New Releases & Staff Picks - 6/12/26

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ANGINE DE POITRINE - Vol. I  (Spectacles Bonzai)
Channeling the spirit of Earth's greatest rockstars, time-traveling duo Angine de Poitrine are endlessly fascinated by hot dogs, pyramids, and the sheer grandeur of rock music. With driving drum grooves and intricately layered microtonal guitars, Klek and Khn de Poitrine conjure hypnotic sonic and visual vortices. Their KEXP session has racked up millions of views while tours have sold out seconds. Debut album. Widely available for the first time.

ANGINE DE POITRINE - Vol. II (Spectacles Bonzai)
The 2nd album from time-traveling duo Angine de Poitrine. With Vol. II, a dense, no-frills, high-impact record, the Poitrine brothers push their sound even further, with sharper dynamics, stranger structures, and a sense of humor that reveals itself only if you're paying attention. The recipe still revolves around the same three ingredients: acid techno, disco, and rock. Available widely on vinyl for the first time. Album opener ‘Fabienk’ sits among the 50 most Shazamed tracks worldwide.

FRUIT BATS - Landfill CD/LP (Merge Records)
The midwest, particularly the part of the midwest Eric D. Johnson hails from, is a largely flat expanse. Zipping through it on the highway, you’ll see cities and towns rise up in the distance, but blink and you’ll miss other man-made rejoinders to horizontal living dotting the landscape, hill after hill, built from the refuse of the past: landfills. Some of these hills make for great sledding spots, parks, and trails. Others turn organic waste into compost. The Landfill, Fruit Bats’ June 12, 2026 album from Merge Records, is something else entirely: a mountain dominating the landscape of Johnson’s heart.

LOOK OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW - Look Outside Your Window CD/LP (LOYW)
Look Outside Your Window is NOT a lost Slipknot album. Look Outside Your Window IS Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Sid Wilson, and Shawn 'clown' Crahan, who in the downtime during recording sessions for Slipknot's 2008 album All Hope Is Gone, began to freely create songs for themselves, exploring new directions with no outside expectations. Over the years, the existence of this project has seen coverage in outlets including Vice, Revolver, NME, Kerrang!, and countless others, and the fans have only grown louder in their demand to hear this album. Now over 15 years later, the fans will finally get to experience it for themselves.

OLIVIA RODRIGO - You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love CD/LP (GEFFEN RECORDS)
Three-time Grammy Award winner Olivia Rodrigo's highly anticipated third studio album follows her critically acclaimed LPs Guts and Sour.

MAKEOUT REEF - Star Power LP (Many Hats)
Grape Purple Vinyl. Makeout Reef is a Los Angeles-based band blending beach-goth with 2000s NYC indie-rock. The basis for the band's instantly catchy songs are reverb-drenched vocals, vibrant gritty guitars, and a driving rhythm section. Their live shows perfectly encapsulate the raw energy that both the band and fans bring to the music.

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE & MARY HALVORSON - Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings LP (Nonesuch)
Trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson's album Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings is due June 12, 2026, on Nonesuch Records. The album features four new compositions by each musician as well as one collaboration. The duo, long admirers of each other's musicianship, met at Halvorson's Brooklyn apartment and began playing together periodically, going back as far as 2009. They rehearsed the music on Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings in January 2025, just before performing it at the New York City club The Stone; they recorded this album the next day at Sear Sound.

BEBE REXHA - Dirty Blonde LP (Bebe Rexha Music)
You can't put Bebe Rexha in a box. From her Grammy-winning songwriting roots on Eminem's The Monster to global chart-toppers with David Guetta and Florida Georgia Line, Rexha has established herself as a premier musical chameleon. With her latest project, Dirty Blonde, she officially enters a new era as an independent powerhouse. Now signed to EMPIRE, the Brooklyn-born star has crafted a 13-song genre kaleidoscope that serves as her first-ever visual album, representing a total creative rebirth and a departure from the major-label system she's known since she was a teenager.

MIDLAND - Stages CD/LP (Big Machine Records)
With their fifth studio album, Stages, traditional country revivalists Midland deliver a collection of songs driven by vivid storytelling of the miles and experiences that have shaped them. Stages finds the group underscoring their signature sound that helped pioneer country's neo-traditional movement, proving this has never been a mere stage of their career. These 10 tracks are a snapshot of a band fully formed, embracing the stages that the multiplatinum-selling group has conquered all over the world.

BIG/BRAVE - In Grief Or In Hope LP (Thrill Jockey)
The work of BIG BRAVE is ever-expanding. The trio's singular masterful sculpting of sonics into songcraft tucks layers of vulnerability into frenetic storms. In grief or in hope is an innovative vision of electro-acoustic sound and emotive storytelling, an endless bounty of overwhelming distortions and devastating beauty. In grief or in hope marks a shift for BIG BRAVE towards denser guitar-oriented compositions. With longtime touring bassist Liam Andrews (MY DISCO, Aicher) joining guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie and guitarist Mathieu Ball in the studio for the first time, the pieces are keenly layered with a rich tapestry of harmonics and tonal intricacies.

CHALINO SANCHEZ - El Pavido Navido  (Craft Recordings)
The classic 1991 album by Chalino Sánchez, the King of Corridos, finally makes it's vinyl debut. Originally released by Discos Musart on CD and cassette, it features the powerful tambora sound of Banda Sinaloense La Flor del Campo. With twelve tracks - ten written by Chalino - this album blends raw storytelling and regional pride. AAA lacquers cut from the original master tapes bring this essential release to life.

