STACK #260 June 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.

DJ SEINFELD If This Is It INERTIA

Sweden’s Armand Jakobsson had a bad break-up and then moved to Barcelona, where he found himself binge-watching Seinfeld .

He loved it. So when it came to his stage name, he called himself DJ Seinfeld. If This Is It is the third studio album for the artist, who performed at this year’s Australian Open. A thrilling mix of house and trance, it features The Right , a collaboration with Australia’s Confidence Man. GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS The Baddest Show on Earth: Greatest Hits Live UNIVERSAL

EDITOR’S PICK VIKA & LINDA Where Do You Come From? MUSHROOM Australia’s favourite singing sisters Vika & Linda – ARIA Hall of Fame inductees - release their ninth studio album, a deeply personal collection of songs about the changing face of Australia. The first word on the album is M ā l ō e lelei, the Tongan word for hello. What follows is a record about identity, family, getting older, and swimming – check out Vika Bull’s sublime That’s How I Pray . Linda’s song about being a single mum, Waiting on the Kid , is another standout. The sisters wrote most of the tracks, though contributions from Helen Shanahan ( What a Beautiful Thing ) and Ben Salter ( Bliss ) are amongst the highlights.

BARRY MANILOW What a Time ROCKET

BUTTHOLE SURFERS After the Astronaut MGM Forty-five years after

The great Barry Manilow turns 83 this month, and he’s celebrating with his 33rd studio album, his first featuring original material in 15 years. The

they formed, America’s Butthole Surfers come back down to earth with their ninth studio album. After the

At the age of 76, George Thorogood remains bad to the bone. His eighth live album with The Destroyers gathers songs performed in concert between 1978

album includes Once Before I Go , co-written by Australia’s Peter Allen. It’s another classic love song in the Manilow canon. “Once more, just once before I go, I want you to know that I have loved you all along,” the American legend sings.

Astronaut was originally intended to be released in 1998, but it was shelved by the band’s then label. But it’s now landing, the Butthole Surfers’ first studio album in 25 years.

and 2024, including sizzling versions of Bad to the Bone, Who Do You Love, Boogie Chillun, and One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer .

THE BOBBY LEES New Self ROCKET

CHUCK PROPHET Wake the Dead MGM

MOBY Future Quiet UNIVERSAL

When American singer Sam Quartin experienced a

After the dissolution of the band Green on Red, Chuck Prophet has had a prolific solo career, which continues with Wake the Dead , which

Twenty-seven years after topping the Australian charts with his Play album, Moby presses play on his 23rd studio album. It features a new version

hallucination, she thought she saw a ghost named Bobby Lee, so that’s why she called her rock band The Bobby Lees. New Self is the group’s fourth studio album, their first since signing with Epitaph Records. The power-packed title track namechecks Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, and American snowboarder and skateboarder Shaun White. The record also includes 50 Ft , a reworking of PJ Harvey’s 50ft Queenie . BETH ORTON The Ground Above UNIVERSAL The Ground Above is the ninth studio album for

is finally getting an Australian release. A collaboration with Californian cumbia band Qiensave, the Latin rhythms are alive in the funky title track, where Prophet sings: “Gonna wake the dead, get them on their feet.” DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE I Built You a Tower ROCKET There have been some changes in the Death Cab had to “compartmentalise” everything to keep making music. “I kind of stumbled into this metaphor of like building a tower and placing trauma or pain or suffering into it,” he explains. “So, to me, the central theme of the record is that compartmentalisation of grief, and how sometimes it breaks out of the compartments that we try to hold it in.” world. The band are no longer with a major label, and singer Ben Gibbard has gone through a divorce. He said he

of the Stranger Things hit When It’s Cold I’d Like to Die , which was originally on Moby’s 1995 album Everything Is Wrong . The American artist says he wants this record to be a “refuge”. “As the world gets louder and crazier, I find myself needing the refuge of quiet, both as a listener and as a musician” MODEST MOUSE An Eraser and a Maze INERTIA Modest Mouse, the

much-loved American indie rock band, have emerged with their first new music in five years. Frontman Isaac Brock

England’s Beth Orton, who says: “What has kept me alive is a feral invincibility, barrelling through life,

propelled magnetically as in a flying dream that won’t allow for time to get hold of my ankles and catch up with me. Grief had me say yes to life, to embrace and taste and devour. I know life to be as pointless and as meaningful as I can make it. I wanted to write some of this into a dream, a confluence of meaning and feeling.”

thought these new recordings would initially be an EP for his side project Ugly Casanova, but they ended up becoming Modest Mouse’s eighth studio album.

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