Your essential guide to forthcoming releases from DiS-approved artists, plus the mainstream releases you need to know about.
⚓︎ = DiS Recommended | Last updated: February 10th, 2026
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February 2026
February 6th
⚓ Ulrika Spacek - Expo
2070 - Big Blue
Tha God Fahim - Tha Dark Shogunn Saga Vol. 3
⚓ Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold (20th Anniversary Edition)
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Laughter In Summer
Big Big Train - Woodcut
⚓ Daphni - Butterfly
Dirt Buyer - Dirt Buyer III
Dream Nails - You Wish
Illenium - Odyssey
IST IST - DAGGER
J. Cole - The Fall-Off
Jay Buchanan - Weapons Of Beauty
Joji - Piss in the Wind
Karnivool - In Verses
KAVARI - PLAGUE MUSIC EP
KMFDM - ENEMY
KUN - KUN
Ella Mai - Do You Still Love Me?
Louis Tomlinson - How Did I Get Here?
Mandy, Indiana - URGH
Mayhem - Liturgy of Death
Mika - Hyperlove
Nick Jonas - Sunday Best
Theo Lawrence & Melissa Carper - HAVIN' A TALK
Paige Kennedy - Style Over Substance EP
Poppy - Empty Hands
Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Puscifer - Normal Isn't
RAAHiiM - Pray For Me
Ratboys - Singin' To An Empty Chair
Ricky Hill - 10000 Grams
Robbie Williams - Britpop
Roberta Flack - With Her Songs: The Atlantic Albums 1969-1978
Silversun Pickups - Tenterhooks
Story Littleton - At a Diner
vegas water taxi - first time listener EP
Yamila - Noor
YES - Tales from Topographic Oceans (Super Deluxe Edition)
February 13th
⚓ Yakkie - Kill The Cop Inside Your Head
⚓ Ásgeir - Julia
Angel Du$t - Cold 2 the Touch
Earth Tongue - Dungeon Vision
August Ponthier - Everywhere Isn't Texas
The Beach Boys - We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years
Black Swan - Paralyzed
Boy Golden - Best of Our Possible Lives
Brothers Osborne - Pawn Shop (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
Charli XCX - Wuthering Heights
Chet Faker - A Love For Strangers
Claire Rosinkranz - My Lover
Colin Stetson & Greg Fox & Trevor Dunn - Nethering
congratulations - Join Hands
Converge - Love Is Not Enough
Danny L Harle - Cerulean
Department - Audacity Files
Drake & PartyNextDoor - $ome $exy $ongs 4 U
Felsmann + Tiley - Protomensch
Gogol Bordello - We Mean It, Man!
Tiana Major9 - November Scorpio
The Infamous Stringdusters - 20/20
Jeremy Ivey - Its Shape Will Reveal Itself
Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern
JISOO - AMORTAGE
Katzin - Buckaroo
The Lone Bellow - What a Time to be Alive
Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx IV
Melissa Aldana - Filin
Middleman - Following the Ghost
hemlocke springs - the apple tree under the sea
Mumford & Sons - Prizefighter
The Nude Party - Look Who's Back
The Olympians - In Search of a Revival
Howling Bells - Strange Life
The Paranoid Style - Known Associates
Paul Anka - Inspirations of Life and Love
Ponte Del Diavolo - Fire Blades from the Tomb
PONY - Clearly Cursed
Remember Sports - The Refrigerator
Eric Church - Evangeline vs. The Machine: Comes Alive
Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood - Ten Years On
S. Maria - Monkey Jar
Sarah Kinsley - Fleeting EP
⚓ SOPHIE - PRODUCT (Expanded)
Story of the Year - A.R.S.O.N.
