New Album Alert 2026

INTERPOL Return With Grandeur And Mystique On New Album ‘THIS MIRROR WEIGHS A TON’

Posted on by JL

3 September 2026

Band: INTERPOL
Who: NYC’s psychedelic post-punk crusaders,
led by singer/songwriter Paul Banks, who have
drawn a lot of aural attention since 1997.

Album: THIS MIRROR WEIGHS A TON
Their 8th.

Press info: “Interpol’s first album in four years finds the band turning inward while continuing to move forward. Across the record, reflection, distortion and perception become a lens through which familiar shapes are refracted into something slightly
alien, as if seen through a different kind of light.”

Paul Banks told NME: “The drive of the record is a spirit of striving for elation,
enlightenment and clarity. I was born uncertain, that’s what keeps me intact”.


Album artwork

Mojo Magazine writes: “The results display more radio-friendly polish, while the grooves
are enhanced with percussive syncopation, and strings and woodwind are employed for
added sonic swirl.”

TUTV: Finally, after all these years, Interpol made an album that’s up there with their
first 2 outstanding ones, Turn Up The Bright Lights (2002) and Antics (2004).

This Mirror Weighs a Ton is, as the cliché goes, a return to form, stupendous form that is. The record excels because of its strong, utmost, dark romantic songs. Sterling songwriting, not one dull moment.

It feels like Paul Banks was wandering through his beloved New York City for many nights, absorbing its grandeur and also its shadowy mystique, and translating his observations and thoughts into commanding tunes, vocally, lyrically, and sonically.

The tracks’ pace shifts frequently with slow-progressing reveries (title track / Ever The Actor / Enemy / Sudden), amplified mid-tempo jams (Wounded Soldier / Darling Thoughts / Wake-up) and a couple of straight-up rockers (See Out Loud / Wings Of Fire).

Full aural ravishment for 53 minutes. A striking comeback achievement.

Singles.

– IRON CITY –

– THIS MIRROR WEIGHS A TON –

ALBUM


.
Instagram
Linktree
All Albums

YEAH YEAH YEAHS Just Shared Live Album ‘HIDDEN IN PIECES: LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL’

Posted on by JL

1 September 2026

NYC’s eminent guitar pop rockers YEAH YEAH YEAH’S
released their latest LP, their 5th, Cool It Down in 2022.

Now, without much ado, they shared – only digitally, so far – a live
album, titled HIDDEN IN PIECES: LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL.

The recordings were canned at their 2025 concert at the historic building.

Half of the 13 songs are from their 2nd LP Show Your Bones from 2006.
Massive hits Maps (2003) and Zero are included too.

A physical album, out October 23 via Secretly Canadian, will include today’s
13-track live album as well as a handful of bonus recordings from U.S. shows,
which will come to streaming the same day.

The album’s sound quality is TOP! Stream it below.

They also have a 22-minute concert film streaming now via the The Criterion Channel.
It was recorded at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre and will screen in a handful of theaters around the world this month.

Some (actually many) words from the band on the live album.

ALBERT HALL ALBUM


.
Instagram
Facebook
All Albums

2 photos by Turn Up The Volume from their Amsterdam gig in 2023

WEEZER – Imperishable Nerd Rockers Have Their 20th Album Out

Posted on by JL

25 August 2026


Photo by Brendan Walte

Band: WEEZER
Who: The veteran nerd
rockers from Los Angeles.

Album: WEEZER
Their 4th self-titled one decorated with symbols,
think Led Zeppelin‘s 4th longplayer. The record
is already dubbed The Gold Album.

Rolling Stone: “Weezer’s Gold is, in fact, Weezer gold.”

Pitchfork says: “Spurred on by producer Kenneth Blume, Weezer get
back in a room together to write rock songs that wallow, reminisce, and,
very occasionally, wow.”

TUTV: Mixed critical verdicts. Weezer is one of these bands that goes back to
their (very) old recipe, to their fan-pleasing formula, over and over again, but
forget regularly, to write enough top-tier tunes to fill a full record. As usual,
the singles are catchy and fun, but the rest is mediocre for a band of their
calibre. No, I’m not impressed.

Singles.

