At the start of this year, I made a resolution: I would listen to one new album every day of 2026. I’d grown complacent with hitting shuffle on decade-old playlists and zoning out to the same cherry-picked songs on repeat while exercising or cycling to work. It was a comfort zone, and I’d lost the excitement for discovering new music that first made me fall in love with it as a tween in the early 2010s.So, I made a spreadsheet assigning an album to each day of thehellip;read more raquo;