Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2026

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2026

Listing for 57 records from 2026 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Carsie Blanton & the Burning Hell: *Everything Is Great!* [self-released] Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts: *As Time Explodes* [Reprise]
A	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] Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band: *Time* [Resonatin'/Thirty Tigers] The Paranoid Style: *Known Associates* [Bar/None] Margo Price: *Days of Unrest* [Loma Vista] Sky Smeed: *Live at the Rock House* [self-released] Tipps and Obermiller: *Little Kid Heart* [self-released]
A−	Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman: *Miami Lice: Season Four* [Rhymesayers Entertainment] 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] 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] 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] 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] Vaiano's Paisanos: *Vaiano's Paisanos* [Jalopy]
B+	The Delines: *The Set Up* [Jealous Butcher] Dry Cleaning: *Secret Love* [4AD] Lalu: *Lalu* [self-released] Low Cut Connie: *Livin in the USA* [Contender] 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]
★★★	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] Tierra Whack: *Whack's Museum* [Interscope] Lucinda Williams: *World's Gone Wrong* [Highway 20] Tucker Zimmerman: *Dream Me a Dream* [Big Potato]
★★	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] 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]

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