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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

Escort

Escort

Debut album from this Brooklyn duo who turned to straight disco - and grew into a 17-strong band - after years of making house singles

Added: 12/01/2012
6.7

Enya

Dark Sky Island

Eighth studio album from the Irish singer, inspired by the island of Sark and the poetry of Roma Ryan

Added: 20/11/2015
6.7

Envy

Atheist's Cornea

Album number six from the Tokyo post-hardcore five-piece

Added: 16/07/2015
6.7

Ellie Goulding

Brightest Blue

Fourth studio album from the British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist featuring guest vocals from Blackbear, Diplo, Juice Wrld, Lauv, serpentwithfeet and Swae Lee

Added: 16/07/2020
6.7

El-P

Weareallgoingtoburnin hellmegamixxx3

Third in a series of mixtapes from the Brooklyn hip hop producer Jaime Meline

Added: 03/08/2010
6.7

Efterklang

Altid Sammen

Fifth album, and first in seven years, from the Danish neo-classical, post-rock band

Added: 20/09/2019
6.7

Eels

Earth To Dora

Album number thirteen from the California indie rock band led by Mark Oliver Everett

Added: 30/10/2020
6.7

Eels

The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett

Album number eleven of personal lo-fi indie rock from Mark Oliver Everett's California outfit

Added: 16/04/2014
6.7

Editors

EBM

Album number seven from the Birmingham indie rock five-piece and first with producer Benjamin John Power as an official band member

Added: 23/09/2022
6.7

Dustin Wong

Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads

Former Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine guitarist Wong releases his latest album of experimental guitar work and psychedelia

Added: 14/03/2012
6.7

Dusted

Total Dust

Collaboration between Holy Fuck's Brian Borcherdt and producer Leon Tahney (Final Fantasy, Rituals)

Added: 13/07/2012
6.7

Duck Sauce

Quack

First full length album of club oriented disco house from Armand Van Helden and A-Trak, featuring award-winning single Barbra Streisand

Added: 30/05/2014
6.7

DJ Shadow

Our Pathetic Age

Sixth studio album from the hip hop producer, featuring guest appearances from De La Soul, Run the Jewels, Ghostface Killah, Nas, and Raekwon

Added: 14/11/2019
6.7

Diarrhea Planet

I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams

Second album from the Nashville pop punk outfit

Added: 20/08/2013
6.7

Dent May

Across the Multiverse

Fourth album from the LA-based psych-pop singer songwriter

Added: 18/08/2017
6.7

Dengue Fever

Cannibal Courtship

Fifth album of Cambodian-influenced rock from the LA six-piece

Added: 19/05/2011
6.7

Denai Moore

Elsewhere

Debut album from Jamaican born, East London singer-songwriter with elements of folk, indie and R&B produced by Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, Savages, How To Dress Well) and Plan B

Added: 07/04/2015
6.7

Deap Vally

Femejism

Second album from LA rock duo Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards, produced by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner

Added: 13/09/2016
6.7

Danny And The Champions Of The World

Streets Of Our Time

An album of Americana from the former Grand Drive singer and guitarist Danny George Wilson in his new guise

Added: 15/01/2010
6.7

Danielson

Best of Gloucester County

Eight album of Christian indie pop fronted by Daniel Smith and including Sufjan Stevens

Added: 22/02/2011
6.7

Dag For Dag

Boo

Debut album of minimal alt.rock and gothic folk from Swedish brother and sister duo Sarah and Jacob Snavely

Added: 26/02/2010
6.7

Cults

Host

Fifth studio album from New York indie pop duo Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin

Added: 18/09/2020
6.7

Crocodiles

Endless Flowers

Third album from the San Diego noise pop duo

Added: 04/06/2012
6.7

Common

Let Love

Twelfth studio album from the Grammy-winning hip hop artist and actor

Added: 30/08/2019
6.7

Cold Pumas

Persistent Malaise

Deput full-length from the Brighton indie / punk three piece known to deploy harmonised guitar riffs and complex rhythmical structures

Added: 07/12/2012
6.7

Cold Cave

Love Comes Close

Synthpop with industrial overtones on the full length debut from the band led by Philadelphia's Wesley Eisold

Added: 31/10/2009
6.7

Cloud Control

Dream Cave

Second album from Australian indie rock quartet now based in London

Added: 16/09/2013
6.7

Chrystabell & David Lynch

Cellophane Memories

Thir collaboration between the Texan singer Chrysta Bell Zucht and the Twin Peaks creator

Added: 02/08/2024
6.7

Chilly Gonzales

Solo Piano II

Second volume of piano pieces from the versatile Canadian producer, MC and electro artist Jason Beck

Added: 23/08/2012
6.7

Chad VanGaalen

Shrink Dust

Fifth album of spacey indie from the Canadian musician and artist who does all of his own outré videos and artwork

Added: 28/04/2014

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