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16 September 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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JadeThat's Showbiz Baby!

"She’s now finally concocted a recipe for success on her own terms - and it’s anything but vanilla" (10/10 - DIY). "Chaotic, intense, with a bit of everything thrown in" (8/10 - NME)

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Baxter DuryAllbarone

"It’s not often you’ll hear of an artist making the best work of their career by their eighth album" (10/10 - The Skinny). "This is a record that wants you to dance" (8/10 - Far Out)

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MarujaPain To Power

"The thrill of this band is the extremes. From moshpits one minute and silence the next, they are in command with their music, unifying the crowd" (10/10 - God is in the TV)

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CMATEURO-COUNTRY

"Who else could combine soul, yodelling, Jamie Oliver and Calpol into such charming songs about the messy modern psyche? Only Europe’s best new breakout star" (10/10 - The Guardian)

Wolf AliceThe Clearing

"Their boldest, most striking record yet" (10/10 - DIY). "Frankly, soft-rock has not sounded this grand in a long time, and only Wolf Alice could have crafted it" (8.7/10 - Northern Transmissions)

The New EvesThe New Eve Is Rising

"Velvets-style drone rock, trad folk, anarcho-punk and hippy whimsy are all discernible in the Brighton quartet’s debut album – all played with white-knuckle intensity" (8/10 - The Guardian)

Wet Legmoisturizer

"Spikier, sleazier and sexier, the Isle of Wight duo defy second album syndrome" (9/10 - musicOMH). "The band’s propensity for catchy, danceable garage-punk remains intact" (8/10 - Slant)

LordeVirgin

"The pop star turns inward and redefines who she wants to be on her most introspective record yet" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "Returns to pop’s fray to revel in the mess of late-20s angst" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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)

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7.1

Steve Earle & The Dukes

So You Wannabe an Outlaw

Sixteenth studio album from the alt.country singer songwriter is a homage to Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson

Added: 16/06/2017
7.1

Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks

Wig Out at Jagbags

Album No.6 from the Oregon indie rock quartet led by the onetime Pavement frontman, now relocated to Berlin

Added: 03/01/2014
7.1

Slim Twig

Thanks for Stickin With Twig

Latest release from the prolific Toronto indie pop musician and actor Max Turnbull

Added: 05/08/2015
7.1

SASAMI

SASAMI

Debut album from LA-based singer-songwriter Sasami Ashworth

Added: 05/03/2019
7.1

Ron Sexsmith

Forever Endeavour

13th album of melancholic pop / folk from Canadian singer-sonwriter produced by Mitchell Froom (Crowded House, Suzanne Vega)

Added: 05/02/2013
7.1

Quilt

Plaza

Third album of psychedelica / dream-pop from Boston-bred, Brooklyn-based band

Added: 26/02/2016
7.1

PVT

Church With No Magic

Second album of electronic math rock from Australian trio (previously known as Pivot)

Added: 29/07/2010
7.1

Pond

Beard Wives Denim

Fourth album from the Perth, Australia psych-rock quintet featuring members of Tame Impala

Added: 07/03/2012
7.1

Pixies

Doggerel

Eighth album from the the Boston alt.rock legends and fourth since they reformed

Added: 29/09/2022
7.1

Pale Waves

Who Am I?

Second album from the Mancunian indie pop four-piece recorded primarily in Los Angeles with producer Rich Costey [Muse, Sigur Rós, Foo Fighters]

Added: 11/02/2021
7.1

Mutual Benefit

Skip a Sinking Stone

Second physical LP release from Jordan Lee's lo-fi indie folk project

Added: 18/05/2016
7.1

Meg Baird

Don't Weigh Down the Light

Fourth solo album from the San Francisco-based folk singer and Espers frontwoman

Added: 21/06/2015
7.1

M. Ward

Migration Stories

Tenth album from the Californian indie/folk singer-songwriter recorded in Quebec with Arcade Fire's Tim Kingsbury and Richard Reed Parry and with production from The Suburbs engineer Craig Silvey

Added: 03/04/2020
7.1

M. Ward

Hold Time

The indie/folksinger-songwriter and guitarist with his seventh album

Added: 13/02/2009
7.1

Luluc

Sculptor

Third album from the Australian indie-folk duo working with Aaron Dessner, Matt Eccles, J Mascis, Dave Nelson and Jim White

Added: 12/07/2018
7.1

Lower Dens

The Competition

Fourth album from the Baltimore indie pop duo Jana Hunter and Nate Nelson

Added: 05/09/2019
7.1

Le1f

Riot Boi

Debut LP of hip-hop and rap from Khalif Diouf, who also runs the hip hop label Camp & Street

