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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

Pernice Brothers

Goodbye Killer

Sixth studio album from the Massachusetts indie rock band fronted by Joe Pernice

Added: 29/06/2010
6.4

Norah Jones

...Featuring

Fifth album from the American singer-songwriter of collaborations including Foo Fighters, Ryan Adams and Belle And Sebastian

Added: 16/11/2010
6.4

Mint Julep

Save Your Season

Debut album from husband and wife dream-pop duo from Portland, Oregon

Added: 22/11/2011
6.4

Lupe Fiasco

Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1

Fourth hip-hop album from Chicago rapper and record producer

Added: 27/09/2012
6.4

Local Natives

Sunlit Youth

Third album from the Silver Lake indie rock group fronted by Taylor Rice

Added: 09/09/2016
6.4

Lana Del Rey

Paradise

Eight-track mini album follow-up to her big selling debut from the NY pop singer

Added: 16/11/2012
6.4

Imperial Teen

Feel The Sound

Fifth album from the long-standing San Francisco power pop quartet

Added: 31/01/2012
6.4

Hunx

Hairdresser Blues

Grungy punk on the solo outing from garage rockers Hunx And His Punx frontman Seth Bogart

Added: 01/03/2012
6.4

Guided By Voices

Cool Planet

Second album in three months for the prolific indie rock outfit from Dayton, Ohio, this one recorded during the sub-freezing Polar Vortex of 2014

Added: 16/05/2014
6.4

Glen Hansard

Between Two Shores

Third solo album from the Irish singer-songwriter and Frames frontman

Added: 19/01/2018
6.4

dEUS

Keep You Close

Sixth album from the Antwerp indie rock quintet who have been influential on Belgian music scene since the mid 90s

Added: 26/09/2011
6.4

Death Cab For Cutie

Kintsugi

Eighth album from Ben Gibbard's indie rock group, their last with guitarist, producer and founding member Chris Walla

Added: 26/03/2015
6.4

Cut Copy

Freeze, Melt

Sixth album from the Melbourne-based synth-pop band

Added: 21/08/2020
6.4

Best Coast

The Only Place

The Californian duo are back with their second album of sunny garage pop, drawing influence from The Beach Boys to the Shangri-Las

Added: 08/05/2012
6.4

Zombie Zombie

Rituels d'un Nouveau Monde

Third album from the French electro / neo-prog duo Cosmic Neman and Etienne Jaumet

Added: 25/11/2012
6.4

Wu-Block

Wu-Block

Ghostface Killah teams up with Sean 'Sheek Louch' Jacobs from D-Block for a rap collaboration which also features assorted Wu-Tang members plus Erykah Badu and Cappadonna

Added: 07/12/2012
6.4

Will Young

85% Proof

Sixth studio album of Pop / R&B from the Wokingham-born singer-songwriter, produced by Jim Eliot (Ellie Goulding, Kylie Minogue)

Added: 01/06/2015
6.4

Wet Paint

Woe

Second album from the London alt.rock / post-grunge band

Added: 10/05/2011
6.4

We Are Scientists

Helter Seltzer

Fifth album from the NY indie duo Keith Murray and Chris Cain

Added: 29/04/2016
6.4

The Ruby Suns

Fight Softly

Latest collection of calypso-inflected psych-pop and electro-pop from the Auckland-based band led by Ryan McPhun

Added: 03/03/2010
6.4

The Milk Carton Kids

Monterey

Third studio album from the Los Angeles Grammy-nominated indie folk duo Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale

Added: 25/05/2015
6.4

The Men

Campfire Songs EP

Five-track collection of acoustic songs recorded by the Brooklyn quintet during the making of their 2013 New Moon album

Added: 17/10/2013
6.4

The Jayhawks

Mockingbird Time

Eighth album from the influential alt.country band and the first featuring the original line-up since Mark Olsen left in 1995

Added: 02/09/2011
6.4

The Computers

Love Triangles, Hate Squares

The second release from the Exeter-based band sees them departing from their hardcore punk roots in favour of a more mainstream sound

Added: 02/05/2013
6.4

The Coathangers

Suck My Shirt

Fourth album of indie punk from the Atlanta-based girl group, their first record as a three-piece

Added: 24/03/2014
6.4

The Birthday Suit

The Eleventh Hour

Debut album of indie pop from Idlewild's guitarist Rod Jones' side-project

Added: 25/11/2011
6.4

Team Ghost

Rituals

Debut album from the French synth rock / electronic shoegaze five-piece formed by ex-M83 member Nicholas Fromageau and Christophe Guerin

Added: 18/03/2013
6.4

Tahiti 80

The Past, The Present & The Possible

Fifth album from French indie pop band formed in 1993

Added: 25/02/2011
6.4

SZA

Z

Third EP of alt R&B from the 23 year old singer from St Louis, featuring guest spots from Isaiah Rashad, Chance the Rapper and Kendrick Lamar

Added: 23/04/2014
6.4

Stateless

Matilda

Second album from Leeds-based alt.rock / electronic five-piece

Added: 09/03/2011

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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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"This sublime collection of breakup bangers could well be the soundtrack to your summer" (10/10 - Rolling Stone UK). "Rarely works up a sweat yet maintains a jiggling, low-level funk" (8/10 - The Arts Desk)

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"Shirley Manson’s gang channel a more optimistic outlook, and display some of their most profound songwriting to date" (10/10 - NME)

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"Retains the signature charm of The National while highlighting Berninger’s strengths as a writer" (8/10 - Dork). "A subtly textured delight that feels both playful and emotional" (8/10 - musicOMH)

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