26 June 2026
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Third full-length album from the Ontario alt.rock trio by produced by John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, Death Cab for Cutie, Los Campesinos!, Sleater-Kinney)
7.1
Records like this - 35-odd minutes of fist-pumping rock songs from the very top drawer - need to be celebrated and rewarded Read Review
A high-quality record with not a single mediocre song on the tracklist. Despite the intense deadlines they were under, it sounds in no way rushed, but instead, polished Read Review
A little bit silly, heavy on riffs and with its tongue firmly pressed into its cheek, ‘Fuck Art’ is a welcome distraction to the aftermath of 2020 and whatever 2021’s clean up job will be Read Review
The Dirty Nil relive those innocent times when callow rock'n'rollers made noise designed to drive grown-ups batshit. Print edition only
The Dirty Nil have little regard for the potential to make music that changes the world. Their only allegiance is to a big, loud tune. Art says something. For the Dirty Nil, this isn't art. It's rock'n'roll Read Review
Fuck Art is an enjoyable blast, but what these songs are begging for is a crowd Read Review
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Fruit Bats The Landfill
When Johnson stretches his helium voice into a yearning falsetto in the chorus of "The Saddest Part Of The Song", it's as if Al Green has been transported to Walden Woods. Then, amid sultry grooves, he spins out a Newman-esque character study ("Silverfish In The Sink") and some Nilsson-esque Whimsey ("Fishin' For a Vision"). Print edition only Uncut
The Landfill might just be the most archetypically Fruit Bats album he's made. Print edition only Mojo
Muse The Wow! Signal
Refinement would be the great next step for Muse, who don’t yet seem to understand the art of not throwing everything at a wall because we now know that most of it doesn’t stick Far Out
It's a seamlessly executed and proudly over-the-top experience, getting Muse back on track with a catalog highlight that's a lot more vital (and fun) than their preceding few offering All Music
From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous? yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial life The Guardian
The Rolling Stones Foreign Tongues
Amid some clutter and blare, the spirit of the Stones shines through Mojo
Vince Staples Cry Baby
Sonically, Cry Baby has the energy, groove and beats of a classic Danger Mouse production No Ripcord
Kurt Vile Philadelphia's been good to me
The record amounts to a deeply heartfelt and breezily disarming declaration of loved-up constancy, capped beautifully by the twinkling drift of closer Avalanches Of Snow Record Collector
Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Olivia Rodrigo’s latest finds the young singer expanding her music to incorporate more cohesive storytelling, and in doing so, is marking herself as someone taking the artistic side of her job seriously Spectrum Culture
Pond Terrestrials
The Australian psych-rock band’s latest features dense, detailed songwriting about corporate greed and the environment, but the music lacks its nuance and ambition Pitchfork
Australia’s psych-rock jesters fend off ecological doom with cosmic fury Slant Magazine
They boil everything down to its very essence DIY
It's teeming with complexity, feeding references to places, events and literary signposts into songs that wrestle with the violent contradictions of being human. Print edition only Uncut
Graham Coxon Castle Park
There’s nothing here to suggest they went unreleased for quality-control reasons. Print edition only Uncut
Strikes a perfect note of callow romance, all Merseybeat lunchbreak gossip on the spiky Alright and Billy Says, tipping into Zombies intrigue on When You Find Out. Yet there’s a depth of melancholy to the vibraphone haunting of Isn’t It Funny or Dripping Soul’s flamboyant Love flamenco that sees Coxon straying from the main paths and into the dark corners. Print edition only Mojo
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
Rosalía Lux
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways