New Indie Albums 2026 Release List
2026 is shaping up to be an exceptional year for indie music, with an exciting lineup of releases already confirmed across the first quarter. From established names to breakthrough artists, the year kicks off with a diverse array of albums that showcase the breadth and vitality of the indie scene.
Gorillaz return with The Mountain, while Charli xcx unveils Wuthering Heights and Mumford & Sons deliver Prizefighter. Established indie favorites including The Cribs, Dry Cleaning, Converge, and Nothing are set to release new records, alongside exciting albums from Silversun Pickups, Tigers Jaw, Puma Blue, and The Dandy Warhols. Rising acts like Cardinals, Ellur, and The Scratch continue to expand the boundaries of what indie music can be.
While some albums already have confirmed release dates and titles, others are still being finalized. Debut albums and follow-ups from both veteran acts and emerging artists promise to make 2026 a landmark year for indie music.
This list is regularly updated, so check back soon for new information as more 2026 releases are announced.
New Indie Albums 2026
January 2026
9 Jan
Alter Bridge
Alter Bridge
23 Jan
Automated Response
Speedy Wunderground
30 Jan
Milk Parlour Records
30 Jan
I Used To Go To This Bar
Epitaph
30 Jan
Warmer Than Gold
Run For Cover
30 Jan
Scruff Of The Neck
February 2026
6 Feb
At Home In My Mind
Dance To The Radio
6 Feb
Joji
Piss In The Wind
6 Feb
Silversun Pickups
Tenterhooks
6 Feb
Ratboys
Singin' To An Empty Chair
6 Feb
Move On With The Year
Moshi Moshi
13 Feb
Love Is Not Enough
13 Feb
Join Hands
Bella Union
13 Feb
Wuthering Heights
Atlantic
13 Feb
Femtanyl
MAN BITES DOG
13 Feb
Mumford & Sons
Prizefighter
13 Feb
Last Dinosaurs
WELLNXSS
20 Feb
New Found Glory
Listen Up!
27 Feb
a short history of decay
27 Feb
Archive
Glass Minds
27 Feb
Bill Callahan
My Days of 58
March 2026
6 Mar
The Brook & The Bluff
Werewolf
6 Mar
A Great Day In Newcastle
Gearbox
13 Mar
Pull Like A Dog
Music for Nations
13 Mar
Sweet Pill
Still There's A Glow
13 Mar
Megacity
Madness (The Official Live Recordings)
13 Mar
Until You're Satisfied
13 Mar
The Notwist
News From Planet Zombie
13 Mar
Soft Machine
Thirteen
13 Mar
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
Irreversible
ATO
20 Mar
Ladytron
Paradises
27 Mar
The Boxer Rebellion
The Second I'm Asleep
27 Mar
Scouting For Girls
These Are The Good Days
27 Mar
Saint Agnes
Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin
April 2026
3 Apr
Arlo Parks
Ambiguous Desire
Transgressive Records
10 Apr
Cruel World
Polydor
17 Apr
Between Us
Universal
24 Apr
Your Favorite Toy
Sony
24 Apr
Romanticize the Dive
Music International
24 Apr
Something Worth Waiting For
ATO
24 Apr
Angel in Plainclothes
Asthmatic Kitty
May 2026
1 May
Johnny’s Dreamworld
One Little Independent
15 May
It Comes in Waves
Nettwerk
22 May
Ugly Duckling Union
Summer Shade
29 May
Beauty Land
Dead Oceans
June 2026
5 Jun
Roses,
Captured Tracks
5 Jun
I Built You A Tower
Anti-
5 Jun
Elsewhere, Always
Communion
12 Jun
Avalanche
Cooking Vinyl
12 Jun
A Broken Chord
Krautpop!
