STACK #256 February 2026

MUSIC FEATURE

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WHAT’S OUT

Whether it’s a voyage of musical discovery or a sonic reacquaintance with a favourite band or artist, check out these fresh releases heading to JB this month.

MUMFORD & SONS Prizefighter UNIVERSAL

Prizefighter is a fast follow-up to Mumford & Sons’ fifth studio album, Rushmere , which was released

last year. Guests on the record include Hozier, Gracie Abrams, Chris Stapleton, and Gigi Perez. Every Mumford & Sons album has hit the Australian Top 10, and Prizefighter should be similarly successful.

EDITOR’S PICK KISSCHASY The Terrors of Comfort COMMUNITY MUSIC

NICK JONAS Sunday Best UNIVERSAL

CONVERGE Love Is Not Enough ROCKET

JAY BUCHANAN Weapons of Beauty ROCKET Jay Buchanan, the lead singer of American rock band Rival Sons, is stepping outside of the band to release his debut solo album, which he wrote in an underground bunker, composing most of the songs by firelight. As well as the introspective new originals, the record features Buchanan’s take on Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me to the End of Love . A downbeat delight.

Nick Jonas – the youngest member of the Jonas Brothers – has managed to mix acting with music, as

Love Is Not Enough is the 11th studio album for American metalcore masters Converge. Singer Jacob Bannon

well as dating Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, and Delta Goodrem. Sunday Best is his fifth solo album, and he says it was shaped by his new life as a husband and father.

says the title track is “a reckoning with who we are today and hope to be in the future... if we can fend off the scavengers. We hope that listening to it is as cathartic as creating it was for us.”

After three Top 20 albums and six Top 50 singles, Melbourne band Kisschasy called it quits in 2015. “Music had broken my heart,” singer Darren Cordeux says, “like it does to most of its creators at some point.” But in 2022, Darren, bass player Joel Vanderuit, guitarist Sean Thomas, and drummer Karl Ammitzboll put the band back together. “Convince myself that this isn’t the end,” Cordeux sings in Kisschasy’s comeback single Lie to Me , which opens the band’s first album in 17 years. It’s a potent collection of pop-rock that sounds alive on arrival. A welcome return.

HANDSOME JACK Barnburners! MGM

MAYHEM Liturgy of Death SONY

THE OLYMPIANS In Search of a Revival MGM

Handsome Jack is Jamison Passuite (vocals, guitar), Joey Verdonselli (bass, vocals), and Bennie

Norway’s Mayhem have been rocking the metal world since 1984. Liturgy of Death , their seventh studio

The Olympians, who formed in 2008 when the Olympics were happening in Beijing, go for gold on their

Hayes (drums, vocals). Barnburners! is the American band’s seventh studio album. It’s a rootsy set that showcases their love of classic rock. The emphasis is on good times and big grooves. HILARY DUFF Luck... Or Something INERTIA Back in the early 2000s,

album and first in seven years, is a captivating collection of black metal that deals with mortality, death and destruction.

new record. This Brooklyn, New York outfit is essentially a one-man band – Toby Pazner – who delivers cinematic, orchestral instrumentals.

MEGAN MORONEY Cloud 9 SONY

PUMA BLUE Croak Dream INERTIA

Cloud 9 is the third album for American country artist Megan Moroney. It follows her 2024 set Am I Okay? ,

Puma Blue is the recording name for South London singer Jacob Allen. He ponders a big

Hilary Duff was a superstar. After breaking big starring as Lizzie McGuire in the Disney series, her pop

career took off and her second album, 2003’s Metamorphosis – released when she was just 15 – hit number one in the US, where it sold four million copies. Luck... Or Something is her sixth studio album and her first in 11 years. Now 38, Duff is all grown up; in fact, the album’s first single is called Mature .

which was a Top 10 hit on the US country and pop charts. She says, “ is a state of mind... similar to the first two albums, it’s all written about honest, personal experiences, but these songs were written by the strongest, most confident version of myself.”

philosophical question on his new album of dark electropop, which he recorded straight to tape at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios: “If you knew how and when you were going to die, how would it change how you decided to live?”

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