Welcome to New Music Friday! June 26, 2026 brings us an absolutely massive week of releases spanning every genre imaginable. From long-awaited returns to exciting debuts, there’s something here for every type of music fan.
Beth Orton returns with “The Ground Above,” a deeply introspective album that finds the British singer-songwriter exploring themes of renewal and connection with her signature blend of folk and electronic textures. Chanel Beads delivers the stunning “Your Day Will Come,” weaving together experimental pop with lush, atmospheric production that feels both intimate and expansive. Muse unleashes “The Wow! Signal,” a characteristically ambitious concept album that takes listeners on a journey through space and existential wonder with their trademark arena-rock bombast. Brutalismus 3000 drops “Harmony,” a genre-defying electronic project that somehow makes industrial techno feel accessible and even danceable. The legendary Butthole Surfers make their long-awaited return with “After the Astronaut,” proving that their unique brand of chaotic, psychedelic noise-rock remains as vital and unhinged as ever.
As always, the entire list of new albums released today, Friday, June 26, 2026 is below in no particular order. My most anticipated albums are in bold.
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New Album Releases – Friday, June 26, 2026
Alewya – “Zero”
ALIA – “Where the Echoes Bloom”
Amberian Dawn – “Temptation’s Gates”
American Aquarium – “New Ways to Lose”
Au/Ra – “Heartcore”
Beth Orton – “The Ground Above”
Brutalismus 3000 – “Harmony”
Butthole Surfers – “After the Astronaut”
Cannelle – “CINNA”
Chanel Beads – “Your Day Will Come”
Cody Johnson – “Banks of the Trinity”
Cécile McLorin Salvant – “With Every Breath I Take”
Damien Dempsey – “Holywell”
Dan Deacon – “Little Brother (Original Sountrack)”
Dean Brody – “The Tenth Album (Side A)”
Debbii Dawson – “Where Have All the Good Men Gone?”
Downtown Boys – “Public Luxury”
Dua Lipa – “Dua Lipa: Live From Mexico”
Exploring Birdsong – “Every House We Built”
Fiddlehead – “Baby I’ll Change”
Georgia Webster – “Everything Must Go!”
Girl Trouble – “As Is”
Go-Jo – “The Go-Jo Variety Show”
Gold Panda – “Ton Up”
Hearts2Hearts – “Lemon Tang”
Hooligan Hefs – “Sixth Sense”
Ibeyi – “Offering”
Jules Buckley / Metropole Orkest / Cécile McLorin Salvant – “With Every Breath I Take”
Junius – “Sotera”
Katie Noonan – “Alone but All One”
Kita Alexander – “Rage”
Kwn – “And All Pride Aside”
Las Robertas – “All We Need Is Now”
Madeon – “Victory”
Masterplan – “Metalmorphosis”
Maxo Kream – “O.Y.N”
Metallica – “Reload [Deluxe Edition]”
Mortiis – “Ghosts of Europa”
Muse – “The Wow! Signal”
Naomi Sharon – “No Sleep in Paradise”
Nectar Woode – “Naturally”
Paulie Swan – “Swans Today”
Pearl and the Oysters – “Monkey Mind”
Pixies – “Complete B-Sides”
Pz’ – “No Turning Back”
Rodney Crowell – “Then Again”
Ryan Beatty – “Sweet Fortune”
Sekou – “In a World We Don’t Belong Pt. 2”
Siamese – “Dissolution”
Sincere Engineer – “Probable Claws”
Some Velvet Sidewalk – “Critters Encore”
spiral staircase – “your inner world is deeply uninteresting”
Stephan Moccio – “Scenes from a Velvet Room”
Switchfoot – “Forever Now”
T.I. – “Kill the King”
Tasha – “You Are Spring”
Temples – “Bliss”
The Bouncing Souls – “Born to Be”
The Pretty Reckless – “Dear God”
Tift Merritt – “Sugar”
Toby Fox – “DELTARUNE Chapter 5 (Original Game Soundtrack)”
Truck Violence – “The weathervane is my body”
Willow Avalon – “Pink Pocket Pistol”
Yoasobi – “The Book For,”
yulia – “Kindness, She’s so Jealous”