19 Jun
Sweating Someone Else’s Fever
V2
July 2026
10 Jul
ERASERHEAD XIU XIU
Polyvinyl
10 Jul
Second Last Day of Summer
Run For Cover
31 Jul
Many Hats Distribution
August 2026
7 Aug
Halcyon Blues
Run For Cover
7 Aug
Mystery Jets
A Hole To See The Sky Through
7 Aug
dollhouse
Tight Knit
14 Aug
Big World
Arts & Crafts
14 Aug
Wild Love
Transgressive
21 Aug
Baby You’re A Winner
Brace Yourself
28 Aug
There Near
Jagjaguwar
28 Aug
This Mirror Weighs a Ton
Partisan
September 2026
11 Sep
Ow ∞
Psychic Hotline
11 Sep
Not Bad For New Jersey
Lesser Known
18 Sep
Anatomy Of A Brief Romance
cOnTAGIOUS LTD
18 Sep
The Singer in My Band
Matador
18 Sep
Feel Forever
Nice Guys
18 Sep
Secret To Spare
Transgressive
18 Sep
See Them, I See Me
Double Double Whammy
23 Sep
A Country Western
Audition Tape
Crafted Sounds
23 Sep
Glockenwise
Vale tudo para chegar a algum lado
25 Sep
Stray Dogs
RCA/Sony
25 Sep
How To Land a Plane
PNKSLM
25 Sep
Nobody’s Coming To Save You
PIAS
25 Sep
Dirty Old Power
AJJ Unlimited LTD
25 Sep
Biagio Antonacci
MUSTANG
25 Sep
Bonus Disc
BONUS DISC SAVES MUSIC FOREVER
25 Sep
Brother Bird
The Lodge in Miller County
Easy Does It Records
25 Sep
Bug Hunter
Repercussion Roulette
25 Sep
revocder
Big Scary Monsters
25 Sep
Dylan Gossett
Ramblin'
Mercury, Big Loud Texas
25 Sep
Nothing Here Worth Taking
25 Sep
Funny Cos It's True
Prediction Records, Chrysalis
25 Sep
Gåte
Sigil
Season of Mist
25 Sep
Hermanos Gutiérrez
Los Ojos Del Cóndor
Easy Eye
25 Sep
Ian Noe
Canyon Falls Trailer Band
25 Sep
Joy Oladokun
Hope Is A Heavy Thing
FEED THE FAMILY INC., Concord
25 Sep
Karina Rykman
Late Checkout
25 Sep
Put A Smile On For Me
Island, Universal UK
25 Sep
Kurt Travis
Anywhere's Better
Born Losers
25 Sep
Mary Gauthier
Reckoning
Soundly Music
25 Sep
OSTON
Isn’t That Sweet?
25 Sep
Penelope Isles
3
Bella Union
25 Sep
Hotel Usona
Domino
25 Sep
Renny Conti
Split Second
Mom+Pop
25 Sep
Six Foot Blonde
Hummingbird
Notes From the Undeground
25 Sep
Smidley
Murphy Horse
Royal Mountain
25 Sep
How To Perform Magic
25 Sep
Starcleaner Reunion
Umbrella
Take Care Records
25 Sep
Susannah Joffe
Dust Settles and So Will I
broke
25 Sep
Tankerlow
SLAGROOM
25 Sep
The Calling
Before the World Turns to Dust
27 Sep
Daniel Brummel
Mount Lowe Summit
October 2026
2 Oct
Separation From The Animals
Dance To The Radio
2 Oct
Danger Dan
Keine Angst
2 Oct
Forrest Nolan
Indie Movie Soundtrack
Virgin
2 Oct
Greg Freeman
All Set The Bone
Transgressive
2 Oct
John Roseboro
Va Va Voom
Public Confession Art House
2 Oct
The Age of Everything
New Voodoo Ltd., BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
2 Oct
Kallsup
Alldeles för nära
2 Oct
Mars Mignon
History Of Violence
2 Oct
if i don't love you, who will ?
