Alternative stars Gorillaz are back with a brand new album this Friday titled The Mountain ! The Mountain represents the ninth studio album from Gorillaz in their career and spans 15 songs. The album features a plethora of guest artists and collaborators including: Ajay Prasanna, Amaan & Ayaan Ali Bangash, Anoushka Shankar, Asha Bhosle, Asha Puthli, Bizarrap, Black Thought, Gruff Rhys, IDLES, Jalen Ngonda, Johnny Marr, Kara Jackson, Omar Souleyman, PaulSimonon, Sparks, Truen

Sam Beam, aka Iron & Wine, knows how to paint a vivid mental picture. His new album, Hen's Teeth, has no shortage of that beautiful imagery. His last album, Light Verse  (2024), seemed bigger, more concise, more orchestrated than his upcoming Hen's Teeth. Blink and you’ll miss that these two are sibling albums, or, in Beams own words ‘Kissing cousins. If Light Verse  is the older, more outspoken sibling, Hen's Teeth  is the younger, quieter one. The intimacy of this album hit

Mitski tackles familiar themes here, waxing existential and self-deprecating, while simultaneously refracting light off of human relationships like a disco ball in a Broadway production of a country and western dance hall with Victorian costuming. 2026’s Nothing’s About to Happen to Me feels both very familiar for fans of her work and yet seems to cut deeper both lyrically and sonically than some of her past albums. As always, the complete thematic integrity of the album as