2 November 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 the London rapper featuring guest appearances from Drake, Naira Marley, Jorja Smith, Burna Boy, Popcaan, CB, Villz and Boss Belly
7.3
The London rapper’s third album extends his carnal and philosophical investigation of masculinity against lush, robust beats that evoke a distinctly Black British take on G-funk Read Review
Back after three years away, the east Londoner is polarised between feelgood summer tracks and bleak reportage – but he makes it all cohere, despite some terrible sex puns Read Review
Beautiful and Brutal Yard displays both the beauty and brutality of the world, from a man at the top but also aware of where he came from. It is an album that connotes the essence of home, and his home is his music Read Review
On his third album – and first since 2020 – the British star taps Drake, Burna Boy and more for a scattershot burst of brilliance Read Review
No other artist commands rhythm and rhyme like Hus, and it’s patently clear that the Stratford rapper is enjoying making music again, which is a blessing for the rest of us Read Review
The Stratford rapper is back with both fiery drill cuts and forays into a smoother sound Read Review
The London rapper inhabits various roles on his third album, from badman to Casanova Read Review
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Mount Eerie Night Palace
It’s an album that is as broken as it is beautiful, a balance that Elverum appears to be gleefully embracing. Print edition only Uncut
On Night Palace, Phil Elverum continues to muddy the idea of a musical identity, sounding closer to work he's released as The Microphones The Skinny
Phil Elverum seems to have made peace with impermanence on his latest, a sprawling 26-track double album Paste Magazine
Night Palace could easily be defined as Elverum’s wisest release. It contains the breadth of a career and of a life spent in dedication to compatible wavelengths, of sounds in the new. The Line Of Best Fit
The album defies easy categorization, which ultimately offers a welcome challenge Slant Magazine
Phil Elverum has long been the master of flowing journeys into the mind’s eye, and with Night Palace, a record of such substance that it takes a few listens to really make sense he’s produced one of his best yet Far Out
Fionn Regan O AVALANCHE
Realistically, this album can only ever be consumed as one, as very few tracks are individual enough to be enjoyed in isolation. Instead, this record is one large piece of emotive sound, which is great to listen to but exists in its best form in the confines of the record Far Out
The Co Wicklow musician’s seventh album is simply a beautiful piece of work The Irish Times
A little bit of beautifully bottled unshine, designed to keep the winter blues far away musicOMH
It’s cinematic and magical and stands as some of Fionn’s most captivating and compelling work to date Clash
Tyler, The Creator Chromakopia
An uncompromising honesty lies within this snapshot of an artist willing to share his chaos musicOMH
The Cure Songs Of A Lost World
Sixteen years after their last album, Robert Smith & co. return at their own glacial pace. Sounding regal, weary, and deliciously slow, they grapple with mortality and doubt as only they could Pitchfork
Soccer Mommy Evergreen
Sophie Allison’s fourth album is steeped in a loneliness darker than that of her youth, pairing raw reflections on grief with the most laid-back, pastoral music of her career Pitchfork
On his seventh album, Tyler is both mask-on and mask-off. It’s an electric, revealing, and perennially odd journey back into his aging psyche Pitchfork
Soccer Mommy wrestles with profound loss on her new record, which is more organic and grander than anything she has released before PopMatters
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