22 November 2025
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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
6.1
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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The Last Dinner Party From The Pyre
A solid step forward for one of the UK’s most theatrical rising acts – sonically mature, thematically precise, and with many more dinner parties to be had Hot Press
Brandi Carlile Returning To Myself
With 11 Grammys already to her name, who would bet against Carlile hoovering up more golden trophies with this supremely confident collection? Hot Press
The Lemonheads Love Chant
Recorded in his adopted home of Brazil, it’s produced by Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Apollo Nove, and the production is unusual, some of the arrangements sounding decidedly unfinished Hot Press
The Charlatans We Are Love
The nostalgic ‘Glad You Grabbed Me’ sees Burgess looking back on his wild days (“Do you remember taking acid in Cambridge?”), while the epic sway of album closer, ‘Now Everything’, weighs in at just under seven minutes of gospel-tinged brilliance, which recalls Blur’s magnificent ‘Tender’ – and is worthy of such exalted company Hot Press
Daniel Avery Tremor
Overall, a terrifically adventurous collection Hot Press
Lily Allen West End Girl
West End Girl may at times have all the romance of a car crash, but it is, nonetheless, Lily Allen – in all her blazing glory. And damn, it really is glorious stuff, reconfirming Allen’s unique and brilliant talent. An essential listen Hot Press
Rosalía Lux
This is the work of a woman born to create. Lux is the kind of album that might, and should, go down in history Hot Press
Cate Le Bon Michelangelo Dying
This latest effort confirms Le Bon as one of contemporary music's most compelling songwriters, someone who understands that repetition can become transcendence when executed with sufficient conviction and artistry Earmilk
Geese Getting Killed
Geese has shed their earlier skins completely, emerging as a band capable of anything Earmilk
Sudan Archives The BPM
Parks has composed a dance floor bible that demands and handsomely repays body and mind labor, demonstrating they don't have to be at odds Earmilk
LUX confirms Rosalía as one of contemporary music's most fearless innovators Earmilk
Nothing short of magnificent DIY
Oneohtrix Point Never Tranquilizer
Lopatin doesn’t just wring moments of grin-inducing audacity from the archive, though, but a startling degree of emotional range too The Quietus
Made using a cache of Y2K sample CDs that Daniel Lopatin salvaged from the internet’s fringes, the kaleidoscopic result speaks to contemporary information overload The Guardian
Whitney Small Talk
Rather than a retreat, Small Talk finds Whitney soldiering on in their quest to retool their overall sound, only in more subtle ways Spectrum Culture
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Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree