Sorting Through Browser Tabs: January Playlist
Record Room: Sunday, 2/1
First playlist of 2026!
This collection took a while to compile (that rhymed) and brought on some excitement with regard to a few of the releases arriving in the coming days, weeks, or months, most notably Mandy, Indiana’s upcoming new album, URGH, sunn O)))’s self-titled Sub Pop debut, and trauma ray’s Carnival EP. I’m also eager to check out the full albums from Ishmael Ali, Epimetheus, and Asher Gamedz, all of whom are new to me.
All of the music featured below is available as playlists via Apple Music and YouTube. Or, you can simply scroll through this post and click PLAY.
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YouTube playlist:
Tracks:
Zu: “Kether” — (from the album Ferrum Sidereum —
released 1/9/26 via House Of Mythology)
Mandy, Indiana: “Cursive” (from the album URGH —
releases 2/6/26 via Sacred Bones Records)
Phendrana: “Cathexis” (from the album Cathexis — releasing 2/6/26)
Asher Gamedz: “War” (from the album A Semblance: Of Return —
releases 2/27/26 via Northern Spy)
Blackwater Holylight: “Bodies” (from the album Not Here Not Gone —
released 1/30/26 via Suicide Squeeze)
Maria BC: “Marathon” (from the album Marathon —
releases 2/27/26 via Sacred Bones Records)
Cate Le Bon: “Always The Same” (feat. St. Vincent)
(single released 1/6/26 via Mexican Summer)
Pullman: “Bray” (from the album III — released 1/9/26 via Western Vinyl)
Hirta: “Black Chimneys” (from the album Soft Peaks — releases 2/6/26)
A Thousand Mad Things: “Promises”
sunn O))): “Glory Black” (from the album sunn O))) — releases 1/9/26 via Sub Pop)
Cemetery Reign: “Pendulum Clock” (from the album Confined To Time —
releases 2/26/26 via Carbonized)
Gavial: “Koru Mindset” (from the album Thanks, I Hate It —
released 1/23/26 via Exile On Mainstream)
Mitski: “Where’s My Phone?” (from the album Nothing’s About To Happen To Me —
releases 2/27/26 via Dead Oceans)
dälek: “Better Than” (from the album Brilliance of a Falling Moon —
releases 3/27/26 via Ipecac Recordings)
Ishmael Ali: “Every Circle A Moon” (from the album Burn The Plastic, Sell The Copper —
releases 2/13/26 via Amalgam Music)
Gabriel Vicéns: “Niebla” (from the album Niebla — releases 3/6/26 via Clepsydra Records)
trauma ray: “Hannibal” (from the EP Carnival — releases 2/20/26 via DAIS Records)
Exhumed: “Shovelhead” (from the album Red Asphalt —
releases 2/20/26 via Relapse Records)
Ora Cogan: “Honey” (from the album Hard Hearted Woman —
releases 3/13/26 via Sacred Bones Records)
GRIDFAILURE: “Drunk On The Blood Of My Neighbor”
(from the album Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III —
released 10/3/25 via Nefarious Industries)
Kim Gordon: “Not Today” (from the album PLAY ME —
releases 3/13/26 via Matador Records)
Taroug: “Cicada” (from the album Chott — releases 2/27/26 via Denovali)
ADULT.: “No One Is Coming” (from the album Kissing Luck Goodbye —
releases 3/27/26 via DAIS Records)
Epimetheus: “Drift Beyond” (from the album Perseus 9 — releases 2/6/26)
Kee Avil: “Itch” (single released 1/13/26 via NNA Tapes)
Gyða Valtýsdottir: “Checking In” (single released 1/20/26 via marvada)
Season 2: “Abundance Of Power” (from the album Power Of Now —
releases 4/24/26 via Spoilsport Records / Upset The Rhythm)
The Soft Pink Truth: “Underneath”
(from the album Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? —
released 1/30/26 via Thrill Jockey Records)
El Ten Eleven: “Uncanny” (from the album Nowhere Faster —
releases 4/10/26 via Joyful Noise)
Sincerely,
Letters From A Tapehead
