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SOLAIRE, my new album will be born on February 6, 2026. Multicolor single is out everywhere !!! (link in bio) A new era begins — one of embracing our inner light, the source of such immense power and love that we sometimes fear it and choose to remain in our shadow selves Art and 📷 Yael Naim Art Animation Leclairageur

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🌑 Where Voices Rise: A Year of Women Who Refuse to Fall

In the landscape of 2026’s most anticipated releases, Doechii’s collaboration with SZA on “girl, get up.” feels like the emotional thesis statement hiding between the lines — a raw, defiant hymn about resilience, self‑invention, and the refusal to stay down when the world insists you should. The broader selection celebrates artists pushing boundaries, reinventing themselves, or clawing their way back into the light, and Doechii’s track embodies that same electricity: the moment a woman gathers herself, rises again, and turns vulnerability into propulsion. In a year shaped by comebacks, metamorphoses, and artistic courage, “girl, get up.” stands as the whispered command behind every album on the list — the spark that keeps the whole constellation burning.

🎶 🌼⚡💽💠🩶🔮🎷🌙💫🌍🪘🌾 🔊 girl, get up. - Doechii and SZA

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Pop, folk, rap, electro, French chanson: the releases already shaping the year ahead.

Some years arrive quietly; others announce themselves with a tremor. 2026 seems determined to do both. Between long‑awaited comebacks, artistic metamorphoses, radical experiments and pop promises, the global music scene is preparing a harvest of albums that already have our editorial radar blinking red.

Here are the thirty releases we’re most impatient to hear.

🌄 FOLK & ROCK

Hen Ogledd 🎭 – Discombobulated

Label: Domino Records — Release: 20 February 2026

A joyful act of chaos: prog, rap, ambient and anti‑capitalist chants colliding in a single, unruly organism. The kind of record that refuses to sit still — and that’s precisely the point.

Bill Callahan 🐂 – My Days of 58

Label: Drag City — Release: 27 February 2026

Callahan turns aging into a quiet storm. Domestic calm meets existential tremors, with lyrics that cut deeper than the arrangements ever admit.

Gorillaz 🦍 – The Mountain

Label: The Orchard / Sony — Release: 27 February 2026

A global pop circus where Albarn resurrects legends, invites icons, and builds a sonic theme park with no borders. Maximalist, generous, and proudly weird.

Sean Solomon 🌱 – The World Is Not Good Enough

Label: Anti- — Release: Spring 2026

A debut shaped by VHS textures and bedroom sincerity. Solomon channels awkward charm into something disarmingly pure.

Lana Del Rey 🌙 – Stove

Label: Polydor — Release: TBA 2026

The most anticipated non‑album of the decade. Dark Americana, shifting titles, endless delays — Lana’s mythmaking machine at full power.

🇫🇷 FRENCH POP & CHANSON

Danyl 🌤️ – Zmig

Label: Structure — Release: 16 January 2026

A Franco‑Algerian prism of raï, variété and R&B. Danyl expands the vocabulary of French pop with tenderness and political clarity.

Sébastien Tellier 🛋️ – Kiss The Beast

Label: Because — Release: 30 January 2026

Tellier drops the masks and lets the man behind the myth speak. Disco, nostalgia, fatherhood, Parisian nights — all filtered through his lush, cinematic instincts.

Asfar Shamsi 🐦 – Cui Cui

Label: Self‑released — Release: February 2026

A rising force who blends rap memories with pop ambition. Sharp, melodic, and built for the big stage.

Yael Naim ☀️ – Solaire

Label: Mouselephant — Release: 6 February 2026

A self‑produced rebirth. Synths, machines, and emotional candor — Naim reinvents her sound without losing her warmth.

🎤 RAP, SOUL & R&B

Ninho 🔥 – Mils 4

Label: REC 118 / Jefe Productions — Release: 9 January 2026

A return to the hunger of his early tapes. Hard flows, Congolese rhythms, and a sense of urgency that reminds everyone why he dominates.

A$AP Rocky 💎 – Don’t Be Dumb

Label: RCA Records — Release: 16 January 2026

Eight years later, Rocky comes back with couture production and a Tim Burton aesthetic. High fashion meets high stakes.