Velocity Girl - Simpatico! (Remastered and Expanded)
WORM - Necropalace
Wrabel - up above
TX2 - End of Us
Yellow Days - Rock and a Hard Place
February 20th
⚓ Hen Ogledd - DISCOMBOBULATED
Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls (Expanded Edition)
Altin Gün - Garip
⚓ Apparat - A Hum Of Maybe
Art Pepper - Everything Happens To Me: 1959 - Live At The Cellar
The Band of Heathens - Country Sides
Bella Lista - Drasticism
Brian James - Kicks And Diabolik Licks
Bryce Vine - LET'S DO SOMETHING STUPID!
Clawfinger - Before We All Die
Gabriela Richardson - ISOLA
George Michael - FAITH (Vinyl Reissue)
The Goldberg Sisters - When the Ships of My Dreams Return
Hilary Duff - Luck...or Something
Laughing Hyenas - That Girl - Live Recordings 1986-1994
Leigh-Anne - My Ego Told Me To
Liz Cooper - New Day
Lucid Express - Instant Comfort
Elvis Presley - EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Meg Mac - It's My Party
Megan Moroney - Cloud 9
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis - Deface The Currency
Hemi Hemingway - Wings of Desire
Mirah - Dedication
Moby - Future Quiet
Mod Lang - Borrowed Time
Monster Rally - First Non-Instrumental Album
Mx Lonely - All Monsters
Nathan Fake - Evaporator
Naïka - ECLESIA
The Neighbourhood - (((((ultraSOUND)))))+
The Enemy - Social Disguises
New Found Glory - Listen Up!
NYTT LAND - Aba Khan
⚓ Peaches - No Lube So Rude
Phew & Danielle de Picciotto - Paper Masks
trauma ray - Carnival EP
smush - standards EP
Sports - Sports
Worry Club - I'm Freaking Out
Exhumed - Asphalt
February 26th
Letón Pé - GOLOSA
February 27th
⚓ Gorillaz - The Mountain
The Head and the Heart - Ghosts In The Machinery EP
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs (20th Anniversary)
Archive - Glass Minds
Taroug - Chott
Heavenly - Highway to Heavenly
Ben Sollee - Time On Hold
Bill Callahan - My Days Of 58
Bill Frisell - In My Dreams
BlackPink - Deadline
Bruno Mars - The Romantic
Buck Meek - The Mirror
Carpenter Brut - Leather Temple
Chuck Corea - Forever Yours: The Farewell Performance
Circle X - Prehistory (Vinyl Reissue)
Cootie Catcher - Something We All Got
Crooked Fingers - Swet Deth
deathcrash - Somersaults
Debbie Sings - Oh My EP
Donovan Woods - Squander Your Gifts EP
Final Gasp - New Day Symptoms
Fleur Electra - Strike the Match EP
Geese - Geese: Live at Third Man Records
GENA - The Pleasure Is Yours
Tinlicker - Dreams of the Machine
Inner Wave - SEE YOU WHEN I GET BACK
Iron & Wine - Hen's Teeth
Jackie West - Silent Century
KABEAUSHÉ - KABEAUSHÉ PRESENTS: I.S.U.I.L.P
Kevin Richard Martin - Sub Zero
Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust (10th Anniversary Edition)
⚓ Kwes. - Kinds
Lala Lala - Heaven 2
Landowner - Assumption
Maria BC - Marathon
⚓ Mitski - Nothing's About To Happen To Me
NMB - L.I.F.T.
Nothing - A Short History of Decay
Hotel Fiction - Staring at the Sun (Deluxe)
Pat Metheny - Side-Eye III+
Rob Zombie - The Great Satan
Rosie Carney - Doomsday... Don't Leave Me Here
Unverkalt - Héréditaire
TVAM - Ruins
Varials - Where the Light Leaves
Voxtrot - Dreamers In Exile
Wave Pictures - Gained / Lost
Will Dailey - Boys Talking
Willie Nelson - Country Music (Vinyl Reissue)
EXEK - Prove The Mountains Move
Hey Colossus - Heaven Was Wild
March 2026
March 6th
⚓ Joshua Idehen - I Know You're Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got to Try
Seamus Fogarty - Ships
2D0GS - ALL THE D0GS ARE BARKING EP
Talking Heads - Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live
Tanya Tagaq - Saputjiji
Harry Styles - Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally
Hater - Mosquito
Barry Can't Swim - Late Night Tales
Bitter Branches - Let's Give the Land Back to the Animals
Black Lung - Forever Beyond
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - We Are Together Again
Book of Churches - Book of Churches
Bory - Never Turns to Night
Bosse-de-Nage - Hidden Fires Burn Hottest
The Brook & The Bluff - Werewolf
Charlie Puth - Whatever's Clever!
Charlotte Sands - Satellite
Chicago Farmer - Homeaid
Daniel Avery - Tremor (Midnight Versions)
Godsmack - Awake (25th Anniversary Edition)
Gregory Uhlmann - Extra Stars
Lost Society - Hell Is A State Of Mind
Marlon Magnée - Dark Star
Morrissey - Make-Up Is A Lie
Temple of Void - The Crawl
Mute Swan - Skin Slip
Teenage Bottlerocket - The Invisible Man EP
New Age Doom & H.R. - Angels Against Angels
OHYUNG - IOWA
Pat Kelly - Hook
Prong - Live and Uncleansed
Scout Gillett - Tough Touch
The Scythe - Strictly 4 the Scythe
Shabaka - Of the Earth
Squeeze - Trixies
Surfbort - Reality Star
Void - Live - 1982
waterbaby - Memory Be a Blade
Willa Ford - amanda
March 7th
JENNIE - Ruby
March 12th
Ana Tijoux - 97 EP
March 13th
Alexis Taylor - Paris In the Spring
Anjimile - You're Free to Go
ASIA - Asia - Live In England
The Black Crowes - A Pound Of Feathers
Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Irreversible
Cat Clyde - Mud Blood Bone
⚓ Crack Cloud - Peace And Purpose
Cut Worms - Transmitter
Dream Theater - Live In Tokyo 2010
Fotocrime - Security
Foy Vance - The Wake
googly eyes - paint me like one of your fav american girls EP
Eihwar - Hugrheim
Tinariwen - Hoggar
The Third Mind - Spellbinder!
James Blake - Trying Times
John Coltrane - The Best of John Coltrane (Vinyl Release)
⚓ Kim Gordon - PLAY ME
Kungs - OUT LOUD
ladylike - It's A Pleasure Of Mine to Know You're Fine EP
Lamb of God - Into Oblivion
ELUCID & Sebb Bash - I Guess U Had To Be There
Makthaverskan - Glass And Bones
Mary Ocher - Weimar
Morgan Nagler - I've Got Nothing to Lose and I'm Losing It
n0trixx - A Catalogue of Madness and Melancholia
Tenderness - Blue
The Notwist - News from Planet X
Ore Corgan - Hard Hearted Woman
⚓ The Orielles - Only You Left
Outfit - Preservers of the Pearl
Powerplant - Bridge of Sacrifice
Prostitute - Attempted Martyr
PUP - Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings)
RUSH - Grace Under Pressure (40th Anniversary Edition)
The Sophs - GOLDSTAR
Sweet Pill - Still There's A Glow
WITCHCRAFT - A Sinner's Child EP
March 14th
Playboi Carti - MUSIC
March 17th
Filth Is Eternal - Impossible World
March 20th
Haircut 100 - Boxing the Compass
Aubrie Sellers - Attachment Theory
Avalon Emerson - Written Into Changes
Band of Horses - Everything All The Time (20th Anniversary Edition)
BTS - Arirang
Colleen - Libres antes del final
⚓ The Dandy Warhols - PIN UPS
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Future Soul
Footballhead - Weight of the Truth
GAEREA - Loss
Girl Scout - Brink
Gladie - No Need To Be Lonely
Ego Ella May - Good Intentions
Kanye West - Bully
⚓ Ladytron - Paradises
Luke Combs - The Way I Am
more eaze - sentence structure in the country
Naomi Scott - F.I.G
Nubiyan Twist - Chasing Shadows
OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud (Vinyl Reissue)
Peach PRC - Porcelain
Poison the Well - Peace in Place
Ringing - another cycle in the cosmic wash
Robert Lester Folsom - If You Wanna Laugh You Gotta Cry Sometimes...
