From Bill Callahan to Boards of Canada to Sluice to Soft Curse to Wendy Eisenberg to Olivia Rodrigo, here are our favorite albums of 2026 so far.

FPS games. Platformers. Cronenberg-type games. Basically every genre you can think of had their breakout decade in the 90s. But if there was any genre that really flourished more than Beanie Babies ...