Notable Music Releases This Week: Warning, Tierra Whack, Quiet Fear and More

It’s a slower week for new albums because of Juneteenth, so Dave and I took the opportunity to look at 10 (technically 12) overlooked albums of 2026 so far as we approach the making of BrooklynVegan’s mid-year list, and you can listen to that conversation on BV Weekly wherever you listen to podcasts.

Even with it being a lighter week, I picked four that I highlight below and Bill talks about another four in Indie Basement including Pye Corner Audio (ft. Ride’s Andy Bell), a “lost” Graham Coxon (of Blur) album from the 2000s, Office Dog, and the first Haircut 100 album in over 40 years. This week’s honorable mentions include YG, Pond, Swamp Dogg, Daniel Lanois, Hard-Fi, Sludgeworth, Sha Ray & DJ Haram, L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation, Zoon, Grivo, Life, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Janus Rasmussen, Tucker Zimmerman, Wild Up, The War and Treaty, Swim Deep, PJ Morton, the live Limiñanas album, Placebo’s Placebo RE:CREATED , Jon Batiste’s piano album, the Bad World EP, the Big Freedia & SOPHIE EP, the Pines of Rome EP, and the Jejune box set.

Read on for my picks and stream BV Weekly for more of this week’s new music and music news. Go Knicks!

Warning – Rituals of Shame (Relapse) The first album in 20 years from the UK doom legends picks up where its iconic predecessor left off.

In the time since UK doom metal greats Warning released their now-iconic 2006 sophomore album Watching From a Distance , bandleader Patrick Walker turned his attention towards his slowcore-ish project 40 Watt Sun , but now he’s back with the gargantuan riffs for the first time in 20 years. Watching From a Distance more or less bridges the gap between OG doom metallers like Sabbath and Candlemass and recent torch-carriers like Pallbearer and Khemmis, and Rituals of Shame picks up right where its predecessor left off. It is both nostalgic/classic-feeling and totally fresh, just like the last Warning album was. It’s a tricky balancing act to make such a vintage style of music feel so urgent for even one album, but with riffs this tasty and howls this chilling, Warning do it again.

Tierra Whack – Whack’s Museum (Interscope) The undefinable Tierra Whack embraces traditionalist boom bap like never before, with help from Conductor Williams.

“They said I should rap more,” Tierra Whack says at the very start of her new project Whack’s Museum , the followup to her poppier, not-really-rap album World Wide Whack , and rap more is exactly what she does on this record. (She calls it a “mixtape” but that seems like more of a reference to Whack’s Museum resembling an old school underground rap mixtape than to it being not a “proper album,” considering her first “proper album” had 15 songs in 15 minutes.) Whack’s Museum was largely produced by Griselda affiliate Conductor Williams, and it finds Tierra offering up her take on classic boom bap, something she’s very good at but has never really done to this extent before. Her 2021 Rap? EP messed with the traditional definition of rap but Whack’s Museum embraces it. The beats are lush and head-nod-inducing, and Tierra Whack’s got bars for days.

Quiet Fear – La Tierra Arriba / El Abismo Abajo (Iodine) A masterclass in raw-yet-polished bilingual screamo.

LA screamo band Quiet Fear follow their excellent 2024 split LP with Massa Nera with a new full-length of their own, La Tierra Arriba / El Abismo Abajo . Produced by Alex Estrada (who produced the first Touché Amoré and Joyce Manor albums) and mastered by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Loma Prieta, Joyce Manor, etc), it finds the English-and-Spanish-speaking band delivering one impassioned, raw-yet-polished song after the next, with one foot in ’90s-style screamo and the other in the rich history of Latino post-hardcore. If you like harshly-screamed, deeply-emotional music of any kind, you can’t miss this.

Styrofoam Winos – Any River (Dear Life) The Nashville trio of MJ Lenderman and Ryan Davis affiliates deliver an offering of casually-shapeshifting indie rock.

“They know how to boogie,” said MJ Lenderman of Nashville trio Styrofoam Winos. He should know; he collaborated with them on a cover of “Long Black Veil” that ended up closing the MJ Lenderman And The Wind live album , and he’s had the Winos’ Trevor Nikrant play as a member of The Wind in the past as well. All three members of the band (Trevor, Lou Turner, and Joe Kenkel) have also played as members of Ryan Davis’ Roadhouse Band, and it was Ryan who released their 2021 self-titled album on his Sophomore Lounge label. After putting out a Michael Hurley covers album in 2022, the Winos moved to Dear Life Records (home of two early MJ Lenderman albums) for 2024’s Real Time , and that label now releases Any River . Produced with their Roadhouse bandmate Jim Marlowe, Any River is a casually-shapeshifting album that may remind you at various points of Neil Young, Pavement, Kevin Morby, Courtney Barnett, Yo La Tengo, or Gal Costa–just to name a few comparisons that come to mind. All three members sing lead and play multiple instruments, adding even more layers of variety to their songs. The unfussy, what-you-hear-is-what-you-get production style makes it sound like it could’ve come out at just about any point in rock history; it opens with the kaleidoscopic swirl of an obscure ’60s psych-rock band (“Pearls”) and later wraps itself in the grungy exterior of ’90s indie rock (“Swimminin”), all while feeling like an album for the here and now.

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_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/warning-tierra-whack-quiet-fear-styrofoam-winos-reviews/)._