Top Selling Albums - August 2026

10. ARTHUR RUSSELL - Love is Overtaking Me (Redux) LP (Audika)
On May 21, on what would have been Arthur Russell's 75th birthday, Audika Records presents a remastered/redux double vinyl re release of the much-beloved compilation Love Is Overtaking Me of Arthur's folk, pop, and country songs including 'Planted a Thought', 'Close My Eyes' and 'I Couldn't Say It To Your Face'. Originally released in 2007 the redux edition includes new masters from a recently found pristine tape reel and was remastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering in Portland, OR. Revised artwork by Molly Smith with extensive liner notes from Arthur's partner Tom Lee

9. BILLY STRINGS - So Much For Goodbyes CD/LP (Reprise)
So Much For Goodbyes is the fifth studio album by American bluegrass musician Billy Strings. - Produced by T Bone Burnett and Billy Strings.

8. DINOSAUR JR. - There Near CD/LP (Jagjaguwar)   
Finally! The sixth studio album Dinosaur Jr. have recorded in the 20 years since their triumphal rebirth. Created in short, intense bursts over the course of a year at Amherst's Bisquiteen Studio, There Near was recorded almost entirely by Dino's core trio - king of the thunder tubs, Murph, human tornado Lou Barlow on bass/vocals and the inimitable J Mascis on guitar/vocals - with a bit of piano and organ work by local master musician, Ken Mauri. And the album roars from start to finish.

7. INTERPOL - This Mirror Weighs A Ton CD/LP (Partisan Records)  
This Mirror Weighs a Ton, Interpol's first album in four years and debut for Partisan Records, finds the band turning inward while continuing to move forward. Across the record, reflection, distortion and perception become a lens through which familiar shapes are refracted into something slightly alien, as if seen through a different kind of light.

6. CHARLI XCX - Music Fashion Film CD/LP (Atlantic)
Limited die-cut sleeve. Includes postcard and poster. Charli XCX trims the spectacle on Music, Fashion, Film, an 11-song album featuring the singles 'Rock Music' and ‘SS26’.

5. CRAMPS - Gravest Gravy LP [Reissue/1978] (Vengeance)  
In October 1977, the Cramps ventured into Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee with producer and Cramps translator extraordinaire, Alex Chilton. The band had planned on recording their song 'TV Set,' as an A side, along with another track or tracks. Mr. Chilton told them the way he liked to work was to have a band record a lot of songs and from that they would pick the best of the bunch. Luckily for Cramps fans everywhere, the band did just that. The first evidence of these sessions was unleashed upon an unsuspecting human world in April 1978 on the band's own Vengeance Records label. It was a two song 7-inch with a version of the Trashmen's 1963 classic 'Surfin' Bird,' pushed well beyond it's breaking point, forcing it to mutate into a much higher form of lowdown, and Jack Scott's 1959 cool burning 'The Way I Walk,' dragged back into the Stone Age... After one listen, it was clear the Cramps had absolutely tapped into Rock 'n' Roll's mainline. In November of the same year, and again from the October 1977 sessions came another two song lesson in how it's done, or undone, with easily one of the greatest A sides of all time: 'Human Fly.' The B side was held hostage by Domino, originally sung by Roy Orbison. The Cramps' version swaggers with infinite confidence and is an absolute thrill to listen to. In the summer of 1979, young degenerates in England were treated to a 12-inch by the Cramps called Gravest Hits, which featured not only the aforementioned four tracks, but also a fifth, again from the October 1977 sessions... What happened to the rest of the tracks from those auspicious days in October 1977? In 2026, Larry Hardy, owner and operator of In The Red Records, repelled down, deep into the vast, sunless vault of the Cramps tape collection, and resurfaced hours later, disoriented and out of breath, but overjoyed with what he'd returned to topside with: six 1⁄4 reels of tracks, mixed by Lux [Interior] and [Poison] Ivy... Gravest Gravy is one of the purest collections of unrestrained, wild music you'll ever hear-like Jerry Lee Lewis unchained, like Elvis meets Tarzan-like it should be. The Cramps were one of the greatest bands in the history of recorded music, and anyone who heard or saw them, knows and abides by this groovin' truth. From their inception to this day, the band has fans whose enthusiasm for their life-changing music never wavers. The Cramps made this music for the love of Rock 'n' Roll. Lux and Ivy made this record for you. - Henry Rollins

4. JUNGLE - Sunshine CD/LP (Caiola)
Jungle cemented their status as a major global force with their 2023 album, Volcano - a record that earned them their first BRIT Award and featured their worldwide smash hit single, 'Back On 74'. The trio - J Lloyd, Tom McFarland and Lydia Kitto - return with their eagerly anticipated album, Sunshine.

3. STEVE LACY - Oh Yeah? LP (RCA)
[LP available now, CD available next week!] Steve Lacy returns with Oh Yeah?, the self-produced follow-up to his Grammy winning Gemini Rights. The Compton native continues to push the boundaries of modern pop, alt and R&B beyond his billion streaming ‘Dark Red’ and global #1 Bad Habit.

2. MOS DEF - Ecstatic LP [Reissue/2009] (Rhymesayers)
Originally released in June 2009, The Ecstatic stands as a defining artistic statement from Mos Def (now known as Yasiin Bey) - a richly textured return to form that reaffirmed his status as one of hip-hop's most adventurous and intellectually engaged voices. Arriving a decade after his celebrated debut Black on Both Sides, the album was widely regarded as his strongest work in years, earning near-universal praise for it's lyrical breadth, eclectic production, and thematic ambition. Musically, The Ecstatic weaves a global sonic tapestry shaped by anarray of forward-thinking producers including Madlib, J Dilla, Oh No, Preservation, Mr. Flash, Chad Hugo (of The Neptunes), and Georgia Anne Muldrow. The resulting soundscape is both rooted in hip-hop tradition and unbound by genre, integrating elements of jazz, soul, Middle-Eastern inflection, and experimental sample work.

1. PHOEBE BRIDGERS - Lost Weekend CD/LP/CASS (Dead Oceans)
Phoebe Bridgers is a singer-songwriter from Pasadena, CA. Beloved in equal measure for her deceptively subtle voice and her meticulous, incisive lyrics, her solo records Stranger in the Alps (2017) and Punisher (2020) have been accompanied by a number of collaborations, including the supergroup boygenius, with whom Bridgers won three Grammys for 2023's the record. Her songs are hallmarked by a kind of intimacy that's hard-found in contemporary music, and scale between the macro and the micro with an ease that's matched only by her towering, prodigious way with words.