Year-End Lists

Uncut Magazine: 80 Best Albums of 2026

1. Phoebe Bridgers
   Lost Weekend
2. Aldous Harding
   Train on the Island
3. Boards of Canada
   Inferno
4. Lambchop
   Punching the Clown
5. Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts
   Second Song
6. Bill Callahan
   My Days of 58
7. Paul McCartney
   The Boys of Dungeon Lane
8. Johnny Blue Skies
   Mutiny After Midnight
9. The Rolling Stones
   Foreign Tongues
10. Dry Cleaning
    Secret Love
11. The Durutti Column
    Renascent
12. Angine de Poitrine
    Vol. II
13. Beck
    Ride Lonesome
14. Tara Clerkin Trio
    Somewhere Good
15. Kacey Musgraves
    Middle of Nowhere
16. The Tubs
    Hard Life
17. Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars
    Spatial, No Problem
18. Jack White
    Frozen Charlotte
19. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
    Happy Today
20. Kim Gordon
    Play Me
21. The Lemon Twigs
    Look for Your Mind!
22. The Womack Sisters
    The Womack Sisters
23. Sunn O)))
    Sunn O)))
24. Kevin Morby
    Little Wide Open
25. Richard Thompson
    Hippies, Thugs and Heroes
26. Lucinda Williams
    World's Gone Wrong
27. Billy Strings
    So Much for Goodbyes
28. Kurt Vile
    Philadelphia's Been Good to Me
29. Radie Peat
    No Human Tongue Can Tell
30. Marisa Anderson
    The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1
31. Echo & the Bunnymen
    Apples for Isaac
32. Flea
    Honora
33. Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
    A ? of When
34. Westside Cowboy
    It Goes On
35. Alabama Shakes
    I Must Be Dreaming
36. Horse Lords
    Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
37. Charlotte Cornfield
    Hurts Like Hell
38. SML
    Spontaneous Music Live
39. Greazy Alice
    As Time Goes By
40. Courtney Barnett
    Creature of Habit
41. The Sleeves
    The Sleeves
42. Thomas Dollbaum
    Birds of Paradise
43. Dinosaur Jr.
    There Near
44. Julia Jacklin
    The Gem
45. Gorillaz
    The Mountain
46. Julia Holter
    Materia
47. Mildred
    Fenceline
48. Teenage Fanclub
    Do Not Dare to Dream
49. L'Rain
    Fata Morgana
50. Brown Horse
    Total Dive
51. Seefeel
    Sol.Hz
52. Olivia Rodrigo
    You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
53. Wendy Eisenberg
    Wendy Eisenberg
54. Ratboys
    Singin' to an Empty Chair
55. Jake Xerxes Fussell
    The Old Beloved Path
56. Shearwater
    The New World
57. Bonnie “Prince” Billy
    We Are Together Again
58. Buck Meek
    The Mirror
59. Way Dynamic
    Massive Shoe
60. Tinariwen
    Hoggar
61. Memorials
    All Clouds Bring Not Rain
62. Mitski
    Nothing's About to Happen to Me
63. Brian Fallon
    Not Bad for New Jersey
64. Margo Cilker
    Little White Cross
65. Beth Orton
    The Ground Above
66. Jalen Ngonda
    Doctrine of Love
67. Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore
    Tragic Magic
68. Setting
    Setting
69. Ty Segall
    Chrome
70. Zoh Amba
    Eyes Full
71. Ellie O'Neill
    Time of Fallow
72. This Is Lorelei
    The Singer in My Band
73. Protomartyr
    Hotel Usona
74. The Coral
    388
75. Trashcan Sinatras
    Ever the Optimist
76. Aja Monet
    The Color of Rain
77. Liam Hayes
    Dancing Backwards
78. Queens of the Stone Age
    Perfecth
79. Sarah Davachi
    The Will of Tongues
80. Ezra Collective
    Here Because of Hope