– C.E.O. –

– WE MIGHT AS WELL BE STRANGERS –

ALBUM

Instagram
Linktree
All Albums

GETDOWN SERVICES – English Daft Disco-Punk Groovers Turn It Up And Get Down On 2nd LP ‘MASSIVE CHAMPION’

Posted on by JL

20 August 2026

Band: GETDOWN SERVICES
Who: Wacky disco-rap-punk duo
from Bristol, UK

Album: MASSIVE CHAMPION.
Their sophomore one.

Press info: “An odyssey of anarchic joy, seditious wit and boundless energy, the LP finds Josh Law and Ben Sadler pushing deeper into the singular world they have been building for years, while opening up new emotional and lyrical ground. The record was written in green rooms, on long car journeys and in the gaps between relentless touring.”


Album artwork

NME: “The buzzy Minehead-via-Bristol party-starters shake off the ‘joke band’ label and
face up to doubt on nuanced album number two. Getdown Services are not Sleaford Mods
for the microbrew crowd or the Yard Act fit for a stag do, they are something of their own
and something to be taken quite seriously.

We could have done with a bit more of the party to beat the pity, but they’ve at least
delivered one of the unlikeliest real pleasures of a bleak 2026, so suck on that.”

TUTV: They go up, they get down. Up again. Down again. At first I was confused by the
by now pretty famous indie duo’s changing sonic moods breaking down the record’s
flow.

Lullabies, rock outs, moony mid-tempo reflections. One tune they put you in a soothing modus with a lullaby. The next tune they plug in their amps for a couple of pelvis-shaking firecrackers. And then back to some life-reflecting/watching thoughts, daily reveries, existentialist questions, and some depressing moments. Quite something else than
their non-stop groovy fiesta debut.

But I didn’t give up, as I felt some sort of connection anyway, and I kept on listening,
and it all started to make sense. This record’s emotional fluctuations, musically, vocally
and lyrically, became one full Getdown Services picture/experience that sticks seamlessly
in the end. I wonder if you will be affected to or not, people?

– CHA CHA SLIDE –

– I CAN’T DIE LIKE THAT –

– RADIATOR –

ALBUM


.
Album on Spotify
Instagram
Linktree

MAN/WOMAN/CHAINSAW – Wayward Brit Indies Have Bodacious Debut Album ‘CANNONBALL’ Out

Posted on by JL

19 August 2026


Credit M/W/C

Band: MAN/WOMAN/CHAINSAW
Who: Unadulterated indies
from London, UK.

Album: CANNONBALL.
Their debut. Buy here.

NME: “Arty South London upstarts evolve into an inescapable 12-legged beast on expansive album to make you dance, smile tremble and weep. Here’s a band for whom perfection is just around the corner as they fine-tune the engine to reach a cleaner and more regular lift-off, but for now enjoy one of the most accomplished debuts of the year and a surefire Mercury Prize 2027 nominee. This cannonball makes one hell of a splash.”

TUTV: Man/Woman/Chainsaw join the (new) generation of new Brit-post-punk artilleries that started sometime post Brex-shit, with innovative bands such as Black Midi (already gone), Black Country New Road, Squid, Ditz, Bdrmm and newcomers Modern Woman, Westside Cowboy, Mary In The Junkyard, and My New Band Believe.

They have one thing in common: looking for new musical angels, exciting ideas
and unconventional soundscapes, within the broad rock-pop-punk universe, without
being arty farty.

M/W/C does it now for the first time with this debut LP. Whimsical, chopped-up song structures, spine-tingling melodiousness, two perfervid vocalists, nightmarish stories, versatile violins and capricious orchestrations. Everything in place to score a bodacious firstborn. Have a bloodcurdling trip.

KEY TRACKS: Goddamm, LizardMan! / Nosedive / Flick Of The Wrist / The Thing / Still Angry

SINGLE

STREAM


.
Album on Spotify
Linktree

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – Out Of The Blue The Hardest Working Band In The World Released Their 28 LP In 14 Years

Posted on by JL

17 August 2026


Credit: Maclay Heriot

I guess for the Australian psych-prog-rockers
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD a day
counts 48 hours.

I must be something weird like that.

