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Crucial Releases: June 12

This week's records... new music from Wiki, La Sécurité, Piebald, Fruit Bats, Olivia Rodrigo, and Kelsey Lu.

Crucial Releases: June 12

TLDR: This Week's Featured Albums

Wiki - Ancient History

Ancient History by Wiki

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Released: June 12, 2026 on Wikset Enterprise

FFO: Navy Blue, MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt, Armand Hammer, Your Old Droog

Your first song: All In the Lining (feat. Your Old Droog)

♫ Support: Bandcamp

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The word...

I am finally all caught up! It took me building a custom backend CMS for the blog to make publishing posts super easy to do it, but it’s worth the time and focus.

Anyway, the music! This week saw the release of a new album by Wiki, which I really like, so that’s the Featured Album for the week. I have it in my top 12 for the year so far.

Beyond that, I have five other albums for you to check out. I’d probably consider Olivia Rodrigo for a Featured slot, but she’s well known enough that you don’t need any words from me to tell you anything. Otherwise, there’s Piebald with their first album in almost 20 years, some dance punk from La Sécurité, some alt folk from Fruit Bats, and an ambitious baroque pop album from Kelsey Lu. It almost met my Featured criteria, but while beautiful, I am not sure it’s something I would listen to a lot.

Enjoy!

Honorable Mentions

This month also had many excellent releases worth exploring. Stay tuned for more discoveries.

you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love by Olivia Rodrigo

  • 💿 Released: 12 June
  • 🤘 FFO: singer-songwriter, pop
  • 🎧 Your first song: “Drop Dead”
  • 💰 Support: Store

So Help Me God by Kelsey Lu

  • 💿 Released: 12 June on Dirty Hit
  • 🤘 FFO: “Running to Pain”
  • 🎧 Your first song: baroque pop, chamber folk, Jessie Ware, Jenny Hval, Kelela, Sudan Archives, serpentwithfeet, Ibeyi
  • 💰 Support: Bandcamp

Bingo! by La Sécurité

  • 💿 Released: 12 June on Mothland
  • 🤘 FFO: dance punk, art punk
  • 🎧 Your first song: “Snack City”
  • 💰 Support: Bandcamp

Tales for the Rages by Piebald

  • 💿 Released: 12 June on Iodine Recordings
  • 🤘 FFO: Saves the Day, the Get Up Kids, Jimmy Eat World, Hey Mercedes
  • 🎧 Your first song: “This Thing is Old”
  • 💰 Support: Bandcamp

The Landfill by Fruit Bats

  • 💿 Released: 12 June on Merge Records
  • 🤘 FFO: The Shins, Cut Worms, Bonny Doon, Pinegrove, Bonny Light Horseman
  • 🎧 Your first song: “That Goddamn Sun”
  • 💰 Support: Bandcamp