23 May 2013
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A reclusive dubstep producer, a bunch of hardcore punks, a little-known DJ, an avant-garde sound artist, an experimental doom drone band, a 71-year-old blues veteran ... and so on. Has there ever been ...
Now everyone's had their fun with the Best Albums of 2011 roundups, it's time to take stock of the cold hard facts of what really were the most critically-acclaimed albums over the ...
The Guardian and Bowlegs have now been added to our Best Albums of 2011 critical roundup and both agree on the No1
8.7 reasons why Polly Jean had to win
Just add a sizzling barbie and a chilled beer
Nominations for this year's gong have been announced. Who will win? We think we have the answer
We're six months through the year: Time to take stock of the most critically acclaimed albums to date
We're three months into the year: time for the first look back at the most critically-acclaimed music so far
All the top 20s from the ADM sources (or those that bothered, anyway)
Forget perverse opinions and personal foibles. When it comes to the most acclaimed albums of the year, here's the facts and figures ...
The ADM roundup of the critics' Best Of 2010 lists
The nominations have been announced but how did the shortlisted albums rate with ADM?
We're six months through 2010. What better time to take stock of the most critically acclaimed albums of the first half of the year.
Spring's here. And so is the first look back at the most critically-acclaimed music of the year so far
Not THAT Prince. The Pantha Du one ...
A tastefully festive compilation for your delectation
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The AnyDecentMusic Top 10 of 2009, not based on illogical personal preferences, idiosyncratic judgments or peer pressure, but on hard, cold mathematical facts
The AnyDecentMusic roundup of the critics' Best of 2009 album choices
NME and Clash Magazine's Best of 2009 have now been added to our year-end reckoning. So what's the 'Best Of' the 'Best Ofs'? Here's the updated ultimate, definitive and absolute ...
Malian "blues rock" band win album of the year
The one time of the year when we get a chance to say what we like
Is noise making a comeback? We ask because over the years we've been putting together our regular check-ups on what's attracting the most critical acclaim, we can't recall a top 10 that's ...
Stuck for the perfect musical accompaniment for that sweltering afternoon in the garden with the barbie smoking and the beers chilling? That ideal album which will both enhance the ambience AND boost your ...
Well Alt-j it was then. When their debut was released in the UK on 28 May, 2012 the initial reaction from our sources was very positive with Clash, music OMH and the ...
The last batch of votes are in, from Pitchfork and The Line Of Best Fit, so it's time to run through the AnyDecentMusic definitive summary of the Best Albums Of 2012 lists. ...
Now everyone's had their fun with the Best Albums of 2012 roundups, it's time to take stock of the cold hard facts of what really were the most critically-acclaimed albums over the ...
Huge thanks to the many many hundreds of you who sent us your top five albums of the year. Spreadsheet-king Ally is now a broken man and has taken himself off to ...
Top Tips for making your own, home-made, professional-looking, Gluten-free David Bowie Album Review! 1. Begin with a nice paragraph about your perception of Bowie a few months ago. It'll trick the less-alert ...
It's been a big week for comebacks. In the 20 years since mucking about on The Mickey Mouse Club with all the other famous people from the 2000s, The Justin Timberlake has done ...
It's another week here at ADM and the headlines are dominted by new music from yet another band who made their name in a previous decade. This time, Depeche Mode are back. ...
It's safe to say that whether it was 2013, 2003 or 2023, comeback albums from artists as significant as My Bloody Valentine and David Bowie were always going to feature large in ...
They made it! We're at the end of the week and the illustrious, rousing, pop pioneers New Kids On The Block hang on to their spot, sitting triumphantly on page 113 on ...
There's no escaping the fact that this week has been dominated by three albums, with everyone else struggling to get a look in. Critics were climbing over themselves, desperate to have their ...
It's been six weeks since John Grant entered our ratings at No.1 , so it's time to crown a new king (six weeks being the New Albums chart timespan). Five contenders go ...
There is no escaping it - this week was Daft Punk week. The two French robots (that's not a thing anymore is it?) released their fourth album and boy, people sure have opinions ...
Laura Marling Once I Was An Eagle
Her best album yet; better individual songs may lie elsewhere, but her new record's cohesive nature makes it much more of an adventure than what came before The 405
Majical Cloudz Impersonator
A beautifully crafted album that teases at a big moment that never seems to come. The close of each song suggests that the following track will bear the climactic fruit Impersonator consistently promises Pretty Much Amazing
Mount Kimbie Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
One of the most engaging dance albums you're likely to hear this year This Is Fake DIY
Dirty Beaches Drifters/Love Is The Devil
It sounds intensely personal because it is — these are the kind of songs people record for themselves. Fortunately, Hungtai has let us into his world Consequence Of Sound
30 Seconds To Mars Love Lust Faith
Safe and samey and lacks the sense of drama upon which they've built their audience The Digital Fix
Ensemble Pearl Ensemble Pearl
A soundtrack for what sounds like the most melancholy, unsettling haunted house story ever Blurt
Primal Scream More Light
Primal Scream’s ninth studio album will probably do little more than enshrine them in the musical middle-ground State
Sam Amidon Bright Sunny South
A truly sincere and beautiful album The Line Of Best Fit
The Fall Re-Mit
As with nearly all of the Fall, this album does what it wants to do, forcing the listener to submit to its terms Pop Matters
Bright Sunny South is full of these unhurried, easy moments, and succeeds because of it Pop Matters
Flawed yet with some redemption, Love Lust Faith + Dreams is a mixed effort Pop Matters
More robust and eccentric than anything he's ever released before Pitchfork
The National Trouble Will Find Me
This is The National’s 4th or 5th comfortably strong album in a row, another slight variation on a tried-and-true theme No Ripcord
Majical Cloudz are far from the first to bring about a warming sense of humanity through electronic music, but rarely do you see a synth-based “singer-songwriter” album pulled off so convincingly No Ripcord
A masterpiece Daily Telegraph
The French duo's 4th album has picked up a good number of 10/10 and 9/10 ratings, but also a handful of 6/10s. Responses range from those who see it as an album that will still be being listened to a decade hence and others who are left thinking "is that it?"
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past four years or so
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
PJ Harvey Let England Shake
My Bloody Valentine mbv
Ry Cooder Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Tom Waits Bad As Me
Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid