3rd Quarter 2026: best records July - September

Third batch of 2026 favourites... Enjoy!

Eleven76 - A Day of Unrest [Légère]

FATHERS - FATHERS [Blue Note]

The Womack Sisters - The Womack Sisters [Daptone]

Tenderlonious - Africa / Brass Live [22a]

Denzel Curry & Kenneth Blume - II [Loma Vista]

Bass Toast - From Above [Cosmic Pop]

Curió Curió - Curió Curió [Mr Bongo]

Your Old Droog - Bread & Butter [Nature Sounds]

Misha Panfilov - Where the Birds Fly [Funk Night]

Biomania - Birds and Drones [Most Least]

Marco Benevento - Glera [Big Crown]

Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope [Partisan]

Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal - Doomed! (Rap Songs About a Relationship That Ends in Every Possible Universe) [Backwoodz]

Felipe Gordon - Abstract Equatorial EP [G.A.M.M.]

Orquesta Akokán - América! [Daptone]

Knowsum - Cherry Stone Pillow [Sugar Brain]

corto.alto - Some Small Fortune [Ninja Tune]

Adrian Younge - Afro-Disco Makossa [Linear Labs]

Gangrene - Better Than McDonald's [ALC]

Okvsho - Frozen Flashes [Current Moves]

Davepsy - Fivewards [Jim's Pool Room]

JJ Whitefield - Exotic Moods [Jazz Aggression]

Benny Sings - 22 Durnham Dew [Stones Throw]

Dana and Alden - Papa's Boat [Concord Jazz]

The Brothers Nylon - Nylon Archives Volume 3: Elevator Vibes [BMM]

Check out some other 2026 favourites right here...