8 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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Sia Reasonable Woman
She enlists help from guest artists and DJs to encapsulate the past six years – but there’s no innovation or originality Beats Per Minute
Jessica Pratt Here In The Pitch
Here In The Pitch is a staggering work that represents a high point in an artist’s career, and, even more, it pulls off some of the most unique pieces of music that feel impossible to replicate Northern Transmissions
Iron & Wine Light Verse
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Dua Lipa Radical Optimism
The English-Albanian pop superstar’s follow-up to Future Nostalgia lacks color, edge and instinct, as its 11 songs get lost beneath Kevin Parker and Danny L Harle’s psychedelic dependencies Paste Magazine
Hana Vu Romanticism
Even if the record’s themes or lyrics play as a touch dramatic, Vu makes it easy to get swept up in the melodrama of each ascendant harmony and pounding guitar chord, seizing on the time when each swirl of emotion felt new and potent Under The Radar
Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement
Jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s latest album, Fearless Movement, inspires motion and emotion by combining contemporary jazz with pop, soul, and rap PopMatters
The Australian hitmaker’s 10th studio album is an overproduced amalgamation of disco, hip-hop, and radio pop that even Sia’s gale-force delivery can only carry so far Pitchfork
Talk of a new musical direction proves unfounded as the Grammy-winning singer’s third album shares more retro-inspired dance pop and lessons from her love life The Observer
He doesn't merely juxtapose instruments and sounds, he painstakingly combines them, bringing joy, intensity, political, social, and spiritual poignancy in a vision at once focused, restless, and playful All Music
Camera Obscura Look to the East, Look to the West
Look to the East, Look to the West could not have been an easy record for the band to make: the obvious emotion and care they have poured into it are a fitting, hopefully healing tribute to a fallen loved one and a heart-warming gift to a fan base who feared they may never hear music from them again All Music
Mdou Moctar Funeral For Justice
This is a band and artist working at their peak, and Funeral for Justice is a career highlight All Music
Replacing the gothic, post-punk vibes for more accessible, mainstream tracks, it’s still a good indie-pop album, but you can’t help but long for slightly less glitter and slightly more grunge Dork
In the constant struggle between hiding emotion and indulging in its depths publicly, Vu satisfyingly finds a way to prioritise reflection and release. Clash
The LA singer-songwriter makes sadness eminently danceable on her sophomore LP Paste Magazine
Setting its heavy heart aside, the album still affects with an emotional roller coaster of musical material, recommended together for a good dance-cry All Music
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"Restlessly inventive and packed with ideas" (10-/10 - The Guardian). "A visceral examination of art and nature when both are pushed to the brink" (9/10 - Slant)
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