In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on November 13, 2026.
U2, Carnaval de Luz
U2 are back with Carnaval de Luz, their first studio album since 2017’s Songs of Experience. It follows a couple of EPs the band released earlier this year, Days of Ash and Easter Lily. In addition to a duet featuring the final recording by Dolly Parton, it includes a song they wrote about Rosalía titled ‘The Mirror Maker (Rosalía)’. The 12-track LP was produced by Jacknife Lee and “recorded all over the place,” according a press release, with co-writing from Brian Eno and Martin Garrix, pedal steel by Daniel Lanois, and additional production from Ryan Tedder. In a statement, the Edge said: “It’s a messy, provocative, sacred collection of songs — and features the first-ever use of flat-wound strings on a U2 recording. Just saying.”
Krill, Secret Language
U2 aren’t the only band with their first album in a decade out today. Boston-formed indie rock outift Krill have released Secret Language, the follow-up to A Distant Fist Unclenching, via Exploding in Sound. It’s the first time the group have brought in additional players, enlisting Macie Stewart on violin, Maria Jacobson on backing vocal, and Will Greene on saxophone – all members of local bands in Chicago, now Krill’s home base. “I was always afraid of coming home,” singer and bassist Jonah Furman said in press materials. “But home is inescapable.”
Aesop Rock and Blockhead, Trouble Mountain
Rapper Aesop Rock and producer Blockhead have joined forces for a new collaborative LP, Trouble Mountain, following 2021’s Garbology. In press materials, Aesop has clarified that he has never actually skied, he grew up around it thanks to relatives who lived in the Poconos. “Growing up in NY we were bombarded with TV ads tempting us to visit the Poconos,” he explained “I do not ski, but I did have relatives who lived in the Poconos area and I spent many weekends there as a kid – though, of course not in a sick party lodge. Trouble Mountain is me and Blockhead’s (fake) Ski Lodge where you might meet your future spouse or you might have to fight some local ski gangs – (which I assume is a thing.) Anything can happen. (It’s a metaphor for life, y’all!)” The record boasts guest spots from Open Mike Eagle, Hanni El Khatib, Baby Dayliner, and more.
Font, American Bully XL
Font – the Austin quartet of Thom Waddill, Anthony Laurence, Jack Owens and Roman Parnell – have dropped a new album, American Bully XL. Bleary and hypnotic, it follows the band’s 2024 debut, Strange Burden. The LP started taking shape when the group decamped to Long Beach, California, to escape the Texas summer heat for a three week stint at Dutch Interior’s home studio. The image the band were left with as they finished it was of a robot in a log cabin, evoking “the tension between the electronic and the acoustic,” in their words, “the programmed and the natural, the abstract and the confessional.”
Other albums out today:
Crate, Crate; Radie Peat, No Human Tongue Can Tell; Fucked Up, Year of the Rooster; Blackhaine, Saints in the Wethouse; Fog Lake, Hollowbody; Wavves, Cherry Soda; Snoh Aalegra, Legendary Love; Anna Butterss, John Raymond, Ben Lumsdaine, Beginningless.
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