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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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6.3

The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

Blood & Fire

Third album of gothic garage punk from Brighton five-piece

Added: 25/05/2010
6.3

The dB's

Falling Off The Sky

Fifth album, and first for 25 years, for the North Carolina power pop quartet

Added: 15/06/2012
6.3

The Charlatans

Who We Touch

Britpop surviviors The Charlatans return with their eleventh studio album.

Added: 06/09/2010
6.3

Seefeel

Seefeel

The reformed British ambient techno / alt.rock pioneers with their first album since 1996

Added: 27/01/2011
6.3

Robbie Robertson

How To Become Clairvoyant

More blues / rock in the first solo outing in 13 years from the onetime The Band singer-songwriter and guitarist

Added: 05/04/2011
6.3

of Montreal

Daughter of Cloud

The latest album from Kevin Barnes' indefinable indie funk collective who paradoxically, aren't from Montreal

Added: 22/10/2012
6.3

Nurses

Dracula

Third album of dubby psychedelic pop from Portland-based Aaron Chapman and John Bowers

Added: 26/09/2011
6.3

Neil and Liam Finn

Lightsleeper

A collaboration between the Crowded House singer and his son

Added: 24/08/2018
6.3

Mt. Desolation

Mt. Desolation

An alt country side project from Keane members Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin also including members of The Killers and Mumford & Sons

Added: 15/10/2010
6.3

M83

Junk

Seventh album of electronic shoegaze from LA-based band led by Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez

Added: 06/04/2016
6.3

London Grammar

Truth Is A Beautiful Thing

Second album from the Nottingham dream pop trio working with producers Greg Kurstin, Jon Hopkins and Paul Epworth

Added: 08/06/2017
6.3

Light Asylum

Light Asylum

Debut album of industrial synthpop from Brooklyn duo Shannon Funchess and Bruno Coviello

Added: 01/05/2012
6.3

Kele

The Boxer

Electro-pop and synth rock on the first solo offering from the Bloc Party leader

Added: 17/06/2010
6.3

Iggy And The Stooges

Ready To Die

The punk icon reunited with guitarist James Williamson, Scott Asheton and new bass player Mike Watt for the first Stooges outing since 2007's The Weirdness

Added: 26/04/2013
6.3

Husky

Forever So

Debut album from the Melbourne-based indie folk quartet and the first Australian band to sign for Sub Pop

Added: 30/05/2012
6.3

Givers

In Light

Debut album of avant pop / afropop from the Louisiana band

Added: 07/10/2011
6.3

Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler

This Is Christmas

A predominantly self-penned album of Christmas songs from the Ash front man and his partner Emma Lee Moss

Added: 29/11/2011
6.3

Ellie Goulding

Halcyon

Second collection of folk/pop and electro-pop songs from the British singer-songwriter, produced by Jim Eliot

Added: 05/10/2012
6.3

Deadmau5

4 X 4 = 12

Third album from the Canadian electro / house producer Joel Zimmermann

Added: 03/12/2010
6.3

Conor Maynard

Contrast

Electronic R&B and urban pop on the first album from the 19-year-old Brighton singer unwillingly known as the British Justin Bieber

Added: 29/07/2012
6.3

Chaka Khan

Hello Happiness

Twelfth studio album from the funk and soul legend, her first since 2007

Added: 15/02/2019
6.3

Born Ruffians

Say It

Second album of indie rock from Canadian three-piece

Added: 25/05/2010
6.3

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data Panik etcetera

Fourth album from the indie pop Glasgow trio and first since they broke up in 2003

Added: 05/05/2014
6.3

Alicia Keys

Keys

Eighth album from the Grammy-winning urban soul singer features produced by Mike Will Made It (Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, Future)

Added: 10/12/2021
6.3

Albert Hammond Jr

Momentary Masters

Third solo album from the Strokes guitarist

Added: 24/07/2015
6.3

!!!

Wallop

Eighth studio album from the New York dance-punk outfit

Added: 01/09/2019
6.3

The Rebel Yell

Love & War

Second album from the Australian R&B singer/songwriter and Mark Ronson collaborator

Added: 01/06/2009
6.3

Prinzhorn Dance School

Clay Class

Album No2, after a 5-year gap, from English minimal post-punk / alt.rock duo Tobin Prinz and Suzi Horn

Added: 25/01/2012
6.3

Memoryhouse

The Slideshow Effect

The debut full-length release from the Canadian chillwave duo, following a string of well-received EPs

Added: 22/02/2012
6.3

Javelin

No Más

Tropical, electro and hip hop on the debut album from the Rhode Island duo

Added: 13/05/2010

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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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