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23 May 2026

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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Ed O’BrienBlue Morpho

"The guitarist’s album might be the most Radiohead side project yet to emerge from the mother ship" (8/10 - The Irish Times). "Works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself" (8/10 - Clash)

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The Coral388

"It’s a lucky number thirteen for fans – The Coral remain a band to cherish" (8/10 - Clash). "Every choppy guitar line and snaking Hammond or Farfisa lick form hooks in their own right" (8/10 - The Arts Desk)

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RostamAmerican Stories

"Meticulous, inventive record" (8/10 - Mojo). "A record of reflection and connection that ranks among the more beautiful-sounding you might hear this year" (8/10 - DIY)

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Aldous HardingTrain On The Island

"A spellbinding listen, the high water mark of Harding's singular career" (9/10 - Exclaim. "It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far" (9/10 - Pitchfork)

KneecapFENIAN

"After their Glastonbury fracas and legal troubles, political friction provides the backbone to this dense, musically adventurous third album" (9/10 - musicOMH).

FrikoSomething Worth Waiting For

"A record that leaves the kind of impression more associated with acts with far lengthier histories" (9/10 - DIY). "A euphoric, breakneck adventure towards a promised land" (8/10 - The Skinny)

Lime GardenMaybe Not Tonight

"A breakup album that wears its messiness on its sleeve, Lime Garden’s second is figuring life out, track by track" (9/10 - NME). "A new indie disco essential" (9/10 - DIY)

Angine de PoitrineVol.II

"There's a ferocity and alienness to the complexity" (10/10 - Exclaim). "It breathes on its own and speaks without words. Angine de Poitrine let the music do the talking" (8.4/10 - Northern Transmissions)

The Twilight SadIt's The Long Goodbye

"An astonishing body of work that firmly emphasizes what an important band The Twilight Sad are" (9/10 - Under The Radar). "A powerful and truly wonderful return from The Twilight Sad" (9/10 - Clash)

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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
7.1

Blink-182

One More Time...

Ninth full-length album from the pop-punk trio produced and first with guitarist Tom DeLonge since 2011

Added: 20/10/2023
7.1

Black Mountain

IV

The fourth album from the Polaris-nominated Vancouver, BC psych/stoner rock band

Added: 28/03/2016
7.1

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Cobra Juicy

The latest collection of songs from this Pennsylvania psychedelic pop group

Added: 24/10/2012
7.1

Beth Ditto

Fake Sugar

Debut solo album from the former Gossip lead singer produced by Jennifer Decilveo

Added: 13/06/2017
7.1

BEAK>

BEAK>

Experimental album from Bristol trio led by Portishead's Geoff Barrow

Added: 24/10/2009
7.1

Bardo Pond

Bardo Pond

Eighth studio album from the Philadelphia based veteran psych-rock collective

Added: 13/12/2010
7.1

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Both Lights

Fourth release of experimental folk pop from the Portland, Oregon-based duo Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka

Added: 29/03/2012
7.1

Ash

A-Z Vol.1

The Northern Irish alt.rock trio with the first half of their singles series, released digitally every fortnight

Added: 09/04/2010
7.1

Archie Bronson Outfit

Coconut

The London trio's third album, a mix of blues rock, psych-rock, garage, and probably more

Added: 24/02/2010
7.1

Annie Lennox

A Christmas Cornucopia

A collection of traditional festive songs by the veteran Scottish pop singer

Added: 29/11/2010
7.1

Alice in Chains

Rainier Fog

Sixth album from the Seattle hard rock band, recorded in Seattle with Nick Raskulinecz (Mastodon, Deftones)

Added: 24/08/2018
7.1

Alias

Fever Dream

Latest album from the Portland, Maine hip hop artist and producer Brendon Whitney

Added: 24/08/2011
7.1

Algiers

Shook

Fourth album from the Atlanta, Georgia experimental post-rock band features contributions from Backxwash, Big Rube and Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against the Machine)

Added: 24/02/2023
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

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Ed O’Brien Blue Morpho

‘Blue Morpho’ offers a reminder that, as he and his other bandmates have repeatedly proved, O’Brien boasts a wholly-uninhibited approach to how rock and pop music is arranged, resulting in works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself Clash

Kevin Morby Little Wide Open

Represents a musical homecoming for Morby to the Americana that is central to much of his work No Ripcord

Lykke Li The Afterparty

On a purportedly final album, the Swedish electro-pop singer’s disenchantment takes shape around sparkling synth and light-touch disco beats Pitchfork

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"An addictive collection that – like most Foos records – demands repeat playing, this is easily one of the albums of the year" (9/10 - Hot Press). "A retread of well-worn ideas" (4.2/10 - Paste)

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"While he may indeed have travelled a long long road, here he sounds 85 years young" (8/10 - Mojo). "You'd have to go back to the 1970s to find a Ringo Starr solo album that was as well-crafted" (7/10 - All Music)

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.