Weekly Releases (30.01.26)
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After some weeks off, we’re back to the grind for a new year. While January has a reputation for a weak slate of new releases (and 2026 hasn’t been a real exception to the rule), this last Friday of the month offers a fairly tantalizing selection. British metal subgenre-mergers Urne and the ever-lovely dreamy pop offerings of Yumi Zouma highlight my week, but you’ll find something of interest for many tastes here.
This Week’s New Music
Blackwater Holylight
Not Here Not Gone (Suicide Squeeze)
USA | Doom Metal // Psychedelic // Hard Rock
Cast
Yeah Yeah Yeah (Scruff of the Neck)
UK | Britpop // Alt-Rock
Demob Happy
The Grown-Ups Are Talking (Milk Parlour)
UK | Indie Rock // Grunge // Stoner Rock
Geologist
Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? (Drag City)
USA| Neo-Psychedelia // Electronic
Jordan Ward
Backward (Interscope)
USA | R&B // Neo-Soul
Joyce Manor
I Used to Go to This Bar (Epitaph)
USA | Pop-Punk // Emo
Kula Shaker
Wormslayer (Strange FOLK)
UK | Britpop // Neo-Psychedelia
Mol
Dreamcrush (Nuclear Blast)
DENMARK | Blackgaze
Nafe Smallz
It’s Not You It’s Me (label unknown)
UK | Hip-Hop // Trap
Softcult
When a Flower Doesn’t Grow (Easy Life)
CANADA | Dream Pop // Shoegaze // Alt-Rock
The Soft Pink Truth
Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? (Thrill Jockey)
USA | Deep House // Ambient
Sebastien Tellier
Kiss the Beast (Because Music)
FRANCE | Synthpop // Electro-Pop
Shackleton
Euphoria Bound (AD 93)
GERMANY | Tribal Ambient // Dubstep
Tyler Ballgame
For the First Time, Again (Rough Trade)
USA | Indie Rock // Folk
Urne
Setting Fire to the Sky (Spinefarm)
UK | Sludge Metal // Progressive Metal
Whitelands
Sunlight Echoes (Sonic Cathedral)
UK | Shoegaze // Dream Pop
Yumi Zouma
No Love Lost to Kindness (Nettwerk)
MULTINATIONAL | Dream Pop // Shoegaze // Indie Rock
Thanks to everyone who stands ready to gatekeep another year! Let’s go, 2026.
pretty big week for me, also with the new emily scott robinson album. i think you'd dig it too sunny!