Each week, 10 new releases are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner which will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year at the end of each quarter of the year, and then again at the end of the year to determine the ultimate winner of 2026.

Last week's results:

Lana Del Rey - White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter [7]

Foo Fighters - Your Favorite Toy [3]

YUNGBLUD - Suburban Requiem [2]

Dermot Kennedy - Refuge [1]

Grian Chatten, Antony Glenn & Martin Slattery - Puppet [1]

The Last Dinner Party - Let's Do It Again! [1]

Mumford & Sons & Gracie Abrams - Badlands [1]

Pulp - Begging for Change [1]

Twenty One Pilots - Drag Path [1]

U2 - Song Of The Future [0]

Total votes: 18

Here are this week's contenders:

American Football - Bad Moons

Artemas - psychokiller

Gorillaz (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda & Black Thought) - The Moon Cave

Kingfishr - The Blade

Laufey - How I Get

Melanie Martinez - DISNEY PRINCESS

Mitski - If I Leave

Morrissey - Amazona

The Temper Trap - Into The Wild

The Twilight Sad - ATTEMPTING A CRASH LANDING - THEME

2026 Indie/Rock/Alt Track of the Week Winners

Week 1: Ladytron - Caught in the Blink of an Eye

Week 2: Mandy, Indiana - Cursive

Week 3: Gorillaz (feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar) - Orange County

Week 4: James Blake - Death of Love

Week 5: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis

Week 6: sombr - Homewrecker

Week 7: Charli xcx - Always Everywhere

Week 8: Lana Del Rey - White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter

Didn't actually like anything this week :/

More votes please!

went for Gorillaz this week

Yeh Gorillaz for me too this week 🥰

Voted for The Temper Trap

My personal rankings for Week 9;

1. The Temper Trap – Into The Wild

2. Morrissey – Amazona

3. The Twilight Sad – ATTEMPTING A CRASH LANDING - THEME

4. Artemas – psychokiller

5. Laufey – How I Get

6. Kingfishr – The Blade

7. American Football – Bad Moons

8. Gorillaz feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda & Black Thought – The Moon Cave

9. Melanie Martinez – DISNEY PRINCESS

10. Mitski – If I Leave

Last day to vote!

Any more final votes?

1 The Twilight Sad

2 American Football

3 Mitski

4 Gorillaz

5 Artemas

6 Laufey

7 The Temper Trap

8 Kingfishr

9 Melanie Martinez

10 Morrissey

The Twilight Sad 3 for 3 on the bangers. The Americ anFootball song was a bit slow to start with but gets very good in the second half, Mitski's also got better as it went along and I expect it'll grow on me more (as 'Where's My Phone?' did). Also hope the Gorillaz song will grow on me, feels like there was a lot going on in it and it wasn't quite working for me on first listen as much as I wanted it to. Artemas and Laufey songs are both pretty good, The Temper Trap's is ok but it's no 'Sweet Disposition', the Kingfishr song got off to a good start with the harmonica but then didn't really go anywhere, Melanie song has some interesting elements but is overall a bit annoying and I really don't know what Morrissey is doing (although the instrumental part near the end is quite good).