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8 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)

Highest Recent Ratings

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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7.1

Gang Colours

The Keychain Collection

Southampton resident Will Ozanne has adopted the pseudonym Gang Colours for his debut album of laid back post dubstep and hazy electronica

Added: 29/02/2012
7.1

Gallows

Grey Britain

English band's anger-filled second helping of hardcore punk rock

Added: 03/05/2009
7.1

Future Brown

Future Brown

Debut from the electronic supergroup comprising LA duo Nguzunguzu, Kuwaiti born Al Qadiri and NYC based City Trax label boss J-Cush

Added: 24/02/2015
7.1

Frankie Rose

Cage Tropical

Solo album number four from the ex-drummer of garage rock heavyweights Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls and the Vivian Girls

Added: 10/08/2017
7.1

Frank Turner

Tape Deck Heart

Fifth studio album from the 31-year-old English alt.folk / punk singer-songwriter

Added: 19/04/2013
7.1

Faust

Something Dirty

One of two versions of the Krautrock legends featuring founding members Jean-Hervé Péron and Werner "Zappi" Diermaier

Added: 22/02/2011
7.1

Elvis Perkins In Dearland

Elvis Perkins In Dearland

American roots on the folk-rock singer-songwriter's follow-up to acclaimed solo debut Ash Wednesday

Added: 30/03/2009
7.1

Eliza Carthy

Neptune

Third album of original material from the Scarborough-born folk musician and daughter of Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson

Added: 12/05/2011
7.1

Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Rush To Relax

Third album of garage rock from the Melbourne quartet, apparently recorded in just six hours

Added: 16/04/2010
7.1

Dutch Uncles

Big Balloon

Fifth album from the Manchester-based indie pop quartet

Added: 14/02/2017
7.1

Dutch Uncles

O Shudder

Fourth album from the Manchester-based indie pop quintet

Added: 20/02/2015
7.1

Duran Duran

All You Need Is Now

Thirteenth studio album from the veteran pop band produced by Mark Ronson

Added: 11/01/2011
7.1

Dizzee Rascal

Raskit

Sixth album from the London rapper sees him return to his grime routes

Added: 21/07/2017
7.1

Disclosure

Energy

Third album of garage and house inspired dance music from the Surrey brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence includes collaborations with Kelis, Aminé, Slowthai and Common

Added: 27/08/2020
7.1

Dinosaur Jr

Farm

The US noise-rock specialists' second release since reforming, now back to the original lineup.

Added: 19/06/2009
7.1

Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland

Black Is Beautiful

Experimental electronica, dub and pop from the two producers who otherwise record as Hype Williams

Added: 16/04/2012
7.1

Dawn Richard

Second Line

Sixth album from the New Orleans electronic/R&B artist and former member of Danity Kane and Dirty Money

Added: 29/04/2021
7.1

Dananananaykroyd

Hey Everyone!

Glasgow six-piece with a debut blast of fast and furious pop-punk

Added: 16/04/2009
7.1

Dan Sartain

Too Tough to Live

Speed pop, lo-fi punk and fuzzy new wave on the 6th album from the Alabama retro rocker

Added: 26/01/2012
7.1

Dan Deacon

Mystic Familiar

Fifth album from the Baltimore, Maryland electronica producer

Added: 28/01/2020
7.1

Crystal Antlers

Tentacles

Debut LP by Californian noise-rock freaks

Added: 07/04/2009
7.1

Crocodiles

Sleep Forever

Second album from Sand Diego-based indie rock / noise pop duo

Added: 15/09/2010
7.1

Converge

Axe To Fall

Massachusetts hardcore four piece with their seventh studio album. It's loud. Very.

Added: 29/10/2009
7.1

Comet Gain

The Howl Of The Lonely Crowd

The seventh studio album from these veterans of the British indie scene sees them continue their lo-fi, northern soul influenced sound

Added: 15/06/2011
7.1

Chuck Berry

Chuck

18th studio album and first since 1979 from the rock n roll legend, recorded just before his death

Added: 09/06/2017
7.1

Cherry Glazerr

Stuffed and Ready

Third studio album from the LA indie garage rock trio led by Clementine Creevy and produced by Carlos de la Garza

Added: 01/02/2019
7.1

Chairlift

Moth

Third album from Brooklyn-based synthpop duo Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly

Added: 22/01/2016
7.1

Boris

Attention Please

Seventeenth studio album from Japanese experimental band, released simultaneously with it's sister album 'Heavy Rocks'

Added: 25/05/2011
7.1

BNQT

Volume 1

Collaboration between members of Band Of Horses, Franz Ferdinand, Travis, Midlake and Grandaddy

Added: 21/04/2017
7.1

Blouse

Blouse

Debut album of dream-pop with an 80s synth edge to it from the Portland trio

Added: 07/11/2011

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U.S. Girls Scratch It

Though Scratch It is more low-key than one has come to expect of U.S. Girls as of late, it is undeniably a commanding statement that feels like a musical victory lap Beats Per Minute

Kesha . [Period]

Period is an album of lukewarm nostalgic bops, where the few moments of truly interesting artistry are left to languish alone in their respective corners Sputnik Music (staff)

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A disappointing missed opportunityMaybe after this spell of touring, they need to go off and live their lives instead of rushing back to album number three. A disappointing missed opportunity God Is In The TV

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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.