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Album essay The Long Way Home On their tenth album, Kings of Leon put down the stadium-sized choruses and go looking for what they left at home. Kings of Leon · O My Beloved · 2026 · 3 min read Kings of Leon have been a band for longer than some of their listeners have been alive. Youth and Young Manhood came out in 2003, and the title was accurate: three brothers and a cousin, playing like they had something to prove and not much time to prove it. Twenty-three years and nine records later, Caleb, Nathan, Jared, and Matthew Followill are fathers and husbands, award-winning rock stars of international renown. O My Beloved is what that looks like from the inside. The first thing to say about it is that it is quiet. Anyone arriving for the kind of anthem that fills an arena will find something else — twelve songs that mostly sit between three and four and a half minutes, opening with a fifty-eight-second “Intro” rather than a statement of intent. The title itself is a term of endearment...

  Album · Released 6 November 2026 · Hip-Hop/Rap Skepta Sets the Table The Fork and Knife, by Skepta Fifteen songs, fifty-five minutes, and a back half that fills up with guests. On The Fork and Knife, Skepta hosts rather than declares — and the centre of gravity is not a single but “Belly”, eight minutes forty-nine of the whole scene at one table. The Fork and Knife — Skepta. Illustration by Stephen Agorsor. The title is the argument. A fork and a knife are not instruments; they are what you are handed when something is about to be served. Naming the record after the cutlery rather than the meal puts the emphasis on the eating — the appetite, the portions, the etiquette of who gets fed first. Skepta has been one of the defining voices in British grime for two decades, a co-founder of Boy Better Know and a Mercury Prize winner for Konnichiwa , and the interesting thing about The Fork and Knife is how little it behaves like the album of a man with nothing left to prove. Fifteen son...

Dying In This House Is a Debut That Refuses to Hurry Mack Geiger’s first album arrives with the poise of a much older record — twelve songs about heartbreak, family and the pull of the road, sung in a baritone that never oversells a thing. By Stephen Agorsor · 8 November 2026 · About 4 minutes The album at a glance Artist Mack Geiger Released 6 November 2026 Genre Country Length 12 tracks · 44 min ℗ 2026 RECORDS Label, LLC/Columbia Records, under exclusive license from Mack Geiger. ♫ Listen on Apple Music ↗ Most debut albums arrive in a hurry. They front-load their influences, spend their best songs proving the artist belongs in the room, and save the quiet material for a second record that may never come. Dying In This House does not make that deal. Mack Geiger’s first album — twelve songs, forty-four minutes, released 6 November — carries itself like the work of someone who has been at this long enough to know a baritone doesn’t need pushing. It is a patient record, and the patience...