30 March 2026
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Ninth studio album and first in over seven years from the R&B artist featuring guest appearances from 21 Savage, Burna Boy, H.E.R., Jung Kook of BTS, Latto, Pheelz, The-Dream and Summer Walker
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Usher’s ninth album is another impressive display of his endless charm and vocal chops. Thirty years into his career, the R&B icon still knows how to keep it light and throw a great party Read Review
The album hits its stride with a sequence of slow jams demonstrating that Usher is at the top of his game as a singer, still much more than a mere entertainer Read Review
The star’s sprawling, twenty-song LP is nostalgic and familiar as Usher leans into the past without making it feel stale Read Review
Lyrical foreplay isn’t exactly the singer’s strong suit on this throwback album full of percussive panting Read Review
‘COMING HOME’ competently portrays love as part Afrodisiac, part pulse-racing chase, part languorous and lived-in sensation Read Review
The album feels less driven by creative ingenuity or an aesthetic vision than by sheer showmanship Read Review
Vintage effects in the singer’s first album in eight years underline the degree to which he has been left behind Read Review
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Raye This Music May Contain Hope
Full of big ambition and packed with emotional intelligence, 'This Music May Contain Hope' is RAYE at her most fearless. Every risk feels justified, every wild idea fully formed. It's a bold, all-feelings-on-deck mission statement that confirms her as one of pop's most compelling voices Dork
THIS MUSIC MAY HOPE. is a fascinating yet nebulous project, a pompous and lavish exploration that would have been better on the stage, with backup dancers, percussion, and RAYE as the star in the center of it all Northern Transmissions
Fcukers Ö
On their debut, the New York duo’s brash charm reverberates through kinetic club energy and after-hours haze, even if the end result plays it a little safe Paste Magazine
Flea Honora
To riff on a previously-alluded-to quote from Nick Cave: I'm forever near a stereo saying, "What is this beautiful ambient-jazz odyssey?" And the answer is always Flea Exclaim
The British star delivers a 73-minute autobiography of romantic despair and nonstop emotional turmoil. It's a lot — and all the better for it Rolling Stone
Robyn Sexistential
The Swedish pop phenom's latest effort is strange, vibrant, and plenty of fun Consequence Of Sound
The Twilight Sad It's The Long Goodbye
After a long hiatus, the Twilight Sad return with a new lineup to deliver raw emotion centered on James Graham’s mental health struggles and his mother’s death PopMatters
The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist reignited his childhood love of the trumpet to make his first solo album: a mature, sophisticated collection of songs featuring stars of the L.A. jazz scene Pitchfork
A certain contender for end of the year lists, this is an album of rare scale and energy, one that’s been designed to come back to time and time again musicOMH
The cherry on the cake on her first album in eight years is beats, riffs and production that don’t just usher you towards the dancefloor, they demand you meet them there musicOMH
The New Pornographers The Former Site Of
A welcome return from AC Newman’s power-poppers, a band who deserve to be at the forefront of any Canadian indie music revival musicOMH
A gorgeous, meditative collection of songwriting about life in the 21st century Hot Press
Stirring indie pop that shows the Canadian collective still shine Far Out
The Vancouver band’s 10th album is all too aware of what most of us are feeling like these days, and rather than acting as a distraction or rebuttal to the state of the world, it invites us to look straight at it Paste Magazine
It's another subtle outing from a band whose energetic peaks once defined them, but in this later period opt for patience over power All Music
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Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Rosalía Lux
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways