19 April 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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Third album from Oakland R&B singer Kehlani Ashley Parrish includes guest appearances from Ambré, Justin Bieber, Blxst, Jessie Reyez, Syd, and Thundercat
7.4
In an album with deftly-placed idiosyncrasies, elastic vocal flexes and heady harmonies draped over lush string arrangements, Kehlani’s sound is elevated from readymade R&B to slow-burning torch songs that drift beyond the immediacy of radio fodder Read Review
The Californian artist's third album is their most lyrically intriguing, as they leave behind the melancholy of the past to embrace a bright new land Read Review
Kehlani’s blue water road is indeed a journey, and a place you’d want to add to your travel itinerary if it were real. Luckily, it at least exists in album format, so you can add it to the summer roadtrip playlist if nothing else Read Review
Kehlani’s most mature and thematically challenging album is steamy and committed, more eager than ever to bet it all on love. They’ve never sounded more comfortable in their own skin Read Review
Featuring collaborations with Justin Bieber and Jessie Reyez, the artist's latest finds her setting the B.S. aside to do some serious soul-searching Read Review
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Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department
Though haunted by the phantoms of what could’ve been, Taylor’s most cathartic release to have created is her most cathartic to listen to; a spell-binding, toxic, chaotic illustration of what floating adrift and losing yourself looks like Clash
Nia Archives Silence Is Loud
Exuding femme energy – she’s frequently DJ’d to women-only spaces – she taps into an often neglected aspect of jungle history, while writing a few chapters of her own. An early Mercury tip? Don’t bet against it Clash
Pearl Jam Dark Matter
Trimming back the excess of their recent experimental streak, it finds the band digging back into their core values – ruthlessly entertaining, often moving, it’s an undoubted thriller for fans Clash
Mount Kimbie The Sunset Violent
By trusting their own collaborative spirit and hard-earned wisdom, Mount Kimbie’s inward search expands their sound beautifully outwards Crack
Cloud Nothings Final Summer
With spruced-up production highlighting new subtleties in their sound, yet never abandoning their melodic fundamentals, the Cleveland indie rockers’ latest radiates a renewed sense of purpose Pitchfork
Lucy Rose This Ain't The Way You Go Out
After a life-changing illness, the UK folk singer returns with a gentle, subtly experimental album that finds hard-won solace in motherhood and recovery Pitchfork
Maggie Rogers Don't Forget Me
Maggie Rogers’ latest album, Don’t Forget Me, is a soft and breezy return to the musician we met on her debut studio effort Heard It in a Past Life PopMatters
With Dark Matter, the band has rarely sounded more essential Rolling Stone
While it may be a touch less adventurous as it’s two predecessors, 'Dark Matter' succeeds overwhelmingly The Arts Desk
This is the sound of a band and a songwriter who have grown confident in their own skin, who are skilled in their craft and not afraid to show it off.This is the sound of a band and a songwriter who have grown confident in their own skin, who are skilled in their craft and not afraid to show it off Spectrum Culture
Melvins Tarantula Heart
Tarantula Heart definitely needs a better editor in numerous spots and the repetitiveness of the riffing doesn’t generate the heat that Melvins-adjacent bands like Earth did at their peak. But it’s got some killer moments Spectrum Culture
It'd be nigh impossible to argue the band hasn't faded with age. But they're still here, they're still alive and by all available evidence, they're better for it Exclaim
The Brighton musician was left with several broken vertebrae in her back following pregnancy. Her creative community and drive during recovery spurred on these brilliant new songs NME
On their 12th studio album, the grunge veterans both return to their heavier roots and experiment with new sonic avenues after years of playing it safe NME
Cleveland’s most consistent rock group returns with—surprise, surprise—another solid album Paste Magazine
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