10 April 2020
Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.
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Hamilton Leithauser The Loves Of Your Life
From cinematic opener The Garbage Men to the intimate The Old King, where Leithauser harmonises with his daughters, it’s positive, life-affirming stuff. Highly recommended Evening Standard
Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter
Marling’s seventh album is simpler and more straightforward than its predecessors, but it hits just as hard Paste Magazine
The former Walkmen frontman’s second solo effort is a generous collection of narrative-driven Americana Paste Magazine
The Strokes The New Abnormal
Full of passion, commitment, and creativity, The New Abnormal marks the first time in a while that the Strokes have made truly exciting music All Music
Sonically Song For Our Daughter offers up a familiar feel, which is no doubt from the return of producer Ethan Johns Beats Per Minute
A fine effort that comes out of its shell a little more with each listen Vinyl Chapters
A modern classic on par with the singer-songwriting greats Gig Soup
A tribute to a figurative character, largely eschews percussion in favour of piercing words. It's a graceful ode to resilience NME
Full of Californian haze, making for a gorgeously contemplative experience The Arts Desk
The one-time anointed saviors of rock and roll experience their own resurrectio Consequence Of Sound
The band seems happier and healthier together, while simultaneously pulling together their best set of songs in the past decade. Couple that with Rick Rubin’s cinematic production and you have the high point of the late-career Strokes records Under The Radar
On her seventh outing Laura Marling offers both life lessons and much-needed escapism The Line Of Best Fit
The NYC band’s first album in seven years is sluggish and slight, rendering their signature sound as background music Pitchfork
A powerful and resounding success, and re-affirms Marling’s position as one of our most important feminist songwriters Clash
Sonically ‘The Loves Of Your Life’ is a Wurlitzer whirlwind of nostalgia, however the glimpsed memories that lie at its heart are so charmingly dazzled to life - they are testament to the humanist eye of a songwriter as vividly inspired as he has ever been Clash
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past eight years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker