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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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6.7

Pusha T

Wrath of Caine

Pre-album extended EP / mixtape from the Virginia Beach rapper and one half of Clipse, released in the run-up to his debut solo album

Added: 19/02/2013
6.7

PINS

Wild Nights

Second album from the Mancunian indie rockers

Added: 05/06/2015
6.7

Peter Broderick

Music For Confluence

The soundtrack to a documentary about missing and murdered girls from the ambient folk / modern classical composer and musician

Added: 29/11/2011
6.7

Pere Ubu

Long Live Pere Ubu

Fabled post-punk experimentalist David Thomas, with a sountrack to the Alfred Jarry play Bring Me the Head of Ubu Roi

Added: 02/11/2009
6.7

Past Lives

Tapestry Of Webs

Debut of uncompromising art.rock / math rock from the Seattle band formed from the ashes of post-hardcore outfit Blood Brothers

Added: 09/03/2010
6.7

Paper Dollhouse

A Box Painted Black

Alt.folk and electronica on the first solo outing from The Rayographs guitarist Astrud Steehouder

Added: 03/01/2012
6.7

Panda Bear

A Day with the Homies

Third solo EP of experimental bedroom pop from the Animal Collective member, released only on vinyl

Added: 22/01/2018
6.7

P.G. Six

Starry Mind

Fourth album of alt.folk from ex-Tower Recordings member Pat Gubler

Added: 28/09/2011
6.7

Other Lives

Rituals

The Stillwater, Oklahoma indie folk band's third album was recorded in their hometown with Atoms for Peace’s Joey Waronker as co-producer

Added: 05/05/2015
6.7

Ola Podrida

Belly Of The Lion

Second album from Texan indie folk songwriter David Wingo better know as a soundtrack composer

Added: 09/12/2009
6.7

Obits

Moody, Standard And Poor

Sophomore album of garage punk from these Brooklynites

Added: 31/03/2011
6.7

Nine Inch Nails

Not the Actual Events

Five-track EP from Trent Reznor's cult industrial rock band

Added: 28/12/2016
6.7

Nightmares On Wax

Feelin' Good

Assorted chilled dance styles on the first album in five years from the band led by George Evelyn, with collaborators such as Jazzanova's Stefan Studzinsky, German percussionist Wolfgang Haffner and soul singer Mozez

Added: 20/09/2013
6.7

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Loin Des Hommes (OST)

Latest soundtrack from Cave and his Bad Seed Ellis is for the 2014 French drama based on an Albert Camus short story

Added: 20/05/2015
6.7

Ne-Hi

Offers

Second album from the Chicago rock quartet fronted by Alex Otake

Added: 27/02/2017
6.7

Natalie Merchant

Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings

The seventh solo album from the former 10,000 Maniacs singer is a recording of her solo debut

Added: 10/11/2015
6.7

Nadine

Oh My

Debut album as a trio from Phantom Posse singer-songwriter Nadia Hulett and Ava Luna members Julian Fader and Carlos Hernandez

Added: 01/02/2018
6.7

Nabihah Iqbal

Dreamer

Second album from the London-based artist who worked as a producer under the moniker Throwing Shade

Added: 28/04/2023
6.7

Musee Mecanique

Hold This Ghost

Debut release of downbeat orchestral alt.folk from the Portland duo

Added: 13/02/2010
6.7

Mouse On Mars

Dimensional People

Eleventh album from the German experimental electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma featuring Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner, Justin Vernon and Sam Amidon

Added: 17/04/2018
6.7

Melody Gardot

The Absence

Third album from the Grammy-nominated Philadelphia-based blues/jazz singer-songwriter

Added: 30/05/2012
6.7

MC Paul Barman

(((echo chamber)))

Third album from the absurdist NJ rapper, with production from MF Doom, Questlove, and Mark Ronson

Added: 25/05/2018
6.7

Mayer Hawthorne

How Do You Do

Third album from this Chicagoan purveyor of old school soul music

Added: 25/10/2011
6.7

Marmozets

Knowing What You Know Now

Second album from the West Yorkshire post-hardcore five-piece

Added: 26/01/2018
6.7

Madeleine Peyroux

Bare Bones

Sixth release from the distinctive jazz singer, songwriter and guitarist

Added: 12/04/2009
6.7

Lyle Lovett

Natural Forces

Twelfth album from Texan singer-songwriter

Added: 03/11/2009
6.7

Lloyd Cole

Broken Record

Latest solo outing from former Lloyd Cole And The Commotions frontman

Added: 19/09/2010
6.7

Little Comets

In Search of Elusive Little Comets

Debut album of so called "kitchen sink indie" from the English four-piece

Added: 25/01/2011
6.7

Liam Hayes

Slurrup

Fifth release from the Chicago-born musician who has also released albums under the name Plush

Added: 13/01/2015
6.7

King Of The Mountains

Zoetrope

Debut solo LP of ambient electronica from Working for a Nuclear Free City co-founder Phil Kay

Added: 18/04/2014

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