31 January 2023
Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.
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Third album from the Chicago-born house DJ and producer Honey Redmond
7.1
The house superstar's second studio album is full of freeing tracks that'll enable you to leave your worries on the dancefloor Read Review
The Chicago DJ delves into new jack swing, disco and house across 15 jubilant, guest-studded tracks Read Review
Fresh off Beyoncé’s co-sign, the house DJ and producer returns with a joyous, collaboration-filled LP that channels the buzzy, late-night feeling when affection and tenderness flow freely Read Review
Black Girl Magic accomplishes two very important goals of any record: reminding you Honey Dijon is an artist to watch, and being quite a fun listen Read Review
As one of the best DJs on the planet, this is a heart shaped look back to the sounds and to the experiences that have shaped her as a DJ, an artist, and a person, and she’s gloriously unapologetic about that Read Review
A mixed bag of high-energy offerings that listeners will dip into when they need to be lifted up Read Review
The house legend and Beyoncé collaborator is back with 15 celebratory hits that span styles and explode with personality Read Review
Young Fathers Heavy Heavy
Young Fathers return with an engrossing new album featuring everything from orchestral pomp to 2-step beats, snarling claustrophobia to R'n'B slow-jams The Skinny
Sam Smith Gloria
As much as Smith tries to step out of the box, the singer still sounds most comfortable playing to their previously established strengths Slant Magazine
Samia Honey
With ample self-awareness and a keen sense of the surreal, Samia delivers a sonically dynamic voyage through the monstrous and merciful extremes of intimacy PopMatters
H.C. McEntire Every Acre
It all makes H.C. McEntire both a musical and writing force to be reckoned with Spill Magazine
Tranquil and reverberant, the North Carolina folk songwriter’s new album finds relief and resolution in the circadian rhythms of the natural world Pitchfork
Mostly they don't sound like anyone except themselves, multiplied by a thousand. Print edition only Uncut
Young Fathers remain a frequently forbidding proposition, and all the better for it. Thrillingly, it's still impossible to predict what we might hear next in any of their tracks. Print edition only Mojo
Fans of the early records of Margo Price and Courtney Marie Andrews will find much to love here, while the diversion into groovesome country soul on Rows Of Clover keeps the head nodding. Print edition only Mojo
Every one of these songs is a big-hearted meditation on love and sex and faith and especially healing, as though what roots us to our own lands is loss and grief and recovery. Print edition only Uncut
H.C. McEntire seeks salvation on Every Acre, but these songs suggest it can be found in how one approaches the world rather than in some supernatural entity PopMatters
Every Acre is her way of reckoning with the juxtaposing natures inhabiting each of us, searching for personal illumination while also knowing that there are yet some places untouched by her curiosity and resolve Beats Per Minute
Every Acre is a profound listen, one that reveals more wisdom the more you surrender to it. McEntire has discovered painful truths in the process, without ever letting herself or our history off the hook Paste Magazine
SG Lewis AudioLust & HigherLove
The second album from the UK pop producer is pleasant and anonymous, all good vibes and cabana jams Pitchfork
Meg Baird Furling
Unfailingly imaginative, her return offers another vital chapter in her unfailingly riveting career Clash
Fucked Up One Day
Excellent musicianship combines with heartfelt lyricism to offer, perhaps, Fucked Up’s finest effort yet, certainly their most focused XS Noize
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