June 2026 Music Round-Up

The June 2026 music round-up comes to you fashionably late because I've been too busy Anthroconning. New Music Immediate ImpressionsA fair bit of new music this month! Death Cab for Cutie - I Built You a Tower The 2nd indie rock divorce epic of 2026 (after the latest American Football album). Doing my Death Cab discog review-through last year really reinvigorated my love for the band and I've been greatly enjoying this new album. While generally speaking this is perhaps what you'd expect from DCfC in 2026 and though it's not an explicitly backwards-looking release, there is a hint of "classic" Death Cab being brought back here; there's something in the way the guitars sound and in some of the riffs of the melodies that reminds me of the turn-of-millennium albums. But overall, it's something very much of its own and continues on from the last album's more guitar-centric approach without sounding like a reprise - and above all, it's a beautiful album. Now, Gibbard has very clearly…