In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on February 13, 2026:
Charli XCX, Wuthering Heights
Charli XCX‘s Wuthering Heights, the companion album to Emerald Fennell’s new film of the same name, is out today. In addition to the previously released singles ‘Wall of Sound’, ‘Chains of Love’, and the John Cale-featuring ‘House’, it includes Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira’s first collaboration since 2019’s ‘Cross You Out’, titled ‘Eyes of the World’. Djo and Justin Raisen also contributed to the album, which the singer described in a Substack post as a “dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar.” It definitely stands apart on its own, but I feel like I’ll have to go to the cinema this weekend to form a real opinion on the music.
Danny L Harle, Cerulean
Danny L Harle’s bombastic, star-studded new album, Cerulean, has arrived. It’s billed as the producer’s debut album, although his debut album, Harlecore, technically came out in 2021. Cerulean is definitely a more portentous affair, though, with guest appearances from Dua Lipa, Caroline Polachek, Clairo, PinkPantheress, oklou, and more; Harle, in his words, sought “the best melodies sung by the best voices.” He was influenced by Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, positioning the record “on the threshold between dreams and reality.”
hemlocke springs, the apple tree under the sea
hemlocke springs has dropped the apple tree under the sea, one of the most impressive pop debut albums in recent memory. Vibrant, whimsical, and kaleidoscopic, it doubles down on the qualities that made 2023’s going…going…GONE! EP stand out. “I grew up very religiously—Christianity is very pertinent in Nigerian culture and the Black community—and I was also obedient to my elders,” springs explained. “This album starts with a character going through the desert who says, ‘I’m going to do your will.’ They could be saying it to God or a man, but then they come across the apple. It’s about me being in this bubble, and realizing that being in that bubble was tougher than I thought, and then finally getting out and exploring who I really am.”
Remember Sports, The Refrigerator
Remember Sports have returned with a new album, their first since 2021’s Like a Stone. Singer and guitarist Carmen Perry started writing the songs that ended up on The Refrigrator when the band couldn’t tour their last album, and they tracked them at Chicago’s Electrical Audio just after the passing of Steve Albini. “I think this album is a good representation of how this project has been a vessel for me to experience things through past eyes,” Perry reflected in our Artist Spotlight interview, “that head-spinning confusion of, like, “Am I 30 right now, or am I six?” Writing through these feelings, singing through these feelings, and playing through these feelings has been really huge for me in processing who I am and where I’ve been.”
Converge, Love Is Not Enough
Converge are back with their first proper LP in nine years, Love Is Not Enough. Following their Chelsea Wolfe collaboration Bloodmoon: I, it’s tight, unrelenting, and, as vocalist/lyricist Jacob Bannon put it in a press release, “does a thing that no other Converge record does—it keeps ramping up. And that’s definitely by design. Internally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently and there’s no right way of doing it. When we do that, we always joke that we all have to be equally unhappy. But this is the one that works.”
Angel Du$t, COLD 2 THE TOUCH
Angel Du$t have unleashed their latest album, COLD 2 THE TOUCH. The hardcore band’s follow-up to 2023’s Brand New Soul is rowdy, tormented, and vengeful (especially on the mid-album highlight ‘Downfall’, which features Restraining Order’s Patrick Cozens), splitting the difference between their straightforward and experimental inclinations. The record reunites Angel Du$t with producer/engineer Brian McTernan, with additional contributions from Frank Carter, Scott Vogel (Terror), Wes Eisold (American Nightmare, Cold Cave), and Taylor Young (Twitching Tongues, Deadbody).
PONY, Clearly Cursed
PONY are clearly gifted at making sugary, fuzzed-out pop-punk anthems, and I’m not saying that just for the sake of the pun. The follow-up to 2023’s Velveteen, Clearly Cursed exorcises its demons – from self-blame to toxic relationships – in enviably bubbly fashion, but there’s a real backstory to the album title. According to Sam Bielanski, it’s based on the time she went to see a psychic when she was 21. “She read my tarot cards and told me my boyfriend was cheating on me,” she recalled. “That was true. She also told me that I had a dark spirit attachment which she could easily vanquish if I paid her $1500. That was obviously out of my budget, so I left and decided I would have to coexist with this dark spirit for the rest of my life.”
Cardinals, Masquerade
Cork’s Cardinals have come through with their debut album, Masquerade. “Something the record looks at is peeling back the ‘masquerade’ or the facade we all put up,” frontman Euan Manning shared in press materials. “The curtain is pulled and cynicism takes its place – it’s really easy to be cynical and far harder to be hopeful and genuine. We’ve learnt this through playing and touring but you can’t be a total cynic if you’re making music or films or whatever it is, making art forces you to dig deeper than that protective layer. Stripping it back is painful, you can find things you’re really not proud of but it also lends itself to a sort of acceptance that can’t be attained if you don’t allow yourself that vulnerability. A lot of the themes and ideas in the album come from that place.”
Other albums out today:
Jill Scott, To Whom This May Concern; femtanyl, MAN BITES DOG; Mumford & Sons, Prizefighter; Katzin, Buckaroo; Brent Faiyaz, Icon; Chet Faker, A Love for Strangers; congratulations, Join Hands; Ásgeir, Julia; Elizabeth Davis, Flowers; Feng, Weekend Rockstar; Yellow Days, Rock and a Hard Place; Aaron Shaw, And So It Is.
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