2 Oct
Old Mervs
Carparks
Dew Process, Universal Australia
2 Oct
PREMATURE NOSTALGIA
2 Oct
Sponge
Recuerda Tu Muerte
THREE ONE THREE RECORDS
2 Oct
Stef Chura
Dancing Alone on the Concrete
Saddle Creek
2 Oct
The Fall
Post Script
Cog Sinister
2 Oct
VACATIONS
Pursuit of Anything
Nettwerk, No Fun
2 Oct
Walt Disco
Universal UK
2 Oct
Wilt
when no one’s watching
AWAL
2 Oct
Wishy
Nature's Pill
Winspear
3 Oct
The Traveling Circuses
The Traveling Circuses the Musical: a Random Encounters Cover Album
8 Oct
Helen
Linda's Head
kranky
9 Oct
Palace for the People
Republic
9 Oct
Jamie T
Ghosts (100 Days of Morning)
Polydor
9 Oct
All Inside Aquarium
Chrysalis
9 Oct
Stories They Don’t Teach You At School
Venn
9 Oct
Bilderbuch
∞+1
Maschin
9 Oct
Chloe Slater
Riot Youth
AWAL
9 Oct
Cory Branan
You'll Live
Blue Élan
9 Oct
Head-on Collision
get over it
sounds from the afterlife
9 Oct
Hour
Ghost Bridge
Dear Life
9 Oct
Imperial Teen
All Over You
9 Oct
Jespfur
Iftangible,
9 Oct
Jess Williamson
A Mile South of Heaven
New West
9 Oct
Levante
DELL’AMORE IL FALLIMENTO E ALTRI PASSI DI DANZA
9 Oct
Margo Cilker
Little White Cross
Fossil
9 Oct
Mat Kearney
Hanging by a Heartstring
9 Oct
Queen Of Jeans
hard/SWEET
Memory
9 Oct
Sarah Julia
The Fear That This Is Real
Nettwerk
9 Oct
Sheryl Crow
Pick You Up
Thirty Tigers
9 Oct
Song People
Tho I Seem Tame
Strange Mono
9 Oct
Do Not Dare To Dream
Merge
9 Oct
The Tallest Man On Earth
Just Beyond Endless Mountain
Anti-
14 Oct
Alex Unknown
Heaven Hidden in a Hammer
14 Oct
DYGL
All Tomorrows
14 Oct
Sphere
Circumstances
Testcard Records
16 Oct
Dopamine Chamber
XL
16 Oct
The Underworld
Run For Cover
16 Oct
I think I spoke too soon
Parlophone / Atlas
16 Oct
Baba Stiltz
Totally
Public Possession
16 Oct
Caspian
Caspian
Wax Bodega
16 Oct
Chest.
Happy, Broken
Howlin' Banana
16 Oct
Cookie Happened
Play It Again Sam USA
16 Oct
Henry Morris
Kiss Me Extra Hard
Giant
16 Oct
Holy Motors
Heaven's Night
Wharf Cat
16 Oct
June McDoom
Follow The Light
Jagjaguwar
16 Oct
Lovelytheband
we're all feeling the same
16 Oct
Mackeeper
BELIEVE YOU ME
In Real Life
16 Oct
Nieve Ella
How Long Will It Take?
Artist Theory Limited
16 Oct
Pardoner
Target Practice
Bar/None
16 Oct
Quentin Sauvé
NO HARD FEELINGS
Humus
16 Oct
Richard Thompson
Hippies, Thugs and Heroes
New West
16 Oct
Ruby Gill
Fishing Is Not About Fishing
16 Oct
Shy
Purity Spiral
Pelagic
16 Oct
Sophia Stel
the greatest album of all time
A24
16 Oct
The Rubens
Group Therapy
16 Oct
TVOD
The Farm
Mothland
16 Oct
Varsovie
Notes Pour Plus Tard
Icy Cold
16 Oct
World News
In Purgatory
Pie & Mash!
16 Oct
do you love the color of the sky?
