STACK #263 September 2026

MUSIC PREVIEWS

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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.

THE CRANBERRIES Live at the London Astoria II, 1994 UNIVERSAL Cranberries singer

Dolores O’Riordan died in 2018, aged 46. But the Irish band’s music lives on. This live album captured the band in top

form while promoting their debut, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? Tracks include Linger, Dreams, and Zombie . DAVID BOWIE The Shel Talmy Recordings INERTIA A decade after David Bowie died, we go back Shel Talmy (who died in 2024). Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page appears on many of the tracks – he was working as a session guitarist at the time. Talmy also produced the Aussie classic Friday on My Mind by The Easybeats. DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS Love INERTIA Forty-four years after the global smash Come titled Love . The UK band have hinted it might be their farewell. Singer Kevin Rowland says it covers his life, “from his second-generation Irish childhood and family relationships to late-life romance, loss, and reconciliation”. ELLIE GOULDING I Know Too Much UNIVERSAL to where it all began. These 1965 recordings were produced by the great American producer on Eileen , Dexys Midnight Runners issue their seventh studio album, simply

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ANTHRAX Cursum Perficio INERTIA

BRIAN FALLON Not Bad for New Jersey ROCKET This is the fifth solo

Forty-five years after they formed, America’s Anthrax are maintaining the rage. Cursum Perf icio is the band’s 12th studio album and

album for The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon. It includes guest spots by The Killers’ Brandon Flowers, Def Leppard’s

JACK GRAY Swimming in Jeans ISLAND

their first in ten years. The youthful energy is still there – check out the first single, It’s for the Kids . As for the title, it translates as “my journey has come to an end”, but the band is adamant this is not their swansong. BECK Ride Lonesome UNIVERSAL After his triumphant

Phil Collen, and Americana artist Lori McKenna. And there’s a powerful punky tribute to Dee Dee Ramone called Nobody Likes You in New York City .

“I don’t want to grow up too fast,” Jack Gray declares on his debut album, a collection of sparkling pop songs about hanging onto youth and staying true to yourself. In an era of collaboration, Swimming in Jeans is largely a solitary affair, though it does feature Tattoos , an impressive co-write with Peach PRC. Now based in LA, Jack Gray has certainly come a long way from Mackay in Queensland. “Somebody wake me, I’m just dreaming, right?” he sings in Look at You . But Swimming in Jeans shows that he’s got both feet firmly on the ground, with the pop smarts to go all the way.

CARLY RAE JEPSEN Day and Night UNIVERSAL

Canada’s Carly Rae Jepsen broke big in 2012 with the smash Call Me Maybe . Fourteen years later, she’s not mucking

Australian tour, Beck’s 15th studio album sees him reunited with the band that made the classics Mutations and

Sea Change , including Jason Falkner and Joey Waronker. “It felt like the playing and the chemistry had evolved and deepened,” Beck says. “It also felt like we were finding new sounds and emotional textures along the way.”

around on her new album, which features 24 tracks. Disc one is “Day”, disc two is “Night”. A lot of the album is about her relationship with fellow musician Cole M.G.N, who she married last year.

BLOC PARTY Anatomy of a Brief Romance UNIVERSAL

CHAKA KHAN Chakzilla UNIVERSAL

She might be 73, but Chaka Khan can still bring the funk. Her 13th studio album coincides

After four chart-topping albums in the UK, Ellie Goulding’s new record follows a marriage split. “Through the chaos of this great change, I went

Twenty-one years after their debut, Britain’s Bloc Party are releasing their seventh album. Produced by the legendary Trevor Horn, the band has called it a concept album, covering the end of a long-term relationship and the start of a new one.

with the West End musical I’m Every Woman , which tells the tale of her remarkable life. “This music is about being human, feelin’ good, and stepping into our power,” she says. As she declares, “boogie’s in my soul”.

to my comfort zone and found my refuge in the studio,” she says. Explaining the title, she says, “Maybe we can know too much... there is a certain kind of freedom in the ease of not knowing.”

Coming in OCTOBER

THE BEATLES Rubber Soul (Oct 2) THE BUOYS Concrete Cowboy (Oct 23) NICKELBACK Everything Under the Sun (Oct 30)

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