The highest debut of the month arrives at number three from Scottish highlanders Tide Lines with their commemorative live project, 10. Released exactly a decade after the band’s maiden single, the record collects performances captured at major shows between 2021 and 2025 to celebrate the unique bond between the outfit and their live audiences. Right behind them at number four is alternative artist Fink’s ninth studio album, The City Is Coming to Erase It All. Recorded in Zennor, Cornwall, the project utilizes strict era-specific analogue techniques to emulate the traditional structural identity of 1970s acoustic records.
The June chart also features a major breakthrough for Frankie Archer, whose debut studio album, The Dance of Death, arrives at number eight. Archer’s project reconstructs historic archival ballads from the traditional English canon using modern, future-facing production techniques that incorporate processed vocals, warped fiddle lines, and synthetic rhythm arrangements. Other notable new entries in the Top 20 include Teddy Thompson’s tenth album, Never Be The Same, produced by Grammy Award winner David Mansfield, which debuts at number eleven, and the collaborative border-town soundscape From The Edge by Richard Bundy and Anna Phoebe at number seventeen.
The lower half of the standings highlights a diverse range of veteran and contemporary folk talent. Celebrated singer-songwriter Karine Polwart joins forces with composer Pippa Murphy and pianist Dave Milligan on Windblown at number 27, while Laura Cannell’s raw solo performance, Live At Café Oto, claims number 32. Traditional fiddle-player Ryan Young enters at number 33 with In The Quiet After, directly ahead of Clementine Lovell’s Permutations at number 34, Adam Ross’s tape-recorded Bring On The Apathy at number 35, and folk legend Peggy Seeger’s final chronological anthology, Vintage, at number 40.
