In this week’s New Records Roundup, we bring you teasers for five recently announced albums!
Hot Face – Automated Response
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Hot Face will release new album Automated Response on January 23, 2026, through Speedy Wunderground!
The band’s debut album was recorded in front of an audience at Abbey Road Studios in one take!
It was recorded as part of the studios’ Amplify initiative, a scheme to empower the next generation.
Tracklist:
Defenstration
Sinnes
Liar
Bumble
Cruel Tutelage
Red Fuzz
Pink Liquor
Automated Response
Cavern Killer
I Love You
Kezia Gill – All on Red
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Kezia Gill will release new album All on Red on January 26, 2026.
Kezia said: “This is the best album I’ve written; it feels like a body of work that combines the sound and skill of Nashville with what I stand for in terms of storytelling and honesty as a proud British artist. The title of the record encapsulates the process. I went all in… I put it ‘All On Red’!”
Tracklist:
Life You Always Dreamed Of
Dublin’s Outta Whiskey
Whiskey in a Wine Glass
Love You Next
Ride or Die
Gut Feeling
Money in the Bank
Barbed Wire
If Heaven Has A Honkytonk
What If
This House Would Sing
Crooked Finger – Swet Death
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Crooked Finger will release new album Swet Death on February 27, 2026, on Merge Records.
The album is the first in 15 years and was named after an image Eric Bachmann’s young son had created (which is also the album artwork).
He said: “There were crows and sinister figures with scythes and tombstones, and in the center, there was a strange, lush green tree growing out of all of this red and black. On one of them, he had written ‘DETH, SWET DETH,’ and everything clicked in my head.
“What I was writing wasn’t mellow like a solo album.
“It was heavy, and it made me wish that I had a band. So, I hired Jeremy Wheatley to play drums, and I didn’t tell him what to play. In that moment, it became more of a collaboration, more of a band, and it felt natural to call that band Crooked Fingers.”
Tracklist:
Cold Waves
From All Ways
Spray Tan Speed Queen (In a German Car)
Insomnia
Empty Love and Cheap Thrills
Haunted
Hospital
(I’m Your) Bodhisattva
Lena
Steady Now
Gogol Bordello – We Mean it, Man!
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Gogol Bordello will release new album We Mean it, Man! on February 13, 2026.
Frontman Eugene Hütz said: “Gogol Bordello has always been a cross-pollinator. And ‘We Mean It Man!’ brings all our original inspirations together more than any other: punk, gypsy music, hardcore, and techno. I conceived this album as a collaboration with one of my favorite producers of all time, Nick Launay, who’s been so much responsible for the flourishing of post-punk as a genre. In terms of boiled down multimedia collage this is the best Frankenstein we’ve done since Gypsy Punks. This is our post-punk groove revenge”.
Tracklist:
We Mean It, Man!
Life Is Possible Again
No Time For Idiots
Hater Liquidator
Boiling Point (ft. Grace Bergere)
Ignition
From Boyarka to Boyaca (ft. Puzzled Panther)
Mystics
We Did Good With The Good We Did
Crayons
State of Shock
Solidarity (Nick Launay mix ft. Bernard Sumner)
Converge – Love is Not Enough
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Converge will release new album Love is Not Enough on February 13, 2026.
The band say the record has no guests, and no trickery. Vocalist Jacob Bannon said: “I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre.
“Things either go super raw and almost chaotic to the point where it’s distracting, or bands take the life out of what they’re doing by editing every aspect. Sometimes the perfect take is the one that has some wildness to it. It’s not perfectly executed. There’s a lot of powerful moments on this record and a lot of angry moments. The realism amplifies that.
“It does a thing that no other Converge record does – it keeps ramping up.
“And that’s definitely by design. Internally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently, and there’s no right way of doing it. When we do that, we always joke that we all have to be equally unhappy. But this is the one that works.”
Tracklist:
Love Is Not Enough
Bad Faith
Distract and Divide
To Feel Something
Beyond Repair
Amon Amok
Force Meets Presence
Gilded Cage
Make Me Forget You
We Were Never The Same
