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6 July 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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Kesha. [Period]

". isn't just a good album, it's a decisively great one, full stop" (9/10 - All Music). "A buffet of pop styles and only rare hints of her highly-publicised trauma" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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Kae TempestSelf Titled

"Instinctive and raw, yet tender to the touch, his most powerful statement yet demands to be heard" (9/10 - musicOMH). "A beefy, self-assured celebration of newfound identity" (8/10 - NME)

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Rival ConsolesLandscape From Memory

"A reset of sorts brings forth an album full of positive energy, showcasing electronic music at its most instinctive" (8/10 - musicOMH). "The record's best tracks are exceptional" (7/10 - All Music)

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Albums to watch

Loyle Carnerhopefully!

"Full of love, fatherhood and feeling, the Croydon lyricist’s fourth is less a reinvention than a maturation" (7/10 - musicOMH). "As moving as it is musically satisfying" (8/10 - DIY)

carolineCaroline 2

"Each song is gloriously cinematic, intoxicatingly unexpected and truly powerful, even in its quietest moments" (9/10 - Far Out). "UK post-rock’s preeminent sentimentalists" (8/4/10 - Pitchfork)

StereolabInstant Holograms On Metal Film

"Lætitia Sadier et al pick up where they left off yet sound more timely than ever" (8/10 - The Guardian). "This is highbrow music for lowbrow times" (9/10 - Far Out)

Tune-YardsBetter Dreaming

"May just be their most uplifting and inspiring work" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "May emerge as one of the Oakland duo’s all-time great records after a few years’ passage" (7.8/10 - Paste)

Ezra FurmanGoodbye Small Head

"A record of unflinching honesty and unparalleled vulnerability" (9/10 - DIY). "There’s an urgency coursing through this startling album’s veins that confirms its creator to be one of the most exciting songwriters around" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Jenny HvalIris Silver Mist

"A personal journey through the past and self, focused on the power of scent in evoking forgotten moments" (10/10 - The Guardian. "An immersive album of beguiling charms about memories, isolation and dislocation" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Self EsteemA Complicated Woman

"Her most concentrated and burning record" (10/10 - DIY). "takes the best parts of Prioritise Pleasure and her debut Compliments Please, and turns it all up to 10" (10/10 - musicOMH)

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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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7.3

John Prine

The Tree Of Forgiveness

First album of new songs in 13 years from the American country folk singer-songwriter produced by Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit,Chris Stapleton, Ashley Monroe)

Added: 13/04/2018
7.3

Jim James

Regions Of Light And Sound Of God

Debut solo album from frontman of Louisville, Kentucky psych-rock band My Morning Jacket

Added: 31/01/2013
7.3

Japandroids

Near To The Wild Heart Of Life

Third album from Canadian duo Brian King and David Prowse

Added: 19/01/2017
7.3

J Mascis

Tied To A Star

The third solo album from the Dinosaur Jr alt.rock mainman is another stripped back affair

Added: 22/08/2014
7.3

I Am Kloot

Let It All In

Album No.6 from the Manchester indie rock trio, again produced by Elbow's Guy Garvey and Craig Potter

Added: 15/01/2013
7.3

Field Music

Commontime

Fifth album of alternative pop from Sunderland band led by brothers David and Peter Brewis

Added: 02/02/2016
7.3

Etienne Jaumet

Night Music

French electronic producer with a debut solo album of avant garde low key dance tracks

Added: 09/12/2009
7.3

Engineers

Three Fact Fader

Second album from London based dream pop shoegazers

Added: 01/08/2009
7.3

Emmy The Great

Virtue

Second album from London based, Hong Kong-born indie/folk singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss

Added: 03/06/2011
7.3

Dum Dum Girls

I Will Be

Former frontwoman with post-punk act Grand Ole Party, Dee Dee, with her garage pop debut in her new guise

Added: 23/03/2010
7.3

Deradoorian

Find The Sun

Second solo album from LA-based experimental alt.rock musician Angel Deradoorian and former Dirty Projectors singer

