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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

Shonen Knife

Pop Tune

Album number eighteen from Japanese pop / punk trio formed in 1981 and fronted by original member Naoko Yamano

Added: 03/07/2012
7.1

Shannon And The Clams

Gone By The Dawn

Fourth album from the Californian 1960s inspired garage punk trio

Added: 17/09/2015
7.1

Shamir

Homo Anxietatem

Ninth album from the Las Vegas-born, Philadelphia-based electronic pop singer-songwriter

Added: 18/08/2023
7.1

Shakespears Sister

Songs From The Red Room

Electro-pop and pop/rock on the comeback album from Siobhan Fahey (without ex-member Marcella Detroit)

Added: 10/04/2010
7.1

SG Lewis

Times

Debut full-length release form the Reading-born musician and electronic record producer featuring guest appearances from Nile Rodgers, Robyn, Channel Tres, Frances and Lastlings

Added: 19/02/2021
7.1

Seth Bogart

Seth Bogart

Debut album of DIY, lo-fi indie pop from the former Hunx And His Punx frontman

Added: 10/03/2016
7.1

serpentwithfeet

GRIP

Third album of soulful r&b from the Baltimore born Josiah Wise featuring guest appearances by Mick Jenkins, Orion Sun, Ty Dolla $ign and Yanga YaYa

Added: 16/02/2024
7.1

Serengeti

C.A.R.

Chicago rapper David Cohn with his latest underground hip hop offering, this time in collaboration with Anticon labelmates Jel and Odd Nosdam

Added: 31/07/2012
7.1

Serengeti

Kenny Dennis LP

Chicago rapper David Cohn's latest episode featuring his fictional 1990s hardcore rap character

Added: 25/06/2013
7.1

Sarah Neufeld

Hero Brother

Debut solo album from Canadian violinist who is a member of Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre and The Luyas

Added: 20/08/2013
7.1

Sarah Mary Chadwick

Please Daddy

Latest release from the Melbourne-based New Zealand-born singer-songwriter

Added: 27/01/2020
7.1

Sad Day For Puppets

Pale Silver and Shiny Gold

Shoegaze and 60s influenced garage-punk on the sophomore album from the Swedish band

Added: 13/09/2010
7.1

Ryan Hemsworth

Guilt Trips

First solo album from the Toronto-based hip hop producer and DJ Ryan Hemsworth

Added: 24/10/2013
7.1

RM Hubbert

Thirteen Lost & Found

Second solo release from the Glasgow guitarist, also featuring an array of guest Scottish talent

Added: 31/01/2012
7.1

Rise Against

Nowhere Generation

Ninth studio album of punk rock from the Chicago four-piece working with long-time producers Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore

Added: 09/06/2021
7.1

Ringo Starr

Look Up

Twentyfirst album from the former Beatles drummer is a country record produced by T Bone Burnett and featuring guest appearances from Alison Krauss, Larkin Poe, Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle

Added: 11/01/2025
7.1

Rejjie Snow

Baw Baw Black Sheep

Second album from the Dublin-born hip hop artist working with long-term collaborator and Chance The Rapper’s go-to producer Cam O’bi

Added: 09/07/2021
7.1

Rejjie Snow

Dear Annie

Debut album from the Dublin-born hip hop artist and record producer Alexander Anyaegbunam

Added: 16/02/2018
7.1

Reigning Sound

Love and Curses

North Carolina-based garage punk act with their latest release

Added: 28/10/2009
7.1

Ray LaMontagne

Supernova

Fifth studio album from folk rock singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne produced by Dan Auerbach

Added: 30/04/2014
7.1

Rae Sremmurd

SremmLife 2

Second album from the Tupleo, Mississippi hip-hop duo produced by Mike WiLL Made-It

Added: 12/08/2016
7.1

Purling Hiss

Weirdon

Fifth album from the guitar-heavy Philly indie rock trio led by Mike Polizze

Added: 02/10/2014
7.1

PUP

PUP

Debut album of from the Toronto punk quartet formerly know as Topanga

Added: 08/04/2014
7.1

Prins Thomas

Ambitions

Sixth solo album from the Norwegian electro/psychedelia/house artist Thomas Moen Hermansen

Added: 12/04/2019
7.1

Preoccupations

Arrangements

Fourth album from the Calgary post-punks previously known as Viet Cong

Added: 09/09/2022
7.1

Postiljonen

Skyer

Debut full-length release from the Swedish electro dream pop trio

Added: 08/08/2013
7.1

Portico Quartet

Monument

Seventh album from the London group, melding electronica, experimental jazz, dance and rock

Added: 16/11/2021
7.1

Pom Poko

Birthday

Debut full-length release from the Norwegian electronic pop-punk quartet who all trained at the Trondheim Conservatory

Added: 25/02/2019
7.1

Pokey LaFarge

Manic Revelations

Seventh studio record from the Missouri folk/roots singer-songwriter

Added: 18/05/2017
7.1

Pile

All Fiction

Latest full-length album from the Boston indie rock band produced by Kevin S. McMahon

Added: 16/02/2023

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Latest Reviews

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)

Wet Leg moisturizer

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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Matt BerningerGet Sunk
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Sports TeamBoys These Days
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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.