20 May 2024
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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Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard And Soft
It’s an album that demands to be heard, experienced, and celebrated – a towering achievement from a once-in-a-generation talent who is only just getting started Dork
Kings Of Leon Can We Please Have Fun
As long as they’re now able to enjoy themselves and remember why they started playing music together in the first place, that’s all you can ask for Dork
Les Savy Fav OUI, LSF
14 songs chock-full of purpose, attitude, and humour Dork
A.G. Cook Britpop
Less sprawling and all-encompassing than his previous seven-disc opus ‘7G’ and its curious partner ‘Apple’ released in 2020, ‘Britpop’ feels like the perfect encapsulation of A. G. Cook, the artist Dork
A bold, well-crafted pop record Sputnik Music (staff)
It’s an ambitious, focused, condensed and intimate and knowing piece of work The Arts Desk
Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown
This is a brave album from a woman who doesn’t shrink from darkness The Arts Desk
More than thirty years on from her game changing musical debut, Beth Gibbons’ first solo effort plates up a hearty blend of poetry and psychedelia, stirred in amongst a helping of folk, and finished off beautifully with her stunning voice. It’s hard to resist coming back for seconds God Is In The TV
Amen Dunes Death Jokes
Much like its climactic track, Death Jokes is enigmatic, overwhelming, and even indulgent, but it is also a singular and stirring effort, one which rewards those who choose to untangle its knots Under The Radar
Lives Outgrown is a collection that will make you feel small, such is its world view and acknowledgement of the natural world’s — and time’s — brutal indifference to human suffering Under The Radar
Hit Me Hard and Soft makes you marvel at how far she’s traveled as a pop artiste Rolling Stone
The album is a world unto itself and the most fully realized version of the singer’s sound Slant Magazine
Nonconformist at heart, Hit Me Hard and Soft’s sonic realm she constructs alongside Finneas adds even more bizarre quirks to the definitive palette The Line Of Best Fit
Arab Strap I'm totally fine with it don't give a fuck anymore
There's a playfulness to their genre-hopping tact, with Moffat fitting his often-loose prose to warped club beats (Bliss), folk twang (Molehills), and 80s-inspired soft-rock (You're Not There) No Ripcord
Tender, weird, emotional, surreal, and completely unique – this might be the very best pop album of 2024 musicOMH
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