Notable vinyl releases out this Friday - July 17, 2026

For over three decades, Converge have defined the outer limits of heavy music, shaping hardcore, punk, and metal with unmatched urgency and vision. On Hum Of Hurt, the band's twelfth album and second release of 2026, the band continues to channel decades of creative intensity into a focused and fearless reflection on resilience, connection, and the weight of existence. Recorded and mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios in Salem, Massachusetts, the album captures Converge at another deliberate and dynamic moment ferocious yet deeply human. Every song hits with precision and purpose, starting with the explosive title track. It's a record that distills the band's restless evolution into a singular, commanding statement. Hum of Hurt is both a reckoning and renewal proof that after 35 years together, Converge remain one of the most vital and uncompromising forces in modern music.

Gracie Abrams' highly anticipated third studio album", Daughter from Hell"

There are collaborations that feel engineered, and then there are those that feel like summer sun's warmth on a Sunday.Helado Tropical, the debut collaborative album from Helado Negro and Reyna Tropical, belongs to the latter, channeling that easy, sun-drenched tenderness into sound. It didn't begin with a plan so much as a meeting: two artists orbiting similar questions around language, identity, and music, finally landing in the same room. What followed was less a traditional writing process than a shared unfolding - an instinctive, immersive exchange that stretched across geographies, time zones, and states of being.The duo first met in June 2024 in North Carolina, brought together by a mutual friend and a loose invitation to spend time in the studio. What might have been a brief session turned into something closer to a three-day sleepover - equal parts conversation, curiosity, and creative risk. Reyna Tropical, accustomed to close-knit collaborations, stepped into new creative territory, while Helado Negro brought a similar sense of curiosity and fluidity. What emerged was immediate, rather than easing into collaboration, the two found themselves propelled forward by it - building songs in real time, responding to each other's instincts without over-explaining them. There was no rigid division of roles. One would begin an idea, the other would answer. A melody would suggest a rhythm; a rhythm would reshape a lyric. Across Helado Tropical, there is a noticeable absence of constraint: not just musically, but conceptually. Both artists share a long-standing resistance to the expectations often placed on Latin music: what it should sound like, how it should feel, what stories it should tell. As they do individually, these two artists create space for something more fluid and personal on this project.What makes Helado Tropical particularly resonant is the sense of trust that underpins it. Trust in each other, of course, but also trust in instinct and in the process. Much of the album was written through improvisation, with meaning revealing itself only later, as the artists listened back and reflected.In that way, the project functions as both creation and documentation: a record of a specific time, place, and connection. Reyna Tropical describes it as a form of archiving - capturing not just songs, but the emotional and relational context in which they were made. "It was a lot of processing, a lot of transition" they say about where they were at personally. Ultimately, it was about understanding that "this is supposed to be released so we could keep going. I really feel like this album does that personally, and hopefully is able to hold that for other people too."That forward motion propelled by release is felt in every part of the album. It hums beneath the surface of even it's quietest moments, carrying a sense of continuation, and of something still unfolding.Ultimately, Helado Tropical encapsulates a moment of two artists meeting at the right moment, with the right openness, allowing something larger than either of them to take shape. It is spontaneous yet intentional, grounded yet expansive, deeply personal yet invitingly universal.And this convergence of forces is just the beginning.

Lido Pimenta is unafraid to explore the depths of her creativity. After last year's La Belleza, a transcendent new album created in conversation with European classical music and her personal life - Lido steps into a new revolt rhythm. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominee and Polaris-Prize winning multidisciplinary returns with a brand-new album Caribenya. The new album's title is a playful portmanteau of the word "Caribe" and "Enya", a nod to the mysterious Irish singer Pimienta is a fan of. The esoteric figure of Enya has loomed over Pimienta, who listens to her music to concentrate while writing. Often compared to Björk and Natalia Lafourcade in part due to her scope, generation, and ambition of her work, Pimienta prefers to align herself with the legendarily reclusive ambient diva before anyone else. On Caribenya, Lido is a modern master of, is sharpened by her soaring vocals. It is an album that relies on joyous resistance, on the moments of escape on the dancefloors and beaches and living rooms of our loved ones as the world burns. An iconoclast who creates music and fine art drawn from her experience as a Caribbean woman from Colombia.

