NOTE: this is a preview of my annual ‘best music of’ posts, more details, opinons, photos, etc will be shared soon, I just need(ed) to get this posted before 2026 hits.
The list
Bartees Strange “Horror”
Bass Drum of Death “Six”
Beirut “A Study of Losses”
Big Thief “Double Infinity”
The Chills “Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs”
Deafheaven “Lonely People With Power”
Craig Finn “Always Been”
Curtis Harding “Departures & Arrivals”
Hotline TNT “Raspberry Moon”
Mogwai “The Bad Fire”
Osees “ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST”
Jonathan Richman “Only Frozen Sky Anyway flac”
The Smith Street Band “Once I Was Wild”
Sombr “I Barely Know Her”
Spiritual Cramp “RUDE”
SPRINTS “All That Is Over”
Stereolab “Instant Holograms On Metal Film”
Laura Steveson “Late Great”
Suede “Antidepressants”
SUNN O))) “Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential”
Swans “Birthing”
Teen Mortgage at Sinkhole in Saint Louis, MO
- Teen Mortgage “Devil Ultrasonic Dream”
Teenage Bottlerocket at RecordBar in Kansas City, MO
- Teenage Bottlerocket “Ready To Roll”
- Viagra Boys “viagr aboys”
Honorable mentions
These are my honoralbe mentions, none of these are bad at all, and some have gotten major attention this year but they just didn’t click with me over the year. I have them here and give the same disclaimer I always do, these are albums I’ll revisit as time goes on and revisit. Who knows, maybe one or more of them will “move up”! Stay tuned, how exciting!
- Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “The Purple Bird”
- Black Country, New Road “Forever Howlong”
- Deep Sea Diver “Billboard Heart”
- Geese “Getting Killed”
- Lambrini Girls “Who Let the Dogs Out”
- Militarie Gun “God Save the Gun”
- Turnstile “NEVER ENOUGH”