They just released their 28th LP in 14 years.
It’s named ALIEN METAL. Order info here.

And it’s quite a special record for the riff junks from down other, as
they have thrown their guitars through the window and surprise with
a full electronic one.

Stu Mackenzie (vocalist/guitarist): “We’ve never scrapped so much material
as we have for this album. Entire albums, entire universes that were formulated,
created, recorded, deleted and started again. The project was finally unlocked
during a late night jam session that went on for more than an hour with every
track evolving from the same source performance.”

They actually announced the album a couple of weeks ago, along
with its single Level 5, but no release date was communicated, and
last Friday it came falling out of the blue.

Billboard US: “Alien Metal is arguably the biggest swing in a catalog full of them,
as the sextet best known for wild, garage-meets-psych-rock ditched its guitars in favor
of a hulking Eurorack, a type of modular synthesizer developed in the ’90s that all of
its members could play simultaneously.”

TUTV: Back to the British 90s techno raves. Alien Metal resonates as if KG&TLW
locked themselves up for a couple of weeks playing Underworld, The Prodigy and
Leftfield records on repeat.

Expect an incessant tsunami of hyperkinetic beats, mind-blowing electro
Krautrock madness, and deformed vocal flashes. Full blast forward without
breaks. Not one moment to have a much-needed breather. E-cstatic.

SINGLE

STREAM


.
Instagram
Facebook
All Albums

THE MARY WALLOPERS – Irish Folk Team Release Their 3rd LP ‘PADDYWACKERY’ On September 18th

Posted on by JL

11 August 2026


Photo credit: The Mary Wallopers

Band: THE MARY WALLOPERS
Who: Irish folk team based in Dundalk, County Louth. They’re well known for their opposition to far-right and anti-immigration politics, and their support for the liberation of Palestine.

Album: PADDYWHACKERY.
Their 3rd longplayer. Out on September 18th.
More info here.

Press info: “Paddywhackery finds them leaping forwards to create an album that sounds like it’s been made by a band with a tightness and a power that’s unparalleled in music right now.

Recorded in an intense two-week period in Liverpool with The Coral‘s frontman James Skelly and engineer Chris Taylor, Paddywhackery lets the band’s grand wildness shine through and allows their songs to flow out of the speakers with the kind of verve and potency that will make you – the listener – press play again, and again, and again.”

TMW: “It’s mainly about the fact that people would call us “paddywhackery” because we are
too Irish or whatever, but it’s all very fucking hip to be Irish the last couple of years, and maybe that’s performative too, it’s very sincere. If all you do is serious songs, it sterilises everything.

It becomes like there’s only one human emotion and its seriousness. People are terrified of being laughed at. If people are going to call us paddywhackery anyway, we might as well just call the album Paddywhackery. So its more of a “fuck you” than anything else. We want to spread like a virus and destroy anyone who thinks they are above The Mary Wallopers.”

Thus far, 3 singles to jump and bounce yourself nuts to.

– CROWNS OF ENGLAND –

– LANDSLORD’S DEMISE –

– KIT KAT CLUB –

All 3 on Spotify


.
Instagram
Linktree
Facebook

THE DURUTTI COLUMN – Woolgatherer VINI REILLY Has New Ambient And Cinematic LP ‘RENASCENT’ Out

Posted on by JL

10 August 2026


📸 @micksteff64

Band: THE DURUTTI COLUMN

Who: Post-punk project of Manchester-born, experimental singer-songwriter-guitarist Vincent Gerard “Vini” Reilly (now 72). The band’s name refers to the Durruti Column,
an anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War, named after Buenaventura Durruti.

Album: RENASCENT.
His 28th.

Press info: “This album marks the long-awaited return of legendary
Manchester outfit The Durutti Column, their first new studio album
in over 15 years.

Around the guitar work of Vini Reilly, the album plays between sonic atmospherics and structure: warm ambient washes, piano, beats and guest vocal turns by a new generation (Caoilfhionn Rose). Both contemporary and otherworldly.”

MOJO magazine writes: “Listening to the music of Vini Reilly is a process of divine adjustment, a blissful adaptation to a unique sonic environment that feels simultaneously of the past and future but never the present.

