15 April 2025
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Second album from the Watford-born YouTuber and rapper featuring guest appearances from Future, 21 Savage, Yungblud, Polo G, Anne-Marie, Craig David, and Bugzy Malone
5.9
KSI knows how to write serious bangers (just in time for the clubs reopening), particularly Really Love with garage royalty, Craig David Read Review
A broad, slick return, one that boasts a broad array of guests... Read Review
The YouTuber’s genre-hopping second album is let down by corny lyrics Read Review
KSI finesses his reputation as a rapper on a genre-skipping second album, while Willow Smith makes a captivating return as an emo-pop star Read Review
The YouTuber-turned-rapper attracts more impressive guests – including Future and 21 Savage – on a hit-and-miss collection that shows promise Read Review
Like its predecessor, it's a bit of fun and it's...fine Read Review
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Ok Go And The Adjacent Possible
Features some of the best songs of OK Go’s discography Spill Magazine
Bon Iver SABLE, fABLE
Regardless of whether or not you prefer to commiserate with the sadness found on his past records, it’s clear that SABLE, fABLE could have only emerged from a place of hard-earned inner peace Beats Per Minute
Valerie June Owls, Omens, and Oracles
Her most gently ambitious and dazzlingly diverse album to date. Print edition only Uncut
The Tennessee singer-songwriter’s joyful new album pushes back against the bleakness of doomscrolling The Guardian
Indoctrinated in this album and June’s voice is the reverent nature of the far reaching truth that flows and weaves through each of us in our shared collective humanity. Find yourself in the space between songs, rest in the melodies and discover the place in your body that is answering her call Clash
Although the tempos wane during the album's second half, its quality persists. "My Life Is a Country Song" is a highlight, and the closer, "Love and Let Go," is a gorgeous, slow-burning testament to patience and surrender All Music
The Tennessee singer-songwriter’s sixth album is a necessary reminder missing from swaths of contemporary music that happiness is just as potent a tool for beating back the darkness as anger Paste Magazine
After foregoing the sad troubadour parable, Justin Vernon’s band is the poppiest they've ever been on their double-disc fifth album full of uncharacteristically clear songwriting and unfounded vocal collaborations Paste Magazine
The record’s most profound and memorable experiences arrive at the hands of the tracks that are not afraid of crossing timelines, the ones that are unafraid of integration and understand there is no returning to the past Sputnik Music (staff)
With SABLE, fABLE, Bon Iver delivers an album that feels less like a statement and more like a reconciliation. It doesn’t chase trends but finds meaning in the middle distance between cabin and studio, between myth and memory Spectrum Culture
Patterson Hood Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams
The big name collaborations are sure to turn heads. But they of course flocked to work with Hood because he’s a living Americana legend. And from his increasingly adventurous writing on the keys, to his literary as ever lyrics, Hood’s bonafides abound on Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams Under The Radar
OK Go have delivered an album that has has some fantastically-crafted moments in which sit alongside tracks that have ‘bubbles of potential’, it’s not quite the musical evolution that you would expect after ten years, but it is assured, perspective shifting Clash
The sharp hooks and angular energy of their earlier work are missing, and the album lacks the wide-eyed wonder of their breakthrough days Dork
There is some high-quality meat on sturdy bones for your delectation here, but I wouldn’t want to strip the carcass for every morsel XS Noize
The band's first album in ten years And the Adjacent Possible blends wonder and weariness Rolling Stone
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
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
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