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7 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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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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7.2

The Fiery Furnaces

I'm Going Away

Seventh studio album from the Brooklyn experimental indie rock band

Added: 31/07/2009
7.2

Tennis

Ritual in Repeat

Third album of fuzzed surf pop from Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, produced by Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) Jim Eno (Spoon) and Richard Swift

Added: 10/09/2014
7.2

Taylor Swift

Lover

Seventh studio album from the popstar includes guest appearances from the Dixie Chicks and Brendon Urie (Panic! at the Disco)

Added: 23/08/2019
7.2

Surfer Blood

Tarot Classics

The Florida five-piece follow up their debut album Astro Coast with an EP of lo-fi indie rock

Added: 24/10/2011
7.2

Sun Kil Moon

Admiral Fell Promises

Fourth collection of indie folk from singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek under his Sun Kil Moon guise, accompanied by acoustic guitar only

Added: 22/07/2010
7.2

Stars

The North

The Canadian indie rock / dream pop band with their 6th album, again produced by Tony Hoffer

Added: 06/09/2012
7.2

Sons And Daughters

Mirror Mirror

Third release from Glasgow's indie rock quartet, produced by Optimo's JD Twitch

Added: 30/05/2011
7.2

Screaming Females

Rose Mountain

Album number six from the New Jersey indie punk trio produced by Mat Bayles (Minus The Bear, Cursive, Mastodon)

Added: 24/02/2015
7.2

Ry Cooder

Election Special

The veteran singer-songwriter and roots guitarist gives his take on the US presidential elections

Added: 16/08/2012
7.2

Rebecca Ferguson

Heaven

Pop, soul and R&B on the debut from the Liverpool singer who was the 2010 UK X Factor runner-up

Added: 02/12/2011
7.2

Phoenix

Bankrupt!

First album in four years for the French synth pop band, following up the hugely successful Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Added: 15/04/2013
7.2

O’Death

Outside

Third album of alt.country from the Brooklyn band

Added: 27/04/2011
7.2

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Barn

The 41st studio album from the veteran singer-songwriter and 14th with Crazy Horse

Added: 09/12/2021
7.2

Midlake

For The Sake Of Bethel Woods

Fifth album and first since 2013 from the 70s influenced indie rock six-piece formed in Denton, Texas produced by John Congleton

Added: 18/03/2022
7.2

Mastodon

Emperor of Sand

Seventh album from the Atlanta heavy metal group, produced by Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Bruce Springsteen)

Added: 27/03/2017
7.2

Lanterns On The Lake

Until The Colours Run

Second release from the Newcastle-based quintet, offering atmospheric indie rock with alt.folk undertones

Added: 10/09/2013
7.2

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Flight b741

Twenty sixth album from the Melbourne psych-rock six-piece marks a return to the band's blues rock and boogie roots

Added: 09/08/2024
7.2

Honeyblood

Honeyblood

Debut album of indie pop from the Glasgow duo produced by Peter Katis (Frightened Rabbit, The National)

Added: 10/07/2014
7.2

Hayley Williams

FLOWERS for VASES / descansos

Second solo album from the Mississippi-born Paramore singer produced by Daniel James (Selena Gomez, The Veronicas)

Added: 08/02/2021
7.2

Frankie Cosmos

Vessel

Third studio album of low-key indie pop from the New York City-born singer-songwriter Greta Kline

Added: 28/03/2018
7.2

Foals

What Went Down

Fourth album of indie alternative rock from the Oxford five-piece, produced by James Ford (Haim, Florence and the Machine, Arctic Monkeys)

Added: 22/08/2015
7.2

Floating Points

Reflections: Mojave Desert

The first in a series of site-specific musical works and films from electronic musician and neuroscientist Sam Shepherd, recorded in the Californian desert

Added: 29/06/2017
7.2

Fennesz Daniell Buck

Knoxville

The results, recorded live, of a spontaneous get-together at a Knoxville festival of experimental big-hitters, Christian Fennesz, David Daniell Tony Buck

Added: 23/08/2010
7.2

Dustin O’Halloran

Lumiere

Fourth album from LA-born, Berlin-based pianist and composer and member of Devics

Added: 04/03/2011
7.2

Drenge

Undertow

Second album from the English post-grunge band and their first release as a three-piece

Added: 03/04/2015
7.2

Deerhoof

Actually, You Can

Album number eighteen from the experimental San Francisco indie rock quartet

Added: 22/10/2021
7.2

Das Racist

Relax

First "official" album from the satirical alternative hip hop outfit, featuring beats from producers Diplo and El-P

Added: 15/09/2011
7.2

Damien Jurado

What's New, Tomboy?

Latest release from the Seattle singer-songwriter is his third consecutive self-produced album

Added: 01/05/2020
7.2

Crocodiles

Crimes Of Passion

Fourth album from the San Diego noise pop duo produced by Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes

Added: 12/08/2013
7.2

Cat Power

Cat Power Sings Dylan

Live recording of the November 2022 concert at London's Royal Albert Hall by the indie singer-songwriter Chan Marshall

Added: 10/11/2023

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