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3 April 2025

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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Perfume GeniusGlory

"A glorious album that beguiles and enchants, all while insecurity and vulnerability lurk underneath" (10/10 - music OMH). "Perhaps his most musically expansive record to date" (9/10 - DIY)

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DeafheavenLonely People With Power

"Deafheaven’s best album yet, and one that serves as a snapshot of a band at the peak of their powers" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "As singular and engrossing as heavy albums get" (8/10 - DIY)

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DestroyerDan's Boogie

"The mercurial Canadian’s perspective and lavish instrumentation are a reminder of beauty’s potential" (10/10 - The Guardian). "Dan’s Boogie is Bejar’s most graceful album yet" (9/10 - Northern Transmissions)

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Edwyn CollinsNation Shall Speak Unto Nation

"A fine album overflowing with excellent musical moments" (8/10 - Clash). "All of this music is a blast, an affecting display of the emotional textures which Collins has always dealt in so confidently, regardless of his health issues" (8/10 - Record Collector)

DivorceDrive To Goldenhammer

"Early contender for album of the year, Divorce are jumping to the front of the next-big-thing-queue" (10/10 - The Skinny). "Rare to find a debut album that exudes as much honesty" (9/10 - Clash)

Sam FenderPeople Watching

"Every song on People Watching is carefully crafted to remain with the listener" (10/10 - The Skinny). "Sam Fender is no longer just a vital voice in UK rock; he’s perhaps the most essential one" (10/10 - Dork)

Youth LagoonRarely Do I Dream

"This is a record you won’t forget in a hurry" (8/10 - Far Out). "The album represents a more mature development of Powers’ vision" (8.3/10 - Beats Per Minute). "Vital and exciting" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

John GlacierLike A Ribbon

"A captivating honest offering from a generational artist" (9/10 - Dork). "On one of the most accomplished debuts of recent times" (9/10 - musicOMH). "You’ll be repeating it again and again" (10/10 - The Guardian)

Sharon Van EttenSharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

"Songs which are anthemic in feel and universal in their lyricism" (10/10 - DIY). "It’s a bold step that suggests even bigger, better things to come" (8/10 - Dork)

last 12 months

The ADM rating is a weighted average from our survey of more than 50 sources , taking into account the number of reviews

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7.1

Dehd

Poetry

Fifth full-length album from the Chicago indie rock trio produced by the band's guitarist Jason Balla

Added: 15/05/2024
7.1

Bodega

Our Brand Could Be Yr Life

Third album from the Brooklyn-based art punks and first for Chrysalis

Added: 15/04/2024
7.1

A Place to Bury Strangers

Synthesizer

Seventh album from the New York–based noise rock band led by Oliver Ackermann

Added: 10/10/2024
7.0

Mandrake Handshake

Earth-Sized Worlds

Debut album from the art-pop Oxford-based band

Added: 21/02/2025
7.0

86TVs

86TVs

Debut album from the The Maccabees' Felix and Hugo White with brother Will and former Noisettes drummer Jamie Morrison produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, Kaiser Chiefs)

Added: 12/08/2024
7.0

Lauren Mayberry

Vicious Creature

Debut solo album from the Chvrches singer

Added: 05/12/2024
7.0

Kings Of Leon

Can We Please Have Fun

Album number nine from the Nashvill rock quartet produced by Kid Harpoon (Florence + the Machine, Harry Styles, Jessie Ware)

Added: 10/05/2024
7.0

Linkin Park

From Zero

Eighth studio album and first in seven years from the Californian alt.rock group featuring new co-lead singer Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara

Added: 15/11/2024
7.0

Normani

Dopamine

Debut full-length solo release from former Fifth Harmony singer featuring guest appearances from Cardi B, James Blake, Gunna and Starrah

Added: 14/06/2024
7.0

Central Cee

Can't Rush Greatness

Debut studio album from the London-born rapper Oakley Neil H T Caesar-Su featuring guest appearances from Young Miko, 21 Savage, Dave, Lil Durk, Skepta and Lil Baby

Added: 24/01/2025
6.9

Fucked Up

Another Day

Eighth studio album by genre-bending Canadian hardcore punk outfit where each band member had only twenty-four hours to record their parts

Added: 09/08/2024
6.9

Tinashe

Quantum Baby

Seventh album from the Lexington, Kentucky R&B artist is the second installment of a planned album trilogy

Added: 19/08/2024
6.9

Paul Weller

66

Seventeenth full-length solo album from the veteran English rock artist features contributions from Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, Suggs of Madness and Richard Hawley

Added: 24/05/2024
6.9

Crowded House

Gravity Stairs

Eighth full-length studio release from the New Zealand rock band led by Neil Finn and produced with Steven Schram

Added: 30/05/2024
6.9

Snapped Ankles

HARD TIMES FURIOUS DANCING

Latest full-length album for the London post-punk, electronica band

Added: 02/04/2025
6.9

Larkin Poe

Bloom

Seventh album from the Georgia roots rock band led by Rebecca and Megan Lovell

Added: 30/01/2025
6.9

Girl In Red

I'M Doing It Again Baby!

