Phoebe Bridgers' Lost Weekend takes Rough Trade's album of the year

Rough Trade Shops has named Phoebe Bridgers' Lost Weekend its Album Of The Year 2026. The record, released August 14, tops a list that runs ten deep and leans hard on the year's stranger edges.

KNEECAP's FENIAN placed second. Fcukers took third, Birmingham group overpass fourth, and Gorillaz fifth with The Mountain. Mary in the junkyard landed sixth, Jalen Ngonda seventh with Doctrine Of Love, and the top 10 closed out with Fat Dog, Mandy, Indiana and Vanishing Twin.

The pick lands with the year's list season still opening up, and the arguments that come with it. Rough Trade's ranking is out now; the rest of the lists follow in the weeks ahead.