Added: 13/11/2015
7.1

Kiran Leonard

Grapefruit

Second album from the 20 year old Mancunian indie rocker

Added: 22/03/2016
7.1

Kesha

Gag Order

Fifth album from the Nashville, Tennessee pop singer working with producers Rick Rubin, Stuart Crichton, Jason Lader, Jussifer, Drew Pearson and Stint

Added: 18/05/2023
7.1

K-X-P

II

Second album from the Finnish outfit, dealing in electro, krautrock, synthpop and post-punk

Added: 08/02/2013
7.1

Harper Simon

Harper Simon

Paul Simon's son with his debut album of melodic indie pop /rock songs, two of which were written by Simon Snr

Added: 06/04/2010
7.1

Gallows

Gallows

The first album from the Watford punk group since the departure of their lead singer, Frank Carter, replaced by former Alexisonfire singer, Wade MacNeil

Added: 07/09/2012
7.1

Eels

Hombre Lobo

More alt.rock melody from LA's Mark Oliver Everett on the 7th album

Added: 01/06/2009
7.1

Dutch Uncles

Cadenza

Second album from Manchester indie pop five-piece

Added: 22/04/2011
7.1

Cloud Nothings

Cloud Nothings

Lo-fi indie / power pop on the debut album proper after a series of highly-rated EPs from Cleveland teenager Dylan Baldi

Added: 25/01/2011
7.1

Cherry Glazerr

Apocalipstick

Second studio album of indie garage rock, led by Clementine Creevy

Added: 19/01/2017
7.1

Chad VanGaalen

Light Information

Sixth album of spacey indie rock from the Calgary, Alberta multi-instrumentalist, producer, animator and director

Added: 07/09/2017
7.1

Cavern Of Anti-Matter

Hormone Lemonade

Third album from the experimental electronica / Krautrock band led by Stereolab founder Tim Gane and featuring his former bandmate Joe Dilworth

Added: 21/03/2018
7.1

BC Camplight

How to Die in the North

Third album from US-born, Manchester-based songwriter and past War on Drugs live member Brian Christinzio

Added: 15/01/2015
7.1

Ariel Pink

Pom Pom

A double album of far-out psych rock from LA-based Ariel Marcus Rosenberg

Added: 14/11/2014

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Double Infinity by Big Thief

"Classic melodies, spring water acoustics and pared-back poeticism about living in the moment fill Adrianne Lenker and co’s latest with life" (10/10 - The Guardian). "A gloriously satisfying record" (9/10 - DIY)

SuedeAntidepressants
"Eleven songs of resilience and rebellion that refuse to accept the status quo" (10/10 - musicOMH). "Confrontational, unfiltered and arguably one of their most electrifying releases to date" (8/10 - Clash)

David ByrneWho Is The Sky
"Much like the vast majority of his work these songs are so fun, so triumphant, so full of life that it's easy to feel reassured by them" (8/10 - All Music). "Weirdness and wonder abound at every turn" (8/10 - Mojo)

The HivesThe Hives Forever Forever The Hives
"It’d take a cold, cold heart not to be energised by this" (8/10 - DIY). "Humour, imagination, and an impeccable musicianship that few can rival" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Blood OrangeEssex Honey
"It takes in all the avant-garde and otherwise out-there influences Hynes has encountered along his meandering way" (10/10 - The Arts Desk). "A remarkable album" (9/10 - All Music)

Water From Your EyesIt’s A Beautiful Place
"One of indie’s most unique duos embrace sci-fi sounds, frightening existentialism and a newfound heaviness on their new album" (8/10 - NME).

LaufeyA Matter Of Time
"Laufey conjures a fairytale world woven from jazz, pop and a ticking clock" (10/10 - Laufey). "It makes for the boldest chapter in her artistic story yet" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit)

Cass McCombsInterior Live Oak
"US indie’s steadfast storyteller makes a wonderfully unhurried double album his best yet" (10/10 - The Guardian). "At its best when it leans into the reverie with a riff that calls upon a relaxed stroll" (8/10 - Far Out)

Alison GoldfrappFlux
"Think of Flux as an elegant evolution. She’s still dancing, but this time with her heart closer to the surface" (8/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "Floats in an elegant yet directionless orbit" (6/10 - The Skinny)

Marissa NadlerNew Radiations
"It confirms her strength as a vulnerable storyteller in an era of frequent isolation" (8.5/10 - Northern Transmissions). "Nadler still shines as a spell-weaver and mistress of moods" (6/10 - Mojo)

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.