2026 releases I have listened to so far

 As of 10.25.26

At the bottom of the page, I put my list of my top 20 current favorite 2026 releases. I am still waiting for the new albums by Joe Hisaishi and Eleine to drop. And who knows who else releases new music between now and the end of December.

2D Cat - Salvation Will Not Come
2D Cat - Eat the Rich

Agnes Obel - The Meaning of Flowers (
Aki Azuma - 2026 The First Album
Akmu - Flowering 
Alan Walker - World of Walker, Season 1-Rise of the Drones 
Alhambra - Skyward Pray
Ali Project - Underground Insanity 
Allison Russell - In the Hour of Chaos
Amberian Dawn - Temptation's Gates 
Angie K. - Whiskey and Hemmingway
Anna Fiori - Metztli
Apnoie - Sad Living + Sad Mind
Arae - ACHEBOUND 
Artesia - Le monde d'hier
Attic Ocean - I Promise I'll Try Everyday
Ave Mujica - Ave Mujica
Aryem - Agnes
Ayria - Vicious World
Ayria - 13 Stitches
Avarice in Audio - Welcome of Weimar America

Basementzerofloor - Laplace
B---tial Mouths - Dead Lines
Bei Bei - Two Moons
Belle Sisoski - Ethnosphere https://bellesisoski.bandcamp.com/album/ethnosphere
Big Ocean - The Greatest Battle
Bluhm - Between Dreams
Bragolin: I don't Like What It Does to Me
Brandi Carlile - Returning to Myself (Sad Gay Version)
The Bride soundtrack
Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Irreversible https://brigittecallsmebaby.bandcamp.com/album/irreversible
BT - Arirang
Bunny X - Love On a High Floor

Camp Crush - Bite the Bullet
Carved Souls - Silent Chaos https://carvedsouls.bandcamp.com/album/silent-chaos
Casket Cassette - Reducer
Cathedral Bells - Parallel Dreams Parallel Dreams
Charlie XCX - Wuthering Height
Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark 
Chernaya Rechka - Loveland Loveland
The Chicks - Taking the Long Way (20th Anniversary Edition)
Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some
ChRocktikal - We break, you awake
ChRocktikal - Gloom & Gloom
clubdrugs - lovesick lovesick
CZARINA - Holy Water single

Dana Salah - Bent Bladna
Death Dealer Union - Dark Sister
Defacing God - Darkness is my God
Della Mae - Magic Accident https://dellamae.bandcamp.com/album/magic-accident
Diavol Strain- Eterno Retorno 
Dolce Wang - Any OTher Way 
Draag - Miracle Drug

East in Eden - Rising in Bloom
Eihwar - Hugrheim https://eihwar.bandcamp.com/album/hugrheim
Eivor - Tungl
Ekaterina Shelevoa - Fables, Act II
Emily Scott Robinson - Appalachia https://emilyscottrobinson.bandcamp.com/album/appalachia
Evanescence - Sanctuary 

Fiammetta Corvi  - Joe Hisaishi: Piano Collection
FIRST CONTACT - Earth Nation
Floraleda Sacchi/Joe Hisaishi- Joe Hisaishi by FloraledaSacchi
Flowerleaf - Dreamerie 
Fontaines DC - Dopamine Chamber
The Foreign Resort - Endurance
Frozen Crown - The Legend of the Six Kings

GAI - Glass Angels Initiative: Code Orange

Hagane - Gogensyoku
Hagane - Metal Quest
Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew Hannah Lew
Harry Styles - Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. 
Hoaxed - Death Knocks https://hoaxed.bandcamp.com/album/death-knocks
The Hu - Hun
Huir - State of Light

Ignea - Monumental 
Illumishade - The River
In This Moment - Witch
Infinitas - Inguma 
Insun Park and Generals - Be Water, My Friends
Ist Ist - Dagger https://ististmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dagger

Jenny On Holiday - Quicksand Heart
Jessie Ware - Superbloom
Johnny Dynamite - Johnny Dynamite
Josh Vietti - Flow State

Kamalot - Dark Asylum
Karol G - No Me Arrepiento De Sentir Tanto

Ladytron - Paradises Paradises
Landroid - Constellation
Lights of Euphoria - Future Unknown
Lila Downs - Cambias Mi Mundo
The Linda Lindas - Gotta Get Out
Lonesome Blue - Fourth Dimension (+2)
Loreena - Wildfire 
LOR3L3I - Peace by Proxy Peace by Proxy
Lovebites - Outstanding Power
The Luna Sequence - Rifts Become Passages https://thelunasequence.bandcamp.com/album/rifts-become-passages
Lykke Li - The Afterparty The Afterparty

