On this phase, we showcase essentially the most notable albums out every week. Listed here are the albums out on February 13, 2026:
Charli XCX, Wuthering Heights
Charli XCX‘s Wuthering Heights, the companion album to Emerald Fennell’s new movie of the identical title, is out at the moment. Along with the beforehand launched singles ‘Wall of Sound’, ‘Chains of Love’, and the John Cale-featuring ‘Home’, it contains Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira’s first collaboration since 2019’s ‘Cross You Out’, titled ‘Eyes of the World’. Djo and Justin Raisen additionally contributed to the album, which the singer described in a Substack put up as a “dive into persona, right into a world that felt undeniably uncooked, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and stuffed with precise actual sentences, punctuation and grammar.” It undoubtedly stands aside by itself, however I really feel like I’ll should go to the cinema this weekend to kind an actual opinion on the music.
Danny L Harle, Cerulean
Danny L Harle’s bombastic, star-studded new album, Cerulean, has arrived. It’s billed because the producer’s debut album, though his debut album, Harlecore, technically got here out in 2021. Cerulean is unquestionably a extra portentous affair, although, with visitor appearances from Dua Lipa, Caroline Polachek, Clairo, PinkPantheress, oklou, and extra; Harle, in his phrases, sought “the most effective melodies sung by the most effective voices.” He was influenced by Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, positioning the document “on the edge between goals and actuality.”
hemlocke springs, the apple tree beneath the ocean
hemlocke springs has dropped the apple tree beneath the ocean, some of the spectacular pop debut albums in latest reminiscence. Vibrant, whimsical, and kaleidoscopic, it doubles down on the qualities that made 2023’s going…going…GONE! EP stand out. “I grew up very religiously—Christianity may be very pertinent in Nigerian tradition and the Black group—and I used to be additionally obedient to my elders,” springs defined. “This album begins with a personality going via the desert who says, ‘I’m going to do your will.’ They might be saying it to God or a person, however then they arrive throughout the apple. It’s about me being on this bubble, and realizing that being in that bubble was harder than I believed, after which lastly getting out and exploring who I actually am.”
Keep in mind Sports activities, The Fridge
Keep in mind Sports activities have returned with a brand new album, their first since 2021’s Like a Stone. Singer and guitarist Carmen Perry began writing the songs that ended up on The Refrigrator when the band couldn’t tour their final album, and so they tracked them at Chicago’s Electrical Audio simply after the passing of Steve Albini. “I believe this album is an efficient illustration of how this mission has been a vessel for me to expertise issues via previous eyes,” Perry mirrored in our Artist Highlight interview, “that head-spinning confusion of, like, “Am I 30 proper now, or am I six?” Writing via these emotions, singing via these emotions, and enjoying via these emotions has been actually enormous for me in processing who I’m and the place I’ve been.”
Converge, Love Is Not Sufficient
Converge are again with their first correct LP in 9 years, Love Is Not Sufficient. Following their Chelsea Wolfe collaboration Bloodmoon: I, it’s tight, unrelenting, and, as vocalist/lyricist Jacob Bannon put it in a press launch, “does a factor that no different Converge document does—it retains ramping up. And that’s undoubtedly by design. Internally, we handed round dozens of concepts for sequencing as a result of everybody interprets music otherwise and there’s no proper method of doing it. After we try this, we all the time joke that all of us should be equally sad. However that is the one which works.”
Angel Du$t, COLD 2 THE TOUCH
Angel Du$t have unleashed their newest album, COLD 2 THE TOUCH. The hardcore band’s follow-up to 2023’s Model New Soul is rowdy, tormented, and vengeful (particularly on the mid-album spotlight ‘Downfall’, which options Restraining Order’s Patrick Cozens), splitting the distinction between their easy and experimental inclinations. The document reunites Angel Du$t with producer/engineer Brian McTernan, with extra contributions from Frank Carter, Scott Vogel (Terror), Wes Eisold (American Nightmare, Chilly Cave), and Taylor Younger (Twitching Tongues, Deadbody).
PONY, Clearly Cursed
PONY are clearly gifted at making sugary, fuzzed-out pop-punk anthems, and I’m not saying that only for the sake of the pun. The follow-up to 2023’s Velveteen, Clearly Cursed exorcises its demons – from self-blame to poisonous relationships – in enviably bubbly vogue, however there’s an actual backstory to the album title. In line with Sam Bielanski, it’s primarily based on the time she went to see a psychic when she was 21. “She learn my tarot playing cards and advised me my boyfriend was dishonest on me,” she recalled. “That was true. She additionally advised me that I had a darkish spirit attachment which she may simply vanquish if I paid her $1500. That was clearly out of my finances, so I left and determined I must coexist with this darkish spirit for the remainder of my life.”
Cardinals, Masquerade
Cork’s Cardinals have come via with their debut album, Masquerade. “One thing the document seems at is peeling again the ‘masquerade’ or the facade all of us put up,” frontman Euan Manning shared in press supplies. “The curtain is pulled and cynicism takes its place – it’s very easy to be cynical and much more durable to be hopeful and real. We’ve learnt this via enjoying and touring however you’ll be able to’t be a complete cynic should you’re making music or movies or no matter it’s, making artwork forces you to dig deeper than that protecting layer. Stripping it again is painful, yow will discover stuff you’re actually not pleased with nevertheless it additionally lends itself to a form of acceptance that may’t be attained should you don’t enable your self that vulnerability. Quite a lot of the themes and concepts within the album come from that place.”
Different albums out at the moment:
Jill Scott, To Whom This Could Concern; femtanyl, MAN BITES DOG; Mumford & Sons, Prizefighter; Katzin, Buckaroo; Brent Faiyaz, Icon; Chet Faker, A Love for Strangers; congratulations, Be a part of Arms; Ásgeir, Julia; Elizabeth Davis, Flowers; Feng, Weekend Rockstar; Yellow Days, Rock and a Exhausting Place; Aaron Shaw, And So It Is.
