Phoebe Bridgers Tops Rough Trade's 2026 Albums List, With Exclusive VinylAttached
Phoebe Bridgers' Lost Weekend is No. 1 on Rough Trade's list of the top 100 albums of 2026, published on 10 November 2026. To mark the list, the record retailer is releasing exclusive vinyl pressings tied to its top 30 picks. "Exclusive" here means each edition is available only through Rough Trade.
Bridgers' edition is a signed Rogue Planet pressing on a 2xLP, a two-record set. It also includes the acoustic EP Live At Madison Square Garden on 12-inch vinyl, the standard size for an album.
Kneecap's Fenian sits at No. 2. The Rough Trade edition has Irish-language packaging and a yellow-and-green splatter LP, meaning the colour is streaked through the vinyl rather than solid. It also adds a new 12-inch, Live At Rough Trade East.
Fcukers' Ö is No. 3, pressed on orange and clear splatter vinyl, with Live from 805 on red 12-inch. Overpass' Elsewhere, Always is No. 4, on an orange LP with a matching 12-inch unplugged EP. Gorillaz' The Mountain is No. 5. Its exclusive pairs two bonus tracks on one black 7-inch: "Noah's Descendants", featuring Anoushka Shankar and Pamela Jain, and "The Mountain", performed by Hindu Jea Band Jaipur.
The rest of the top ten follows a similar pattern. Mary in the Junkyard's Role Model Hermit is No. 6, with Live From the Heavens on 10-inch vinyl. Jalen Ngonda's Doctrine of Love is No. 7, with a live in-store 7-inch of "Hannah, What's the Matter". Fat Dog's Cancel Me (I'm Tired) is No. 8, with "Show Me the Way" on a bonus 10-inch. Mandy, Indiana's Urgh is No. 9, on blue hex vinyl with magenta splatter, plus a Live at Rough Trade Liverpool LP. Vanishing Twin's Archives is No. 10, with a 'Twist / Bring Me the Axe (Versions)' vinyl and a print.
Further down, Westside Cowboy's It Goes On is No. 11, and its Rough Trade offer is the original red LP with no new variant. That is the one entry on the list where the record is simply the record. Interpol's This Mirror Weighs a Ton is No. 12, with a 7-inch of live recordings. My New Band Believe's self-titled album is No. 13, with a 12-inch EP, Six Songs, credited to Two Guitars, featuring re-recordings by Cameron Picton and Kit Mosely. Pigeon's Outtanational closes the run at No. 14, on orange Nebula vinyl.
Rough Trade first opened in 1976, with its first shop in west London. Its annual list is a way for the shop to point customers toward records it chose to highlight, and this year that means the same album often arrives in more than one physical form. For a buyer, the choice is simple: take the standard copy, or pick the version with the extra disc.
