Every week, the WECB France team offers you its selection of the best albums to listen to – Week of May 22, 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 from Ed O'Brien, Olivier Lorquin, Get Well Soon, Alela Diane, Bleachers, Chassol, Hard Coup, Armored Saint, Ecca Vandal, Social Distortion, Little Barrie And Tamikrest.
Ed O'Brien – Blue Morpho
Enjoy the great solo return of the Radiohead guitarist, with a great album of psychedelic folk, luminous and peaceful. Nine titles produced far from the brain experimentation laboratory of his original training, with which he finally lets go.
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Olivier Lorquin – Liberty Belle
Boogie, blues, rock, gypsy music… the singer-songwriter celebrates all the music that speaks to the soul. Between ballads, memories and revisited classics, he pays homage to his idols within a beautiful escape and the quest for a rock elixir.
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Get Well Soon – Minus The Magic
Konstantin Gropper passed his forties a few years ago (four) and something remained: a desire for introspection on this “midlife” to which he refuses to attach the term crisis, while teeming with questions.
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Alela Diane – Who's Keeping Time?
Alela Diane continues to unfold her poetic texts with her beautiful grain of voice. The American musician makes her fingers dance through 11 sunny pieces throughout Who's Keeping Time, a spontaneous and personal record.
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Bleachers – everyone for ten minutes
Two years after an eponymous record as a revival, Jack Antonoff is back with a new album which refocuses (again) the subject: harmonious folk rock, sprinkled with luminous pop soul and that typical New Jersey sound.
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Hard Blow – Hard Blow
The trio revives a certain idea of DIY rock: raw, melodic and deliciously wobbly. On this first EP, the short and nervous pieces combine the insolence of sixties girl bands and the lo-fi melancholy of post-punk.
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Chassol – Funny How?
Chassol pushes its “Ultrascore” principle even further by transforming American stand-up into musical material. Between soul, jazz, rap and musical comedy, this fifth album combines the voices of Dave Chappelle, Dulcé Sloan and Vic Mensa with abundant harmonies and a directly political statement.
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Armored Saint – Emotion Factory Reset
The Americans return more revitalized than ever with Emotion Factory Reset, loaded with steel riffs. Armored Saint continues to serve the cause of epic heavy metal, with a welcome dash of modernity. Enough to raise their fists in unison.
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Ecca Vandal – Looking For People to Unfollow
The South African artist based in Australia mixes styles without leaving anything to chance, jumping from punk (Dance In Debt) to orientalizing R'n'B (Ghosts) by multiplying atmospheres and moods. Deliberately disjointed, Looking For People to Unfollow seeks beauty in a mess where it is good to get lost.
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Social Distortion – Born To Kill
With his health problems behind him (tonsil cancer), Mike Ness revives the incandescent punk – rock of Social Distortion! The guy admits that he had a stock of songs for fifteen years and carried out careful sorting to get the best out of them.
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Little Barrie – Gravity Freeze
In the mind of Barrie Cadigan, the voice and guitar of Little Barrie reviving a record under his own name after nearly a decade of diverse and varied collaborative albums, this “freeze of gravity” would correspond to this furtive moment of waking up where the dream of the night is still present.
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Tamikrest – Assikel
In Tamasheq, the language of the Tuareg people, “assikel” means journey or journey. This is exactly what this sixth album invites and incites us to do, Tamikrest having no equal to illuminate its captivating swirls of guitars as silky as they are crystalline.
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