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:

Lykke Li - Happy Now [4]

Charli xcx - Rock Music [3]

Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr - Home to Us [3]

Yard Act - Redeemer [3]

The Last Dinner Party - Big Dog [2]

MUNA - Eastside Girls [2]

The Reytons - Busker's Paradise [1]

Motionless In White (feat. Corey Taylor) - Playing God [0]

Paris Paloma - Stem the Flow [0]

The Rolling Stones - In The Stars [0]

Total votes: 18

Here are this week's contenders:

Anthrax - "It's For The Kids"

Bloc Party - "Coming On Strong"

Eartheater - "Paradise Rains"

Fat Dog - "Go f*** Urself"

Genesis Owusu - "BIG DOG"

Holding Absence - "Reflection"

Modest Mouse - "Third Side of the Moon"

The Mountain Goats - "Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds"

Mystery Jets - "Black Sage"

The Strokes - "Falling out of Love"

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
Week 9: Gorillaz (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda & Black Thought) - The Moon Cave

Week 10: Cameron Winter - Warning

Week 11: beabadoobee (feat. The Marías) - All I Did Was Dream of You

Week 12: Muse - Be With You

Week 13: Jungle - Carry On

Week 14: U2 - Song For Hal

Week 15: The Strokes - Going Shopping

Week 16: Lana Del Rey - First Light

Week 17: Blossoms - Joke About Divorce

Week 18: DMA'S - Heatin Park

Week 19: Lykke Li - Happy Now

a few playlists~