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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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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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6.8

Dawes

We're All Gonna Die

Fifth album from the LA folk rock group, produced by former bandmate Blake Mills

Added: 20/09/2016
6.8

Dana Gavanski

When It Comes

Second album from the London-based Canadian-Serbian singer-songwriter was produced by James Howard

Added: 02/05/2022
6.8

Coldplay

Everyday Life

Eighth album from the British alternative rock band is a double album and was produced by Rik Simpson (Jay-Z, Portishead, Kasabian)

Added: 22/11/2019
6.8

Clinic

Bubblegum

The sixth album of indie rock form the Liverpudlian group.

Added: 04/10/2010
6.8

Brooke Bentham

Everyday Nothing

Debut album from the South Shields-born singer-songwriter

Added: 27/02/2020
6.8

Britney Spears

Glory

Ninth studio album from the Grammy award-winning pop singer featuring a guest appearance from G-Eazy

Added: 26/08/2016
6.8

Blind Pilot

And Then Like Lions

Third album from the Portland, Oregon indie folk-pop band led by Israel Nebeker

Added: 14/08/2016
6.8

Bleachers

Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night

Third album from producer Jack Antonoff's New York-based indie pop project featuring guest appearances from Lana Del Rey and Bruce Springsteen

Added: 30/07/2021
6.8

Black Angels

Phosphene Dream

Third album of psychedelic rock from the Texan 5-piece.

Added: 17/09/2010
6.8

Ballet School

The Dew Lasts An Hour

Debut album from the Berlin-based dream-pop trio

Added: 08/09/2014
6.8

Baio

Dead Hand Control

Third solo album of indie pop from the Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio

Added: 28/01/2021
6.8

Active Child

Rapor

EP of indie dream pop, the follow-up to 2011's You Are All I See from LA-based Pat Grossi

Added: 29/10/2013
6.8

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

XI: Bleed Here Now

Eleventh album from the Austin post-hardcore band fronted alternately by Jason Reece and Conrad Keely

Added: 28/07/2022
6.8

Xiu Xiu

Girl With Basket Of Fruit

Album number eleven from the San Jose-based experimental quartet, co-produced by band member Angela Seo and Deerhoof's Greg Saunier

Added: 06/02/2019
6.8

Wavves

Afraid of Heights

San Diego duo Nathan Williams and Stephen Pope with a 4th installment of surf rock / indie pop

Added: 26/03/2013
6.8

Villagers

Where Have You Been All My Life?

Stripped-back reworkings of songs from previous albums from the Dulbin indie-folk act, each recorded live in one or two takes

Added: 08/01/2016
6.8

Tycho

Awake

Latest release of electronica and ambient techno from the San Francisco photographer and graphic designer Scott Hansen now working as a three-piece band

Added: 17/03/2014
6.8

Two Door Cinema Club

False Alarm

Fourth studio album from the Irish indie pop outfit produced by Jacknife Lee (U2, Weezer, One Direction and Taylor Swift)

Added: 20/06/2019
6.8

Tobacco

Fucked Up Friends

Black Moth Super Rainbow mainman Tom Fec with a solo debut of cosmic hip hop experiments

Added: 08/07/2009
6.8

The Sea and Cake

Any Day

Eleventh album from the jazzy Chicago indie rock group

Added: 07/05/2018
6.8

The Low Anthem

Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

Rhode Island alt.folk rockers with a third album of old-style Americana

Added: 12/06/2009
6.8

The Goldberg Sisters

The Goldberg Sisters

Second album from actor Adam Goldberg, who delivers an album of folk rock

Added: 06/04/2011
6.8

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

The Brutalist Bricks

Sixth album from the long-standing purveyor of pop-punk Ted Leo

Added: 17/03/2010
6.8

Sun Araw

Ancient Romans

Fifth studio album of atmospheric psych-rock from LA-based musician Cameron Stallone

Added: 24/08/2011
6.8

Strange Boys

Be Brave

60s-influenced garage rock and lo-fi indie pop on the second release from the Texas band

Added: 25/02/2010
6.8

SPELLLING

Portrait Of My Heart

Fifth full-length album of experimental art-pop from the Bay Area artist Chrystia Cabral

Added: 02/04/2025
6.8

Slim Twig

A Hound At The Hem

Max Turnbull's Nabakov and Gainsbourg-inspired spooky indie LP from 2012 is re-released by DFA Records

Added: 24/11/2014
6.8

Siskiyou

Nervous

Third album of lo-fi alt.country from the Vancouver band led by former Great Lake Swimmers frontman Colin Huebert

Added: 20/01/2015
6.8

Ride

This Is Not A Safe Place

Sixth studio album by Oxford alt.rock / shoegaze quartet produced by Erol Alkan (Daniel Avery, Mystery Jets)

Added: 12/08/2019
6.8

Raleigh Moncrief

Watered Lawn

Debut album of off-beat art pop and synthpop from the Sacramento singer and producer

Added: 05/12/2011

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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)

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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.