Polyvinyl
20 Oct
Hysterical Love Project
February's Album
Motion Ward
23 Oct
Concrete Cowboy
Music For Nations
23 Oct
Boyhood
I'll Dream InStead
23 Oct
Caroline Rose
Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall
SUCK
23 Oct
Me and the Music
Dead Oceans
23 Oct
Dead Gowns
Vegas
Mtn Laurel Recording Co.
23 Oct
Fake Names
Punk Ruins
Epitaph
23 Oct
Fenne Lily
Win Win
Nettwerk
23 Oct
Fine
Jazz dreams
Escho
23 Oct
Foot Ox
Topanga Canyon
23 Oct
Illial.
Snowsky & Paranormalias
23 Oct
JP Saxe
Okay Piano Guy
23 Oct
Lamplight
Lick the Spoon, Let it Soften
Western Vinyl
23 Oct
Melissa Weikart
Contact
Midnight Special Records
23 Oct
Michael Nau
Popfly
23 Oct
Strawberry Guy
Give Me A Dream
AWAL
23 Oct
The Cat's Miaow
When You Smiled and Turned Away
Lost & Lonesome, Slumberland
23 Oct
The Snuts
Joy In Short Moments
Happy Artist Records
23 Oct
Tina Dico
Balancing Small Things on Sharp Edges
23 Oct
Ugly
The South Façade
30 Oct
Skin & Blisters
Source
30 Oct
2nd Grade
Girls and Boys
Lame-O
30 Oct
Aluminum
Iconoclast HaHa
felte
30 Oct
Clinic
Wild In The Streets
Domino
30 Oct
Surface, Echo & Sound
[PIAS]
30 Oct
Gretta Ray
Heartsong
30 Oct
Heather Nova
The Orchard
30 Oct
Juice Webster
Kind of Fantasy
COHORT
30 Oct
What's In Between
Atlantic
30 Oct
Something Shameful
30 Oct
Stephen Steinbrink
In A Split Mirror
Sedimentary Archive
30 Oct
Tommy Oeffling
Neighbors
22TWENTY
30 Oct
Toner
Dynasty House
Smoking Room
30 Oct
Oh Golly / Yes Lord
Waterlines
November 2026
6 Nov
Cartoons
AMK / Kartel
6 Nov
Friend World
Submarine Cat
6 Nov
Peeling An Orange In Just One Go
AT EASE
6 Nov
Ane Brun
I Thought We Were The Same
BMG
6 Nov
Cariño
Pop! Magic! Tragedy!
Sonido Muchacho
6 Nov
Computerwife
Born From A Wish
Danger Collective
6 Nov
Hello Shark
The River
6 Nov
James Blunt
Airplane Mode
Atlantic, Warner UK
6 Nov
Katie Gregson-Macleod
Albatross
Last Recordings on Earth
6 Nov
O My Beloved
LoveTap Records, Virgin
6 Nov
Odette
Blink
Beloved Recordings
6 Nov
Wild Love
Black Crow
6 Nov
Sundots
On the Quay
6 Nov
The Holy Cross Tigers
Sub Pop
11 Nov
Anberlin
CURRENCY
Equal Vision
13 Nov
Kate Voegele
Age of Alchemy
13 Nov
Krill
Secret Language
13 Nov
Land Of Talk
LASTS
Saddle Creek
13 Nov
Sleepwalk
View From The Outside
19 Nov
TEMPOREX
Fantastic Machine
Independent Co.
20 Nov
Blanco White
Green Island Days
20 Nov
Bodywash
Laughing at Noise
Light Organ
20 Nov
Gilding The Lily
Fierce Panda
20 Nov
la forteresse
naïve
20 Nov
Sheherazaad
Khudgarzi
Erased Tapes
29 Nov
Steady Holiday
It's Your Trip
December 2026
1 Dec
Melody Cologne
Templates
[bracket records]
9 Dec
Stand Still Like The Hummingbird