Second full-length album from the Norwegian indie pop artist Marie Ulven working with producer Matias Tellez

Added: 12/04/2024
6.9

Biig Piig

11:11

Debut full-length album from the London-based Irish dance-pop artist Jessica Smyth who switches between English and Spanish

Added: 07/02/2025
6.9

Hiatus Kaiyote

Love Heart Cheat Code

Fourth album from the Australian neo-soul outfit led by Nai Palm produced by Mario Caldato Jr

Added: 27/06/2024
6.9

Childish Gambino

Bando Stone & the New World

Fifth studio album and final under his stage name Childish Gambino from Donald Glover featuring guest appearances from Amaarae, Chlöe, Flo Milli, Fousheé, Khruangbin and Legend

Added: 24/07/2024
6.9

Porij

Teething

Debut full-length release from the Manchester alt-dance quartet

Added: 26/04/2024
6.8

FLO

Access All Areas

Debut full-length album from the London-based R&B trio featuring guest appearances from Cynthia Erivo and Glorilla

Added: 15/11/2024
6.8

Playboi Carti

Music

Third album from the Atlanta rapper Jordan Terrell Carter, with guests including Travis Scott, the Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar and Ty Dolla Sign

Added: 17/03/2025
6.8

Lady Gaga

Harlequin

The latest album from the New York pop singer is a companion album to the film "Joker: Folie et Deux" that she stars in

Added: 27/09/2024
6.8

Kehlani

Crash

Fourth album from Oakland R&B singer Kehlani Ashley Parrish includes guest appearances from Jill Scott, Young Miko, and Omah Lay

Added: 24/06/2024
6.8

Kate Nash

Made of Bricks

Fifth studio album from the English singer-songwriter

Added: 21/06/2024
6.8

Pixies

The Night the Zombies Came

Ninth album from the the Boston alt.rock legends and fifth since they reformed and first with Band of Skulls' Emma Richardson as bassist

Added: 24/10/2024
6.7

Franz Ferdinand

The Human Fear

Sixth album from the Scottishindie rock band and first since with drummer Audrey Tait, who replaced original member Paul Thomson in 2021

Added: 06/01/2025
6.7

Travis

L.A. Times

Tenth studio album from the Scottish indie rock four-piece produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Air)

Added: 12/07/2024
6.7

Fat White Family

Forgiveness Is Yours

Fourth album of lo-fi rock from the South London band led by Lias and Nathan Saoudi and first without guitarist Saul Adamczewski

Added: 25/04/2024

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"Deliciously nuanced songwriting shines" (10/10 - NME). "The album’s production is imbued with a rich sense of depth and warmth" (9/10 - Slant)

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"More enveloping, mesmeric and, at times, beautiful in its mannered rage" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "Benefits shift between EDM, techno, rave and bleak, apocalyptic sonic wastelands" (8/10 - The Skinny)

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"Words struggle to capture the magnitude of this mountainous piece of music" (9/10 - Far Out). "Revelling in their history and carving a path for a new future, The Horrors feel as vital as ever" (8/10 - Dork)

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"This is philosophical space rock for adults, a sumptuous soundtrack for the unthinkable future" (10/10 - The Arts Desk). "There is no one doing it quite like Steven Wilson" (8/10 - Clash)

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"a shoo-in for Isbell’s seventh Grammy – has already set the bar for best Americana album of the year" (10/10 - Mojo). "Jason Isbell is one of the most powerful voices in modern Americana" (7/10 - musicOMH)

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"Maximalism meets controlled chaos on the superstar’s first pop album in half a decade – and it’s just so much fun" (8/10 - NME). "An album that sounds not retro, but relevant" (8/10 - The Guardian)

Mdou MoctarTears Of Injustice
"No less powerful than the originals" (8/10 - Rolling Stone). "If Funeral For Justice was an eruption, here is its ghost, an echo of the same songs, reimagined in a raw, stripped-down form" (10/10 - musicOMH)

BdrmmMicrotonic
"A deep love for dance music and invigorating writing infuses the band’s third record with an incredible vitality" (10/10 - NME). "A eureka moment for bdrmm" (8/10 - Clash)

All-time top 10

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.

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