal parts of my past and future. My hope is that it could inspire the freedom to slow down.”
Other albums out today:
John Legend, Muse; Anderson .Paak and Cordae, Heavy Is the Crown; Shabazz Palaces, It’s a Style Sport; William Basinski, Passing the Cup of Sorrows; Melissa Weikart, Contact; Josh Johnson, Animative; Tony Iommy, From the Dark; brakence, marroW; Michael Kiwanuka, FUDGE; Bernie Taupin, The Sea Has No Mercy; Axis: Sova, Flowerage; Lamplight, Lick the Spoon Let It Soften; Lennon Stella, Sleeping Lion; Penelope Road, Maybe in Time; total tommy, Trapezoid; Like Roses, After It Ends; Ugly, The South Facade; Wolves in the Throne Room, Estuary; Gus Dapperton, 4 Dear Life; The Olivia Tremor Control, The Same Place; Didacte, and to shine.
