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7 November 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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Anna Von HausswolffICONOCLASTS

"All of the different influences on Iconoclasts just blend so well and it never sounds messy" (9.4/10 - Sputnik). "A marriage of opposites: automaton-like discipline and total abandon" (8/10 - Slant)

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The Belair Lip BombsAgain

"Establishes them as a new great hope" (8/10 - NME). "For a band whose influences range from Queen to hardcore, it’s impressive how coherent it all sounds" (8/10 - Dork)

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CreeperSANGUIVORE II: MISTRESS OF DEATH

"Never a band to shy away from making their songs as huge as possible, their fourth record features some of their most monumental tracks to date" (8/10 - Clash)

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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)

WednesdayBleeds

"Karly Hartzman has delivered a record that’s lean, confrontational and lived-in" (10/10 - NME). "A monumental statement from one of the most exciting bands today" (9/10 - PopMatters)

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6.7

Mull Historical Society

City Awakening

Hebridean Colin MacIntyre returns to his previous moniker for his latest collection of offbeat indie pop

Added: 24/01/2012
6.7

Migos

Culture II

Third album from the Lawrenceville, Georgia rap trio comprising Quavo, Offset and Takeoff

Added: 30/01/2018
6.7

Mates Of State

Mountaintops

Seventh album of indie pop from this husband and wife duo from Kansas

Added: 15/09/2011
6.7

Mark Lanegan

Imitations

The alt.rock singer-songwriter and guitarist and former Screaming Trees frontman opts for an album of easy listening covers for his latest outing, his first on Vagrant Records

Added: 12/09/2013
6.7

Kisses

The Heart of the Nightlife

Debut album from LA-based electro-pop duo Jesse Kivel (Princeton) and Zinzi Edmundson

Added: 09/11/2010
6.7

I Like Trains

He Who Saw the Deep

Second full album of epic post-rock from the Leeds outfit

Added: 03/11/2010
6.7

HEALTH

Death Magic

Third album of experimental noise rock from the Los Angeles quartet

Added: 03/08/2015
6.7

GusGus

Twentyfour/Seven

Iceland's indie dance collective, back with their seventh album

Added: 04/01/2010
6.7

Grimes

Halfaxa

New album of ethereal pop from the young Canadian

Added: 24/03/2011
6.7

Gang Of Four

Content

Eighth studio album from the Leeds post-punk veterans and first with original material since they reformed in 2005

Added: 19/01/2011
6.7

Eleventh Dream Day

Riot Now

Album number 11 from the Chicago alt-rock veterans

Added: 17/03/2011
6.7

Eddi Reader

Love Is The Way

Latest acoustic dominated release in the enduring career of the Scottish singer-songwirter

Added: 20/05/2009
6.7

Dropkick Murphys

Going Out In Style

Studio album No.7 from the Boston-based Irish-American Celtic punk outfit

Added: 20/06/2011
6.7

Dizzee Rascal

Tounge N Cheek

Fourth album from the London grime pioneer, moving into crossover territory

Added: 14/09/2009
6.7

Diane Birch

Bible Belt

Blues, soul, gospel and folk on the debut album from the Michigan-born singer-songwriter and pianist

Added: 26/04/2010
6.7

Daniel Bjarnason

Processions

Debut album of avant-garde modern classical compositions from the Icelandic composer

Added: 11/06/2010
6.7

Dam-Funk

Toeachizown

Modern funk and electro-tinged R&B on the fourth installment of Stones Throw's DJ friendly Rhythm Trax series

Added: 11/01/2010
6.7

Childish Gambino

Camp

First commercial album release from actor / comedian / scriptwriter and rapper Donald Glover, following a series of free EPs and mixtapes

Added: 15/11/2011
6.7

Chicago Underground Duo

Boca Negra

Fifth album of jazz and ambient music from the collective led by cornetist Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor

Added: 04/05/2010
6.7

Ceremony

Zoo

Fourth album of hardcore punk from this Californian quintet

Added: 06/03/2012
6.7

Bootsy Collins

Tha Funk Capital Of The World

Latest solo album from the legendary funk bass player and one-time Parliament/James Brown member

Added: 21/04/2011
6.7

Bibio

The Apple and the Tooth

Fifth offering of experimental electronica and intelligent dance from producer Stephen Wilkinson

Added: 14/01/2010
6.7

Bachelorette

Bachelorette

This self-titled release is the third full-length album from the New Zealand singer, who mixes psychedelia with girl group vintage sounds

Added: 07/06/2011
6.7

Autolux

Transit Transit

Second album of alt.rock from the LA-based trio

Added: 03/08/2010
6.7

Amos Lee

Mission Bell

Fourth album from the Philadelphia singer-songwriter produced by Calexico's Joey Burns

Added: 30/01/2011
6.7

Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under

Second solo album of alternative pop from the former Dresden Dolls singer

Added: 17/02/2011
6.7

Alexis Taylor

Beautiful Thing

Fourth solo album from the Hot Chip front man produced by DFA Records co-founder Tim Goldsworthy

Added: 17/04/2018
6.7

Africa Hitech

93 Million Miles

Added: 07/06/2011
6.7

Young British Artists

Change By Any Other Name

Debut LP of raw, noisey, driving rock, written in a basement in Manchester

Added: 21/07/2014
6.7

Yacht

Shangri-La

Fifth album of alternative electropop from the Porltand, Oregon group, formerly the solo project of Jona Bechtolt

Added: 20/06/2011

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