Renascent combines luminescent indie pastoralism with ghostly flamenco shadows
and vocal samples that summon dancefloor ghosts of the Haçienda, but also push
forward into new realms with the juddering Afro-futurism of Your Shadow At Evening
and the Beckettian unravelling of Scammer.”

TUTV: This is a soothing, ambient Eno-like soundtrack for a melodramatic movie.
Reilly offers cinematic, dreamy soundscapes, rather than conventional song structures.
His singular, crystalline, finger-picking guitar playing style commands the aural tone throughout.

7 out of the 11 tracks are instrumentals. Caoilfhionn Rose sings on 3, Lucas Elliot
on one, and Reilly stirs with vulnerable vocals on the album’s best piece, the wondrous musing Scammer. Give Renascent a couple of spins, once you’re connected with The Durutti Column‘s imaginative and blue-sky world, you’ll enjoy a very gratifying record.

SINGLE

ALBUM


.
Album on Spotify
Linktree
All Albums

OPUS KINK – English Indie Mavericks Have Their Brassy Debut LP ‘THE SWEET GOODBYE’ Out

Posted on by JL

4 August 2026

Band: OPUS KINK
Who: Razor-edged, funked-up, sax-and-trumpet-infused
collective from Brighton (UK) fronted by their charismatic
voice/songwriter Angus Rodgers.

Album: THE SWEET GOODBYE
Their debut.


Album artwork

Press-info: Underscored by a formidable horn section and ragged, sardonic delivery,
the band bear passing resemblance to post-punk and no-wave acts like The Pop Group, Birthday Party and Lounge Lizards.

It’s the weaving of older, more traditional influences: choral, folk, country,
Latin, Weimar cabaret, cruise-ship-crooning, into the fabric of their music
that sets them apart.

NME: Madness and menace abound on the jazz-punk band’s long-awaited first album. It’s a the debut that Opus Kink should have made, but the problem with coming up amongst a scene is that the scene moves fast and what once sounded fresh can swiftly become old news. Give it a little more time and ‘The Sweet Goodbye’ might come into its own, away from the shadow of what recently went before.”


Ghent, Belgium 2025 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume

TUTV: 10 years since they formed this London indie collective unleash their debut LP, following their attention-grabbing 7-track debut EP My Eyes, Brother! from 2022. A brassy, funky and punky-jazzy party record, stuffed with pelvis-wobbling grooves and Angus Rodgers‘ bossy vocals pushing his abstract stories up front.

OP blend, effortlessly, vaudeville, ska and mariachi elements in heart-stopping and envigorating dynamics. Move. Move. Move. Yet, The Sweet Goodbye doesn’t feel convincing after the last track fades out because, overall, it lacks versatility, as the band rarely leave their comfort zone, creating a déjà vu throughout the album’s progression.

Two more things: With I’m A Pretty Show Boy they score(d) a long-lasting, hypnotically swinging knockout, and If you get the chance to see them live, don’t miss them. As I
already experienced 3 times, they blew you off your feet.

The singles.

– I’M A PRETTY SHOW BOY –

– THE HEAD TREE –
Featuring The New Eves

– COME OVER, DO ME WRONG –

– THE SWEET GOODBYE –

ALBUM


.
Instagram Linktree

BLOC PARTY – English Indie Rockers Release 7th LP In September – Info & Its 3 Singles Here

Posted on by JL

3 August 2026


📸 Charlie Pryor

London’s indie rockers BLOC PARTY, fronted by charismatic singer-songwriter
Kele Okereke will release their 7th full-length, named ANATOMY OF A BRIEF
ROMANCE, on September 11th. Tracklist here.

Press info: “A narrative work examining a year-long relationship
in intimate and often brutal detail, realised in the studio with the
legendary Trevor Horn.”

Okereke wrote the record in the wake
of a more than decade-long relationship.

“Every lyric you’re hearing on this record was something that
actually happened to me. I had to tell the story, from start to
finish.”

Check out the 3 shared singles so far.

– COMING ON STRONGE –

– LOVE BOMBS –

– NOW WE CAN’T BE FRIENDS –

All 3 on Spotify


.
Instagram
Linktree
All Albums