Motionless In White are at home in the dark. For over 20 years, the quintet — Chris Motionless [vocals], Ricky Olson [guitar], Ryan Sitkowski [guitar], Vinny Mauro [drums], and Justin Morrow [bass] — have resided in their own shadowy corner of alternative music and culture. The group's uncanny alchemy of metal, hardcore, goth, industrial, and electronic has magnetically attracted an ardent audience, fueling a quiet rise out of the Rust Belt and into arenas as a headlining force of nature. Their D.I.Y. work ethic drives the evolution of an immersive world where stunning visuals match the scope of the sound. The collective come full circle on their seventh full-length offering Decades. For as much as it conjures their signature style, the LP sees them continue to confidently cut a path through uncharted territory, spreading a little darkness in their wake. The ferocious new single ‘Playing God’ features Corey Taylor from Slipknot while the rest of the album features several high-profile and eclectic appearances. In addition to Taylor, Sklyar Grey, and Dark Divine's Anthony Martinez also guest. The band recorded Decades in Upstate New York and Los Angeles with co-producers Drew Fulk and Justin "JD" deBlieck and ultimately incorporated their past, present, and future sounds into one cohesive sound. This is Motionless at their very best.

Everything I Ever Saw finds the Menzingers entering a new era in what's already been a storied career. The Philadelphia punk legends' eighth album chronicles moments of significant change-the personal, the political, and the universal-while returning to the core creative principles that first put them on the map with listeners the world over. Twenty years in, the Menzingers have discovered that the wisdom gained with time's passing is even stronger than the emotional armor they once wore in their youth, and Everything I Ever Saw captures the quartet embracing the here and now while strengthening the bonds that have held them together.The Menzingers have always created as a four-headed unit, with all members (vocalist/guitarist Greg Barnett, vocalist/guitarist Tom May, bassist Eric Keen, drummer Joe Godino) throwing in their respective talents as part of the craft-but for Everything I Ever Saw, the group worked in creative symbiosis more than ever before. "The way we made this record feels the most like how the band was in the very beginning: Me and Tom coming to the band with the most basic element of a song, and the four of us shaping that," Barnett says. Instrumental in building that excitement was locally centered and nationally renowned production legend Will Yip, who threw in with the Menzingers on 2017's After the Party and their sonically expansive 2019 record Hello Exile. This time around, Yip once again became an unofficial Menzinger while the band crafted these 11 songs in their South Philly space. "Working with Will was like a homecoming," May beams while talking about Yip's contributions. "We've grown up together over these years, and we're still incredibly close friends. He's the best at gassing you up and making sure everybody's on the right page, but he's also so good at pointing out stuff that might not fit the vision without being a fucking prick. He's the hardest working person that we've come across in the music industry, and he's incredibly inspiring."

The legendary artist and producer Tricky today announces his new album, Different When It's Silent, out 17 July 2026 via False IdolsHis 15th studio album and first full-length release under his own name in six years, Different When It's Silent is a direct, focused record that reconnects with the distinctive sonic language that has defined Tricky's work since his groundbreaking 1995 debut, Maxinquaye.FIRST TRICKY ALBUM IN 6 YEARS55 WW TOUR DATES FOR 2026 (80% TICKETS SOLD ALREADY)RED TRANSPARENT VINYL AVAILABLE FOR INDIE STORES EXCL.FULL PRESS AND RADIO CAMPAIGNS IN USA, UK, FR, GER

Mercury Prize-nominated Yard Act return with their third studio album offering `You're Gonna Need A Little Music,' produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Wolf Alice) via Republic Records.