In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on June 12, 2026:
Olivia Rodrigo, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
Olivia Rodrigo is back with a new album. Preceded by the excellent singles ‘drop dead’ and ‘the cure’, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love arrives today along with a music video for the focus track ‘stupid song’. Rodrigo worked on the record with longtime collaborators Daniel Nigro and Amy Allen, enlisting The Cure’s Robert Smith for ‘what’s wrong with me’ (which they debuted at Primavera Sound) and Conan Gray for backing vocals on ‘honeybee’. Jim-E Stack and Mike Wise also appear in the credits, though Weyes Blood’s Natalie Merring, who backed Rodrigo during the Saturday Night Live debut of ‘begged’, isn’t on the album version.
Kelsey Lu, So Help Me God
Kelsey Lu has returned with their first album in seven years. The songwriter, singer, and composer worked on So Help Me God with producers Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman, reveling in abstraction while homing in on their musicality. The LP boasts contributions from Kim Gordon, Sampha, Kamasi Washington, and Lady Jess. “So Help Me God was built slowly and intentionally across seven years of transformation,” Lu said in a press release. “Sonically and emotionally it holds so many different worlds at once – devotion and desire, collapse and becoming – trying to make sense of what it means to break, to believe, to long for something without seeing it clearly, and to be reborn again and again and again.”
Wiki, Ancient History
Wiki’s new album, Ancient History, is also his first solo effort in seven years. Following a run of collaborative records as well as a cameo in Marty Supreme last year, the rapper’s latest features guest spots from Your Old Droog, duendita, and Salimata, as well as gorgeous production from the Alchemist, Navy Blue, Nick Hakim, Dom Maker of Mount Kimble, and more. The album’s cover artwork was painted by contemporary artist Esteban Jefferson.
BIG|BRAVE, in grief or in hope
BIG|BRAVE meld together drone, electronic, and heavy music with a distinct pop sensibility on their latest album, in grief or in hope. Longtime touring bassist Liam Andrews (MY DISCO, Aicher) joined guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie and guitarist Mathieu Ball in the studio for the first time, amplifying the group’s intricate maximalism. “I wanted to explore catchy, melodic phrasing weaved throughout the intensity of the instrumentation and drony chord changes,” Wattie explained. “All that I could reflect on was grief and hope; death and life; cause and effect; shared experiences of being a human person.”
Jenny Gillespie Mason, In the Safety of the Light
Jenny Gillespie Mason, the singer-songwriter behind projects including Sis and the Lower Wisdom, has a new album out called In the Safety of the Light. Produced by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Bert Jansch, Vashti Bunyan), the record finds Mason returning to the kind of acoustic folk music she first began writing as a teenager. “In the Safety of the Light is a project that was building in me for quite a few years, but it took meeting Noah Georgeson for it to reach its fulfillment,” Mason shared. “Working with someone so kind, calm and creative was what was needed for these songs to become fully formed in their true essence. I hadn’t written strictly on an acoustic guitar for many years, and I felt a return to my original inspiration that led me to becoming a musician as a young teenager – just me and a guitar.”
Other albums out today:
CFCF, L.U.V.; Sublime, Until the Sun Explodes; Goose, BIG MODERN!; Yes, Aurora; Kalia Vandever, Mana; Debit, Potpourri; Horse Lords, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!; Berndt / Schmidt, Cloud Machines; Jessie Reyez, A Little Vengeance; Jesse Welles, Masks Off; Bebe Rexha, DIRTY BLONDE; Tim Barry, Clear Blocks Ahead; Pussy Riot, CYKA; Lucie Antunes, Silence; Bob Wagner, I’ve Been Down; Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Manifestations in the Shadow of an Unknown Land.
