17 May 2022
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Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
The listening experience is defined by languorous stretches between big moments, and becomes more of an exercise in patience than an engaging and enlivening journey Sputnik Music (staff)
Everything Everything Raw Data Feel
It casts a curious glance over our relationship with technology The Arts Desk
Everything Everything turn to the world of AI, offering up a record of deepfaked pop The Skinny
The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention
Deftly and with great poise and imagination, the captivating music on A Light For Attracting Attention ushers the listener with an uncluttered, organic warmth and electrifying passages of juxtaposition whilst obeying its own private rules Vinyl Chapters
Few storytellers, if any, are able to deliver a comment on society that is both as observative and introspective as Kendrick’s Gigwise
Harry Styles Harry's House
The album sees Styles growing comfortable enough within the pop idiom that he inhabits to push against it—but only ever so slightly Slant Magazine
Harry’s House is a good album because it doesn’t care if you think so. It's not trying to appease the male critics chained to the altar of classic rock, and it isn’t showering you in glitter and hauling you onto the dance floor The Line Of Best Fit
Harry Styles delivers sleek, heartfelt pop pleasures on his great third album Rolling Stone
Styles coos canny – though perhaps not especially deep – lyrics over 70s guitar and 80s hooks on a mature third album where every song feels like a single The Guardian
Styles has put together an album that's so solid, even moments that would be cringeworthy when handled by lesser pop stars feel earned Entertainment Weekly
While with one hand he’s exploring vivid lyrical micro-vignettes, he’s still obfuscating with the other DIY
Florence + The Machine Dance Fever
A welcome shot of fairy-tale hedonism ripe for post-pandemic dancefloor indulgence DIY
Kae Tempest The Line Is A Curve
Every corner, every nook of Tempest’s reflections on their life’s prospective trajectory is a self-affirmation, not necessarily out of satisfaction, but out of trust that everyday life has more to offer than middling routine Spectrum Culture
Whether you’re chomping at the bit for a new Radiohead album, or simply want to listen to some wonderfully executed and experimental alternative rock, this is a record worthy of your time Loud And Quiet
A record that reaches out halfway and asks you to do the rest of the work, and it’s deeply rewarding as a result Loud And Quiet
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"Warm, comforting return from a band who do what they do extremely well" (musicOMH). "Strikes a balance between the band’s familiar sound and proving they still have something to say" (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