The Silver - Looking Glass Hymnal Blue
Son Little - CITYFOLK
Spencer Thomas - Cynical Vision
Vero - Razor Tongue
Via Doloris - Guerre et Paix
VIAL - Hellhound
Exodus - Goliath
ZHU - BLACK MIDAS
March 27th
The Academy Is... - Almost There
Black Label Society - Engines of Demolition
Charlotte Cornfield - Hurts Like Hell
Connie Converse - How Sad How Lovely (Reissue)
⚓ Courtney Barnett - Creature Of Habit
Dermot Kennedy - The Weight of the Woods
dälek - Brilliance of a Falling Moon
Fcukers - Ö
Flea - Honora
Tigers Jaw - Lost On You
Hit Like A Girl - Burning At Both Ends
José González - Against The Dying Of The Light
King Tuff - MOO
Krooked Kings - In Another Life
Elmiene - sounds for someone
Loreen - Wildfire
Luke Winslow-King - Coast of Light
Melissa Etheridge - RISE
MEMORIALS - All Clouds Bring Not Rain
Monster Rally - Echoes of the Emerald Sands
NEEDTOBREATHE - The Long Surrender
The New Pornographers - The Former Site Of
Nina Hagen - HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN
Holy Fuck - Event Beat
Tom Misch - Full Circle
Paula Kelley - Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out
Pet Needs - Elbows Out! This Is Capitalism
The Pretty Flowers - Never Felt Bitter
⚓ RAYE - THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE
⚓ Robyn - Sexistential
rum.gold - Is There Anybody Home?
RY-GUY - like a river EP
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Opus (Physical Release)
Slayyyter - WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA
⚓ Snail Mail - Ricochet
Spencer Cullum - Coin Collection 3
The Twilight Sad - IT'S THE LONG GOODBYE
Wintersleep - Wishing Moon
Ty Myers - Heavy On The Soul
April 2026
April 3rd
⚓ Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire
Commitment - Fear Of
Common Holly - Good Like It Should Be EP
deary - Birding
Joe Pernice - Sunny I Was Wrong
⚓ Jon Hopkins & Biggi Hilmars - Wilding (Original Soundtrack)
Kronos Quartet - Glorious Mahalia
⚓ Maria Taylor - Story's End
Michael Sweet - The Master Plan
Paul Cauthen - Book of Paul
Philine Sonny - Virgin Lake
Robber Robber - Two Wheels Move the Soul
Sunn O))) - Sunn O)))
⚓ Thundercat - Distracted
Wendy Eisenberg - Wendy Eisenberg
April 10th
Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew
ARCHSPIRE - Too Fast To Die
Tigercub - Nets to Catch the Wind EP
Immolation - Descent
The Itch - It's The Hope That Kills You
Jessie Ware - Superbloom
Joe Jackson - Hope And Fury
Lime Garden - Maybe Not Tonight
Melanie Baker - Somebody Help Me I'm Being Spontaneous!
Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity (Vinyl Reissue)
Monster Magnet - God Says No (Vinyl Reissue)
Monster Magnet - Powertip (Vinyl Reissue)
Monster Magnet - Superjudge (Vinyl Reissue)
Holly Humberstone - Cruel World
Rae Spoon - Assigned Country Singer At Birth
ESYA - Chasing Desire
Wesley Joseph - Forever Ends Someday
April 17th
Benjamin Tod - Vengeance and Grace
Fast Money Music - Fast Money Music
Tiga - HOTLIFE
La Peste - I Don't Know Right From Wrong: Lost La Peste 1976-1979 Vol. 1
LØLØ - god forbid a girl spits out her feelings
Skindred - You Got This
Souled American - Sanctions
ZAYN - Konnakol
April 18th
doPE - no country for old men
April 20th
Pearl - Live and Grief
April 24th
Death Lens - What's Left Now?
