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Skepta Sets the Table

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  Album · Released 6 November 2026 · Hip-Hop/Rap Skepta Sets the Table The Fork and Knife, by Skepta Fifteen songs, fifty-five minutes, and a back half that fills up with guests. On The Fork and Knife, Skepta hosts rather than declares — and the centre of gravity is not a single but “Belly”, eight minutes forty-nine of the whole scene at one table. The Fork and Knife — Skepta. Illustration by Stephen Agorsor. The title is the argument. A fork and a knife are not instruments; they are what you are handed when something is about to be served. Naming the record after the cutlery rather than the meal puts the emphasis on the eating — the appetite, the portions, the etiquette of who gets fed first. Skepta has been one of the defining voices in British grime for two decades, a co-founder of Boy Better Know and a Mercury Prize winner for Konnichiwa , and the interesting thing about The Fork and Knife is how little it behaves like the album of a man with nothing left to prove. Fifteen son...

Dying In This House Is a Debut That Refuses to Hurry

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Dying In This House Is a Debut That Refuses to Hurry Mack Geiger’s first album arrives with the poise of a much older record — twelve songs about heartbreak, family and the pull of the road, sung in a baritone that never oversells a thing. By Stephen Agorsor · 8 November 2026 · About 4 minutes The album at a glance Artist Mack Geiger Released 6 November 2026 Genre Country Length 12 tracks · 44 min ℗ 2026 RECORDS Label, LLC/Columbia Records, under exclusive license from Mack Geiger. ♫ Listen on Apple Music ↗ Most debut albums arrive in a hurry. They front-load their influences, spend their best songs proving the artist belongs in the room, and save the quiet material for a second record that may never come. Dying In This House does not make that deal. Mack Geiger’s first album — twelve songs, forty-four minutes, released 6 November — carries itself like the work of someone who has been at this long enough to know a baritone doesn’t need pushing. It is a patient record, and the patience...

Sweet Action II: Fifteen Minutes, No Padding

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  Sweet Action II: Fifteen Minutes, No Padding Jack Harlow's sequel to his 2020 EP keeps the same seven-song shape and gives back ninety seconds — a record that ends before it can overstay. Jack Harlow · Sweet Action II · 5 November 2026 · Atlantic Recording Corporation · Hip-Hop/Rap · 15 min Tracklist 1 SIGNORA 2:00 2 TOO SOON (feat. Babyface) 2:22 3 SHE GETS ME 2:22 4 610 MAGNOLIA 1:35 5 HOLD BACK 2:20 6 PRESSURE 2:12 7 MOVE ON 2:27 Seven songs, fifteen minutes and change. That is the entire extent of Sweet Action II , Jack Harlow's new record on Atlantic, released 5 November 2026 — and the first thing to say about it is that it knows exactly how long it wants to be. It is a sequel, and the arithmetic turns out to be the story. Sweet Action arrived in March 2020 with seven songs and a little over sixteen and a half minutes on it. Six years later the follow-up keeps the same seven slots and hands back roughly ninety seconds. Nothing has been added; something has been taken aw...