21 May 2013
Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 publications 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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Fourth album from the Minnesota-based, MySpace and YouTube-indebted electro-pop artist Adam Young, this time with production aid from Stargate and a guest spot for Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus
4.3
A brave and bold addition to what is increasingly looking like a catalogue to relish Read Review
Amazingly enough, this juxtaposition of party-minded music and heartfelt sentimentality works Read Review
The whole thing just feels so cynical, from the weaving in of trance and dub-step beats to the token genre-bending guest appearance from Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus Read Review
One of the more insipid popvocal stylists of his generation, if not any generation Read Review
Young just sounds burned out. Print edition only
Young's ravey electronics, cresting repeatedly in asexual climax, may be as G-rated as a post-prom lock-in, but they hold their own against the faceless slabs with which so many of today's hitmakers clobber clubbers Read Review
So empty and flavourless it should come stamped with a Ginsters logo Read Review
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Owl City: The Midsummer Station
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Daft Punk's most personal work, and richly rewarding for listeners willing to spend time with it All Music
The National Trouble Will Find Me
For better or for worse, they perfected their sound the last time around, so it’s hard to fault them for sticking so close to the fire All Music
Scout Niblett It’s Up To Emma
The listener will feel they've experienced the same soul-scouring catharsis as Scout herself. Print edition only Q
Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs Clarietta
Clarietta really hits the mark, with a high strike rate of knockout tunes. Print edition only Q
Boyer and his crew display an impressive classicism, but retain the vigour of youth. Print edition only Uncut
Texas The Conversation
Pleasant enough, but you may feel you've heard this conversation before. Print edition only Mojo
A gripping twist on a timeless classic. Print edition only Mojo
Eluvium Nightmare Ending
A collection of overly saturated tunes featuring some of the most emotive sounds he’s ever compiled Sputnik Music (staff)
Cooper's ability to infuse a very human emotional arc into his wordless sheets of sound is a large part of what's made his body of work so captivating All Music
For all its unoriginality, ‘Clarietta’ more than makes amends with the proficient psychedelia of its groove-based jams This Is Fake DIY
Clarietta is exactly the sum of its parts, which makes it a breezy listen, but never more than that The Guardian
Derivative but rarely dull The Observer
The album doesn’t travel a straight path, but meanders through Eluvium’s many modes of spectral beauty Consequence Of Sound
There’s plenty of charm, and though a lot of it has been beaten to death with a revivalist stick before, it’s still a really fun record The Line Of Best Fit
30 Seconds To Mars Love Lust Faith
A disappointingly tepid affair Drowned In Sound
Jack Tatum has another critical success to his name with this 7-track EP of psychedelic synthpop and indie rock. Fake DIY call it "a great listen", while Paste Magazine say he "still proves to be a visionary"
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past four years or so
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
PJ Harvey Let England Shake
My Bloody Valentine mbv
Ry Cooder Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Tom Waits Bad As Me
Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid