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8 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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Albums to watch

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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6.1

Mark Olson

Many Colored Kite

Second solo album from one of the founding members of Americana band The Jayhawks

Added: 07/01/2011
6.1

Majid Jordan

Majid Jordan

Debut album from Canadian production duo Majid Al Maskati and Jordan Ullman, featuring a guest appearance from Drake

Added: 10/02/2016
6.1

Macy Gray

Covered

Album number six is a selection of covers from the Ohio-born R&B and soul singer-songwriter

Added: 25/06/2012
6.1

Mabel

About Last Night...

Second album from the English pop singer who's the daughter of Neneh Cherry and Massive Attack record producer Cameron McVey

Added: 19/07/2022
6.1

Lissy Trullie

Lissy Trullie

Debut album from the indie pop / indie rock band led by former model turned singer-songwriter Elizabeth "Lizzy" McChesney

Added: 25/04/2012
6.1

La Sera

La Sera

Solo album of lo-fi indie pop from Vivian Girls' bassist Katy Goodman (aka Kickball Katy)

Added: 14/02/2011
6.1

Joy Williams

Venus

Fourth solo album from the California-based Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter who was part of Civil Wars

Added: 02/07/2015
6.1

John Newman

Tribute

The 23 year old's debut album of soul pop is a UK no 1

Added: 25/10/2013
6.1

John Mayer

Born And Raised

Fifth album from the tabloid-friendly American pop/rock singer and guitarist

Added: 22/05/2012
6.1

Joey Bada$$

Summer Knights

Second official mixtape release from the 18-year-old Brooklyn rapper and leader of the Pro Era crew

Added: 24/07/2013
6.1

Jimmy Eat World

Invented

Seventh studio album of alt.rock from the Arizona emo originals

Added: 14/10/2010
6.1

Jaws

Be Slowly

Debut album from the Birmingham indie pop quartet

Added: 15/09/2014
6.1

James Vincent McMorrow

True Care

Fourth album from the Dublin singer-songwriter

Added: 16/08/2017
6.1

James Skelly And The Intenders

Love Undercover

First solo album from The Coral frontman is a soul / R&B influenced affair

Added: 06/06/2013
6.1

Jacuzzi Boys

Glazin'

Goofy garage punk by this band of Florideans

Added: 02/09/2011
6.1

Horse Feathers

Thistled Spring

third album of indie folk from the Oregon band led by Justin Ringle

Added: 21/06/2010
6.1

Holopaw

Academy Songs 1

Fourth release from the Gainesville, Florida indie rock six-piece is a concept album set in an all-boys prep school

Added: 18/01/2013
6.1

Har Mar Superstar

Bye Bye 17

Classic R&B and soul is the latest styling for musician, songwriter and Gayngs member Sean Tillmann following on from the R&B and electro Dark Touches album

Added: 01/05/2013
6.1

Gus Dapperton

Orca

Second album from the Warwick, New York singer-songwriter Brendan Patrick Rice

Added: 18/09/2020
6.1

Future

Future Hndrxx Presents: The Wizrd

Album number seven from Atlanta rapper Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn

Added: 24/01/2019
6.1

Eric Clapton

Clapton

19th solo album from the legendary guitarist comprises cover versions and vintage blues

Added: 27/09/2010
6.1

Ducktails

Jersey Devil

Album number six from the lo-fi indie chillwave four-piece led by former Real Estate guitarist Matt Mondanile

Added: 06/10/2017
6.1

Dodgy

Stand Upright In A Cool Place

The first album in over a decade by this power pop trio, who came to prominence in the Britpop era

Added: 20/02/2012
6.1

Dinosaur Pile-Up

Nature Nurture

The Leeds trio with their 2nd album of grunge-inspired garage rock / power pop

Added: 20/06/2013
6.1

Delicate Steve

This Is Steve

Third studio album of mainly instrumental guitar pop from the New Jersey-based Steve Marion

Added: 27/01/2017
6.1

Deep Purple

Whoosh!

Album number twenty one from the British hard rock band was produced by Bob Ezrin (Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel)

Added: 13/08/2020
6.1

Dan Croll

Emerging Adulthood

Second album from the electronic artist working with producer Ben Allen (Kelis, Animal Collective, Cee Lo Green)

Added: 28/07/2017
6.1

Dan Bodan

Soft

Debut LP of soft, digital R&B by the Canadian-born Berlin-based artist

Added: 19/11/2014
6.1

Communions

Blue

Debut album from the 80s new wave influenced Danish quartet

Added: 07/02/2017
6.1

Coldplay

Ghost Stories

The sixth studio album from the indie rock quartet produced by the band along with the Mylo Xyloto team and recorded in their own London studio

Added: 15/05/2014

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Latest Reviews

Melody’s Echo Chamber Unclouded

A record that is just as impressively crafted as anything Prochet has done. That is high praise indeed, considering she's made some of the most inventive and pleasing neo-psychedelic-adjacent albums of the previous decade or so All Music

Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

For its candor, its daring scope, its lyrical depth and sonic invention, EDABP stands as Williams’ strongest solo work, a project that solidifies her place among the most vital songwriters of the past 15 years Northern Transmissions

Melody’s Echo Chamber Unclouded

The music is immaculate and interesting throughout Northern Transmissions

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COSPLAY by Sorry

"Hooks arrive, then shift; masks slip, then hold; references flash, then vanish. The common thread is control: even at its most unruly, the placement of parts feels deliberate" (10/10 - Dork)

Keaton HensonParader
"An increase in volume paired with a new immediacy and confidence make this his most accessible album to date" (8/10 - musicOMH). "A huge step forwards" (8/10 - Mojo)

Mavis StaplesSad And Beautiful World
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"Never a band to shy away from making their songs as huge as possible, their fourth record features some of their most monumental tracks to date" (8/10 - Clash)

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"Cleverly, it retains a rough-shod production and avoids digital polish" (7/10 - Far Out). "The sound overall mostly evokes the primordial, punky, pre-grunge Lemonheads" (8/10 - Uncut)

Demi LovatoIt’s Not That Deep
"Feels like a homecoming to her electronic-pop roots" (8/10 - Rolling Stone). "It’s not that deep, but it might just be Lovato’s best effort yet" (8/10 - The Line Of Best Fit)

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"A vibrant, energetic atmosphere on her bustling house party of a third album" (9/10 - musicOMH). "Pulses with the kind of euphoria that comes from letting loose on the dance floor" (8/20 - Slant)

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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.

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