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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

Alasdair Roberts & Friends

Too Long in This Condition

A collection of traditional arrangements from the Glasgow-based folk musician

Added: 13/08/2010
7.1

Alain Johannes

Spark

First solo album from former member of Eleven and Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures guitarist, is a tribute to his late wife Natasha Schneider

Added: 01/05/2011
7.1

Zhala

Zhala

Electronic debut from Stockholm-based Zhala Rifat, who describes her music as cosmic pop

Added: 04/06/2015
7.1

Younghusband

Dromes

Debut full-length release, six years on from their first EP, from the Watford-based psychedelic-tinged indie pop band, produced by Nicolas Vernhe (Deerhunter, Wild Nothing)

Added: 16/09/2013
7.1

Young Widows

In And Out Of Youth And Lightness

Third album from Louisville, Kentucky post-hardcore trio

Added: 20/06/2011
7.1

Young Thug

I'm Up

Latest mixtape from the Atlanta rapper Jeffrey Lamar Williams with Mike Will, Metro Boomin and Wheezy on production duties

Added: 10/02/2016
7.1

Young Legionnaire

Crisis Works

Debut album of post-hardcore from trio featuring The Automatic's Paul Mullen and Gordon Moakes from Bloc Party

Added: 24/05/2011
7.1

Young Guv

Ripe 4 Luv

Full-length debut for singer Ben Cook who also plays guitar for the band Fucked Up

Added: 10/03/2015
7.1

Young Fathers

Tape One

Début EP from the Edinburgh hip hop group first released as a free download in 2011 gets re-released on Californian label Anticon

Added: 09/01/2013
7.1

You Me At Six

Truth Decay

Seventh album form the English rockers featuring guest appearances from Cody Frost and Rou Reynolds

Added: 10/02/2023
7.1

Yim Yames

Tribute To

My Morning Jacket front man Jim James with a pseudonymously released EP of George Harrison covers

Added: 16/09/2009
7.1

YAK

Pursuit Of Momentary Happiness

Second album of psychedelic alt-rock from the English trio from Wolverhampton

Added: 11/02/2019
7.1

Wye Oak

Tween

A physical release for the fifth album from the Baltimore folk rock duo made up of songs written between 2011 and 2104

Added: 05/08/2016
7.1

Wooden Shjips

Dos

Latest offering of garage psychedelia from the San Franciscans

Added: 11/05/2009
7.1

Wolf Eyes

Undertow

Latest release from the Detroit noise rock trio and first on its own label

Added: 01/04/2017
7.1

Windy and Carl

We Will Always Be

Eighth release of ambient dream pop from the Michigan husband and wife duo

Added: 15/02/2012
7.1

Will Butler

Generations

Second solo album from the Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist recorded at his Brooklyn home

Added: 25/09/2020
7.1

Weaves

Wide Open

Canadian quartet's second studio album of indie pop

Added: 10/10/2017
7.1

Warmduscher

At The Hotspot

Fourth full-length release for London-based post-punk band produced by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard and Al Doyle

Added: 01/04/2022
7.1

Wand

Laughing Matter

Fifth album of psychedelic garage rock from the LA-based quintet

Added: 23/04/2019
7.1

Vanessa Carlton

Liberman

Fifth studio album and first for four years from the Pennsylvania-born singer-songwriter

Added: 02/11/2015
7.1

Tyler, The Creator

Don't Tap the Glass

Ninth album from the Los Angeles-based Odd Future rapper featuring guest appearances from Pharrell Williams (under both his name and his alias Sk8brd), Madison McFerrin and Yebba

Added: 24/07/2025
7.1

Ty Dolla $ign

Featuring Ty Dolla $ign

Third full-length album from the LA hip hop / R&B artist includes guest appearances from Kid Cudi, Post Malone, Kanye West, Anderson Paak and Thundercat

Added: 29/10/2020
7.1

Treetop Flyers

The Mountain Moves

Debut release from the London five-piece dealing in folk rock inspired by the 1960s West Coast sound of CSNY

Added: 28/06/2013
7.1

Trash Talk

Eyes & Nines

Third studio album from Sacramento hardcore four-piece

Added: 19/05/2010
7.1

Townes Van Zandt

Sky Blue

A previously unreleased collection of songs recorded in 1973 by the folk country singer-songwriter who died on January 1, 1997

Added: 08/03/2019
7.1

Tove Lo

Blue Lips

Third studio album from the Stockholm-born electropop singer Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson

Added: 29/11/2017
7.1

TOPS

Picture You Staring

Second full-length release from the Montreal indie rock quartet

Added: 04/09/2014
7.1

Tim Hecker

No Highs

Latest release from Montreal based electronic musician and sound artist

Added: 11/04/2023
7.1

Those Darlins

Screws Get Loose

These three southern girls make hillbilly-tinged retro rock and roll, which you can find here on their second album

Added: 15/02/2012

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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.