Happy New Music Friday! February goes out with an absolute bang this week, delivering a stunning variety of releases on Feb. 27, 2026 that should have something for everyone.
Gorillaz close out their most prolific era yet with “The Mountain,” a sprawling meditation on isolation and connection that finds Damon Albarn and company at their most introspective.
Mitski emerges from the quiet with “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me,” an album title that feels like both reassurance and warning, wrapped in her signature ability to make devastating emotional honesty sound like pure catharsis.
Iron & Wine’s new album “Hen’s Teeth”offers earthy indie folk that feels like a gently euphoric late-winter soundtrack, full of rich acoustic textures and quiet revelation.
Bruno Mars pivots hard into vintage romance territory with “The Romantic,” channeling classic crooner energy through his modern pop sensibility in what might be his most surprising reinvention yet.
Buck Meek steps further into the spotlight with “The Mirror,” crafting intimate folk narratives that shimmer with the kind of detail and tenderness that made his work with Big Thief so essential.
As always, the entire list of new albums released today, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 is below in no particular order. My most anticipated albums are in bold.
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New Album Releases – Friday, February 27, 2026
A Thousand Horses – White Flag Down
A Wilhelm Scream – Cheap Heat
Bibi Club – Amaro
Bill Callahan – My Days of 58
Bill Frisell – In My Dreams
Blackpink – Deadline
Boldy James & Rome Streetz – Manhunt
Bruno Mars – The Romantic
Buck Meek – The Mirror
Carpenter Brut – Leather Temple
Common Holly – They Will Draw Halos Around Our Heads
Crooked Fingers – Swet Deth
Cryptic Shift – Overspace & Supertime
DC The Don – the rumors are true
Deathcrash – Somersaults
Donovan Woods – Squander Your Gifts
Em Beihold – Tales of a Failed Shapeshifter
Erin LeCount – Pareidolia
Geese – Live at Third Man Records
Gena (Liv.e and Karriem Riggins) – The Pleasure Is Yours
Gorillaz – The Mountain
Heavenly – Highway to Heavenly
Hey Colossus – Heaven Was Wild
Iron & Wine – Hen’s Teeth
Joey Valence & Brae – HYPERYOUTH (afterparty)
khel – hertz
Kiss Facility (Mayah Alkhateri and Sega Bodega) – Khazna
Kwes – Kinds
Lala Lala – Heaven 2
Lancey Foux – FIRST DEGREE: 2ND CHARGE
Ludovico Einaudi – Solo Piano
Maria BC – Marathon
Mitski – Nothing’s About to Happen to Me
Neal Morse Band – L.I.F.T.
Nothing – A Short History of Decay
Paul Gilbert – Wroc
Ritt Momney – Base
RJD2 and Supastition – According To…
Rob Zombie – The Great Satan
Slagmaur – Hulders Ritual
Stephen O’Malley – Spheres Collapser
Telenova – The Warning
The Wave Pictures – Gained / Lost
Varials – Where the Light Leaves
Voxtrot – Dreamers in Exile
you are an angel – it’s fine to dream
