26 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 solo studio album from the Seattle-born rapper featuring guest appearances from Charlieonnafriday, Collett, DJ Premier, Jackson Lee Morgan, Livingston, Morray, NLE Choppa, Sarah Barthel, Tones and I and Vic Daggs II
Macklemore’s earnest yet clunky new album attempts to split the difference between high-budget stadium pop and grimy boom-bap Read Review
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Fat White Family Forgiveness Is Yours
Even when they don’t quite hit the mark, they remain a curiously compelling act who play by their own rules – chaos remains their lifeblood, for good and for bad musicOMH
A certain rock'n'roll energy is lacking. Print edition only Mojo
Forgiveness Is Yours sometimes becomes too diffuse, hampered by a surplus of bold ideas that do not get all the necessary follow-through. But it Abounds with queasy pleasures all the same. Print edition only Uncut
There is certainly the sense of Forgiveness Is Yours as a feet finding record, an undeniable result of losing one of the essential reasons Fat White Family are what they are The Line Of Best Fit
The band creates an undercurrent of anxiety with mismatched rhythms, drum fills, and subtle dissonance Slant Magazine
Iron & Wine Light Verse
Finds Beam doing what he does best, refining those songwriting touches and instrumental backdrops that are present in his most captivating work Under The Radar
You might assume, given the title, that beam's seventh full-length album as iron & Wine is lightweight and whimsical. Actually it's pretty magnificent. Print edition only Mojo
Light Verse rejoices in its playful details. Print edition only Uncut
If not one necessarily to win over new fans, this will delight longtime fans who have been along for the ride Clash
Quirky yet profound, playful but often deeply moving, Light Verse is a record to savour in one sitting, its ten tracks comprising a seriously impressive whole that’s considerably more potent than the sum of its unfailingly impressive individual parts The Line Of Best Fit
St. Vincent All Born Screaming
A clearly cathartic album that further proves Annie Clark to be a brilliant and multifaceted musical force. Print edition only Mojo
Taut, funk-fuelled and innately human The Irish Times
Pet Shop Boys nonetheless
Nonetheless feels airy and welcoming, qualities that have sometimes eluded its more recent predecessors, it resonates emotionally in ways that befit elder statesmen who can look to the future while comfortably acknowledging the past The Line Of Best Fit
The duo work with James Ford on this lush, impressive collection that continues upholds their status as pop greats NME
Tennant takes on a new performance persona that gloriously mixes Butlins Red Coat, stern children’s fiction headmaster and Frankie Howerd The Arts Desk
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