Official Folk Albums Chart June 2026
11 new releases have entered the June chart!
Mumford & Sons retain the No. 1 spot with their album Prize Fighter (Island Records) for the fourth consecutive month.
Starting off this month’s new entries is 10 by Scottish highlanders Tide Lines at No. 3. Released exactly ten years after the band's debut single, this album brings together recordings from some of Tide Lines' most memorable live performances between 2021 and 2025. At the heart of the album is the bond between band and audience and this release reflects the energy, emotion and connection that have defined Tide Lines' journey over the past decade.
Landing at No. 4 is Fink’s ninth studio album The City Is Coming to Erase It All (R’COUP’D). Recorded in Zennor, Cornwall, the album was made with a strict era-specific approach. Imagining a record Michael Chapman might have made, right down to the guitar strings. City is a product of this hunger for discovery and idolatry of the album as a form – like it was in 1974.
Frankie Archer’s debut album The Dance of Death (Wipe Out Music) arrives at No. 8. In this record, Archer reconstructs some of the oldest songs in the English canon with fractured, future-facing production. Working from archival ballads of obsession, devotion and loss, she warps fiddle lines, processes her own vocals and drives the material with pulsing drum machines and colourful synth arrangements. Approaching English folk as a producer first, the record expands the genre into something immersive and modern.
London-born, Brooklyn-based Teddy Thompson’s tenth album Never Be The Same (Royal Potato) comes in at No. 11. Across the ten tracks, Thompson explores the tension and pull between comfort and change through his longstanding commitment to songwriting as a form. The album was produced by renowned Grammy Award-winning musician and producer David Mansfield.
At No. 17 is From The Edge (Clay Pipe Music), a long-form musical work shaped by the acoustics, history and atmosphere of Dover by Richard Bundy and Anna Phoebe. The project reimagines and quietly subverts the accepted narrative of this UK coastal border town, by using music to open up hidden, overlooked historic spaces and let them be heard again. Each space has its own character and resonance, which affects the sound and influences the performance within it. Beyond the music, the outside world - like the A20 road - seeps into the recordings, becoming an unseen performer.
Multi-award-winning musician, writer and storyteller Karine Polwart’s latest album Windblown (Hudson Records) enters at No. 27, co-written with sound designer and composer Pippa Murphy and featuring Dave Milligan on piano. The album is a farewell to a beloved old Sabal palm, on the eve of its felling at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and a hymn to the gardeners who looked after it across the arc of two hundred years. It’s also, Karine writes, “about how we might take better care of endings in our own lives, and in this almighty broken and beautiful world.”
Arriving at No. 32 is Laura Cannell’s Live At Café Oto (Brawl Records), which captures her sold out show at the London venue in 2025. The album harnesses the raw essence of Laura Cannell as she digs deep into her intense sounds on overbowed violin, double recorders and bass recorder. Creating expansive sounds as a solo performer, she draws the audience into moments of rasping, chordal, landscape drenched music of her own making.
Scottish fiddle-player Ryan Young’s third studio album In The Quiet After enters the chart at No. 33. Across ten tracks, Young reimagines traditional material with a deliberate shift in tone, transforming lively reels and jigs into slow-burning, melancholic meditations. With this album, Young moves further into his own voice — shaped by tradition, instinct and a deeply personal sense of expression.
Landing at No. 34 is Permutations by award-winning songwriter Clementine Lovell. Across seven tracks, the album explores themes of disruption, transformation, change and the different sides of ourselves and features characters of a shapeshifting nature. The tracks include two original songs written by Lovell, reworkings of traditional folk ballads and a version of Dougie MacLean’s ‘Ready for the Storm’.
Bring On The Apathy (Fika Recordings), the third solo album from Scottish songwriter Adam Ross, enters at No. 35. The album was recorded onto tape, using traditional analogue techniques at Glasgow’s Green Door Studio with Samuel J. Smith. It showcases some of the most emotionally open, lyrically deft and characterful songwriting so far from one of Scotland’s most accomplished writers.
Folk legend Peggy Seeger’s final album Vintage (Red Grape Music) enters at No. 40. A collection of 26 songs written between 1988 – 2026, none of which have appeared on any of Peggy’s previous albums. Arranged backwards chronologically, these pieces range in form from the very political, very personal, very short and very, very long. Peggy says, “It’s certainly the strangest album I’ve ever made. But then what do you expect from a vintage songwriter?”
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