{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"242: What's the Best Album of 2026 So Far? A JFH Panel Discussion","description":"Podcast host Chase Tremaine is joined by a panel of staff writers from jesusfreakhideout.com - John Underdown, Matt Baldwin, and Noah Schmidt - to recap the first six months of 2026, sharing their favorite albums thus far as well as highlighting a few of their most anticipated releases for the second half of the year. Would you like to hear and even appear as a guest on the host's new podcast series? Click here for more information. The JFH Podcast is hosted and produced by Chase Tremaine and executive produced by John DiBiase and Christopher Smith. To meet the people behind the show, discuss the episodes, ask questions, and engage in conversations with other listeners, join the JFH Podcast group on Facebook. BEWARE OF SPOILERS, but for reference, you can find the list of all albums recommended during this episode, alphabetical by artist: Amy Grant, The Me That Remains Bella Taylor Smith, for the home EP Brian Sauve, Long Days, Short Years Broadway Showdown, Presents: Let The Showdown Begin! CHANGETHEWXRLD, diary of peripheral wounds Colony House, 77 Drown the Planet, the blessed \/\/ the cursed EP Exile & Eden, New Horizon Floodlit, MiDaSu Fury & Solace, By Endurance Grand Motel, Tooth of the Lion: A Spring Perennial Haste the Day, Dissenter idle threat, you'll forget the sun indie tribe, WHO DO YOU SAY I AM Les Carlsen, Free Will John Joseph James, God of the Second Chance Jonathan Ogden, DAYMichael Sweet, The Master Plan Narnia, X Petra, Hope Pipe Bomb, Holy Hell So Much Hope, Buried., Wither | Grow Switchfoot, Forever Now The 77s, 7 The Figs, How Did We Get Here? The Lost Dogs, Trick of the Light The Tarnished, DEATH FOR DEATH EP Unbroken Reign, The Sins We Keep Alive You Are a Soul, Apocrypha 5 ","author_name":"The JFH Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.Jesusfreakhideout.com","html":"