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Britpop

Album number thirteen from the Stoke-born pop icon featuring guest appearances from Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and Jesse & Joy

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Columbia
UK Release date
16/01/2026
US Release date
16/01/2026
  1. 8.0 |   Clash

    NEW This is an album that doesn’t really need any artificial bluster to draw attention. The songs are more than good enough
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    NEW Framed as the music Williams wanted to make post-Take That, Britpop surpasses pastiche and swerves unpredictably. Homoerotic paean to Morrissey, anyone?
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  3. 8.0 |   Dork

    NEW It feels like a man pressing ‘deploy’ because he can’t stand to wait any longer to see if the myth still works. It does. Not perfectly. But more than enough for Rob to keep on being Rob
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  4. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    NEW Robbie Williams is finally channelling his love of Oasis into his music with this enjoyably superficial tribute album
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  5. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone UK

    NEW On his thirteenth album, Robbie Williams sounds like he's having the most fun he's had in years
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  6. 7.0 |   Hot Press

    NEW Solid if unspectacular effort from pop icon
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  7. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    NEW Some of the tonal shifts may cause whiplash, but on this throwback to the carefree days of the mid-1990s there’s no denying its author’s way with a memorable tune
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  8. 6.0 |   NME

    NEW Nostalgia offers the pop icon protection on this daft but deft celebration of the ‘Angels’ hitmaker's journey so far
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  9. 6.0 |   The Independent

    NEW Former Take That singer is on top form for his first proper album in a decade, throwing in a Gary Barlow reunion just for the hell of it
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