Pop & Rock Upcoming Releases
Pop & Rock Upcoming Releases
The following Pop & Rock titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
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Delaney Davidson
Baby Heavyweight [ Rough Diamond / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Baby Heavyweight born in a kitchen in Switerzerland, is Delaney Davidsons 11th solo album. Somewhat more groovy than his previous releases this is the second album he has made with Merk. Building on the smooth depth off the previous work and taking... |
Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mouse On Mars
Spatial, No Problem. [ Domino / CD - due 5/Jun/2026 ] Spatial, No Problem is Lee "Scratch" Perry's last ever official album project recorded before his passing in 2021. A unique and brilliant collaboration between the legendary dub/reggae pioneer and German electronic production duo Mouse on Mars... |
Office Dog
Prime Corner [ Flying Nun / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] Threaded with themes of instability and the home, Prime Corner was predominantly authored while front person Kane Strang was house sitting for a month in West Auckland. During these writing sessions, Kane experimented properly with alternate guitar... |
Air Miami & Colourbox
Complicated Opposition (7") [ 4AD / 7in - due 22/May/2026 ] Did you know that we have not 1 but 2 World Cup songs on 4AD? Air Miami's (1995) 'World Cup Fever' and Colourbox's (1986) 'The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme'. We're on a mission to launch these as new alternative World Cup anthems for the music... |
Death Cab For Cutie
I Built You A Tower [ Anti- / CD - due 5/Jun/2026 ] Death Cab for Cutie is one of the definitive indie-rock bands of the century. After twenty-odd years in the major label system, the band returned to their indie roots and signed with ANTI- Records and they're back with a brand-new eleventh album... |
Pink Floyd
8-Tracks [ Legacy / Sony Music / CD - due 5/Jun/2026 ] 8-Tracks features eight essential classics selected from the Pink Floyd's 1971 - 1979 era. The track list includes the instantly recognisable hits 'Money', 'Wish You Were Here', 'Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2', 'Time' and 'Comfortably Numb',... |
The Strokes
Reality Awakes [ RCA / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] The seventh album from The Strokes, produced by Rick Rubin. |
The Veils
Fragile World [ V2 / CD - due 19/Jun/2026 ] 140g black vinyl. Arriving just over a year after their last release, Fragile World marks a striking shift in tone and energy for the band. Recorded live to tape in New Zealand by Paddy Hill, with production by Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, The Chills, Folk... |
Beth Orton
The Ground Above [ Mushroom / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] For more than 30 years, Beth Orton has been our antenna to the cosmos, the poet laureate of forces too vast to take in all at once. A testament to her artistry, 'The Ground Above' is Orton's most direct and unapologetic music to date; urgent, raw,... |
Muse
The WOW! Signal [ Warner / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Muse are a culturally-attuned, genre-defying band who channel the anxieties of each era-technology, power, rebellion, and identity-into maximalist, stadium-ready rock that evolves with the times while staying unmistakably Muse. |
The Smiths
The Smiths [ Warner Music UK / CD - due 22/May/2026 ] Arriving in an era dominated by synth pop and gloomy post-punk, The Smith's eponymous debut was the beginning of a new era. Johnny Marr's inventive song writing and ringing guitars were catchy and melodic and were made all the more original by... |
Tricky
Different When It's Silent [ Mushroom / CD - due 17/Jul/2026 ] His 15th studio album and first full-length release under his own name in six years, Different When It's Silent is a direct, focused record that reconnects with the distinctive sonic language that has defined Tricky's work since his groundbreaking... |
Jalen Ngonda
Doctrine of Love [ Daptone / CD - due 5/Jun/2026 ] Since the release of his critically acclaimed debut full length, 2023's Come Around and Love Me, Jalen's career has undergone a meteoric trajectory. Now, in 2026, with the embers of his debut still burning brightly, Jalen drops his eagerly awaited... |
Rodney Crowell
Then Again [ New West Records / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] "I guess you could call it a lost album," says Rodney Crowell. "I stumbled upon it in my vault at home. I'd forgotten about it completely." He's referring to Then Again, which he recorded and shelved two decades ago before moving off into new... |
Rodney Crowell
Then Again (Indie Exclusive) [ New West Records / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] |
Aaliyah
Aaliyah [ Blackground Records / CD - due 22/May/2026 ] Aaliyah is described in critical commentaries as an album of R&B, neo soul, and dance-pop, while drawing on an array of other genres such as funk, hip hop, alternative rock, electronica, and Latin music. The album's producers incorporated synthesizer... |
Amyl And The Sniffers
Giddy Up / Big Attraction (10 Year Anniversary) [ Virgin / CD - due 22/May/2026 ] Ten years ago, in a sharehouse on Chapel Street, four 20-year-olds with zero expectations wrote and recorded an EP in a single afternoon. Those six blistering minutes of music became Giddy Up. An hour later, Amyl and The Sniffers had a name, a... |
Mainard Larkin
Rattlesnake Boy [ Lil' Chief Records / CD - due 22/May/2026 ] Lil' Chief Records is proud to present new signing, Mainard Larkin. Mainard previously had a run of streaming hits as hip hop act Randa, but recently he's made a surprising jump into alt-country and has created a loose concept album about a... |
All Them Witches
House Of Mirrors [ BMG / CD - due 29/May/2026 ] Nashville-based psychedelic blues rock act All Them Witches return with brand-new album, House of Mirrors, the band's first new studio album since 2020's seminal Nothing as the Ideal. The album features singles "Red Rocking Chair" and "Starting Line." |
Bleachers
Everyone For Ten Minutes [ Dirty Hit / CD - due 22/May/2026 ] Described by The New York Times as "anthemic, life-affirming pop rock," Bleachers are fronted by eleven-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, and producer Jack Antonoff. Over the past decade, Bleachers have built a massive, devoted... |
