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4 July 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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Kesha. [Period]

". isn't just a good album, it's a decisively great one, full stop" (9/10 - All Music). "A buffet of pop styles and only rare hints of her highly-publicised trauma" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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Kae TempestSelf Titled

"Instinctive and raw, yet tender to the touch, his most powerful statement yet demands to be heard" (9/10 - musicOMH). "A beefy, self-assured celebration of newfound identity" (8/10 - NME)

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Rival ConsolesLandscape From Memory

"A reset of sorts brings forth an album full of positive energy, showcasing electronic music at its most instinctive" (8/10 - musicOMH). "The record's best tracks are exceptional" (7/10 - All Music)

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Loyle Carnerhopefully!

"Full of love, fatherhood and feeling, the Croydon lyricist’s fourth is less a reinvention than a maturation" (7/10 - musicOMH). "As moving as it is musically satisfying" (8/10 - DIY)

carolineCaroline 2

"Each song is gloriously cinematic, intoxicatingly unexpected and truly powerful, even in its quietest moments" (9/10 - Far Out). "UK post-rock’s preeminent sentimentalists" (8/4/10 - Pitchfork)

StereolabInstant Holograms On Metal Film

"Lætitia Sadier et al pick up where they left off yet sound more timely than ever" (8/10 - The Guardian). "This is highbrow music for lowbrow times" (9/10 - Far Out)

Tune-YardsBetter Dreaming

"May just be their most uplifting and inspiring work" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "May emerge as one of the Oakland duo’s all-time great records after a few years’ passage" (7.8/10 - Paste)

Ezra FurmanGoodbye Small Head

"A record of unflinching honesty and unparalleled vulnerability" (9/10 - DIY). "There’s an urgency coursing through this startling album’s veins that confirms its creator to be one of the most exciting songwriters around" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Jenny HvalIris Silver Mist

"A personal journey through the past and self, focused on the power of scent in evoking forgotten moments" (10/10 - The Guardian. "An immersive album of beguiling charms about memories, isolation and dislocation" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Self EsteemA Complicated Woman

"Her most concentrated and burning record" (10/10 - DIY). "takes the best parts of Prioritise Pleasure and her debut Compliments Please, and turns it all up to 10" (10/10 - musicOMH)

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6.4

MNEK

Language

Debut album from South Londoner Uzoechi Emenike who's worked as a songwriter and producer for Beyoncé, BTS and Little Mix

Added: 07/09/2018
6.4

Lissie

Castles

Fourth album from the Illinois folk rock singer-songwriter Elisabeth Corrin Maurus

Added: 23/03/2018
6.4

Lady Gaga

Joanne

Fifth studio album from the NY pop singer with Mark Ronson executive producer and contributions from Kevin Parker, Father John Misty and Josh Homme

Added: 21/10/2016
6.4

Kitty, Daisy and Lewis

Smoking In Heaven

Second album of 50s-inspired rockabilly / roots from the young London-based sibling trio

Added: 29/05/2011
6.4

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Quarters!

The Australian psych/jam band's latest is a collection of 4 songs, each exactly 10 minutes 10 seconds long

Added: 01/06/2015
6.4

Idlewild

Interview Music

Eighth studio album from Scottish indie rock veterans recorded in LA and Scotland and produced by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, The Proclaimers, Roger Daltry)

Added: 05/04/2019
6.4

Hollie Cook

Vessel Of Love

Third studio album of dub pop from Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook's daughter and former member of the reformed lineup of The Slits

Added: 26/01/2018
6.4

Guided By Voices

The Bears for Lunch

Third album released in 2012 from the Ohio lo-fi garage rock band led by Robert Pollard, who has also put out two solo albums

Added: 13/11/2012
6.4

Grouplove

Never Trust a Happy Song

Debut album from LA indie pop five-piece

Added: 04/09/2011
6.4

Gossip

Music For Men

Beth Ditto and her indie rock / dance punk band's follow up to the vastly successful Standing In The Way Of Control

Added: 14/06/2009
6.4

Frank Turner

Positive Songs For Negative People

Album six of alt.folk/pop from the English singer-songwriter

Added: 03/08/2015
6.4

Francois & The Atlas Mountains

Solide Mirage

Album number five of Afrobeat-tinged indie pop from the Brussels-based French singer-songwriter Frànçois Marry and his band

Added: 06/03/2017
6.4

Ceremony

In The Spirit World Now

Sixth album from the Californian punk rockers and first for Relapse Records

Added: 29/08/2019
6.4

Cate Le Bon & Bradford Cox

Myths 004

Part of a collaboration series where Mexican Summer bring together like minded musicians

Added: 01/11/2019
6.4

Cage The Elephant

Neon Pill

Sixth album from the Kentucky indie rock five-piece produced by John Hill (MIA, Empire Of The Sun, Santigold)

Added: 20/05/2024
6.4

Bootsy Collins

World Wide Funk

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

Added: 01/11/2017
6.4

Bombay Bicycle Club

Flaws

Second album from the London indie rock quartet, ditching the electric guitars for acoustics

Added: 11/07/2010
6.4

Blackpink

Born Pink

Second album from the South Korean pop group working with producers Teddy Sinclair, Willy Sinclair, Bekuh Boom, R. Tee, Kush and Teddy Park

Added: 19/09/2022
6.4

Benjamin Francis Leftwich

After the Rain

Second album of acoustic indie folk from the English singer-songwriter

Added: 23/08/2016
6.4

Art Feynman

Blast Off Through The Wicker

Solo avant-pop debut from the Here We Go Magic frontman Luke Temple

Added: 18/07/2017
6.4

A$AP Rocky

Testing

Third studio album from the New York rapper with guest appearances from FKA twigs, French Montana, Juicy J, Kid Cudi, Kodak Black, Moby, Frank Ocean, Skepta

Added: 29/05/2018
6.4

Waxahatchee

Great Thunder

EP from New York City-via-Alabama indie singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield features songs she wrote and performed as half of Great Thunder

Added: 10/09/2018
6.4

This Town Needs Guns

13.0.0.0.0

Second album from the Oxford math rockers, now a trio

Added: 21/01/2013
6.4

The Voluntary Butler Scheme

The Grandad Galaxy

One-man bedroom indie pop artist Rob Jones with his 2nd album

Added: 21/07/2011
6.4

The Gaslight Anthem

Handwritten

Fourth album of indie rock / punk from the New Jersey band led by singer Brian Fallon

Added: 10/07/2012
6.4

The Fireman

Electric Arguments

The third batch of experiments between Paul McCartney and producer Youth

Added: 21/11/2008
6.4

Surfer Blood

Snowdonia

Fourth album from the Florida surf rock group is a tribute to their guitarist Thomas Fekete who died of cancer in 2016

Added: 03/02/2017
6.4

Supreme Cuts

Divine Ecstasy

Second full-length release from the Chicago production duo, covering rap, electronica and R&B and featuring gusts vocalists including Channy Leaneagh and Haleek Maul

Added: 03/02/2014
6.4

Standard Fare

Out Of Sight, Out Of Town

Second album from the Sheffield-based indie pop power trio

Added: 13/12/2011
6.4

Small Black

New Chain

Debut album of psychedelic electronica and chillwave from the Brooklyn four-piece

Added: 25/10/2010

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"A tight 17-track, 38-minute album that should be welcomed by all fans" (8/10 - All Music). "A warm blanket of bedroom pop vignettes, Frankie Cosmos's sixth album is a comforting listening" (6/10 - The Skinny)

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