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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

My Brightest Diamond

All Things Will Unwind

Third studio album of chamber pop from the New York-based singer-songwriter Shara Worden

Added: 16/10/2011
7.2

Mountain Man

Magic Ship

Second album and first in eight years from North Carolina-based trio

Added: 20/09/2018
7.2

MGMT

Little Dark Age

Fourth album from Brooklyn-based psyechedlic pop duo Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden, produced by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev) and Chairlift member Patrick Wimberly

Added: 08/02/2018
7.2

Medicine

To The Happy Few

Eighteen years after breaking up, the alt.rock band reform to release their fifth album of shoegaze noise-rock

Added: 30/07/2013
7.2

Mattiel

Satis Factory

Second album from the Atlanta-based singer-songwriter co-produced by Randy Michael and Jonah Swilley

Added: 14/06/2019
7.2

Matthew Bourne

Montauk Variations

Album of solo piano pieces from the English avante-garde jazz musician

Added: 08/02/2012
7.2

Martha Wainwright

Goodnight City

Latest album from the Canadian singer-songwriter, with guest contributions from novelist Merrill Garbus, Glen Hansard and Beth Orton

Added: 11/11/2016
7.2

Marconi Union

A Lost Connection

Third album from Manchester electronic duo Richard Talbot and Jamie Crossley

Added: 13/07/2010
7.2

Maisie Peters

The Good Witch

Second full-length release from the English pop singer-songwriter working with producers including Joe Rubel, Elvira Anderfjärd, Oscar Görres, Matias Téllez and Ben Ash

Added: 23/06/2023
7.2

Luke Haines

British Nuclear Bunkers

A concept album created entirely using analogue synths from the English singer-songwriter

Added: 25/10/2015
7.2

Loyle Carner

Not Waving, But Drowning

Second album from the South London, Mercury Prize-nominated grime artist

Added: 18/04/2019
7.2

Los Lobos

Native Sons

Seventeenth studio album of roots rock from the Los Angeles five-piece features covers of songs about Los Angeles

Added: 02/08/2021
7.2

Little Dragon

New Me, Same Us

Sixth album of dreamy trip hop/pop from the Gothenburg outfit

Added: 25/03/2020
7.2

Lily Konigsberg

Lily We Need to Talk Now

Debut solo album from the musician who is also a member of the indie-rock trio Palberta

Added: 02/11/2021
7.2

Lifeguard

Ripped And Torn

Second studio from the Chicago indo rock trio produced by No Age”s Randy Randall

Added: 06/06/2025
7.2

Led Bib

The People In Your Neighbourhood

Fifth album from the modern jazz five-piece, follow-up to the Mercury Nominated Sensible Shoes

Added: 24/04/2014
7.2

Kwes

ILP

Debut album from London-born producer Kwesi Sey who has produced for The xx and Dels and played live with Bobby Womack

Added: 15/10/2013
7.2

Katie Dey

Flood Network

Second album of lo-fi indie pop from the Australian singer-songwriter

Added: 11/08/2016
7.2

Juice WRLD

Legends Never Die

Posthumous release for the third album from rapper Jarad Higgins includes guest appearances from Halsey, Marshmello, Polo G, The Kid Laro

Added: 16/07/2020
7.2

John Carpenter

Halloween OST

Original Soundtrack to the 2018 motion picture paying homage to the classic Halloween score that Carpenter composed and recorded in 1978

Added: 25/10/2018
7.2

James Yorkston

The Route to The Harmonium

Latest release from the Fife folk singer-songwriter produced by David Wrench (Julian Cope, Bear In Heaven, Alessi's Ark)

Added: 25/02/2019
7.2

Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs

Medicine County

Latest offering of retro rockabilly, R&B and country rock from the British singer-songwriter now working as a duo with Lawyer Dave

Added: 12/04/2010
7.2

Heterotic

Love & Devotion

Planet Mu boss Mike Paradinas teams up with his partner Lara Rix-Martin and psych folk artist Nick Talbot (Gravenhurst) for an album of 80s-inspred electronic and dance sounds

Added: 27/03/2013
7.2

Grumbling Fur

Glynnaestra

Second album from the avant-pop band now with a stripped back line up of Daniel O'Sullivan and Alexander Tucker

Added: 29/07/2013
7.2

Goldheart Assembly

Long Distance Song Effects

Second album from the London-based indie folk rock band once touted as the UK's answer to Fleet Foxes

Added: 25/07/2013
7.2

Girl Friday

Androgynous Mary

Debut album from the LA-based indie rock quartet

Added: 25/08/2020
7.2

Frightened Rabbit

Quietly Now!

Live recording showcasing most of the emotional melodic alt.rock tracks from the Glasgow's four-piece's first studio album

Added: 01/04/2009
7.2

Field Report

Marigolden

Second album from the Milwaukee folk band led by Christopher Porterfield

Added: 14/10/2014
7.2

Eades

Delusion Spree

Debut album from the Leeds-based art-punk band

Added: 04/03/2022
7.2

Drive-By Truckers

English Oceans

Album number 10 from the Georgia alt. country rockers, recorded in collaboration with longtime producer David Barbe

Added: 02/03/2014

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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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"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)

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