New Albums - Released Friday March 27th - Out Now

Story by Matthew Murray

02/04/2026

So many interesting albums out this week it's hard to know where to start!

Lots of new music from some big and or established names this week. We have new albums from Courney Barnett, Raye, Robyn, Central Cee, Scouting for Girls, plus a debut from long-time Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. The long awaited album from Swedish Electro Dance singer Robyn, her first since Honey in 2018. We’ve already had some luscious high energy previews by way of Dopamine and Sexistential and are looking forward to fully delving into it. Raye, 7 times winner of Brit awards since 2024 and nominated in 2 categories this year, is back with her second full album. “This Music May Contain Hope” includes the hugely successful “Where is my Husband!” and the soaring heartbreak song ‘Nightingale Lane’. Since Courney Barnett’s widely acclaimed debut in 2015 “Sometime I sit and think, And sometime I just Sit” she seems to have largely drifted from the public consciousness.But she’s back this year with ‘Creature of Habit’. It’s been heavily backed by BBC radio 6 including a headline slot at their recent Manchester festival. Honora is Flea’s - Jazz / Funk album. Almost entirely an instrumental album. It is smooth, upbeat, funky, sunshine and entirely positive. ‘A Plea’, one of the few times we hear Michael Balzary’s (Flea) voice “We’re all human beings. Can’t we all just get along?” If you’ve watched the recent Chili Peppers Netflix documentary you get a taste of Flea’s fun loving, inclusive, loving outlook on life and you can feel it on this album. Thom Yorke sings on ‘Traffic Lights’ and Nick Cave makes an appearance on ‘ Wichita Lineman’. Fleas trumpet throughout is a joy to listen to. Central Cee’s latest offering comes hot on the heels of last year's ‘Can't Rush Greatness’. All Roads lead home at just 7 songs and 17 minutes long is more in EP territory than an album. The West London rapper is still on a massive global tour but has managed to squeeze this in. Highlights are a link up with J Hus on Slaughter and ‘Iceman Freestyle’. Artemas is famous partly for the massively viral “I Like the way you kiss me", which has so far racked up over 1.5 billion streams on spotify. ‘Getting up to no good’ is the 4th full length album from the English singer, songwriter and record producer. Melanie Martinez originally rose to fame after appearing on the American edition of the singing talent show, ‘The Voice’.This is her 4th studio album. She’s quite an excellent wordsmith discussing all manner of subjects throughout her songs. It seems like she's got a lot to get off her chest; US slowly rotting from the inside, AI, and phone addiction, male violence against women, misogyny, racism, the environment and fake feminists. All set to an electronic pop backing. Two, part 2 albums; one from Balancing Act with ‘Who've you come as? Part 2’ and one from emerging Darlington indie / folk indigene Pollyfromthedirt. There’s also a highly rated 4th Album from someone Taylor Swift name dropped as a perpetual underdog, Charlie Puth. The American indie singer songwriter “Finally Finds His Sweet Spot” according to Rolling Stone magazine.