15 November 2026
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Second album of sample-based electronica from Archie Fairhurst, moving from jazz and blues to disco and psychedelic based samples
7.6
Precisely the sort of confounding of expectations we love to hear, and bodes well for a long, interesting career Read Review
His song collages take inspiration from all over the spectrum of audio love: soul, funk, girl groups, jazz, French, and sometimes just a killer groove Read Review
This is a warm piece of percussive and melodic greatness Read Review
Here the Londoner’s mission is less about recycling than creating his own psych-ish oddities Read Review
It's Romare at his finest so far, and whets the appetite for whatever honeyed treasures Part Three might hold Read Review
With ‘… Part Two’, Romare sets out to bring in elements of his distinct sound from across his career always combining it with something fresh and invigorating Read Review
An album that expands his sound to fascinating new places. Print edition only
On Love Songs: Part 2, Romare shines in his ability to take the listener on a journey that twists and turns, but never quite loses the plot Read Review
With Fairhurst deftly easing through the full range (lust, tenderness, affairs, doubt…) ‘Love Songs…’ is still rich with the same gilded production style Read Review
Romare's disjointed sound takes some getting used to, but it's often bewitching, and Love Songs, Pt. 2 is his best effort yet Read Review
A focus on beats that roll from funk to disco and house with even a little rave thrown in for good measure Read Review
Fairhurst clearly knows the atmospheric score when it comes to making tracks zig and zag in all the right ways Read Review
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Romare: Love Songs: Part Two
U2 Carnaval de Luz
On their first album of new songs in nearly a decade, even earnest Bono-isms carry weight amid music that is impassioned and rejuvenated The Guardian
Letting loose and finding renewed purpose, U2 have delivered one of their most fun and engaging albums with Carnaval De Luz, a celebratory injection of positive vibes to both the world and this band All Music
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
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