15 November 2026
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Second physical LP release from Jordan Lee's lo-fi indie folk project
7.1
It’s hard to imagine that anyone else will take us on a journey quite as blissful during 2016 Read Review
Despite reminding us of just how fleeting life can be, it also reminds us that seeking out its beauty, regardless of how cruel and unjust it can sometimes be, is worth it in the end Read Review
This record made me buy better headphones so I could do it justice writing about it. me a better person Read Review
A gentle album that is as gorgeous as it is therapeutic Read Review
Slipping effortlessly between wispy, lo-fi gospel and warm trails of orchestration Read Review
For the most part, Lee delivers Read Review
A soothing daydream if there ever was one Read Review
Mostly succeeds in reminding listeners that pretty music doesn't have to be cloying Read Review
From every fractured fragment in field recording to each muted acoustic thrum beneath, it’s clear that Mutual Benefit has mastered its own forms of beauty and sonority in a spectrum all its own Read Review
Probably the most chipper album about gig life ever recorded Read Review
A sound altogether more polished than we’re used to hearing on previous albums Read Review
Though let down somewhat by a fleeting first half, the sombre melodies and introspection of the latter manage to make amends Read Review
Lee’s latest is much more passive and as a result loses some of the emotional grandeur, taking a stately route that is often listless Read Review
Characterised by post-Sufjan, melodious cacophonies that grow wearisome and tend to obfuscate Lee's introspective theme Read Review
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Mutual Benefit: Skip a Sinking Stone
U2 Carnaval de Luz
This is not a radical reinvention of Rattle And Hum-to-Achtung Baby magnitude, or even a wilful evolution akin to that from How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb to No Line On Th Horizon. The ghosts of U2's past are summoned in numbers, though they are frequently mischievously partnered to interestingly incongruous effect. Print edition only Uncut
The Irish legends' best work in 25 years homages their eras, brings Brian Eno to bear on keys and even wheels out the late Dolly Parton musicOMH
Royal Blood Dead Company
It’s a record that sounds exactly like you would hope a new Royal Blood album would sound like, it’s little wonder that they are as big as they are, a consistently fine listen God Is In The TV
Kings Of Leon O My Beloved
With Carnaval De Luz they are not reinventing themselves or trying to be the current flavour of the month. What they do with this album is revisit their older glories and create new music and sound Spill Magazine
U2 return with a defiant and celebratory record that captures them still at the height of their powers Hot Press
This is Lorelei The Singer In My Band
Nate Amos fills his latest album with other people’s stories: some linger, others get lost in the scenery Still Listening
Out for blood! Brighton bruisers Royal Blood blast back-to-basics on fifth album Kerrang!
Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher floor the accelerator and embark on another collision course of energised and uncompromising riff-rock for album number five NME
Dead Company is arguably the best album they’ve released since their debut, but doesn’t exactly come close to topping it Sputnik Music (staff)
Royal Blood's latest album is competently made and frequently enjoyable, but almost entirely foreseeable The Skinny
There are no frills on this fifth set, once again self-produced by Kerr and Thatcher; instead, it provides a brisk hard rock assault that should please the faithful and entice newcomers to dig into their back catalog All Music
Bono and co. return to full strength with a celebration of hope over despair Mojo
Twisted Teens The Holy Cross Tigers
They revamp the work of their progenitors while at the same time transcending it. Never wandering too far from the music that inspires them, Twisted Teens occupy a space that is distinctly theirs Beats Per Minute
Shygirl Swallow!
The UK electronica figurehead takes a sentimental turn on her tender but assured sophomore release Paste Magazine
The Irish stadium legends’ latest is pedantic and ambiguous, rife with centrist pandering that ends up saying nothing at all Paste Magazine
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.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
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