The most anticipated albums coming out in the first half of 2026 according to Pitchfork, from Morrissey to Jessie Ware, from Anna Calvi to Bruno Mars

What's brewing in the first half of 2026. US magazine Pitchfork has updated its guide to the most notable upcoming releases. In the coming months, new work is expected from artists such as Robyn, Harry Styles, Morrissey, Mitski, Charli XCX, Snail Mail, Bruno Mars, Kim Gordon, Jessie Ware, Broken Social Scene, Courtney Barnett, BTS, Flea, Gorillaz, Blackpink, Heavenly, Elucid, Sunn O))), Shabaka, Bill Callahan, Danny L Harle, Anjimile, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Fcukers, José González, Kathryn Mohr, Maria BC, Iron & Wine, Arlo Parks, Thundercat, Buck Meek and many more. The guide includes streaming and digital release dates and is updated regularly: you can check it out here.

Here's a rundown of the most interesting record releases of the first half of 2026, according to Pitchfork.

February 12, 2026

Boldy James, Nicholas Craven, Ransom – Salvation for the Wicked (Momentum Entertainment)

February 13, 2026

Angel Du$t – Cold 2 the Touch (Run for Cover)

Charli XCX – Wuthering Heights (Atlantic)

Chet Faker – A Love for Strangers (BMG)

Congratulations – Join Hands (Bella Union)

Converge – Love Is Not Enough (Epitaph)

Danny L Harle – Cerulean (XL)

Feng – Weekend Rockstar (Regularisperfect)

Hemlocke Springs – The Apple Tree Under the Sea (AWAL)

Jill Scott – To Whom This May Concern (The Orchard)

Remember Sports – The Refrigerator (Get Better)

Yellow Days – Rock and a Hard Place (Independent Co.)

February 20, 2026

Hen Ogledd – Discombobulated (Weird World/Domino)

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis – Deface the Currency (Impulse!)

Moby – Future Quiet (BMG)

Nathan Fake – Evaporator (InFiné)

Peaches – No Lube So Rude (Kill Rock Stars)

February 27, 2026

Bill Callahan – My Days of 58 (Drag City)

Blackpink – Deadline (YG)

Bruno Mars – The Romantic (Atlantic)

Buck Meek – The Mirror (4AD)

Deathcrash – Somersaults (Untitled (Recs))

Geese – Live at Third Man Records (Third Man)

GENA (Liv.e & Karriem Riggins) – The Pleasure is Yours (Lex)

Gorillaz – The Mountain (Kong)

Heavenly – Highway to Heavenly (Skep Wax)

Iron & Wine – Hen's Teeth (Sub Pop)

Kevin Richard Martin – Sub Zero (Pressure)

Lala Lala – Heaven 2 (Sub Pop)

Maria BC – Marathon (Sacred Bones)

Mitski – Nothing’s About to Happen to Me (Dead Oceans)

Noémi Büchi – Exuvie (-OUS)

Nothing – A Short History of Decay (Run for Cover)

Sideshow – TIGRAY FUNK (10k)

Voxtrot – Dreamers in Exile (Cult Hero)

March 6, 2026

Amira Ederra – A Rush to Nowhere (Arima's Lab/RCA)

Bonnie “Prince” Billy – We Are Together Again (No Quarter)

Charlie Puth – Whatever’s Clever (Atlantic)

Cobrah – Torn (Atlantic)

Flying Lotus – Captain Kernel EP (Brainfeeder)

Gregory Uhlmann – Extra Stars (International Anthem)

Harry Styles – Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. (Columbia)

Morrissey – Make-Up Is a Lie (Sire)

Ohyung – Iowa (self-released)

The Scythe – Strictly 4 the Scythe (Loma Vista)

Shabaka – Of the Earth (Shabaka Records)

Tomu DJ – Antagonist (Sound as Language)

Various Artists – Help(2) (War Child Records)

March 13, 2026

Alexis Taylor – Paris in the Spring (Night Time Stories)

Anjimile – You’re Free to Go (4AD)

Cut Worms – Transmitter (Jagjaguwar)

Elucid – I Guess U Had to Be There (Rhymesayers/Secretly)

James Blake – Trying Times (Republic)

Kim Gordon – Play Me (Matador)

Laurel Halo – Midnight Zone (Original Soundtrack to the Film by Julian Charrière) (Awe)

PUP – Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings) (Little Dipper/Rise)

Tinariwen – Hoggar (Wedge)

20 March 2026

Anna Calvi – Is This All There Is? (Domino)

Avalon Emerson & the Charm – Written Into Changes (Dead Oceans)

BTS – Arirang (Hybe)

Green-House – Hinterlands (Ghostly)

Ladytron – Paradises (Nettwerk)

Mclusky – i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley (Ipecac Recordings)

More Eaze – Sentence Structure in the Country (Thrill Jockey)

27 March 2026

ADULT. – Kissing Luck Goodbye (Dais Records)

Charlotte Cornfield – Hurts Like Hell (Merge)

Courtney Barnett – Creature of Habit (Mom+Pop)

Fcukers – Ö (Ninja Tune)

Flea – Honora (Nonesuch)

José González – Against the Dying of the Light (Mute)

King Tuff – Moo (MUP Records/Thirty Tigers)

Lone – Hyperfantasia (Greco-Roman)

The New Pornographers – The Former Site Of (Merge)

Paula Kelley – Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out (Wharf Cat)

Raye – This Music May Contain Hope (Human Re Sources)

Robyn – Sexistential (Konichiwa/Young)

Shinichi Atobe – Silent Way (Plastic & Sounds)

Slayyyter – Wor$t Girl in America (Records/Columbia)

Snail Mail – Ricochet (Matador)

Stuck – Optimizer (Exploding in Sound)

The Twilight Sad – It’s the Long Goodbye (Rock Action Records)

April 3, 2026

Arlo Parks – Ambiguous Desire (Transgressive)

Bruce Hornsby – Indigo Park (Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers)

Makthaverskan – Glass and Bones (Run for Cover)

Sunn O))) – Sunn O))) (Sub Pop)

Thundercat – Distracted (Brainfeeder Records)

Wendy Eisenberg – Wendy Eisenberg (Joyful Noise)

April 10, 2026

Holly Humberstone – Cruel World (Polydor)

Jessie Ware – Superbloom (Interscope)

April 17, 2026

Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns – Bitches Blues (Rune Grammofon)

Kathryn Mohr – Carve (The Flenser)

Souled American – Sanctions (Jealous Butcher)

April 24, 2026

Friko – Something Worth Waiting For (ATO Records)

Gia Margaret – Singing (Jagjaguwar)

Kneecap – Fenian (Heavenly Recordings)

Lightning Bolt and OOIOO – The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral (Thrill Jockey)

Metric – Romanticize the Dive (Thirty Tigers)

Miss Grit – Under My Umbrella (Mute)

The Saddest Landscape – Alone With Heaven (Iodine Recordings)

May 1, 2026

The Black Keys – Peaches! (Easy Eye Sound/Warner)

Tori Amos – In Times of Dragons (Fontana)

May 8, 2026

Broken Social Scene – Remember the Humans (Arts & Crafts)

May 15, 2026

Dua Saleh – Of Earth & Wires (Ghostly International)

May 29, 2026

Káryyn – Physics Universal Love Language (Pull) (Mute)

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