Thundercat 🐈 – (new album)

Label: Brainfeeder — Release: Spring 2026

The bass wizard prepares another cosmic blend of jazz, funk and falsetto magic. Expect virtuosity wrapped in humour and heartbreak.

Doechii 🐊 – (new album)

Label: Polydor — Release: TBA 2026

The Swamp Princess finally resurfaces. Fierce, theatrical, genre‑bending — she’s poised to take the crown she’s been circling.

Denzel Curry 🐉 – (new solo album)

Label: Epic — Release: TBA 2026

After jazz‑soul introspection, Curry sharpens his blade again. A pivot moment for one of rap’s most restless innovators.

Skepta 🔪 – Knife and Fork

Label: Epic / Sony — Release: TBA 2026

The grime general returns with sharpened instincts. Fast, cold, precise — a reminder of why he shaped a generation.

Erykah Badu 🌺 – (new album)

Label: Alcrecords — Release: Summer 2026

The nu‑soul oracle reconnects after 15 years, guided by The Alchemist. A meeting of mysticism and underground grit.

💿 ELECTRO & POP

Nathan Fake 🌫️ – Evaporator

Label: InFiné — Release: 20 February 2026

A contemplative, melodic turn from one of the UK’s most distinctive sound sculptors. Dense textures, but with new clarity.

Charli XCX 🖤 – Wuthering Heights

Label: Atlantic / Sony — Release: 13 February 2026

A gothic, industrial, Brontë‑infused reinvention. Charli leaves Brat behind and dives into something darker, stranger, more cinematic.

Peaches 🍑 – No Lube So Rude

Label: I U She Music — Release: 20 February 2026

Ten years later, she’s still the queen of electro‑punk provocation. Loud, sexual, political — and impossible to ignore.

Robyn 💫 – (new album)

Label: Young / Beggars — Release: TBA 2026

The heartbreak‑dancefloor priestess returns. Expect catharsis, glitter, and emotional precision.

🎷 JAZZ

Julian Lage 🎸 – Scenes From Above

Label: Blue Note — Release: 23 January 2026

Lage strips everything back to melody and touch. A warm, soulful reset after a misstep.

Roberto Fonseca & Vincent Segal 🎻 – Nuit parisienne à La Havane

Label: Pias / Artwork Records — Release: 30 January 2026

A piano‑cello duel turned emotional opera. Urgent, lyrical, and beautifully volatile.

Airelle Besson & Lionel Suarez 🌸 – Blossom

Label: Bretelles Prod & Papillon Jaune — Release: 30 January 2026

Two decades of musical dialogue finally bloom into a poetic, spirited album full of breath and movement.

Melissa Aldana 🎷 – Filin

Label: Blue Note — Release: 13 February 2026

A dazzling, delicate collection confirming Aldana’s ascent into the jazz pantheon.

Youn Sun Nah 🌙 – Lost Pieces

Label: Warner — Release: 20 February 2026

A raw, vulnerable record where fragility becomes a form of power. Her voice remains a world unto itself.

🌍 WORLD / GLOBAL

Raül Refree & Maria Mazzotta 🌾 – San Paolo di Galatina

Label: Galiléo — Release: 30 January 2026

A reinvention of Puglian folklore, carried by two artists who turn tradition into revelation.

Lucas Santtana 🌴 – Brasiliano

Label: NoFormat / Idol — Release: 27 February 2026

A multilingual, multicultural celebration of Brazilian identity — expansive, joyful, and deeply rooted.

Dope Saint Jude ⚡ – I Said What I Said

Label: Platoon — Release: 27 February 2026

A queer, hyperpop‑charged manifesto of autonomy and fire. Sharp, political, and dance‑ready.

Souad Massi 🌙 – Zagate

Label: Backing Track / Sony Music France — Release: 6 March 2026

Folk‑rock with renewed energy. Vulnerable yet stubborn, Massi sings with clarity and conviction.

Tiwayo 🚂 – Outsider

Label: TBA — Release: TBA 2026

Vintage soul with a dusty, road‑movie spirit. A Parisian bluesman who sounds like he’s lived a hundred lives.

🎼 Conclusion

If 2026 keeps its promises, the year will be vast, contrasting, vibrant. Between mythical returns, daring experiments and new voices, music seems ready to remind us what it does best: surprise, move, unsettle, console.
And we’re ready to listen.

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