20 May 2013
Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 publications 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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The reformed LA pop punk veterans with album No.8
Not only the best album of the band’s career, but an album that very well may shape the future of the genre Read Review
They take everything that a longtime fan could want – huge hooks, sunny choruses, heartfelt lyrics, upbeat tempos – and combine it with new elements that give their sound just the right amount of push Read Review
A neat little package of heavier punk-pop goodness Read Review
It's spirited, it's slick and it's this years' essential pop-punk record Read Review
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Yellowcard: Southern Air
Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs Clarietta
Boyer and his crew display an impressive classicism, but retain the vigour of youth. Print edition only Uncut
Texas The Conversation
Pleasant enough, but you may feel you've heard this conversation before. Print edition only Mojo
A gripping twist on a timeless classic. Print edition only Mojo
Eluvium Nightmare Ending
A collection of overly saturated tunes featuring some of the most emotive sounds he’s ever compiled Sputnik Music (staff)
Cooper's ability to infuse a very human emotional arc into his wordless sheets of sound is a large part of what's made his body of work so captivating All Music
For all its unoriginality, ‘Clarietta’ more than makes amends with the proficient psychedelia of its groove-based jams This Is Fake DIY
Clarietta is exactly the sum of its parts, which makes it a breezy listen, but never more than that The Guardian
Derivative but rarely dull The Observer
The album doesn’t travel a straight path, but meanders through Eluvium’s many modes of spectral beauty Consequence Of Sound
There’s plenty of charm, and though a lot of it has been beaten to death with a revivalist stick before, it’s still a really fun record The Line Of Best Fit
30 Seconds To Mars Love Lust Faith
A disappointingly tepid affair Drowned In Sound
In their bid for stadium-sized success the band abandon all sense of proportion Evening Standard
Scout Niblett It’s Up To Emma
The naked emotion expressed here doesn't exactly make for an easy listening experience, but it's a brave, welcome, and perhaps even necessary one All Music
A record that makes fragility sound pretty devastating The Line Of Best Fit
The real work of this album is just how far she lures us into the this character's dark cocoon Pitchfork
And the winner is ... no, not Daft Punk but a Californian garage punk
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past four years or so
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
PJ Harvey Let England Shake
My Bloody Valentine mbv
Ry Cooder Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Tom Waits Bad As Me
Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid