27 March 2025
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Fifth album of rap and pop from the Trinidad-born MC from Queens, New York with guest appearances from J. Cole, Lil Wayne, Tate Kobang, Drake, Lourdiz, Lil Uzi Vert, Skillibeng, Skeng and Future
6.6
While similarities to her 2010 original may run only name-deep, this sample-heavy – and sometimes emotional – material certainly holds its own Read Review
Refusing to be hemmed in, it’s a record of real ambition, an example mirroring fan-pleasing tendencies with actual artistic growth Read Review
Stepping away from Barbie-Girl pop towards her strengths as a rapper, this is the sound of a more mature artist in fierce command of her talent Read Review
The sound of Nicki Minaj cracking her knuckles and getting her hands dirty again. It’s the purest distillation of her uniquely feminine bravado Read Review
Pink Friday 2 is a long album, and it’s going to get longer Read Review
Thirteen years after her landmark album Pink Friday, the pop-rap superstar aims to conjure and build on that moment with an ambitious 22-song statement that is a very mixed bag Read Review
The pop-rap phenomenon is back with her first album in five years Read Review
While some moments of interpolation are more inspired, the musician’s increasing reliance on recognisable samples can start to feel like cruise control Read Review
Unlike its predecessor, the album doesn’t leave much of an impression. Read Review
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Japanese Breakfast For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)
Michelle Zauner addresses big themes on her band’s fourth album, but her sharp writing isn’t best served by wistful arrangements The Observer
Greentea Peng Tell Dem It's Sunny
The south-east Londoner’s second album pairs a refreshed musical palette with streamlined, introspective lyrics The Observer
The Horrors Night Life
More nuanced and less abrasive than Lout and … Blade, the record comes across as a lush vista of clean surfaces and inorganic textures, in equal measures optimistic, lonely, frightening Beats Per Minute
Brian D’Addario Till The Morning
After 2024’s A Dream Is All We Know, the elder D’Addario brother returns with a solo(-ish) record of colour and striking cogency Record Collector
My Morning Jacket is
This experience is best brought about through careful craft, which My Morning Jacket utilize throughout Is without any sacrifice of their long-running success PopMatters
Perfume Genius Glory
Mike Hadreas’ seventh studio album brings a more elegant and capacious sound to unanswerable questions of anxiety, grief, and disconnection Pitchfork
Veteran producer Brendan O’Brien helps craft the epitome of a modern My Morning Jacket LP. It captures their classic style and sound, but lacks the adventurousness that defines their best work Pitchfork
Deafheaven Lonely People With Power
The black metallers are quieter now, more controlled. The tension is contained, the violence refined. Perhaps they’ve learned. Or grown tired. Perhaps they’ve just grown musicOMH
Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco I Said I Love You First
The engaged power couple struggle to strike the right balance on their collaborative record musicOMH
Mumford & Sons Rushmere
On an album, where every track stands out, it is hard to pick a ‘highlight’ but if we had to pick, it would be the title track, due to it’s jubilant nature. The final song of ‘Rushmere’, aptly called ‘Carry On’ is an optimistic note to end this album on Clash
Destroyer Dan's Boogie
Some moments here (in particular "Cataract Time") rank among the best work in his catalog, making Dan's Boogie another chapter of knowing contradiction, unsettlement, and self-challenge in a body of work defined by these things All Music
A range of genres is complemented by lush production and creeping dissonance Slant Magazine
These songs insinuate via a vaguely vintage sound that recall both Jonathan Donahue's spangled dreaminess and the (s)weary brio of Father John Misty. Print edition only Uncut
Dan's Boogie remains fascinatingly obscure in places, but these songs are full of buried gold. Print edition only Mojo
The album feels authentic, with stripped-back production and organic instrumentation breathing life into the narratives that Hadreas weaves through individual songs and the album’s wider context Dork
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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