11 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Mitski, Bill Callahan, Gorillaz, and More

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11 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Mitski, Bill Callahan, Gorillaz and More

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By Nina Corcoran and Hattie Lindert
February 27, 2026

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*With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Mitski, Bill Callahan, Gorillaz, Gena, Bruno Mars, and Blackpink. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s* *New Music Friday newsletter* *to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)*

Mitski: Nothing’s About to Happen to Me [Dead Oceans]

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As much as she shies away from the public eye in real life, Mitski loves openly diving into a character in her otherworldly music. On Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, she goes deep into the mind of a reclusive woman pent up in a disheveled house. Between those walls and the mess that surrounds her, she’s free to be her chaotic self. Mitski’s eighth album is anxiety pop told with an indie-rock heart and live instrumentation by her The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We touring band, from lead single “Where’s My Phone” to “I’ll Change for You” and beyond.

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Bill Callahan: My Days of 58 [Drag City]

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On his first solo album in four years, Bill Callahan tapped the touring musicians behind his 2022 album YTI⅃AƎЯ—guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, and drummer Jim White—to improvise in the studio. The resulting 12 songs on My Days of 58 are roving journeys, from the driving kosmische folk of “The Man I’m Supposed to Be” to the wayfaring curiosity of “Lonely City.” You can hear Callahan prepared the songs in separate, one-on-one sessions with each musician—part draft, part spontaneity. As Callahan puts it, “a lot of the best parts of a recording are the mistakes—making them into strengths, using them as springboards into something human.”

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Gorillaz: The Mountain [Kong]

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Gorillaz conduct a musical séance on The Mountain, inviting a typically madcap array of guests—Sparks, Black Thought, Bizarrap, Idles, Yasiin Bey—to join them in invoking the spirits of Gorillaz collaborators past. Those include Dennis Hopper, D12’s Proof, Tony Allen, Bobby Womack, and the Fall’s Mark E. Smith, all revived, via unreleased session recordings, in Damon Albarn’s bombastic fusion of psych-pop and electrofunk. He also enlisted assorted Indian musicians and vocalists, including Anoushka Shankar and Asha Bhosle, to riff on the album’s themes of life cycles and reincarnation.

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Gena (Liv.e & Karriem Riggins): The Pleasure is Yours [Lex]

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Last year, Liv.e and Karriem Riggins started popping up together for live performances under the name Gena. Fast forward a few months and they had a handful of singles to show for their new sound: the sultry soul-pop chorus of “Circlesz,” the slow burn of melting guitars on “Lead It Up,” the stuttering drumbeat that’s holding down “Howweflow.” On their debut album together, The Pleasure Is Yours, Liv.e and Riggins swirl together so well it’s hard to remember they haven’t been making music as Gena for decades.

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Bruno Mars: The Romantic [Atlantic]

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