DIRTY HEADS - 7 Seas LP (Better Noise Music)
Dirty Heads have built a career out of soundtracking the best  moments of people's lives, and with 7 Seas, they're not slowing down. The Southern California outfit returns with their much-anticipated ninth full-length album, building on their signature balance of carefree energy and reflective songwriting while inviting fans into their next chapter of freedom, positivity, and forward motion.

EDDIE KIRKLAND - It's The Blues Man! LP [Reissue/1962] (Craft Recordings)
It's the Blues Man! is guitarist, harmonica player, singer, and songwriter, Eddie Kirkland's 1962 debut, on which he is backed by saxophonist King Curtis and his band. The powerhouse recording expertly showcases Kirkland's raw vocal delivery and in-the-pocket guitar style. Released in partnership with Acoustic Sounds, the album has been (AAA) remastered from the original tapes by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab and pressed on 180-gram vinyl. A tip-on jacket with obi completes the package.

HORSE LORDS - Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive  (RVNG Int'l)
The music on Horse Lords' Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! Feels both impossibly detailed and eminently human. The twelve pieces assembled are layered, interwoven, tonally and rhythmically complex-moiré-like patterns of interaction and tessellation that play out for both mind and body, full of sonic warrens with an inescapable groove. Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore in 2010; they evolved from another group called Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with guitarist Owen Gardner, bassist Max Eilbacher, drummer Sam Haberman, soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein to the core ensemble.

AUDIOSLAVE - Out Of Exile LP [Reissue/2005]  (Interscope Records)
Audioslave's 2005 sophomore album, Out of Exile, is newly remastered by Levi Seitz from Black Belt Mastering and pressed on 180g vinyl 2LP. The platinum-certified record topped the Billboard 200 albums chart and features the rock hits Be Yourself, Your Time Has Come, and Doesn't Remind Me.

MASTER WILBURN BURCHETTE - Occult Concert LP  (Numero)
The transcendental guitar master's 1971 debut, remastered for all The transcendental guitar master's 1971 debut, remastered for all your sabbath needs. 37 minutes of ambient guitar witchcraft and your sabbath needs. 37 minutes of ambient guitar witchcraft and the perfect soundtrack for third eye awakening, light alchemy, or the perfect soundtrack for third eye awakening, light alchemy, or human sacrifice. You could start a cult with this thing. After time spent teaching classical guitar, Master Wilburn Burchette released seven albums in the seven years spanning 1971 through 1977, before abruptly burning and discarding everything related to his musical explorations.

KALIA VANDEVER - Mana LP (International Anthem)
Mana is the International Anthem debut by trombonist and composer Kalia Vandever. The collection carries the spirit of their first solo album, We Fell In Turn, while entering a new landscape of spacious songwriting. Mana, which in Hawaiian means foundational, supernatural, or divine power and strength, reveals more of their voice and words, drawing from yearning, loss, and bewilderment. Vandever's music has quickly and widely gained traction in the last few years despite the fact that their style has been consistently difficult to pin down, boasting a compositional scope ranging from the palatial modern jazz of their quartet work to the synthetic, gauze-like droning ambience of their solo material.

SWAE LEE - Same Difference LP (Eardruma)
With a fruitful career that includes multiple platinum albums as a group (Rae Sremmurd) and numerous diamond single certifications, Same Difference officially marks the release of Swae Lee's long-awaited debut solo album! Comprised of 16 tracks, Swae's versatile artistry taps into each of the sonic lanes he's become renowned within - spanning hip hop, R&B, pop & even Afrobeat. Backed by features from Jhene Aiko, Rich The Kid, French Montana, FKA Twigs, Post Malone & brother/Rae Sremmurd counterpart Slim Jxmmi, the end result is an album that blurs genre lines while reaffirming Swae's place at the center of modern music!

MONO - Snowdrop LP (Temporary Residence)
When Mono recorded their previous album, Oath, withlongtime production partner and friend, Steve Albini in 2023, they never fathomed that it would be the final studio album they made together. Albini tragically died the following year, and that loss left an incalculable void in the lives of not just everyone who ever knew Steve, but everyone with an attachment to any of the thousands of records he helped bring into world over the past four decades. He brought a clarity to the chaos, and a selfless sense of service to art and artists that was unrivaled. On both a personal and practical level, the loss left Mono faced with profound grief and uncertainty. Albini had become a fundamental part of Mono's unmistakable sound, and the thought of replacing him was daunting, to say the least. Enter: Brad Wood (Touché Amoré, The Smashing Pumpkins). Chosen for both his familiarity with Mono's creative andtechnical working process - as well as his decades-long friendship with Steve Albini - Brad Wood entered Albini’s storied Electrical Audio studios in September 2025 to record what would become Snowdrop.

COMING NEXT WEEK
AFI- Decemberunderground LP Reissue
ISAIAH RASHAD - It’s Been Awful CD/LP
FKA TWIGS - Eusexua Afterglow LP
GOOSE - Big Modern CD/LP
THIS IS LORELEI - Box For Buddy Box For Star Deluxe LP
KEHLANI - S/T CD/LP
VARIOUS - Mr Bongo Record Club 8 LP