Katie Wade Knows Nothing About Music

• February 15, 2026

In January, I listened to over forty new albums ranging from George Clanton’s electro pop to the unique indie sounds of Regina Spektor, to hard rock (Red), to the soft folk sounds of Mon Rovîa.

I kept a running list of every new album I heard in January:

1. Waiting to Spill- Backseat Lovers
2. Hannah – Lomelda 
3. At Weddings – Tomberlin
4. Tell me That it’s Over – Wallows
5. Bleed American – Jimmy Eat World
6. Until We Have Faces – Red
7. First Impressions of Earth – The Strokes 
8. Guts – Olivia Rodrigo 
9. A Guide to Love, Loss, and Desperation – The Wombats 
10. Simple Adorations – Isaac Turner 
11. The Bucket List – Phil Keaggy
12. A Film and TV Collection – Future of Forestry 
13. Far – Regina Spektor 
14. The Other Side of Life: Piano Ballads – Beach Fossils 
15. Self Titled – The Head and The Heart 
16. I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful and yet so unaware of it – The 1975
17. Odd Soul – MUTEMATH 
18. French Exit – TV girl 
19. Discovery – Daft Punk
20. Suffer Summer – Chastity 
21. Bloodline – Mon Rovia 
22. Girl With No Face – Allie X
23. AKA – Tennyson 
24. How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? – Big Red Machine 
25. Slide – George Clanton 
26. A Good Day – Priscilla Ahn
27. Nobody Lives Here Anymore –  Cut Worms
28. You Forgot it in People – Broken Social Scene 
29. Visions – Grimes
30. The Record – boygenius 
31. Lace Up Deluxe – mgk
32. The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do – Fiona Apple
33. Puberty 2 – Mitski 
34. Be the Cowboy – Mitski
35. Noah and the Paper Moon – Stealing Sheep
36. Lush – Mitski 
37. Bury Me at Makeout Creek – Mitski 
38. Retired from Sad, New Career in Business – Mitski 
39. Laurel Hell – Mitski 
40. The Land is Inhospitable and So are We – Mitski 
41. Into the Diamond Sun – Stealing Sheep