Consumer Guide: February, 2026

One of the great interpretive singers of our epoch takes on Lou Reed, abstract and impressive amapiano, the most explicitly leftist album in far too long, and a reliable Nashvillian with 11 winners

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Thomas Anderson: Letters From the Hermit Kingdom (Out There)

Armand Hammer: Mercy (Backwoodz Studios)

Bad Bunny: DeBi TiRAR Mas FOToS (Rimas Entertainment)

Zach Bryan: With Heaven on Top (Belting Bronco)

Dry Cleaning: Secret Love (4AD)

Al Green: To Love Somebody (Fat Possum)

Michael Hampton: Into the Public Domain (Sound Mind Records)

Hüsker Dü: 1985: The Miracle Year (Numero Group)

Nandipha808: No Vocal Album (Stena Academy)

Nanook: Ilutsinniit Apuussilluta (Atlantic Music, '23)

Grant Peeples: Code to Live By (Pina)

Lucinda Williams: World's Gone Wrong (Highway 20)

Tommy Womack: Live a Little (Schoolkids)

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