STACK #261 July 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.

MASSIVE ATTACK Boots on the Ground INERTIA

They’re heading our way and they’re bringing a brand-new 12-inch single with them, a collaboration with Tom Waits. Massive Attack’s first release in six years is a powerful

piece about the state of the world. “This track is arriving in an atmosphere of chaos,” Massive Attack explain. “Across the Western hemisphere, state authoritarianism and the militarisation of police forces are fusing again with neo-fascist politics. Seen within the American emergency, at home and overseas, this track contains pulses of callous impulse and abandoned mind.” MOTIONLESS IN WHITE Decades INERTIA

EDITOR’S PICK THE TEMPER TRAP Sungazer MUSHROOM Ten years after their last album, and 18 years after their breakthrough blockbuster Sweet Disposition , The Temper Trap return with their fourth album, Sungazer . “Being back in the studio together really felt like coming home,” the band says. And you can feel the warmth in songs like the title track, which singer Dougy Mandagi wrote about becoming a dad. “There’s a mystery to you I just can’t explain,” he sings. “I’m rendered powerless in your presence... my light for you will shine forever.” Mandagi’s voice remains a thing of beauty, and Sungazer is a welcome return.

ADAM LAMBERT Adam ROCKET

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 Soundtrack UNIVERSAL

Motionless in White are from Scranton, Pennsylvania – the home of the American version of The Office . The metalcore band

Adam is the sixth solo album for Adam Lambert. The American powerhouse digs deep on the record, which explains why it’s

The Devil Wears Prada 2 has been one of the year’s biggest movies. Now comes the physical release of the soundtrack, which

marks their 20th anniversary by releasing their seventh studio album, Decades . The second single, Playing God , features a surprise special guest – Corey Taylor from Slipknot. And the record closes with a killer cover of Corey Hart’s Sunglasses at Night .

self-titled and is being released via his own label. “Looking in the mirror and accepting everything about yourself – the good and the bad,” Adam explains. His five previous albums have all hit the Australian Top 10, and this should be similarly successful. BRING ME THE HORIZON Count Your Blessings: Repented SONY England’s Bring Me the

features three new tracks by Lady Gaga, as well as original songs by Sienna Spiro and Izzy Escobar. Plus contributions from Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, and Olivia Dean.

FINN WOLFHARD Fire from the Hip ROCKET

PRINCESS NOKIA Girls ROCKET

Canada’s Finn Wolfhard found fame playing Mike Wheeler in Stranger Things . Having been a member of the bands Calpurnia and The

Girls is the fifth studio album for American rapper Princess Nokia (real name: Destiny Frasqueri). “Girlhood is a spectrum, pretty is destruction,” she raps, questioning gender norms and religious institutions. She aligns herself with Laura Palmer, the key character in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks : “I’ve been through too much, babe, I feel like Laura Palmer/ I’ve been a statistic and everyone ignored me/ If I was a man, they would have coddled me, adored me.” SHANIA TWAIN Little Miss Twain UNIVERSAL Shania Twain is certainly not prolific. Little Miss Twain is just her seventh studio gone back to where it all began for this record, telling tales of her early days, before she got a record deal. It’s a powerful insight into her personal journey. Indeed, Shania says the album is a love letter to her late mother, who would drive her to local bars to do her first gigs. album in 33 years. The Canadian superstar has

Horizon have done a Taylor Swift and gone back and re-recorded their debut album, Count Your Blessings , which

was released 20 years ago. The band says the new version is a “reactivation” and “recontextualisation”, explaining they have made it “sharper, heavier, and more vital than ever”. The original album failed to chart in Australia, so a lot of people will be hearing it for the first time in 2026. It rocks.

Aubreys, this is his second solo album. It displays a powerful indie rock sound that’s also been shaped by a couple of classic rock albums – the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. and Beggars Banquet .

DEEP PURPLE Splat! ROCKET

GIN WIGMORE Beautiful Mess UNIVERSAL Gin Wigmore celebrates her 40th

Deep Purple were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ten years ago. And their 24th studio album, Splat! , shows they

birthday with the release of her fifth studio album, Beautiful Mess , her first in eight

remain a potent force. They’ve called the album “the heaviest Deep Purple album in many years”, comparing it to the music they made between 1969 and 1973. In the lead-up to the release, the band toured Japan, where the Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a keen drummer, presented Ian Paice with some Japanese drumsticks, saying: “You are my god.”

years. She’s had three chart-topping albums at home in New Zealand and is shooting for her third Top 40 entry in Australia. The title track is a dark love song, where Wigmore – with her unique rasp – sings, “Couldn’t love you more, couldn’t love you less, all I wanted was you and your beautiful mess.”

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