10 November 2026
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Latest solo album from noise rock pioneer and Sonic Youth co-founder also features drummer Steve Shelley
6.5
His voice is warm and full of character, his lyrics elegant and the playing stellar Read Review
A thoroughly mature album that concentrates and intensifies the sweeping warmth of Ranaldo’s songs for his old band Read Review
Ambitious, mature and noisy. Print edition only
A dark, brooding album Read Review
If other aging musicians are any indication, this is the time (age 57) when he’s supposed to throw any ol’ idea against the wall whether it sticks or not. He manages to make the majority of them adhere Read Review
Almost every aural detail is simply pretty, every guitar texture inviting, and perhaps the most impressive part is that it’s here just one year after Times and Tides Read Review
When Last Night on Earth gets it right, the results are magical Read Review
Fluid guitars reaching towards the sky as through trying to grasp at clouds Read Review
Largely consists of sprawling, dizzying hills of pop-tinged melody, charged with a dark lyrical undertone Read Review
Mostly recognisable as one of Sonic Youth's architects. Print edition only
A meandering, elastic record—and a side effort that will be lost on most Sonic Youth fans Read Review
There are certainly worse ways for Lee Ranaldo to while away his post-Sonic Youth days, so seeing him playing in a Grateful Dead-inspired jam band isn’t the worst thing in the world Read Review
It's just a little underwhelming. Print edition only
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Lee Ranaldo And The Dust: Last Night On Earth
Django Django Doveland
Django Django would appear to have refreshed their approach and challenged themselves to try out previously unconsidered melodic avenues The Arts Desk
Print edition only Uncut
Gilla Band Pugnello
Somewhere amidst the anarchy of Pugnello, there are gems waiting to be found. Unearthing them is well worth your time Still Listening
Greg Freeman All Set The Bone
Existentialism has a sound (and it’s hard to ignore) with Greg Freeman’s introspective All Set The Bone Still Listening
U2 Carnaval de Luz
Carnaval De Luz finds U2 50 years after their formation with the same four members and the same desire to shake things up. The album provides a convincing answer to the question of why they keep doing what they do XS Noize
Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber
Fontaines D.C. push deeper into synthetic territory on Dopamine Chamber, balancing stadium-sized melodies with restless experimentation and darker texture Record Collector
They sound ambitious and engaged in their 50th year, swinging for the fences and hitting more targets than not. There’s still some gas in the tank Record Collector
La Roux Old Flames
Print edition only Record Collector
Back with her first new music in six years, La Roux's new sound explores facets of R'n'B and Europop to varying degrees of success The Skinny
La Roux turns to 90s R&B on a fourth album shaped by the end of a 17-year relationship, finding room for new beginnings beneath its layered production Still Listening
Print edition only Rolling Stone UK
Devastating moments are dressed up with warm production and kinetic 00s R&B in the now quiff-less singer’s grownup fourth album The Guardian
Elly Jackson returns with heartfelt pop songs about breaking up, resentment, vulnerability and all that entails musicOMH
Ditching erratic experimentation for an ambient concept, the indie shapeshifters' sixth album is their most coherent in years musicOMH
Doveland sounds less like a reduction of Django Django’s musical vocabulary than a more relaxed demonstration of how much they possess 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.
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