29 January 2023
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Second full-length release form the Reading-born musician and electronic record producer featuring guest appearances Channel Tres, Lucky Daye, Tove Lo, Ty Dolla $ign, and Charlotte Day Wilson
Second album from the Nashville-based singer-songwriter Samia Finnerty produced by Caleb Wright
Fourth studio album from the London-born singer-songwriter featuring guest appearances from Koffee, Kim Petras, Jessie Reyez and Ed Sheeran
Fifth solo album from the San Francisco-based folk singer and former Espers frontwoman
Debut mixtape from the London-based Irish dance-pop artist Jessica Smyth featuring a guest appearance from Deb Never
Latest full-length album from Robert Pollard's prolific band produced by Travis Harrison
Sixth full-length studio album by genre-bending Canadian hardcore punk outfit written and recorded in a day
Debut solo album from the Blur drummer produced by Leo Abrahams
Fifth full-length release from the Canadian multi-instrumentalist recorded during a road trip from Los Angeles to Utah
Second full-length album from the Dublin post-punk five-piece
Seventh album from the Liverpudlian electronic pop quartet
Third full-length album from the Italian rock band who won the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest
Seventeenth album from the ex-Velvet Underground memberincludes guest appearances from Actress, Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Fat White Family, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, and Weyes Blood
Latest album from the Japanese experimental / modern classical composer written and recorded in while recovering from cancer treatment
Debut full-length release from the Scottish soul singer-songwriter produced by Barney Lister
Latest full-length release from the Scottish singer-songwriter working with The Cardigans' Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra
Fifth full-length release from the London-based singer-songwriter who's also a member of This Is The Kit
Fourth studio album from the Nashville-based singer-songwriter produced by Jonathan Wilson (Dawes, Angel Olsen, Father John Misty)
Twelfth album from the Glasgow indie pop band led by Stuart Murdoch
Fourth solo studio album from the former Supergrass frontman produced by Ian Davenport
Fucked Up One Day
Fucked Up’s One Day possesses a brightness and sense of happiness that’s addictive and optimistic, even if the lyrics at times insinuate the opposite PopMatters
Sam Smith Gloria
The singer has broken new ground, but their fourth album is less revelatory The FT
One Day is brimming with energy and the barely contained desire to be heard over the shouting of those around them; it's as viscerally effective as anything Fucked Up have ever recorded and smart enough to speak to the mind as well as the heart All Music
Samia Honey
Whether autobiographical or a thought exercise, Honey is evocative and often relatable, if in turn inevitably alienating and mercurial All Music
Yet another excellent album from one of the best bands out there. Even just one day of Fucked Up is something to be treasured Paste Magazine
Exploring self-acceptance and self-growth with soul-tinged pop DIY
A fourth album features Kim Petras, Ed Sheeran, Jessie Reyez and Koffee, and showcases a voice that makes everything sound listenable. But of terrific moments there are too few musicOMH
SG Lewis AudioLust & HigherLove
The producer’s follow-up to Times is a classy set of tunes with well chosen guests and a concept around the central theme of love musicOMH
A turbo-charged second album is more ambitious and impressive than anything the producer and songwriter has made before NME
His 2021 solo debut Times topped the UK dance chart and, the follow-up offers more of the same adrenaline rush. Print edition Uncut
The album feels like an assemblage of enjoyable ingredients that doesn’t coalesce Slant Magazine
If you love the dancefloor and are willing to expand your tastes a little, this is the album you need to blast on repeat The Line Of Best Fit
He dances on, just this time with a different outlook DIY
Unshackled by this lingering desire for overarching grand narratives, is the purest distillation of that "lightning in a bottle" frenzy, capturing the collective's creative spark at its most urgent — that is: less bells, all whistles Exclaim
It’s a remarkably sure-footed, brilliantly confident record and one that condenses the greatness of Fucked Up into a bite size treat Under The Radar
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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
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Dave We’re All Alone In This Together