The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2026
1 |  | Nothing's About to Happen to Me by: Mitski   | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:    |
2 |  | Getting Killed by: Geese | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
3 |  | Twilight Override by: Jeff Tweedy | Label: dBpm Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
4 |  | Little Wide Open by: Kevin Morby | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
5 |  | Snocaps by: Snocaps | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
6 |  | Belong by: Jay Som | Label: Polyvinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
7 |  | The Mountain by: Gorillaz | Label: Kong Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
8 |  | Doctrine of Love by: Jalen Ngonda | Label: Daptone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
9 |  | Singin' to an Empty Chair by: Ratboys | Label: New West Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
10 |  | Best of Our Possible Lives by: Boy Golden | Label: Six Shooter Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
11 |  | SHISH by: Portugal. The Man | Label: KNIK Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
12 |  | An Eraser and a Maze by: Modest Mouse | Label: Glacial Pace Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:  |
13 |  | Everybody Scream by: Florence + the Machine | Label: Polydor Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
14 |  | For the First Time, Again by: Tyler Ballgame | Label: Rough Trade Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
15 |  | Peaches! by: The Black Keys | Label: Easy Eye Sound Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist:  |
16 |  | EP #2 by: Kings of Leon | Label: Love Tap Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
17 |  | The Clearing by: Wolf Alice | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
18 |  | Welcome to My Blue Sky by: Momma | Label: 2025 Polyviny Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
19 |  | Ricochet by: Snail Mail | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
20 |  | Heaven 2 by: Lala Lala | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
21 |  | Who is the Sky? by: David Byrne | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
22 |  | Muscle Shoals Record Shop by: Copperhead Six Project | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
23 |  | Neon Grey Midnight Green by: Neko Case | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
24 |  | Masquerade by: Cardinals | Label: So Young Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
25 |  | Is by: My Morning Jacket | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
26 |  | Memory Be a Blade by: Waterbaby | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
27 |  | Oh Yeah? by: Steve Lacy | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
28 |  | Straight Line Was a Lie by: The Beths | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
29 |  | 13 by: White Denim | Label: Bella Union Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
30 |  | Reality Awaits by: The Strokes | Label: RCA Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
31 |  | Blizzard by: Dove Ellis | Label: Black Butter Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
32 |  | It's a Beautiful Place by: Water From Your Eyes | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
33 |  | Something to Consume by: Die Spitz | Label: Third Man Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
34 |  | Hickey by: Royel Otis | Label: UMG Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
35 |  | Bitknot by: feeble little horse | Label: Saddle Creek Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
36 |  | 8000 Days by: West Texas Exiles | Label: Floating Mesa Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
37 |  | The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy by: The Claypool Lennon Delirium | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
38 |  | RAW CRANIUM by: Almost Heaven | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
39 |  | Texnia by: Tinvis | Label: Mama Mañana Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
40 |  | PLAY ME by: Kim Gordon | Label: Matador Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
41 |  | More - EP by: Hannah Jadagu | Label: Sub Pop Records Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
42 |  | SABLE, FABLE by: Bon Iver | Label: Jagjaguwar Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
43 |  | Again by: The Belair Lip Bombs | Label: Third Man Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
44 |  | Yume by: Yukimi | Label: Ninja Tune Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
45 |  | Stay in Your Lane - Single by: Courtney Barnett | Label: Mom+Pop Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
46 |  | Waking Up by: Annabelle Chairlegs | Label: TODO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
47 |  | Blue Girl Nice Day by: La Faute | Label: Distrokid Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
48 |  | Keepsake by: Keepsake | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
49 |  | The New World by: Shearwater | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
50 |  | Maybe Not Tonight by: Lime Garden | Label: So Young Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
51 |  | Fate Euphoric by: Twen | Label: Stem Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
52 |  | The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 by: Lord Huron | Label: Mercury Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
53 |  | Moisturizer by: Wet Leg | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
54 |  | Hope We Have Fun by: Mt. Joy | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
55 |  | Every Single Muscle by: The Bug Club | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
56 |  | A Pound of Feathers by: The Black Crowes | Label: Silver Arrow Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
57 |  | LUX by: ROSALÍA | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
58 |  | The Things You Don't Know Yet by: Adult Leisure | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
59 |  | This Far South by: Tommy Prine | Label: Nameless Knight Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
60 |  | Sick Myth by: Big Bill | Label: TODO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
61 |  | Shy Bairns Get Nowt by: Bartees Strange | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
62 |  | Trickle Down by: Sprints | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
63 |  | It's Happening by: Night Cap | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
64 |  | Blueprint for a Ghost by: Martin Devaney | Label: Pig's Eye Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
65 |  | Cook by: Lettuce | Label: Self- Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
66 |  | Panorama by: HELENE BARBIER | Label: Bonsound Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
67 |  | Anything to Get It by: Blah Spa | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
68 |  | The Universe Smiles Upon You Ii by: Khruangbin | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
69 |  | Good Together by: Lake Street Dive | Label: Concord Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