Madeline Goldstein - Speaking to the Body Speaking to the Body
Maggie Tra -Family Tra
Makthaverskan - Glass and Bones https://makthaverskan.bandcamp.com/album/glass-and-bones
Margo Cilker - Little White Cross
Margo Price - Days of Unrest
Mari Froes - Esquina do Sol
Mari Hamada - Inclination IV
Matenrou Opera - Cinematographe
Mediaeval Baebes - The Spinning Wheel https://mediaevalbaebes.bandcamp.com/album/the-spinning-wheel
Melissa Bonny - Cherry Red Apocalypse
Melody and Christine - Tides
Metalite - Discovery
Metric - Romanticize the Dive 
Mind.in.a.Box - Retaliation
Mitski - Nothing's About to Happen to Me Nothing's About to Happen to Me
Mon Rovia - Bloodlinez
Mondtraume - Mind Games 
Muna - Dancing on the Wall
Mysterain - 2026 EP

New Constellations - It Comes in Waves 
Nightsister - After Me
Niyaz - Seven Realms of Attar 
Noah Kahan - The Great Divide
Nouri - No Place Like Home

Obsoletha - Anemoia Vol.2
Obsoletha - Neon Paranoia Vol. 1
Obsoletha - Neon Paranoia Vol.2
Oceanside85 - Strong Heart
Olivia Rodrigo - You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl in Love
Orkid - In All of My Tomorrows

Personz - Reload Best
Pirate Queen - Traveling Around the World
Poison Girl Friend - reprises
Pussy Riot - CYKA
Putumayo - Love Songs Around the World

R.Missing - Turning Off Lights is My Destiny 
Rhiannon Giddens - Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Robyn - Sexistential
Rolling Quartz - Roll the Dice
Roon - A Blend of Scars and Healing 

Saki - Pluvia
Scandal - Echo
The Secrecy - Pins and Needles 
She's Green - close your eyes
She's Green - Swallowtail
The Sheila Divine - The Middle Ages
Shelajit - Tang Dynasty
Shye - The Doves Came Home The Doves Came Home
SKALD - Orlog
Softcult - When a Flower Doesn't Grow https://softcult.bandcamp.com/album/when-a-flower-doesnt-grow
Social Distortion - Born to Kill Born to Kill
SPC ECO - Broken https://spceco.bandcamp.com/album/broken-lp
The Spoiled - When it Rains
Starbenders - And the Beast Goes On https://sumerianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-beast-goes-on
Stare Away - In Absence
STAYC - Stay Alive
Suki Waterhouse - Loveland
Suzi Sabotage - Sacrifice 
SVRCINA - Chasing Fires
Sypha - Bad Choices

Tania Cassette - The Death of Me
Temperance - Arcani 
Third Realm - Escape Sequence
Traitrs - Possessor 

Uuhai - Human Heards https://uuhai.bandcamp.com/album/human-herds
Uz:ME - rondo

verycoybunny - Bunny Tales
Vioflesh - Melancolia Melancolia
Vioflesh - Dark Bellow

The Warning - Everything's Falling
Wishy - Nature's Pill 

Xandria - Eclipse

Yumi Zouma - No Love Lost to Kindness 

Zilqy - Birth of Riot
Zyana - Agua Que No Regresa
Zyana - Donde Correnlos Suenos

My Top 20 current favorite 2026 albums 
01. The Linda Lindas - Gotta Get Out
02. Xandria - Eclipse
03. Ignea - Monumental
04. Kamelot - Dark Asylum
05. Ayria - 13 Stitches
06. Margo Price - Days of Unrest
07. Stare Away - In Absence 
08. Mind.in.a.Box - Retaliation
09. Bunny X - Love On A High Floor
10. Pirate Queen - Travelling Around the World
11. Shelajit - Tang Dynasty
12. Metalite - Discovery
13. Melody and Christine - Tides
14. Diavol Strain- Eterno Retorno 
15. Lykke Li - The Afterparty 
16. Lovebites - Outstanding Power
17. The Hu - HUN
18. The Foreign Resort - Endurance
19. Lights of Euphoria - Future Unknown
20. Monsta X - Unfold