3 May 2024
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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Rachel Chinouriri What A Devastating Turn Of Events
After a string of EPs, Chinouriri arrives at her first full-length with confidence and ease. Devastation has never sounded so fun The Line Of Best Fit
Smartly sequenced and wound by emotional depth, Rachel Chinouriri’s debut is guitar pop from a bygone era The Skinny
Closing a lengthy wait for her debut album, Rachel Chinouriri proves that every moment was necessary on a defining triumph Clash
In these hard times, the 25-year-old's characterful tunes are warm and uplifting: music primed for brighter days ahead NME
Camera Obscura Look to the East, Look to the West
Tracyanne Campbell still writes exquisite songs that don’t sacrifice melancholy for cleverness, and the band still provide smart arrangements that nod to country, Motown, Brill Building pop and other distinctly American sounds. Print edition only Uncut
Jessica Pratt Here In The Pitch
Each track is woven with a tapestry of timpani, glockenspiel, baritone saxophone, and flute yet this orchestration never sounds too much retaining a subtlety and cavernous space. It allows her fantastic vocals, vivid couplets, and bittersweet melodies to radiate God Is In The TV
Pratt has long been a consummate texturalist; mining the pop playbook in resourceful ways, she’s now an exemplary tunesmith as well – the result is sublime The Line Of Best Fit
With her best songs yet, the Californian singer’s fourth album could transform her from fringe act to mainstream success The Guardian
Jessica Pratt’s fourth album of hypnagogic folk music hones her mysterious song to its finest point Pitchfork
Here in the Pitch is another leap forward that sees her pushing into new realms with stunning effect Under The Radar
Her songs are still wounded and far away, but the expanded instrumentation gives them a prismatic glow and makes for one of the most fascinating and repeatable sets from an artist who was already in a class by herself All Music
Don't worry so much about what it all means, lie back and let the tape hiss. Print edition only Mojo
A cresting, rolling record of complexity and depth. Print edition only Uncut
The Los Angeles singer-songwriter’s fourth album — and her first in five years — attempts to reckon with time and all of its charms, disasters and unknowns Paste Magazine
Dua Lipa Radical Optimism
I can’t see ‘Radical Optimism’ sliding in straight to number one in fans’ affections, but if the slow-burn of ‘Future Nostalgia’ is anything to go by, Dua Lipa would have grounds to be, as her latest project suggests, radically optimistic about the album’s future Clash
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"Restlessly inventive and packed with ideas" (10-/10 - The Guardian). "A visceral examination of art and nature when both are pushed to the brink" (9/10 - Slant)
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Dave We’re All Alone In This Together