Year-End Lists

Mojo Magazine: The 75 Best Albums of 2026

1. Beck
   Ride Lonesome
2. Boards of Canada
   Inferno
3. Aldous Harding
   Train on the Island
4. Fontaines D.C.
   Dopamine Chamber
5. Dry Cleaning
   Secret Love
6. Bill Callahan
   My Days of 58
7. Richard Thompson
   Hippies, Thugs and Heroes
8. Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts
   Second Song
9. The Lemon Twigs
   Look for Your Mind!
10. The Coral
    388
11. The Tubs
    Hard Life
12. Twisted Teens
    The Holy Cross Tigers
13. Paul McCartney
    The Boys of Dungeon Lane
14. The Womack Sisters
    The Womack Sisters
15. Phoebe Bridgers
    Lost Weekend
16. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
    Happy Today
17. Ezra Collective
    Here Because of Hope
18. Sunn O)))
    Sunn O)))
19. The Rolling Stones
    Foreign Tongues
20. Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
    A ? of When
21. Kevin Morby
    Little Wide Open
22. Jack White
    Frozen Charlotte
23. The Durutti Column
    Renascent
24. Lambchop
    Punching the Clown
25. Dexys Midnight Runners
    Love
26. Wendy Eisenberg
    Wendy Eisenberg
27. Shabaka
    Of the Earth
28. The Black Crowes
    A Pound of Feathers
29. Gorillaz
    The Mountain
30. Beth Orton
    The Ground Above
31. Echo & the Bunnymen
    Apples for Isaac
32. Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars
    Spatial, No Problem.
33. My New Band Believe
    My New Band Believe
34. Arab Strap
    Half-Told Tales
35. Olivia Rodrigo
    You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
36. Tyler Ballgame
    For the First Time, Again
37. Tori Amos
    In Times of Dragons
38. Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti
    Almost Waking
39. Squeeze
    Trixies
40. Kurt Vile
    Philadelphia's Been Good to Me
41. Kneecap
    Fenian
42. Dinosaur Jr.
    There Near
43. Angine de Poitrine
    Vol. II
44. Madonna
    Confessions II
45. Tara Clerkin Trio
    Somewhere Good
46. Getdown Services
    Massive Champion
47. Kim Gordon
    Play Me
48. Mitski
    Nothing's About to Happen to Me
49. Flea
    Honora
50. Westside Cowboy
    It Goes On
51. Queens of the Stone Age
    Perfecth
52. Jalen Ngonda
    Doctrine of Love
53. Bonnie “Prince” Billy
    We Are Together Again
54. Hen Ogledd
    Discombobulated
55. Robyn Hitchcock
    The Confuser
56. Shane Parish
    Autechre Guitar
57. Mike D 5D
    Thank You
58. The Mary Wallopers
    Paddywhackery
59. Setting
    Setting
60. Tinariwen
    Hoggar
61. Billy Strings
    So Much for Goodbyes
62. Alabama Shakes
    I Must Be Dreaming
63. Jill Scott
    To Whom This May Concern
64. SML
    Spontaneous Music Live
65. Charli XCX
    Music, Fashion, Film
66. The Black Keys
    Peaches!
67. Jake Xerxes Fussell
    The Old Beloved Path
68. Cameron Winter
    Live at Carnegie Hall
69. Sleaford Mods
    The Demise of Planet X
70. Erykah Badu & The Alchemist
    Before the World Blows
71. This Is Lorelei
    The Singer in My Band
72. Julia Jacklin
    The Gem
73. Basic
    Basic
74. Brother Wallace
    Electric Love
75. Alela Diane
    Who's Keeping Time?