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6 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)

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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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6.9

We Are The Ocean

Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow

The third album from this melodic hardcore group hailing from Essex

Added: 17/09/2012
6.9

Tove Lo

Lady Wood

Second studio album from the Stockholm-born electropop singer

Added: 27/10/2016
6.9

Toni Braxton

Sex & Cigarettes

Eighth studio album from the R&B/soul singer, her first on Def Jam

Added: 29/03/2018
6.9

Tim Hecker

No Highs

Latest release from Montreal-based electronic musician and sound artist featuring a contribution from Colin Stetson

Added: 11/04/2023
6.9

Thought Forms/Esben And The Witch

Split

A joint effort from the bands from Bristol and Brighton united by a penchant for goth and shoe-gaze

Added: 08/04/2014
6.9

The Veils

Total Depravity

Fifth album from alt.rock singer-songwriter Finn Andrews and his band with production by El-P (Run the Jewels), Adam Greenspan and Dean Hurley

Added: 25/08/2016
6.9

The Stranglers

Dark Matters

Album number eighteen from the veteran new wave band features the playing of late keyboardist Dave Greenfield who died of Covid-19 in 2020

Added: 10/09/2021
6.9

The Proclaimers

Angry Cyclist

Eleventh album from the Reid brothers produced by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Idlewild)

Added: 22/08/2018
6.9

The Kissaway Trail

Breach

The Danish dream pop / indie rock band, slimmed down to a trio following the departure of two founding members, with their 3rd album

Added: 05/11/2013
6.9

The Jazz Butcher

The Highest In The Land

Final album from the Oxford indie pop musician Pat Fish recorded before he passed away in October 2021

Added: 15/02/2022
6.9

The Black Swans

Occasion for Song

The Ohio-based indie folk / rock band with their fifth album, and first since the death of founder and violinist Noel Sayre

Added: 06/08/2012
6.9

Superfood

Don't Say That

Debut LP of 90s inspired indie from the Birmingham 4-piece fronted by Peace and Swim Deep producer Dom Ganderton

Added: 03/11/2014
6.9

Sun Kil Moon

Among the Leaves

Fifth collection of acoustic indie folk from singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek under his Sun Kil Moon guise

Added: 29/05/2012
6.9

Sturgill Simpson

The Ballad of Dood & Juanita

Album number seven from the American country singer-songwriter features an appearance from Willie Nelson

Added: 20/08/2021
6.9

Smoke Fairies

Smoke Fairies

Fourth album of Americana and blues-influenced folk from London-based duo Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies

Added: 11/04/2014
6.9

Sigha

Living With Ghosts

Debut full length release from London-born, Berlin-based techno producer James Shaw

Added: 07/01/2013
6.9

Shovels & Rope

By Blood

Fifth album from the South Carolina husband and wife alt-country duo Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst

Added: 15/04/2019
6.9

Serengeti

Kenny Dennis III

Latest from Kenny Davis, alt hip hop artist David Cohn's Chicago-centric character

Added: 24/11/2014
6.9

Sea Girls

Open Up Your Head

Debut album from the London indie rock quartet produced by Larry Hibbitt

Added: 15/08/2020
6.9

Rose Windows

The Sun Dogs

60s and 70s-rooted psych rock and stoner rock with an Eastern flavour on the debut from the Seattle seven-piece

Added: 11/07/2013
6.9

Rival Consoles

Landscape From Memory

Latest release from the Leicester electornic producer Ryan Lee West

Added: 04/07/2025
6.9

Powell

Sport

Debut LP from electroclash producer Oscar Powell

Added: 13/10/2016
6.9

Post Malone

Hollywood's Bleeding

Third studio album from the controversial American rapper with guest appearances from Meek Mill, Ozzy Osbourne, Travis Scott, SZA, and Young Thug

Added: 11/09/2019
6.9

Porij

Teething

Debut full-length release from the Manchester alt-dance quartet

Added: 26/04/2024
6.9

Phantogram

Voices

Second album of indie-pop/trip-hop from New Yorkers Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel

Added: 18/02/2014
6.9

Peaches

I Feel Cream

More hyper-sexual lyrics from the electro punk shock-pop queen

Added: 01/05/2009
6.9

Olden Yolk

Living Theatre

Second full-length album of psychedelic folk-rock from Shane Butler and Caity Shaffer

Added: 21/05/2019
6.9

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Who Built The Moon?

Third solo album from the former Oasis mainman produced by Irish electronic musician David Holmes

Added: 22/11/2017
6.9

Mudhoney

Plastic Eternity

Eleventh studio album from the Seattle-based alternative punk/grunge foursome recorded with longtime collaborator Johnny Sangster

Added: 12/04/2023
6.9

Molly Tuttle

When You're Ready

Debut full-length album from the Californian-born bluegrass musician who won Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Awards

Added: 08/04/2019

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The New Zealander sings dramatically about new selves, the body and gender fluidity on her fourth release The FT

Rival Consoles Landscape From Memory

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"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)

Frankie CosmosDifferent Talking
"A tight 17-track, 38-minute album that should be welcomed by all fans" (8/10 - All Music). "A warm blanket of bedroom pop vignettes, Frankie Cosmos's sixth album is a comforting listening" (6/10 - The Skinny)

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"It’s perhaps the finest release of his career from start to finish, and that’s beating some stiff competition" (9/10 - Far Out). "An outstanding album — ambitious, honest, and unpredictable" (9/10 - XS Noize)

HaimI quit
"This sublime collection of breakup bangers could well be the soundtrack to your summer" (10/10 - Rolling Stone UK). "Rarely works up a sweat yet maintains a jiggling, low-level funk" (8/10 - The Arts Desk)

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"Chicago trio put their own fresh twist on classic art-punk" (8/10 - Rolling Stone). "A blast of circular-saw guitars, baffling lyrics and effervescent melody" (8/10 - The Guardian)

TurnstileNever Enough
"On their exceptional new album, the US band double down on the vibrant eccentricity of 2021’s ‘Glow On’" (10/10 - NME). "It’s nothing short of a masterpiece" (10/10 - Dork

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"Shirley Manson’s gang channel a more optimistic outlook, and display some of their most profound songwriting to date" (10/10 - NME)

Matt BerningerGet Sunk
"Retains the signature charm of The National while highlighting Berninger’s strengths as a writer" (8/10 - Dork). "A subtly textured delight that feels both playful and emotional" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Sports TeamBoys These Days
"This might be the most Sports Team they’ve ever sounded, and somehow, it’s also the best" (8/10 - Dork). "Sharp, funny, and sometimes sobering soundtrack to young adulthood in freefall" (8/10 - XS Noize)

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.