New Music Friday: 8 new releases for your weekend (24 Apr 2026)

This New Music Friday performs two tasks: More set-ups for albums coming later this year and another wave of major spring album releases.

Singles

1. Beck, Ride Lonesome (Universal)

It seems like it’s been a while since we’ve heard from Beck. This new single (mixed by Nigel Godrich, Radiohead’s favourite studio guy) evokes all the feels from from Sea Change (2002) and Morning Phase (2015). Indications are that this sort of emotional approach is where Beck is heading with his next album.

2. mgk. Fred Durst, FIX UR FACE (Interscope)

Mgk and the Limp Bizkit’s beret-wearing frontman (which he’s traded for a ball cap and beard) have come up with something that takes us back to the early 2000s (think nu-metal) while also folding in some contemporary alt-rock. The video was filmed in Berlin, Dublin, London, Prague, Munich, Nashville, and Los Angeles while mgk was on tour.

3. Modest Mouse, Picking Dragons’ Pockets (Glacial Pace Recordings)

It’s been almost five since Modest Mouse had a new album (note the name of their label), but that absence has comes to an end with a couple of singles. Look How Far… was released in March, and now we have this track. An Eraser and a Maze, MM’s eighth album and their first as an indie act in more than 20 years, will be here on June 5. Fun fact: This started as an Isaac Brock solo album before he invited the rest of the band in.

4. Show Me the Body, Dance in the USA (Loma Vista/Concord)

Living in the US is not an easy thing right now. Show Me the Body, a post-hardcore band from NYC (est. 2009), understands this very, very well. Pay attention to lyrics like “a doll on a sting.” The album, Alone Together expands on those themes.

Albums

1. Atreyu, The End is Not the End (Spinefarm)

More aggression. Atreyu’s second act, which began in 2014 after a three-year break, and produced the band’s tenth album, which they started teasing with singles last September. The current single features Max Cavalera of Sepultura. The louder you play this, the better. Obviously.

2. Foo Fighters, Your Favourite Toy (Roswell/RCA)

We’re now up to an even dozen Foo Fighters studio albums. Not bad for a band led by the surviving member of Nirvana that no one expected to do anything once the band broke up. Like most of the albums this millennium, this one was record at the Foos’ private 606 Studios in Van Nuys, although tracks were also laid down in Dave’s home studio. Interesting: There’s a new production team here. It was co-produced by the band and engineer Oliver Roman, meaning that it’s the first time Greg Kurstin hasn’t been behind the desk for a Foo Fighters album since Sonic Highways in 2014. Oh, and let’s not forget new drummer, Ilan Rubin, too.

3. Metric, Romanticize the Dive (Metric Music International/Thirty Tigers)

This makes ten studio albums for Emily and James. This one gestated for about two-and-a-half years, which is pretty quick these days. This record, recorded at Electric Lady in New York (Jimi Hendrix’s favourite studio), arrives in time for the summer tour Metric is doing with Broken Social Scene and Stars. Early reviews have been excellent.

4. White Denim, 13 (Bella Union)

White Denim first came out of Austin, Texas, two decades ago, with a sound that mixes psych, blues, punk, and more, blended in songs that aren’t exactly structured in conventional way. As the album title says, this is the band’s thirteenth album.