8 albums you need to hear this week
With music from from Little Simz, Pulp, Turnstile, MARINA, Cynthia Erivo, Addison Rae, Finn Wolfhard and Nick Mulvey
In the age of streaming, it’s never been easier to listen to new music — but with over 60,000 new songs added to Spotify every day, it’s also never been harder to know what to put on. Every week, the team at Rolling Stone UK will run down some of the best new releases that have been added to streaming services.
This week we’ve highlighted records from Little Simz, Pulp, Turnstile, MARINA, Cynthia Erivo, Addison Rae, Finn Wolfhard and Nick Mulvey.
Little Simz – Lotus
Little Simz’s new album, Lotus, sees the rapper at her most lyrically frank and brutally honest. “These are things I would write in my journal,” she has said of the record. “It’s real, it’s for me. If I never put it on record or never let anyone hear it, I would still want to tell myself these things.” With innovative production and a bounty of guests including Sampha, Michael Kiwanuka and Moses Sumney, it’s her most sonically varied album yet her most lyrically pointed.
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Pulp – More
A comeback more than worth waiting 24 years for. For the most part, this is a record where stadium-filling songs, the kind that elevated Pulp to household fame in the 90s, sit alongside the deeper and more curious oddities for which the band are known. There’s emotional disco bangers like ‘Spike Island’, but on the emotional closer ‘A Sunset’, Jarvis Cocker posits: “Oh, I’d like to teach the world to sing / But the world has lost its voice.” That might increasingly be the case during these dark days of late, but that voice is sure to grow stronger when Pulp — almost a quarter of a century after their last album — are creating records like More. Here’s hoping they take up the mantra of this album title and run with it. We can’t wait another 25 years when the results are as good as this.
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Turnstile – Never Enough
In the four years since the release of their album Glow On, Turnstile have become the biggest hardcore band in the world right now, and potentially of all time. The Baltimore quintet follow up their earth-shattering 2021 record with an album in Never Enough that stretches the boundaries of their sound even further. On ‘Birds’, they sound more fired up and frenzied than ever, while the wash of glacial synths that first emerged on Glow On appear in spades here, with moments of pure calm amidst the chaos.
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MARINA – Princess of Power
There’s a welcome sense of not giving a fuck on this upcoming sixth album from Marina. It’s evident on the unrepentant lead single ‘Cuntissimo’, which offers a celebration of bold, unapologetic femininity. “That’s really key: pleasure,” she told Rolling Stone. “Throughout the centuries, it’s been denied us that freedom to be silly and messy. Women have been under such a strict patriarchal power for so long, but this is just like, ‘Fuck you.’” Elsewhere, the soaring standout ‘Rollercoaster’ is a powerful piece of “fresh, free energy” and an ode to following your dreams. It’s empowered and relentlessly fun at a time when such things are needed more than ever.
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Cynthia Erivo – I Forgive You
On I Forgive You, Cynthia Erivo swaps Hollywood superstardom for something that shows the human side to this near EGOT performer. There’s stop-you-in-your-tracks greatness on the raw ‘More Than Twice’ while the standout ‘Replay’ skips along with a refreshing trip-hop tinged beat. It would be all too easy to write this record off as the sole preserve of musical theatre devotees, but the reality here is that Erivo proves herself to be a genuinely brilliant recording artist with a set of songs mined from her own experiences of life in all its complicated glory.
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Addison Rae – Addison
As Rolling Stone wrote in a 2025 cover story: “Addison Rae took over TikTok. Now she’s coming for pop.” Worldwide mega-hit ‘Diet Pepsi’ wasn’t a bad way to start this quest, and the pop star’s debut album, Addison, sees her flesh out the story. “I love the entirety of this project with all of me,” she said of the album. “A mirror. A deep desperation and desire to understand myself better. A true collection of my proudest work yet.”
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Finn Wolfhard – Happy Birthday
Having been in countless bands including Calpurnia and The Aubreys, Happy Birthday is somehow Finn Wolfhard’s debut album as a solo artist. The star is one of a number of Stranger Things stars – most notably Djo – who have beaten off allegations that their music careers are simply passion projects and side quests, and Happy Birthday signals the blossoming of his artistry and a long-awaited album under his own name. It’s surely set to be the first of many.
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Nick Mulvey – Dark Harvest (Pt. 1)
He has been loath to go into specifics, but Nick Mulvey says that the first part of Dark Harvest (the second is due in the Autumn) was inspired by “the descent into grief that hit me in the last three years”.
As a result, it’s an album that explores the darkest of times and, in Mulvey’s case, the spiritual discoveries that gave him release. The latter is shown on ‘My Maker’, which sees to reflect on his own personal journey with religion, while ‘Solastagia’ feels like a hypnotic ode to loved ones who aren’t with us any more. There’s a chance that you may find the abundance new-age spirituality a bit overwhelming, but the message of positivity in dark times is one we can all relate to.
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