11 November 2026
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Debut collaboration between English hip hop artist MF Doom and NY rapper Bishop Nehru
6.7
It's great to have DOOM back on this release, and it's even better that's he's joined forces with a young emcee in Nehru that shows a hell of a lot of promise on this project Read Review
Nicely balances Doom’s uber-quirkiness with Nehru’s straight-up youthful exuberance to create a playful, odd-but-accessible set Read Review
DOOM has taken a backseat in an attempt to mentor this young talent and under his guidance Nehru has put in a spectacular performance Read Review
Not the album to catapult Bishop Nehru into the mainstream but it's an invaluable step in his hip-hop education Read Review
It’s promising that a kid as talented and hungry as Bishop already has the experience of working with someone with several classics under his belt Read Review
It’s as flimsy as hell and put together like a roughly cut jigsaw, so as to make you want more of a partnership that could run and run Read Review
DOOM would have been better off keeping these songs for himself. Interesting but inessentia Read Review
While NehruvianDOOM ticks a lot of the right boxes for the nostalgic rap fan, it would be foolish to approach this as a significant chapter in DOOM’s career Read Review
This generation-crossing collaboration feels like a record lodged in a sort of chronological rut, one where a young artist fronts an old-sounding record that sounds like it could've been released at any point in his lifetime—and helmed by any number of MCs that could've sounded like him Read Review
His words over traditional DOOM production is just a horrid tease Read Review
For all of its problems in execution, there are plenty of individual sounds here worth hearing Read Review
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Django Django Doveland
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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
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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
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Doveland sounds less like a reduction of Django Django’s musical vocabulary than a more relaxed demonstration of how much they possess PopMatters
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