Best Albums of 2026
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
IcemanEighteen tracks of a man refusing to concede, and the first Drake album in years with a pulse in it.Read the review
DandelionThe best reviewed country album of the year, and the one least interested in what country radio wants.
You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in LoveThe album where she stops writing about being wronged and starts writing from inside the thing itself.
Secret LoveCate Le Bon talked Florence Shaw into singing, and Dry Cleaning stopped being a novelty about a woman speaking over guitars.
ArirangSeven men home from national service, naming the comeback after the oldest Korean song about leaving and returning.
Confessions IIA sequel twenty one years late, made with the same producer, and it has no business working this well.
Music, Fashion, FilmCharli XCX's sister record to Brat turns the machinery of fame into thirty sharp, funny, guitar-loud minutes.
She's the BestTroye Sivan follows the club highs of Something to Give Each Other with something lonelier, and just as danceable.
The MountainThe most ambitious record Gorillaz have made, and the first since Plastic Beach where the ambition lands.
Cry BabyThe driest rapper in America stops underplaying it, and the result is thirty five minutes of controlled fury.