In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on January 9, 2026:
Dry Cleaning, Secret Love
Dry Cleaning are back with their Cate Le Bon-produced album, Secret Love. Grounded by Florence Shaw’s imaginative, increasingly expressive lyricism, the follow-up to 2022’s Stumpwork was preceded by the singles ‘Hit My Head All Day’, ‘Cruise Ship Designer’, ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See the Fruit’, and ‘Joy’. The album took shape at Jeff Tweedy’s Chicago studio the Loft, with Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan and Daniel Fox in Dublin, and finally with Le Bon in the Loire Valley. “We’re very confident about our identity,” Shaw said in press materials. “It doesn’t seem to be possible to break it down.”
Jenny on Holiday, Quicksand Heart
Jenny Hollingworth, half of Let’s Eat Grandma, has come out with her debut solo album, Quicksand Heart, as Jenny on Holiday. Packed with glowing synths and soaring choruses, it was written in the stillness of Norwich summers and completed in London with producer Steph Marziano (Hayley Williams, Nell Mescal). “My voice is the instrument I enjoy expressing myself most on,” she said in press materials, and it animates Quicksand Heart.
Zach Bryan, With Heaven on Top
Zach Bryan has released a new album, With Heaven on Top. It spans 25 tracks, putting it somewhere between 2024’s The Great American Bar Scene and 2023’s Zach Bryan in terms of runtime. It was written, recorded, and produced by Bryan over the last several months in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “Hope you don’t hate it,” Bryan wrote upon announcing the album on Instagram earlier this week. It’s too pleasant to hate, but way too monotonous make it worth revisiting.
Winged Wheel, Desert So Green
Winged Wheel is a band that includes Whitney Johnson (Matchess, Circuit des Yeux), Cory Plump (Spray Paint), Matthew J. Rolin (Powers/Rolin Duo), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Lonnie Slack, and Fred Thomas (Idle Ray, Tyvek). You could practically them a supergroup. The patient, exploratory Desert So Green is their third album, following 2024’s Big Hotel. Working out of a studio on the outskirts of Chicago, the band embraced a more cohesive approach, foregoing some of the jammy tendencies of their previous records for deeper experimentation.
Other albums out today:
The Cribs, Selling a Vibe; French Montana, Coke Wave 3.5: Narcos; Robert Stillman, 10,000 Rivers; Home Star, A Binding Life; The Kid LAROI, Before I Forget; Alter Bridge, Alter Bridge; Pullman, III; Lasse Lokøy, & The Roommates; Tim Handels, Liminal Spaces.
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