In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on November 6, 2026.
Twisted Teens, The Holy Cross
Twisted Teens have dropped their Sub Pop debut, The Holy Cross, their third – and possibly best – album of 2026. The New Orleans duo of Caspian Hollywell and RJ Santos put out Blame the Clown on Chain Smoking Records in January and Florida Water Blues via Going Underground in July. Though it was recorded in the wake of a romantic split, Hollywood pushed against its characterization as a breakup album in an interview with The New York Times, saying, “Our albums are more like what was happening that week.”
Shygirl, Swallow!
Shygirl seeks to reintroduce herself on Swallow!, her 11-track album out now via Because Music. Since releasing her debut LP Nymph, Shygirl has been busy fronting Burberry campaigns, opening for Charli XCX, and appearing in Madonna’s Confessions II – The Film. In capturing the emotional extremes of falling in love, the album balances Karma Kid’s maximalist tendencies with Casey MQ’s delicate production, according to a press release. “I want people to remember how big the world is even when you feel so small and singular,” she explained. “SWALLOW! is the soundtrack to that experience. This record is my message in a bottle. Let’s see who picks it up.”
Chastity Belt, All My Friends
Chastity Belt’s latest LP serves as an unabashed celebration of friendship. It was during the mixing of All My Friends that the band’s longtime collaborator and engineer, Samur Khouja, pointed out that a lot of its songs (the oldest of which dates back to around 2018) revolve around friendship. “I got to spend my 20s and early 30s traveling the world with three of my best friends, and I wouldn’t trade it for anythingm,” bassist/vocalist Hunter Truscott said in press materials. “Friends and community are everything.” Drummer/vocalist Gretchen Grimm added, “A lot of times in life I feel like a late bloomer, like I’m still trying to get my shit together in a way that other people have already figured out. But then I reflect on my adulthood, and my top priority has largely been my friends, which I do not regret at all.”
Katie Gregson-Macleod, Albatross
Katie Gregson-Macleod’s debut album, Albatross, takes its name from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in which the albatross transforms from a symbol of good fortune into a burden. It struck Gregson-Macleod as a fitting metaphor for her early career, which began with her busking in Inverness before a viral moment with the single ‘complex’ led to international recognition. She recorded the album live over two weeks in Frome with producer Dom Monks and co-producer Will Taylor of Flyte. Deeply poignant and poetic, it was preceded by the singles ‘Sometimes’, ‘Good Guess’, ‘Nothing Really Changes’ and ‘I Don’t Think of Kissing You’.
Bassvictim, PEACE + WAR
As riveting as it is chaotic, PEACE + WAR is Bassvictim’s most ambitous outing so far: 19 tracks of abrasive, rough-around-the-edges indie pop that hardly lets up. It features the recent singles ‘White Flag’, which we named one of the best tracks of October, and ‘Jagódki (Blueberries)’. The LP follows a run of early released by the duo of vocalist and songwriter Maria Manow and producer Ike Clateman, including Basspunk and Basspunk 2, their 2025 debut album Forever, and this year’s ? EP.
daine, In Endless Awe & Agony
daine’s debut album, In Endless Awe & Agony, is as vast and ambitious in its emotional scope as the title suggests. The record is framed around a Jungian individuation arc, wrestling with identity, desire, fear, and transformation as it does away with some of the digital processing of daine’s earlier releases for something more raw. The singles ‘Wishing Well’, ‘Product of Profit (P.O.P.)’, ‘I Used To Kill’, and ‘PQC’ arrived ahead of the album’s release.
Oso Oso, an exchange of information
Oso Oso, the Long Island project of Jade Lilitri, has a new album called an exchange of information. The follow-up to 2024’s life till bones was written largely before recording began, taking shape over two weeks at BirthdayLand Studios outside Albany, where Lilitri worked the singer-songwriter worked with producer Dan Maddalone. “I think my songwriting is probably rooted in wanting to be loved but not domesticated, enlightened but not disillusioned, wanting to be your own person but also belong,” Lilitri explained. “These things all seem impossible; I don’t know if that’s pessimistic but it feels real. That’s the truth I’m trying to dig at. That’s what has always seemed like the point of all of this for me as an artist: exploring and sitting in the balance whatever this rollercoaster is.”
Computerwife, Born From a Wish
Computerwife, the project of NYC musician Addie Warncke, has dropped a new LP called Born From a Wish. Out now via Danger Collective, the dreamy yet dynamic record came together in the aftermath of 2023’s Computerwife, capturing Warncke’s life during a transitional period in Atlanta and New York. According to a press release, the last time she listened back to the album in full was a year ago, when she approved the final mix. “I can hear all these different thoughts I had in little moments,” she recalled. “It feels like small pieces of what I was going through. I sound so much younger, and definitely more lost.”
Catherine Elicson, River of Fat
Catherine Elicson, the guitarist and singer of the noise punk band Empath, has come through with a noisily introspective record titled River of Fat. Aided by longtime collaborator and audio engineer Shaun Sutkus, she began laying down the record using a droning Korg, a Roland SP-404, a vintage Stratocaster, and a Tascam 4-track tape machine. She performed each song live to tape in its entirety, drawing inspiration from legends including John Cale and The Urinals as well as contemporaries like Amen Dunes.
untitled (halo), untitled (halo)
untitled (halo)’s self-titled debut album has landed. Written over a year in the band’s Glassell Park studio, the album revolves around how we construct our personal mythologies while preserving a sense of enigma and ethereality. “Our self-titled feels a bit like a conclusion that everything we want and need is around,” the band shared. “When we started halo, things felt unknown; exciting; new. Things still feel that way, but a bit more understood, a bit more still. The chase can be forever, but I think we are all at a point in our lives where we want to stand still and make music, make art together as friends.”
Other albums out today:
Sufjan Stevens, Worst Christmas Ever!; Boys Noize, 7LLVSION; Kings of Leon, O My Beloved; Rex Orange County, Dream Fatigue; Sam Gendel, Advanced White Trash; Party Dozen, 21 Bum Salute; Sylvie, New Season; Jess Kerber, The World Is Dark, but I Want It to Be Funny; Statik Selektah, Expensive Taste; Library Card, Peeling An Orange in Just One Go; Oisin Mod, Canary; Hudson Freeman, Doom Country; Willi Carlisle, The Universal Bubba; Coliguns, Everything We Love, We Destroy; Bryan Adams, How’s It Goin’; Bilal Nasser, Every Martyr Is a Universe.
