Leaves drop every autumn, and this year that includes the Album Leaf. Jimmy LaValle’s longstanding ambient/electronic/post-rock project will release their ninth LP, A Body Of Voices, in October. It will feature LaValle’s recent singles with Stephen McBean of Black Mountain and Pink Mountaintops, Spencer Zahn, Maiah Manser, and Aisha Badru, as well as a new team-up with Nicole Miglis of Hundred Waters, who has apparently been making the rounds after her solo debut Myopia two years ago; she also appears on the new Bonobo album.

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Last week the Stereogum staff listed our picks for the year’s best albums so far. A few weeks earlier, during our visit to Salt Lake City for Kilby Block Party, our team posed the question to some of our favorite artists at the fest. Kilby performers including Lucy Dacus, the Last Dinner Party, This Is Lorelei, Ben Kweller, Cardinals, and more weighed in with their own 2026 album recommendations. (Isaac Brock opted out because he exists outside of time. The universe is shaped exactly like the Earth, etc., etc.)

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Last month Sari Lightman of Tasseomancy and Lightman & Lightman made her solo debut with “The Way I Saw You.” The lead single serves as the magical title track of her forthcoming album, which is produced by Meg Duffy. Now the Canadian indie musician is unveiling another beautiful preview with “Give It All Up.”

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I don’t think of Hovvdy as a band where the singer holds a microphone, which is to say I don’t think of core duo Will Taylor and Charlie Martin as frontmen in the classic sense. The band’s music feels too insular and introverted for that kind of showmanship. I think of these guys holding instruments when they sing, not really commanding my attention, letting the song do the talking. But they’re changing my perception with this new album rollout.

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I think of Sylvan Esso as a synth-driven project, so it’s interesting to hear them launch into a new era with such a guitar-driven song.

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Hank Heaven’s last release was 2024’s Loaded Dice, which featured the Beach Bunny collab “Beloved.” Now, the NYC singer-songwriter is back with an endearing new tune called “Thread.”

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For the past few months, the Los Angeles indie band Sister Gemini have been rolling out their debut album Screaming Crying Laughing Sighing. It’s out this Friday, and it merits your attention.

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This summer, Alexandra Drewchin unleashes the new Eartheater album Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message. So far we’ve heard “Nova” and “Paradise Rains,” and now the experimental electronic star is back with the celestial single “Crown Jewel.”

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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down were laid to rest in 2021, and from the ashes THAO has risen. The following year the singer-songwriter released the song “Ambition” and covered Björk, and now she’s finally back with “Fossils,” her first new single in six years and her return to Kill Rock Stars.

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Marta Cikojevic of TOPS released her solo debut album as Marci in 2022. She dropped a couple singles the following year, and in 2025 she guested on a track with Sean Nicholas Savage. Now it’s time for LP2.

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