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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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6.5

Sundara Karma

Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect

Debut album from the Reading-based indie rock quartet

Added: 06/01/2017
6.5

Spectrals

Bad Penny

Pop, garage rock and soul on the debut full-length from Yorkshire singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Louis Jones

Added: 25/10/2011
6.5

Soft Metals

Soft Metals

Debut album from Portland electro duo Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall, displaying a love of early synth sounds and early Chicago house

Added: 03/08/2011
6.5

Shout Out Louds

Optica

Fourth album of indie pop from Stockholm five-piece

Added: 27/02/2013
6.5

Serena Maneesh

S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor

Second album - recorded in a cave - from the Norwegian shoegaze five-piece

Added: 19/03/2010
6.5

Rufus Wainwright

Folkocracy

Latest studio album from the Canadian baroque pop singer-songwriter produced by Mitchell Froom (Suzanne Vega, Los Lobos)

Added: 02/06/2023
6.5

Rox

Memoirs

Debut album of R&B and soul from South London singer

Added: 05/06/2010
6.5

Ren Harvieu

Through The Night

Debut full length release from the 21-year-old Salford singer, taking inspiration from 60s pop

Added: 03/05/2012
6.5

Prince

HITnRUN Phase Two

Second Tidal album this year from the R'n'B legend, recorded over 4 years with a 16-piece horn section at his Minneapolis studio

Added: 18/12/2015
6.5

Peter Wolf Crier

Inter-Be

Debut album of lo-fi country blues from duo comprising former Wars of 1812 member Peter Pisano and Brian Moen

Added: 05/06/2010
6.5

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts

Talkin To The Trees

The 48th full-length studio album from Neil Young is the first with his new backing band

Added: 13/06/2025
6.5

Middle Kids

Lost Friends

Debut full-length release from the Sydney indie rock trio

Added: 04/05/2018
6.5

Mick Harvey

Sketches From The Book Of The Dead

Fifth solo studio album from the former Bad Seeds and Birthday Party multi-instrumentalist

Added: 04/05/2011
6.5

Madness

Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da

Two-tone originals Madness return for their tenth album of ska, following up an appearance at the Olympic opening ceremony

Added: 28/10/2012
6.5

Little Dragon

Season High

Fifth album of dreamy trip hop/pop from the Gothenburg outfit co-produced by Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford

Added: 13/04/2017
6.5

Little Boots

Nocturnes

Follow up to her widely-admired debut Hands from the UK electro pop artist Victoria Hesketh, with DFA man Tim Goldsworthy on production duties

Added: 03/05/2013
6.5

L-VIS 1990

Neon Dreams

Night Slugs label & club boss James Connolly with a debut house and electro album featuring an array of guests and collaborators

Added: 29/09/2011
6.5

Kylie Minogue

Kiss Me Once

Album number twelve from Australian-born and now UK resident pop singer-songwriter, actress and The Voice UK judge

Added: 13/03/2014
6.5

Jamie Cullum

The Pursuit

Fifth studio album from crossover jazz singer and pianist

Added: 09/11/2009
6.5

James Bay

Electric Light

Second album from the English singer-songwriter, produced by Bay alongside Jon Green and Paul Epworth

Added: 17/05/2018
6.5

Hype Williams

Rainbow Edition

Fourth album of lo-fi experimental psych pop from Berlin-based Anglo-Estonian duo

Added: 25/08/2017
6.5

Evanescence

The Bitter Truth

Fifth studio album from the Little Rock, Arkansas rock band produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters, Ash)

Added: 25/03/2021
6.5

Eminem

The Marshall Mathers LP 2

13 years on, the 41 year old rapper releases the follow up to his acclaimed third album

Added: 04/11/2013
6.5

Ducktails

The Flower Lane

Third release from Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile's indie pop side project, this time backed by New Jersey band Big Troubles and featuring a range of guests

Added: 24/01/2013
6.5

DMA’s

Hills End

Debut album from the Britpop-influenced Australian trio mixed by Oasis producer Mark “Spike” Stent

Added: 25/02/2016
6.5

Death Cab For Cutie

Thank You for Today

Ninth album from Ben Gibbard's indie rock group produced by Rich Costey (Muse, Biffy Clyro, Sigur Rós)

Added: 14/08/2018
6.5

David Gilmour

Rattle That Lock

Fourth solo album from the Pink Floyd Guitarist, produced by Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera

Added: 18/09/2015
6.5

Cuco

Para Mi

Debut album from the LA-based producer, singer and song-writer Omar Banos

Added: 25/07/2019
6.5

Casiokids

Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen

Third album from the Bergen, Norway synthpop quartet

Added: 13/10/2011
6.5

California X

Nights In The Dark

Second album from the Amherst, Massachusetts indie rock quartet led by Lemuel Gurtowsky

Added: 14/01/2015

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