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21 December 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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Dove EllisBlizzard

"With shades of Jeff and Tim Buckley, the Galway-born artist writes tunes so strong they seem as familiar as old friends" (10/10 - The Guardian). "The sound is entirely his" (8/10 - DIY)

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Melody’s Echo ChamberUnclouded

"The music is immaculate and interesting throughout" (8/10 - Northern Transmissions). "A record that is just as impressively crafted as anything she has done" (9/10 - All Music)

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Oneohtrix Point NeverTranquilizer

"An impossibly dense and transportive electronic album that takes impermanence as its inspiration" (8.6/10 - Pitchfork). "A demonstration of Daniel Lopatin’s mastery of structural tension" (9/10 - Slant)

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SnocapsSnocaps

"They are back playing pop that is pretty darn unmatched" (8.6/10 - Northern Transmissions). "A hailstorm of warm, exceptionally-written country-rock bangers backed by MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook" (8.5/10 - Paste)

Florence + The MachineEverybody Scream

"Florence Welch enlists horror and magic to harness hope" (10/10 - NME). "An urgent and vital testimony to survival and rebirth, Florence Welch’s sixth album is a defiant middle finger to doubters" (9/10 - musicOMH)

Lily AllenWest End Girl

"Her best album in 16 years, an incisive diary of a marriage in freefall" (10/10 - The Independent). "A hard-hitting pop exposition, while also providing an endless supply of hooks" (8/10 - Clash)

The Last Dinner PartyFrom The Pyre

"Insanely rich with ideas, hooks, smart artifice and real emotion, From The Pyre is a feast of giddy raptures" (10/10 - Record Collector). "Both thematically and sonically richer" (10/10 - DIY)

BrògealTuesday Paper Club

"2026 is there for Brogeal’s taking, they’re gonna be a lot of people’s new favourite band" (8/10 - God Is In The TV). "This is what it sounds like when a band get it right the first time" (10/10 - Dork)

Jay SomBelong

"With ‘Belong’ serving notice of Jay Som’s continued abilities" (8/10 - Clash). "Will undoubtedly solidify her reputation as your favourite pop singer's favourite pop singer" (8/10 - Exclaim"

IdlewildIdlewild

"The fact they are producing some of their best work seems almost absurd, and yet here we are" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "Idlewild is no nostalgic LP—it’s the sound of a band rejuvenated" (10/10 - XS Noize)

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7.2

Snow Ghosts

Small Murmuration

Debut album of what has been called folk metal from Ross Tones and Hannah Cartwright, with electronic and industrial undertones

Added: 14/07/2013
7.2

Sneaks

It's a Myth

Second album of minimalist post-punk from Washington DC-based Eva Moolchan

Added: 01/04/2017
7.2

Skullcrusher

And Your Song is Like a Circle

Second full-length album from the New York indie folk singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine

Added: 19/10/2025
7.2

Scowl

We Are All Angels

Second full-length album from the Santa Cruz hardcore group produced by Will Yip

Added: 04/04/2025
7.2

Rose Gray

Louder, Please

Debut album from the London musician is homage to dance music and club culture

Added: 21/01/2025
7.2

Robert Pollard

Honey Locust Honky Tonk

Nineteenth solo album from the hyper-productive singer-songwriter and former Guided By Voices frontman

Added: 15/07/2013
7.2

Rico Nasty

Nightmare Vacation

Debut solo album from the Maryland-born rapper with guest appearances from rappers Trippie Redd, Aminé, Gucci Mane and Don Toliver

Added: 04/12/2020
7.2

Porcelain Raft

Strange Weekend

Debut album of dream pop / synthpop from one-man band and producer, Brooklyn-based Mauro Remiddi

Added: 12/01/2012
7.2

Pond

9

Ninth album from the Australian psych-rock band produced by the band themselves

Added: 05/10/2021
7.2

Pond

Stung!

Tenth album from the Australian psych-rock band who also work closely with Kevin Parker’s Tame Impala

Added: 21/06/2024
7.2

Poly Styrene

Generation Indigo

Former X-Ray Spex singer returns with a solo album produced by Youth (Killing Joke) mixing electro-pop, rock and reggae

Added: 25/03/2011
7.2

Opeth

Heritage

10th album from the Stockholm metal quintet, taking a turn towards prog rock

Added: 28/09/2011
7.2

Old Crow Medicine Show

Volunteer

Sixth studio album from the Grammy winning American string band, coinciding with their 20th anniversary

Added: 20/04/2018
7.2

Nada Surf

Never Got Together

Album number nine from the NYC alternative rock group formed in 1992

Added: 13/02/2020
7.2

My Morning Jacket

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Tenth album from the psychedelic indie rock Kentucky veterans led by Jim James

Added: 24/03/2025
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

Lord Huron

The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1

Fifth album of indie folk from the LA-based band led by Ben Schneider and includes contributions from Kristen Stewart and Blonde Redhead's Kazu Makino

Added: 18/07/2025
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

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