OFFICIAL FOLK ALBUMS CHART APRIL 2026
7 new releases have entered the March chart!
Mumford & Sons’ fend off other contenders to hold on to the No. 1 title for a second month with their album Prize Fighter (Island Records).
The Deluxe Edition of Laura Marling’s Patterns In Repeat (Chrysalis) kicks off this month’s new entries at No. 3. Lauded for its artistic maturity, the album was originally released in 2024 and this new edition features a full live show recorded at Manchester’s Albert Hall, where Marling was joined by a string section and London’s Deep Throat Choir.
A year on from their debut album, Butler, Blake & Grant return with Murmurs (355 Recordings) at No. 5, which sees the trio reimagining songs from their respective back catalogues. Say It With Garage Flowers wrote that the sophomore record “manages to evoke the same intimate and rootsy atmosphere as the group’s debut: it’s a cosy, inviting and warm-sounding record, conjuring up images of log fires, gazing out at stormy seas and walking under overcast skies in wintertime.”
Yorkshire duo Seafret’s fourth studio album Fear Of Emotion (Nettwerk) comes in at No. 10. A decade on from their breakthrough debut, the record, featuring James Morrison and KT Tunstall, marks a bold new chapter for Jack Sedman and Harry Draper, balancing intimate lyricism with masterfully textured, cinematic production that swells with quiet intensity into a cathartic release.
Kris Drever's new album Doing This For Love (Kris Drever) arrives at No. 11 with the wisdom of someone who's spent years listening as much as playing. Featuring Rachel Sermanni, Cahalen Morrison, Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) and more, these quietly dignified ten songs are guitar-led meditations on the unglamorous heroism of everyday life: the 4am alarm clocks, the ungrateful shifts, the quiet sacrifices made in the name of keeping others whole.
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection Volume 3 (Full Time Hobby) enters at No. 15. As a way to make sense of everything from the climate crisis to late-stage capitalism, the British-born, Nashville-based singer, songwriter and pedal steel savant (Angel Olsen, Kesha, Dolly Parton) turned to the folklore of his native England on this record. He found comfort in the occult-tinged tales of ancient relics and midnight rites rather than in the extreme Christian views that tend to warp his adopted home in the American South.
Arriving at a time of immense personal tumult and featuring some of his warmest, most generous and emotionally intelligent songwriting yet, Pictish Trail’s Life Slime (Fire Records) slithers in at No. 16. It is, in essence, “a breakup record,” says Johnny, moulded together with a love of wyrd folk, lo-fi alt-pop, kaleidoscopic world-building, suitably squelching analogue synths and a genuine obsession with gunge.
The Marsh Family, a multi-instrumentalist family who first became global viral sensations six years ago, close out this month’s new entries at No. 20 with their debut album Hollow Chapters (Marsh Family Songs). Known for their quick-witted musical parodies and rich vocal harmonies, the record finds the six-piece delivering songs inspired by Greek mythology, nostalgia for traditions and modern-day heroes.
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