Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Review Year: 2026

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Consumer Guide Index by Review Year: 2026

Listing for 89 records from 2026 (selected by review date), sorted by grade.

A+	Carsie Blanton & the Burning Hell: *Everything Is Great!* [self-released] Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts: *As Time Explodes* [Reprise] *L'Afrique Danse No. 1* [African, 1969]
A	Aesop Rock: *I Heard It's a Mess There Too* [Rhymesayers Entertainment, 2025] Courtney Barnett: *Creature of Habit* [Mom + Pop] Carsie Blanton: *The Red Album Volume 2* [self-released] Buck 65: *Do Not Bend* [Vertices] The Cucumbers: *As You Heard Me -- Songs From "Hello George"* [Life Force] Emperor X: *Unified Field* [Bar/None] K.A.A.N.: *Kaancepts* [D-Ace Beats, 2025] Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band: *Time* [Resonatin'/Thirty Tigers] Masaka Kids Africana: *Greatful* [Masaka Kids Africana, 2021] Nandipha808: *No Vocal Album* [Stena Academy, 2025] Willie Nelson: *Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle* [Legacy, 2025] The Paranoid Style: *Known Associates* [Bar/None] Grant Peeples: *Code to Live By* [Ping, 2025] Margo Price: *Days of Unrest* [Loma Vista] Sky Smeed: *Live at the Rock House* [self-released] TajMo: *Room on the Porch* [Sink and Stove, 2025] Tipps and Obermiller: *Little Kid Heart* [self-released] Tommy Womack: *Live a Little* [Schoolkids, 2025] *African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s* [Analog Africa, 2008]
A−	Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman: *Miami Lice: Season Four* [Rhymesayers Entertainment] Allo Darlin': *Bright Nights* [Slumberland, 2025] Thomas Anderson: *Letters From the Hermit Kingdom* [Out There] Bob Bert: *Beach Bongo Bloodbath* [Bar/None] Black Nile: *Indigo Garden* [Hidden House] Adam Brodsky: *American Epitaph* [Permanent] Zach Bryan: *With Heaven on Top* [Belting Bronco] Swamp Dogg: *Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife* [S-Curve] Florence Dore: *Hold the Spark* [Propeller] Olof Dreijer: *Loud Bloom* [dh2] R.A.P. Ferreira and Kenny Segal: *The Night Green Side of It* [Backwoodz Studioz, 2025] Girl Scout: *Brink* [Made] Gogol Bordello: *We Mean It, Man* [Casa Gogol] Golems of the Red Planet: *Surf Masada: The Compositions of John Zorn* [Heyday] Al Green: *To Love Somebody* [Fat Possum EP] Michael Hampton: *Into the Public Domain* [Sound Mind, 2025] Hüsker Dü: *1985: The Miracle Year* [Numero Group, 2025] Mary Lee Kortes: *Will Anyone Know That I Was Here?: The Songs of Beulah Rowley* [Lakeside Lounge, 2023] Mary Lee's Corvette: *Blood on the Tracks* [Bar/None, 2002] Ashley McBryde: *Wild* [Warner Music Nashville] The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis: *Deface the Currency* [Impulse] Glenn Morrow's Cry for Help: *Our Final Album Vol. 1* [Bar/None] The New Pornographers: *The Former Site Of* [Merge] Abdallah Oumbadougou: *Amghar: "The Godfather of Tuareg Music" Vol. 1* [Petaluma, 2024] Ratboys: *Singin' to an Empty Chair* [New West] Jenny Reynolds: *Willow & Stone* [Pretty Okay Music] Robyn: *Sexistential* [Konichiwa] Jefferson Ross: *Low Country Wedding* [self-released] This Is Lorelei: *Holo Boy* [Double Double Whammy, 2025] Twisted Teens: *Blame the Clown* [Jazz Life/Chain Smoking, 2025] Vaiano's Paisanos: *Vaiano's Paisanos* [Jalopy] *The Rough Guide to Bachata* [World Music Network, 2009]
B+	Armand Hammer: *Mercy* [Backwoodz Studioz, 2025] De La Soul: *Cabin in the Sky* [Mass Appeal, 2025] The Delines: *The Set Up* [Jealous Butcher] Dry Cleaning: *Secret Love* [4AD] Golomb: *The Beat Goes On* [No Quarter, 2025] Lalu: *Lalu* [self-released] Low Cut Connie: *Livin in the USA* [Contender] Madonna: *Madame X--Music From the Theater Xperience (Live)* [Warner, 2021] Dana Maragos: *Unimaginable Things* [self-released, 2024] March to August: *Highway 75* [Crisp] Nandipha808: *Who Made Who* [Stena Academy] Hemlocke Springs: *The Apple Tree Under the Sea* [AWAL] Charli XCX: *Wuthering Heights* [Atlantic]
★★★	Anderson .Paak: *Oxnard* [Aftermath, 2018] Bad Bunny: *DeBi TiRAR Mas FOToS* [Rimas Entertainment, 2025] Dorisburg & Sebastian Mullaert: *That Who Remembers* [Spazio Disponible, 2023] Neale Eckstein: *Build Our Dreams* [self-released] Paul McCartney: *The Boys of Dungeon Lane* [Capitol] Gurf Morlix: *Cobwebs & Stardust* [Rootball] David G. Smith: *Hero Street* [Hey Dave] Squirrel Nut Zippers: *Starring in . . . "Fat City" (The Ballad of Little Tony)* [Music Maker Foundation] Sunny Sweeney: *Rhinestone Requiem* [Thirty Tigers, 2025] Tierra Whack: *Whack's Museum* [Interscope] Lucinda Williams: *World's Gone Wrong* [Highway 20] Tucker Zimmerman: *Dream Me a Dream* [Big Potato]
★★	Charles Downs Quartet: *Inner* [ESP-Disk', 2006] M.I.A.: *M.I.7* [Ohmni] Van Morrison: *Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge* [Orangefield] Bill Orcutt: *Music in Continuous Motion* [Palilalia] Pony: *Clearly Cursed* [Take This to Heart] Princess Nokia: *Girls* [Artist House, 2025] Harry Styles: *Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally* [Erskine/Columbia] Earl Sweatshirt and Mike: *Pompeii/Utility* [Surf Gang] Earl "Guitar" Williams: *The Soul King of Bessemer, AL* [D'Addario/Music Maker Foundation]
★	Nanook: *Ilutsinniit Apuussilluta* [Atlantic Music, 2023]

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