STACK #258 April 2026

MUSIC FEATURE

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FUN FACT Australia was the first country to give Bring Me the Horizon a number one album.

BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME

DIVIDE & CONQUER Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is one of 2026’s most anticipated albums.

Britain’s Bring Me the Horizon have captured their biggest and best show for a killer live album.

I t took a while for America’s Noah Kahan to break big. Stick Season was his third album. Released in 2022, it was a slow burn. But then it exploded, and Noah became a star all around the world. The 29-year-old singer-songwriter has now crafted the eagerly awaited explaining that he wrote it “next to a piano in Nashville, next to a pond in Guilford Vermont, in a legendary studio follow-up, The Great Divide ,

The Great Divide by Noah Kahan is out Apr 24 via Universal

BRINGING IT LIVE L.I.V.E. in São Paulo is Bring Me the Horizon’s third official live album, following 2015’s Live at Wembley and 2016’s Live at the Royal Albert Hall .

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Bring Me the Horizon

“H ello and welcome to the Bring Me the Horizon Post Human live experience. São Paulo, are you ready for the greatest night of your life?” So started Bring Me the Horizon’s biggest gig ever – for 50,000 people at the Allianz Parque stadium in Brazil on November 30, 2024. The band called it their “best show ever”. If you weren’t there, don’t worry. The band captured the show for their first live album in a decade. The release is called L.I.V.E.

“Live Immersive Virtual Experiment”. The 23-track double

in upstate New York, and on a farm with a fire tower in Only, Tennessee”. Noah – who

Noah Kahan

Noah Kahan Noah Kahan’s breakthrough smash Stick Season spent three weeks at number one in Australia in 2024, to become the year’s fourth biggest single. The Stick Season album hit number six.

CD and DVD features classic cuts from the Bring Me the Horizon catalogue, including six songs from their most recent studio album, POST HUMAN: NeX GEn . The movie took more than a year to edit as the band incorporated more than 3000 videos filmed by fans. This is set to be one of 2026’s biggest live albums, particularly in

with in the moments before I drift off to sleep. The music here is my best attempt to delve deeper

L.I.V.E. in

São Paulo by Bring Me the Horizon is out Apr 10 via Sony

grew up on a tree farm in Strafford, Vermont - says the album was inspired by “old friends, my father, my mother, my siblings, my younger self, the great state of Vermont”. The title track is a moving piece

into the people, places, and feelings that have made me who I am. “I am grateful for all of it, for all of you, for listening to them, if you choose to do so.” Jeff Jenkins

Noah’s first job was as a hotel valet. He was fired after crashing a car. FIRST JOB

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Bring Me the Horizon have had five Top 10 albums in Australia, including four chart-toppers: 2010’s There Is a Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let’s Keep It a Secret , 2013’s Sempiternal , 2015’s That’s the Spirit , and 2019’s amo .

Australia, which the band has called “a second home” Singer Oli Sykes actually lived in Australia when he was a kid, in Adelaide and

FUN FACT Noah’s mum, Lauri

filled with regret about losing touch with an old friend. “You know I think about you all the time,” Noah sings. “And my deep misunderstanding of your life.” “The songs are the words I would say if I could,” Noah adds. “They are the fears I dance

Berkenkamp, is the author of several best-selling parenting books, including Mom, the Toilet’s Clogged! Kid Disasters and How to Fix Them, Talking to Your Kids About Sex, and Teaching Your Children Good Manners.

in São Paulo , with the band explaining that “L.I.V.E.” stands for

Perth. Jeff Jenkins

DECKS BACK ON THE

OUT APR 24

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Songs for the Deaf

TAYLOR SWIFT Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)

LILY ALLEN Alright, Still

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