A fresh album recommendation every single week.
One of the early joys of 2026 comes courtesy of this young band from Manchester. On their second EP, folk-rock, Americana and indie rock once again join forces in a blend of styles the band themselves have dubbed “britainicana”.
With their latest release, Barry Johnson and company prove that you can grow up without losing the ability to synthesize high-stakes emo/pop/punk drama into less than two hundred seconds. Under the baton of Brett Gurewitz (the Epitaph big shot), the group dispatches nine cuts in a 20-minute breath, maintaining the brevity that has become their trademark.
The Canadian band is kicking off January 2026 with the release of their sixth studio effort, doubling down on their forays into sounds much closer to hardcore—as evidenced by tracks like “Blood for Blood”. It is a fascinating evolution; they’ve traveled from the more juvenile pop-punk of their debut EP, A Way With Words (where … Read more
An Americana singer-songwriter releasing a 25-song behemoth clocking in at 1 hour and 18 minutes: cue the panic and cold sweats… Everyone stay calm, the ghost of an aimless Ryan Adams hasn’t possessed him just yet.
This week’s pick is Beanpole, the debut album by Australian artist Georgia Knight. Its inclusion is something of a mea culpa for not featuring it in our “NOVO 2025: New Voices of the Year” selection.