⚓ Gia Margaret - Singing
Jason Aldean - Songs About Us
John Corabi - New Day
Kneecap - FENIAN
Krooked Tongue - Drugstore Cowboy
Meghan Trainor - Toy With Me
⚓ Metric - Romanticize The Dive
Miss Grit - Under My Umbrella
Tempers - Delusion
Noah Kahan - The Great Divide
OOIOO & Lightning Bolt - THE HORIZON SPIRALS / THE HORIZON VIRAL
White Denim - 13
YARN - Saturday Night Sermon
May 2026
May 1st
⚓ Tori Amos - In Times Of Dragons
_BY.ALEXANDER - The Decoupling of the Nuclear Family
Jesca Hoop - Long Wave Home
Melanie C - Sweat
Modern Woman - Johnny's Dreamworld
Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL
Sevendust - ONE
May 8th
Broken Social Scene - Remember the Humans
Brother Wallace - Electric Love
May 15th
Constellations - It Comes In Waves
Dua Saleh - Of Earth & Wires
Maisie Peters - Florescence
Slayer - Hell Awaits (40th Anniversary Edition)
May 29th
Káryyn - Physics Universal Love Language (PULL)
June 2026
June 3rd
Rico Sasaki - RI PATHOS
June 5th
Jared James Nichols - Louder Than Fate
Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - Night Blooms
June 10th
Kaleo - A/B (10th Anniversary Edition)
June 12th
Meltt - Pathways
Stitched Up Heart - MEDUSA
June 24th
Danny Golden - The Big Blue
Rumoured / Expected Releases
Confirmed In Development - No Date Yet
A$AP Rocky - Don't Be Dumb
In Autumn 2025 the record was in mixing/mastering stage
Björk - Title TBA
First album in four years, follow-up to 2022's Fossora. Rumoured to debut at "Echolalia" exhibition in Reykjavik on May 30th 2026
Foals - Title TBA
Early 2026 - teasing single "Unravelling," described as "The Year of The Fire Horse"
Lana Del Rey - Stove
Rumoured to be a country-influenced album
Madonna - Confessions Part 2
2026 - sequel to Confessions On A Dance Floor, producer Stuart Price returning
Muse - New album
2026? - recording to begin soon
Sky Ferreira - Masochism
Was due by end of 2025...
The Anchoress - Title TBA
Has confirmed a new album is due in 2026 and premiered new songs live at Union Chapel in 2025.
Still Awaiting Confirmation
Blondie, Bruce Springsteen, BTS, The Cure, DJ Khaled, Evanescence, Exodus, Gojira, Grimes, GZA, Janet Jackson, Lita Ford, Lizzo, Martin Garrix, Maxwell, Megadeth, Mike Will Made It, Ministry, Papa Roach, Rihanna, Saxon, Skepta, Symphony X, The Distillers, The Toadies, Trivium and many more.
About This List
What we track:
- Indie/alternative releases DiS readers care about
- Electronic/experimental boundary-pushers
- Post-punk & art-rock essentials
- Mainstream releases you need to know about
- Notable reissues and anniversary editions
Note: Release dates are subject to change and often do. We update this regularly as new releases are announced.
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Sources
This calendar is compiled from multiple authoritative sources including:
Primary Industry Sources:
- Metacritic - Upcoming Albums
- Consequence - Upcoming Releases
- Wikipedia - List of 2026 Albums
- Pitchfork - Reviews & Announcements
- Official Charts - New Album Releases
Specialty Retailers & Pre-Orders:
Music Publications:
Label Announcements:
- 4AD, Warp Records, Rough Trade Records, Sacred Bones, Sub Pop, Matador Records, Saddle Creek, Epitaph, Transgressive, Ninja Tune, Run For Cover, Bella Union, Heavenly Recordings, and more
Community Input:
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Last Updated: January 5, 2026