28 June 2026
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Downtown Boys Public Luxury
The hope on offer here is bruised and graceless (and maybe a bit daft here and there), which is exactly why it’s easy to believe. Mostly, though, Public Luxury is a record about a grandmother, about what she handed down, and about the stubborn idea that even a song can change the world God Is In The TV
The fury running through these songs is mostly the joyous, exhilarating kind. Print edition only Uncut
Nine years since their last album, the Providence punks return with another record dripping with righteous fury—and a punchier, newly polished sound to get the message across as clearly as possible Pitchfork
The Rhode Island five-piece return with a ferocious rallying call to fight for your beliefs, with bouncing basslines, muted house chords and stomping drums The Guardian
Public Luxury is a howl of musical and verbal liberation that comes from the heart and the mind. America needs more music like this, and it's good to have Downtown Boys back All Music
Ten years on, Downtown Boys have lost none of their angry edge The Skinny
Beth Orton The Ground Above
Intimate, thoughtful and gorgeously-rendered, it’s a record that confronts love, grief and mortality with rare grace, while continuing a three-decade tradition of artistic and spiritual evolution Clash
The Ground Above ends up somewhere that feels hopeful against the odds. With The Ground Above, Beth Orton settles on a reminder that to have lost is to have loved in the first place Northern Transmissions
The Rolling Stones Foreign Tongues
While Hackney Diamonds was about return and resurgence, Foreign Tongues offers something more nuanced. Above all, the Stones' 25th studio album carries an unforced pleasure in playing together. Print edition only Uncut
Chanel Beads Your Day Will Come
The band’s second album by the same title is an unclassifiable mood piece: a strangely heightened world of desperate characters and hooks like enervated simulacra of more familiar songs Pitchfork
In many ways, Your Day Will Come is the ideal follow-up for a break-out moment: a confident offering that provides more of the same, but better Exclaim
Your Day Will Come is not the future of pop or rock, but nothing yet sounds this much like the present The Line Of Best Fit
The second Chanel Beads album might share its name with its predecessor, but here the New York artist is all about refinement rather than repetition NME
There are intimations of Basinski, The Cure, New Order and (yes) AC, but also of auteurs like Dean Blunt. Print edition only Uncut
Candid album finds hard-won clarity Uncut
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"An urgent manifesto against American injustice and complacency" (9.1/10 - Consequence of Sound). "The Long Beach lyricist delivers his most passionately political release to date" (8/20 - NME)
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