70 |  | O by: Fcukers | Label: Ninja Tune Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
71 |  | Dance Called Memory by: Nation of Language | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
72 |  | Highwalllow & Supermoon Songs by: Saintseneca | Label: Lame-O Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
73 |  | Hangover Terrace by: Ron Sexsmith | Label: Cooking Vinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
74 |  | Fathers, Sons and Brothers by: David Lowery | Label: Cooking Vinyl Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
75 |  | Liquorice by: Hatchie | Label: Secretly Canadian Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
76 |  | I’m DADA by: Holy Wave | Label: Suicide Squeeze Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
77 |  | Face Down in the Garden by: Tennis | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
78 |  | Worldwide by: SNOOPER | Label: Third Man Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
79 |  | Big World by: Hovvdy | Label: Arts & Crafts Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
80 |  | This Mirror Weighs a Ton by: Interpol | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
81 |  | DO YOU SEE ME? by: Q | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
82 |  | Loose Tooth and a Short Skirt by: Freak Slug | Label: Future Classic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
83 |  | Automatic by: The Lumineers | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
84 |  | A Love for Strangers by: Chet Faker | Label: Detail Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
85 |  | Black Lipstick by: Chicano Batman | Label: ATO Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
86 |  | Welcome to the Family by: Michael Franti & Spearhead | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
87 |  | Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime by: Beck | Label: Universal Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
88 | | The Clearing by: Wolf Alice | Label: Columbia Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
89 |  | Joyride by: Lucius | Label: Fantasy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
90 |  | More by: Pulp | Label: Rough Trade Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
91 |  | Half Truth by: Ismay | Label: Fossil Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
92 |  | For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) by: Japanese Breakfast | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
93 |  | Thee Black Boltz by: Tunde Adebimpe | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
94 |  | Maiden Voyage by: The Perfect Storm | Label: MTS Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
95 |  | Holo Boy by: This Is Lorelei | Label: Double Double Whammy Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
96 |  | The Gem by: Julia Jacklin | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
97 |  | The Life You Save by: Flock Of Dimes | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
98 |  | Paradise Pop. 10 (Deluxe) by: Christian Lee Hutson | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
99 |  | No Rain, No Flowers by: The Black Keys | Label: Warner Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
100 |  | RUSHMERE by: Mumford & Sons | Label: Glassnote Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
101 |  | Aperture by: The Head and The Heart | Label: Every Shade of Music Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
102 |  | Better Dreaming by: Tune-Yards | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
103 |  | Sketchy. by: Tune-Yards | Label: 4AD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
104 |  | 2 by: Foxwarren | Label: Anti Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
105 |  | Awoo by: Ruen Brothers | Label: Yep Roc Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
106 |  | Manzanita by: Shana Cleveland | Label: Hardly Art Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
107 |  | MOOD CONTROL by: Blk Odyssy | Label: EARTHCHILD Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
108 |  | Free Love by: Sylvan Esso | Label: Loma Vista Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
109 |  | Work Hard and Be Nice by: Michael Franti & Spearhead | Label: Boo Boo Wax Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
110 |  | Cutthroat by: Shame | Label: Dead Oceans Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
111 |  | Foam by: Waterbaby | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
112 |  | WINK by: CHAI | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
113 |  | Instant Holograms on Metal Film by: Stereolab | Label: Duophonic UHF Disks Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
114 |  | On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System by: The Bug Club | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
115 |  | Good Luck with Whatever by: Dawes | Label: HUB Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
116 |  | Excess by: Automatic | Label: Stones Throw Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
117 |  | The Human Fear by: Franz Ferdinand | Label: Domino Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
118 |  | We Will Always Love You by: The Avalanches | Label: Astralwerks Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
119 |  | III by: The Lumineers | Label: Dualtone Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
120 |  | Self Made Man by: Larkin Poe | Label: Trick-Woo Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
121 |  | Arkansas Traveler by: Michelle Shocked | Label: Mercury Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
122 |  | The Third by: Kitty, Daisy & Lewis | Label: Sunday Best Recordings Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
123 |  | Saint Cloud by: Waxahatchee | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
124 |  | Uppers by: TV Priest | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
125 |  | The Golden Casket by: Modest Mouse | Label: Epic Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
126 |  | Nothing to the Branches by: Jesus The Dinosaur | Label: Self-Release Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
127 |  | Lefty by: Penny & Sparrow | Label: Thirty Tigers Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
128 |  | Phantom Island by: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Label: p(doom) Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
129 |  | DOGGOD by: L.A. WITCH | Label: Suicide Squeeze Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
130 |  | Magic of the Sale by: Teethe | Label: Winspear Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
131 |  | Obviously by: Lake Street Dive | Label: Nonesuch Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
132 |  | A River Running to Your Heart by: Fruit Bats | Label: Merge Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
133 |  | Heavy Metal by: Cameron Winter | Label: Partisan Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
134 |  | Smalltown Stardust by: King Tuff | Label: Subpop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
135 |  | Cooler Returns by: Kiwi jr. | Label: Sub Pop Sub Genre: Connect with the Artist: |
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