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22 December 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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Dove EllisBlizzard

"With shades of Jeff and Tim Buckley, the Galway-born artist writes tunes so strong they seem as familiar as old friends" (10/10 - The Guardian). "The sound is entirely his" (8/10 - DIY)

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Melody’s Echo ChamberUnclouded

"The music is immaculate and interesting throughout" (8/10 - Northern Transmissions). "A record that is just as impressively crafted as anything she has done" (9/10 - All Music)

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Oneohtrix Point NeverTranquilizer

"An impossibly dense and transportive electronic album that takes impermanence as its inspiration" (8.6/10 - Pitchfork). "A demonstration of Daniel Lopatin’s mastery of structural tension" (9/10 - Slant)

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SnocapsSnocaps

"They are back playing pop that is pretty darn unmatched" (8.6/10 - Northern Transmissions). "A hailstorm of warm, exceptionally-written country-rock bangers backed by MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook" (8.5/10 - Paste)

Florence + The MachineEverybody Scream

"Florence Welch enlists horror and magic to harness hope" (10/10 - NME). "An urgent and vital testimony to survival and rebirth, Florence Welch’s sixth album is a defiant middle finger to doubters" (9/10 - musicOMH)

Lily AllenWest End Girl

"Her best album in 16 years, an incisive diary of a marriage in freefall" (10/10 - The Independent). "A hard-hitting pop exposition, while also providing an endless supply of hooks" (8/10 - Clash)

The Last Dinner PartyFrom The Pyre

"Insanely rich with ideas, hooks, smart artifice and real emotion, From The Pyre is a feast of giddy raptures" (10/10 - Record Collector). "Both thematically and sonically richer" (10/10 - DIY)

BrògealTuesday Paper Club

"2026 is there for Brogeal’s taking, they’re gonna be a lot of people’s new favourite band" (8/10 - God Is In The TV). "This is what it sounds like when a band get it right the first time" (10/10 - Dork)

Jay SomBelong

"With ‘Belong’ serving notice of Jay Som’s continued abilities" (8/10 - Clash). "Will undoubtedly solidify her reputation as your favourite pop singer's favourite pop singer" (8/10 - Exclaim"

IdlewildIdlewild

"The fact they are producing some of their best work seems almost absurd, and yet here we are" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "Idlewild is no nostalgic LP—it’s the sound of a band rejuvenated" (10/10 - XS Noize)

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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

George FitzGerald

All That Must Be

Second full-length album from the Berlin-based British DJ and producer

Added: 09/03/2018
6.8

Frankie Rose

Herein Wild

Solo album number three from the ex-drummer of garage rock heavyweights Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls and the Vivian Girls

Added: 27/09/2013
6.8

Frankie & The Heartstrings

Hunger

Debut album of indie pop from the Sunderland five-piece

Added: 19/02/2011
6.8

Explosions in the Sky / David Wingo

Prince Avalanche OST

Second soundtrack album from the Austin, Texas instrumental post-rock quartet is a collaboration with the leader of indie band Ola Podrida

Added: 08/08/2013
6.8

Department Of Eagles

Archive: 2003-2006

Collection of previously unreleased songs from New York duo Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Fred Nicolaus

Added: 16/07/2010
6.8

Delorean

Apar

The Barcelona-based Balearic house quartet move away from the dancefloor in a more dream pop direction on their 4th album

Added: 09/09/2013
6.8

Cypress Hill

Back in Black

Tenth studio album from the Californian hip hop veterans produced by Black Milk

Added: 17/03/2022
6.8

Cullen Omori

New Misery

Debut album from the former frontman of Chicago indie rock band Smith Westerns

Added: 21/03/2016
6.8

Congo Natty

Jungle Revolution

The jungle and roots reggae specialist (aka breaks producer Rebel MC) with his first release on Big Dada, with contributions from On-U Sound's Adrian Sherwood and Skip McDonald and many more

Added: 26/06/2013
6.8

Cigarettes After Sex

Cry

Second album of ambient dream pop from the El Paso, Texas quartet recorded in Mallorca

Added: 22/10/2019
6.8

CEO

Wonderland

Eric Berglund, previously of The Tough Alliance, releases his second solo album of synthpop

Added: 31/01/2014
6.8

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Beware

More offbeat lo-fi country folk from Kentucky's Will Oldham

Added: 12/03/2009
6.8

Black Sabbath

13

The heavy metal pioneers reunited with singer Ozzy Osbourne for the first time in 35 years

Added: 07/06/2013
6.8

Belle And Sebastian

How To Solve Our Human Problems, Parts 1-3

Three recently released EPs in one package from the renowned Glaswegian indie pop group led by Stuart Murdoch

Added: 16/02/2018
6.7

The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends

Wayne Coyne's latest psychedelic alt.rock offering, originally released on Record Store Day, features a eye-opening array of guests, from Ke$ha to Bon Iver to Nick Cave

Added: 25/06/2012
6.7

Sleigh Bells

Bitter Rivals

Third album from the Brooklyn noise pop duo Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Miller

Added: 05/10/2013
6.7

Salem

King Night

Debut album of dark electronica from mysterious Michigan trio

Added: 26/09/2010
6.7

Franz Ferdinand

The Human Fear

Sixth album from the Scottishindie rock band and first since with drummer Audrey Tait, who replaced original member Paul Thomson in 2021

Added: 06/01/2025
6.7

A$AP Rocky

At.Long.Last.A$Ap

Second official studio album from the New York rapper with guest appearances from Mos Def, M.I.A, Schoolboy Q, Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Rod Stewart

Added: 01/06/2015
6.7

Young Ejecta

The Planet

Mini album from the synthpop duo consisting of Neon Indian's Leanne Macomber and producer Joel Ford of Ford & Lopatin

Added: 02/02/2015
6.7

Widowspeak

Widowspeak

50s-influenced noirish indie rock / indie pop on the debut from the Brooklyn trio fronted by singer Molly Hamilton

Added: 18/08/2011
6.7

Viv Albertine

Vermillion Border

Debut solo album from the singer-songwriter and guitarist of 70s all-female punk act The Slits. Guest bassists include Jack Bruce and Glen Matlock

Added: 22/11/2012
6.7

Vic Mensa

The Autobiography

Debut full-length studio album from the Chicago rapper with guest appearances from Chief Keef, Pusha T, Syd, Ty Dolla $ign, Weezer, Pharrell Williams and Saul Williams

Added: 28/07/2017
6.7

Troyka

Ornithophobia

London three-piece's third studio album - their first for Naim

Added: 23/02/2015
6.7

Travis

L.A. Times

Tenth studio album from the Scottish indie rock four-piece produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Air)

Added: 12/07/2024
6.7

Trash Talk

No Peace

Fourth full-length album and their second for the Odd Future hip-hop collective's own label from the Sacramento hardcore punk band

Added: 28/05/2014
6.7

Trans Am

Thing

Album number 9 from Washington's ironic sci-fi obsessed synth-rock pranksters

Added: 26/04/2010
6.7

Tortoise

Beacons Of Ancestorship

First release in over five years from the Chicago instrumental post-rock experimentalists

Added: 30/06/2009
6.7

Tom Jones

Spirit In The Room

Jones capitalises on his position as a judge on a TV talent show with this album of covers

Added: 18/05/2012
6.7

Tigers Jaw

I Won't Care How You Remember Me

Sixth full-length album from the Pennsylvania indie rock band produced by Will Yip (Panic! at the Disco, The Wonder Years, Keane)

Added: 05/03/2021

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