Every week, the WECB France team offers you its selection of the best albums to listen to – Week of April 3, 2026.
In the age of streaming, it has never been easier to listen to new music, but with thousands of new titles added every day to streaming platforms not counting physical releases in stores, we can get lost. WECB offers you a selection of albums released today.
This week, we have selected albums fromArlo Parks, Thundercat, Corrosion of Conformity, the Dispatch, Angina de Chest, Dermot Kennedy, Bruce Hornsby, Gérard Manset And Sunn O))).
Arlo Parks – Ambiguous Desire
The British singer returns with her third studio album, which here embraces an aesthetic this time more nocturnal, nourished by queer culture and hedonism, and above all carried by writing that is even more confident, white-hot.
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Thundercat – Distracted
Surrounded by a choice cast, Thundercat mixes orchestral soul, velvety jazz, ultra-funky pop, psychedelic rock and even afrofuturist echoes: there is plenty to do in this brilliant protean sum.
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Corrosion of Conformity – Good God/Baad Man
The mastermind Pepper Keenan shows that her return to business results in a double album where “hairy” metal riffs and punk rage still go hand in hand. Welcome back!
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The Dispatch – Tryouts For Tomorrow
The project from Rouen has focused all its energy around a sparkling new EP. If we think of the UK scene listening to this wild drum machine and its sinuous guitars, our mind then wanders, following this strange and synthetic adventure, sometimes brassy.
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Angina Chest – Vol. II
After having focused the attention of the whole world, via their real on Insta relayed by the cream of rock, critics and musicians alike, with their masked performances and their rock from space, the Quebec duo drives the point home with Flight. II.
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Dermot Kennedy – The Weight of the Woods
With this third opus, the Dubliner abandons artifice and sophistication for a salutary return to his sources. The Weight of the Woods is an organic, woody work as its title indicates.
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Sunn O))) – Sunn O)))
Stephen O'Mailey makes his guitars “whirl” until the last hope of lightness no longer has any reason to exist and the listener's brain, stunned, begs for its dose of paracetamol. More than ever, his drone metal is a quasi-sensory experience.
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Bruce Hornsby – Indigo Park
Behind the pop melodies of which they have the secret, the voice and the piano of Bruce Hornsby like to knock on the door of a jazz that is sometimes almost free, to willingly show itself experimental elsewhere. Deliciously disconcerting…
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Gérard Manset – I don't want
Contemplative, an observer overtaken by the loss of illusions, Manset remains, letting his words slide and bounce here on a piano here, there on a violin, elsewhere on brass instruments.
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