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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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LordeVirgin

"The pop star turns inward and redefines who she wants to be on her most introspective record yet" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "Returns to pop’s fray to revel in the mess of late-20s angst" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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Frankie CosmosDifferent Talking

"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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BC CamplightA Sober Conversation

"It’s perhaps the finest release of his career from start to finish, and that’s beating some stiff competition" (9/10 - Far Out). "An outstanding album — ambitious, honest, and unpredictable" (9/10 - XS Noize)

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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

Seasick Steve

Man from Another Time

Latest batch of acoustic songs from gnarled US bluesman Steve Wold

Added: 18/10/2009
6.3

Scanners

Submarine

Second album of indie and post-punk from the London quartet

Added: 21/03/2011
6.3

Santana

Santana IV

The legendary latin/blues guitarist reunites with his original bandmates to release their fourth record together, spiritual successor to 1971's III

Added: 18/04/2016
6.3

Robert Pollard

Space City Kicks

Former Guided By Voices front man with his latest solo album of indie rock

Added: 21/01/2011
6.3

Psychic Ills

One Track Mind

Album No.4 from the NY psychedelic rock band, with Neil Hagerty (Royal Trux) producing

Added: 19/02/2013
6.3

Porches

Ricky Music

Fourth album from the New York-based synth-pop singer-songwriter Aaron Maine

Added: 13/03/2020
6.3

Pink

Hurts 2B Human

Eighth studio album from the American pop singer Alecia Moore

Added: 26/04/2019
6.3

Pink

Trustfall

Ninth studio album from the American pop singer Alecia Moore featuring guest appearances from First Aid Kit, Chris Stapleton and The Lumineers

Added: 17/02/2023
6.3

Philip Selway

Familial

A collection of acoustic folk songs, written and sung by the Radiohead drummer on his first solo effort

Added: 23/08/2010
6.3

Moddi

Floriography

First release outside his native Norway for the singer-songwriter Pål Moddi Knutsen, specialising in ambient indie pop featuring accordian, piano and guitar

Added: 19/04/2011
6.3

Kings Of Leon

When You See Yourself

Album number eight from the Nashville pop rock outfit produced by Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Florence + the Machine)

Added: 04/03/2021
6.3

Hercules & Love Affair

In Amber

Album number five from Andy Bulter's disco/house project working in collaboration with Anohni (formerly lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons)

Added: 16/06/2022
6.3

George Ezra

Gold Rush Kid

Third album from the Bristol-based folk / blues singer-songwriter produced by Joel Pott and Stuart Price

Added: 09/06/2022
6.3

Foster The People

Torches

Debut album of indie pop from the LA group

Added: 22/06/2011
6.3

Elizabeth Cook

Welder

Fifth album from the Florida-born country singer

Added: 23/06/2010
6.3

Disappears

Pre Language

The latest collection of krautrock and shoegaze from the Chicagoan group, now including Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth

Added: 14/03/2012
6.3

Dignan Porch

Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen

Second album of lo-fi psych-pop from London five-piece fronted by Joe Walsh

Added: 10/08/2012
6.3

Cullen Omori

The Diet

Second solo album from one of the Smith Westerns brothers, recorded in LA with Taylor Locke

Added: 17/08/2018
6.3

Cryptacize

Mythomania

The California band's second release of experimental rock

Added: 12/06/2009
6.3

Clues

Clues

Montreal indie pop band with their debut album

Added: 02/07/2009
6.3

Christopher Owens

A New Testament

The Children of God-raised ex Girls frontman releases his second solo album of gospel and country tinged indie rock

Added: 26/09/2014
6.3

Bleeding Rainbow

Interrupt

Fourth album and second since changing their name from Reading Rainbow from the Philadelphia-based noise pop quartet

Added: 25/02/2014
6.3

Big Troubles

Romantic Comedy

Noise pop and fuzzy indie rock on the 2nd album from the New Jersey quartet

Added: 28/09/2011
6.3

Ava Luna

Electric Balloon

Carlos Hernandez' New York soul band with a punk aesthetic wrote this, their second album, as a whole band collaborative effort

Added: 04/03/2014
6.3

Asa

Beautiful Imperfection

Second album of soul /jazz from Paris-born Nigerian singer-songwriter

Added: 04/09/2011
6.3

Arbouretum

Coming Out of the Fog

Fifth album of dark folk rock from Dave Heumann's band

Added: 22/01/2013
6.3

Wet Nuns

Wet Nuns

First, and probably last, full-length release from the Sheffield-based self-styled "death blues" duo, who announced they were splitting two weeks before the album's release

Added: 28/10/2013
6.3

Umberto

Night Has A Thousand Screams

Former Expo '70 synth and bass player Matt Hill with an experimental electronic album based on a commission to score Spanish slasher movie Pieces

Added: 05/12/2012
6.3

Two Gallants

We Are Undone

The 5th studio album from San Francisco based guitar-drum duo

Added: 02/02/2015
6.3

Therapy?

Disquiet

Album number fourteen from the Northern Irish alt.rock trio formed in 1989

Added: 17/04/2015

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Lorde Virgin

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Frankie Cosmos Different Talking

Different Talking feels like Frankie Cosmos finally coming into its own. By self-producing, the band articulates a broader sound palette than on 2022’s Inner World Peace Northern Transmissions

Lorde Virgin

A thrilling comeback that puts Lorde’s trajectory to the stars back on track DIY

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HaimI quit
"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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"Chicago trio put their own fresh twist on classic art-punk" (8/10 - Rolling Stone). "A blast of circular-saw guitars, baffling lyrics and effervescent melody" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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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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"This might be the most Sports Team they’ve ever sounded, and somehow, it’s also the best" (8/10 - Dork). "Sharp, funny, and sometimes sobering soundtrack to young adulthood in freefall" (8/10 - XS Noize)

SparksMAD!
"By the time the closing track Lord Have Mercy comes around, you’ll be mentally reordering your list of top 10 all-time Mael brothers albums" (8/10 - musicOMH). "Pop classicists with a heart of gold" (8/10 - Clash)

All-time top 10

Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.