Added: 18/09/2020
7.3

Dark Dark Dark

Who Needs Who

Album number three from this Minneapolis eight-piece, who deal in chamber pop

Added: 01/10/2012
7.3

Crystal Castles

III

The third album by the Canadian experimental synth noise duo

Added: 08/11/2012
7.3

Cornershop

Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast

First album in seven years from the British indie ethnic fusion outfit

Added: 26/07/2009
7.3

Chastity Belt

Chastity Belt

Fourth album from the Walla Walla, Washington indie rock four piece led by Julia Shapiro and co-produced by Jay Som

Added: 19/09/2019
7.3

Charli XCX

Sucker

Second LP from the English popstar, cowritten with, among others, Rivers Cuomo & Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij

Added: 14/12/2014
7.3

Calexico

Algiers

Americana and alt country with a Latin flavour on album No.6 from the Arizona based band led by Joey Burns and John Convertino

Added: 03/09/2012
7.3

BTS

Be

Fifth Korean-language album (ninth overall) from seven-member South Korean boy band

Added: 20/11/2020
7.3

Blank Realm

Illegals In Heaven

Fourth album from the Australian noise rock outfit, their first album ever recorded in a studio

Added: 04/09/2015
7.3

Blackalicious

Imani Vol. 1

Fourth studio album from the Sacramento, California based hip-hop duo consisting of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel

Added: 14/10/2015
7.3

Bill Callahan

Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Lo-fi art rock from onetime Smog, the second album under his own name

Added: 19/04/2009
7.3

Archy Marshall

A New Place 2 Drown

Second album from the London-based singer-songwriter (King Krule) accompanied by a book and short film produced in conjunction with his brother Jack

Added: 11/12/2015
7.3

Why Bonnie

90 In November

Debut album from the Brooklyn-based indie rock quintet

Added: 22/08/2022
7.3

Ulver

The Assassination Of Julius Caesar

Thirteenth studio album from the Norwegian experimental black metal collective

Added: 09/04/2017
7.3

The Mynabirds

Generals

Political indie pop on the second album from Washington singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn

Added: 06/06/2012
7.3

The Leisure Society

The Fine Art of Hanging On

Fourth LP from Nick Hemming's folk-pop group

Added: 13/04/2015
7.3

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Meat And Bone

The NY trio return after an eight-year break to continue their garage blues assault

Added: 14/09/2012
7.3

The Futureheads

Powers

Sixth album and first for seven years from the Sunderland indie rock quartet who reformed in January 2019

Added: 29/08/2019
7.3

The Fall

Your Future Our Clutter

Twenty eighth studio album from Mark E Smith's band and first on Domino Records

Added: 14/04/2010
7.3

The Cranberries

In the End

Eighth and final album from the Irish alternative rock group following the death of singer Dolores O'Riordan in January 2018, produced by Stephen Street

Added: 24/04/2019

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"A tight 17-track, 38-minute album that should be welcomed by all fans" (8/10 - All Music). "A warm blanket of bedroom pop vignettes, Frankie Cosmos's sixth album is a comforting listening" (6/10 - The Skinny)

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"This sublime collection of breakup bangers could well be the soundtrack to your summer" (10/10 - Rolling Stone UK). "Rarely works up a sweat yet maintains a jiggling, low-level funk" (8/10 - The Arts Desk)

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"On their exceptional new album, the US band double down on the vibrant eccentricity of 2021’s ‘Glow On’" (10/10 - NME). "It’s nothing short of a masterpiece" (10/10 - Dork

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"Shirley Manson’s gang channel a more optimistic outlook, and display some of their most profound songwriting to date" (10/10 - NME)

Matt BerningerGet Sunk
"Retains the signature charm of The National while highlighting Berninger’s strengths as a writer" (8/10 - Dork). "A subtly textured delight that feels both playful and emotional" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Sports TeamBoys These Days
"This might be the most Sports Team they’ve ever sounded, and somehow, it’s also the best" (8/10 - Dork). "Sharp, funny, and sometimes sobering soundtrack to young adulthood in freefall" (8/10 - XS Noize)

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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.