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3 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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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)

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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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BC CamplightA Sober Conversation

"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)

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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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Kelsey Lu

Blood

Debut album from the North Carolina-born cellist and singer-songwriter working with producers Skrillex, Jamie xx and Rodaidh McDonald

Added: 20/04/2019
8.0

Katy J Pearson

Someday, Now

Third full-length album from the Bristol singer-songwriter workign with producer Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion)

Added: 20/09/2024
8.0

Julianna Barwick

Nepenthe

Second album from the Louisiana-born, Brooklyn-based singer features layered vocals and synths recorded in Iceland with Alex Somers (Jónsi & Alex)

Added: 08/08/2013
8.0

Johnny Blue Skies

Passage Du Desir

The latest release from Americana singer Sturgill Simpson under this moniker was recorded in Tennesse and Abbey Road in London

Added: 15/07/2024
8.0

John Murry

The Graceless Age

Debut solo release from the Mississippi-born, California-based Americana singer-songwriter and guitarist (and relative of William Faulkner)

Added: 14/05/2013
8.0

Greentea Peng

Tell Dem It's Sunny

Second full-length album from the South London neo-soul artist Aria Wells

Added: 20/03/2025
8.0

Empress Of

For Your Consideration

Fourth album from the Los Angeles electro-pop singer-songwriter Lorely Rodriguez includes guest appearances from MUNA and Rina Sawayama

Added: 21/03/2024
8.0

Elysia Crampton

Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City

Second full-length release from the Virginia-based experimental electronic producer

Added: 01/08/2016
8.0

Christopher Owens

I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair

Fourth solo album of indie rock from the former Girls frontman co-produced with Doug Boehm (French Kicks, Ezra Furman, Girls)

Added: 25/10/2024
8.0

Car Seat Headrest

Teens of Denial

Second label-backed release from Will Toledo's lo-fi indie rock project

Added: 18/05/2016
8.0

Bruce Springsteen

Letter to You

Album number twenty from the veteran singer-songwriter recorded over five days with the E Street Band and producer Ron Aniello

Added: 19/10/2020
8.0

British Sea Power

From the Sea to the Land Beyond

The idiosyncratic indie rock sextet's 6th full-length release is the soundtrack to a film about the British coast by Penny Woolcock

Added: 10/12/2013
8.0

Amanda Shires

Take It Like A Man

Seventh full-length solo album from the Texas-born singer-songwriter produced by Lawrence Rothman

Added: 03/08/2022
8.0

Victoria Canal

Slowly, It Dawns

Debut album from the German-born Spanish-American singer songwriter

Added: 19/01/2025
8.0

Thom Yorke

ANIMA

Third solo album from the Radiohead frontman produced by longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich

Added: 28/06/2019
8.0

The Knife

Shaking The Habitual

Long-awaited album No.4 from Swedish synthpop siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, their first since 2006's Silent Shout

Added: 03/04/2013
8.0

The 1975

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

Third album from Manchester-based indie rock / pop quartet produced by Matthew Healy and George Daniel

Added: 24/11/2018
8.0

Taylor Swift

Evermore

Second surprise release of 2020 from the singer-songwriter with contributions from Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner, Haim, The National and Justin Vernon

Added: 11/12/2020
8.0

Spoon

Lucifer On The Sofa

Tenth studio album from the Austin, Texas indie rock band formed in 1993 working with producers Mark Rankin, Justin Raisen and Dave Fridmann

Added: 09/02/2022
8.0

Spanish Love Songs

Brave Faces Everyone

Third album from the Los Angeles pop-punk five-piece

Added: 11/02/2020
8.0

serpentwithfeet

Deacon

Second album of soulful r&b from the Baltimore born Josiah Wise

Added: 24/03/2021
8.0

Scuba

Triangulation

Second album blending dubstep, techno, garage and electronica from producer and DJ Paul Rose

Added: 02/04/2010
8.0

Sault

Untitled (Black Is)

Third full-length album from the British R&B collective working with producer Inflo (Little Simz, Michael Kiwanuka)

Added: 17/11/2020
8.0

S.G. Goodman

Planting By The Signs

Third album from the Kentucky-born singer-songwriter featuring guest appearances from Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Clyde Charles, Mary Overbey, Matthew Rowan and Myrtle Turner

Added: 26/06/2025
8.0

Parquet Courts

Light Up Gold

Second album from the NY garage rock / post-punk band led by Austin Brown and Andrew Savage (from Fergus and Geronimo)

Added: 14/01/2013
8.0

Kojey Radical

Reason To Smile

Debut album from the London rapper and MOBO Award nominee Kwadwo Adu Genfi Amponsah

Added: 11/03/2022
8.0

Joan As Police Woman

Lemons, Limes and Orchids

Fifth full-length release from the Connecticut indie singer-songwriter Joan Wasser was recorded live

Added: 27/09/2024
8.0

Jack White

Blunderbuss

The former White Stripe, Racontuer and Dead Weather-man releases his first solo collection of fuzzed up blues

Added: 17/04/2012
8.0

Isaiah Rashad

The House Is Burning

Third studio album by the Tennessee hip hop artist who featuring contributions from The House Jay Rock and SZA, Lil Uzi Vert, Duke Deuce, Smino, Amindi and 6lack

Added: 04/08/2021
8.0

Gorillaz

Plastic Beach

Plenty of acclaim for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's third studio release, a multi-genre effort with a stellar guest list

Added: 25/02/2010

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

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"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)

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"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)

SparksMAD!
"By the time the closing track Lord Have Mercy comes around, you’ll be mentally reordering your list of top 10 all-time Mael brothers albums" (8/10 - musicOMH). "Pop classicists with a heart of gold" (8/10 - Clash)

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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.

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