The past week or so has been a week of catching up on 2026 releases on my commute and while crunching various article-writing/finalising deadlines.
2026 Singles
- Shush — Tori Amos
- Sailing – Future Islands
- Morpho Blue — Ed O’Brien
I’m very emotional about Tori Amos’s latest single. While I’ve warmed up to her more recent albums, like most toriphiles, I missed gateway Tori (aka the Tori albums through which we got to know her). Shush feels so relevant to our extremely fraught times. It’s Tori giving us what we need; I get goosebumps every time I listen to it.
I was also very excited about Future Islands’s latest single, Sailing and can’t wait for the release of their new album. Ed O’Brien’s Morpho Blue is beautiful; I listened to it several times just to sink deeper into it.
2026 Albums
- Amiture Music — Amiture
- Butterfly — Witch Post
- Girlfriend — Grace Ives
- It’s The Long Goodbye — The Twilight Sad
- Written Into Changes — Avalon Emerson & The Charm
I enjoyed all of the above listens. The ones that stood out the most to me: Amiture Music by Amiture, It’s The Long Goodbye by The Twilight Sad, and Butterfly by Witch Post.
For older stuff there was a bit of Depeche Mode, a whole lot of Tori, nostalgic listens of Death Cab for Cutie’s Transatlanticism ahead of their 2026 release, and Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton’s Knives Don’t Have Your Back.