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23 April 2026

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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Lime GardenMaybe Not Tonight

"A breakup album that wears its messiness on its sleeve, Lime Garden’s second is figuring life out, track by track" (9/10 - NME). "A new indie disco essential" (9/10 - DIY)

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Jessie WareSuperbloom

"A glorious ode to connection, and Jessie’s most evocative work yet" (10/10 - DIY). "The third album in the singer’s disco trilogy feels like something brighter and more perennial" (9/10 - Slant)

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My New Band BelieveMy New Band Believe

"A postmodern kaleidoscope" (9/10 - DIY). "At the helm of an enormous, constantly shifting collective, the former Black Midi man swings for the fences" (10/10 - NME)

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Arlo ParksAmbiguous Desire

"Her most vividly realised and affecting body of work to date" (9/10 - DOY). "Arlo Parks approaches euphoria and vulnerability with a soothing ambivalence" (8/10 - The Skinny)

The Twilight SadIt's The Long Goodbye

"An astonishing body of work that firmly emphasizes what an important band The Twilight Sad are" (9/10 - Under The Radar). "A powerful and truly wonderful return from The Twilight Sad" (9/10 - Clash)

UnderscoresU

"A tour-de-force of production chops that cements April Harper Grey as a key auteur in the future of the genre" (10/10 - NME). "Hits all the beats of a classic pop record" (8.3/10 - Paste)

Trembling Bells and Bonnie Prince BillyThe Marble Downs

"Strengthened by communal tendencies, meeting bombs in Iran and executions in Minneapolis not with clenched fists of protest, but with hugs" (8/10 - PopMaters).

GorillazThe Mountain

"The album’s posthumous contributors remind us that music can keep ghosts alive" (10/10 - The Independent). "Powerful reflections on mortality from Damon Albarn and Co" (8/10 - Hot Press)

MobyFuture Quiet

"Moby has created a 14-track state of therapy for his own mind but kindly offered it to the world. It is the offering of one of the genius producers of our time" (8/10 - CLash)

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6.1

A Camp

Colonia

Latest offering from the sporadic co-operative venture between the Cardigans' Nine Persson and Atomic Swing's Niclas Frisk

Added: 29/04/2009
6.1

Zoey Van Goey

Propeller Versus Wings

Second album from the Glasgow-based indie pop quartet produced by Paul Savage

Added: 09/03/2011
6.1

Yung Lean

Starz

Fourth studio album from Swedish rapper Jonatan Leandoer Håstad features a guest appearance from Ariel Pink

Added: 21/05/2020
6.1

You+Me

Rose Ave.

A folk pop collaboration from Dallas Green (City and Colour) and Alecia Moore (P!nk)

Added: 19/10/2014
6.1

Wave Machines

Wave If You're Really There

Liverpool alt.rock act with their debut album

Added: 22/07/2009
6.1

Vetiver

Tight Knit

Fourth album from the American indie/folk act

Added: 08/03/2009
6.1

The Script

Science and Faith

Second album of pop/rock from the Dublin trio.

Added: 14/09/2010
6.1

The Rifles

Freedom Run

Third album of sweeping indie rock from this London quintet

Added: 17/11/2011
6.1

The Courteeners

Mapping the Rendezvous

Fifth album from the Middleton, Greater Manchester indie rockers produced by Joe Cross

Added: 02/11/2016
6.1

The Broken Family Band

Please And Thank You

Indie rock / Americana from the Cambridge outfit

Added: 20/05/2009
6.1

The Autumn Defense

Once Around

Fourth album of alt-country from Wilco members John Stirratt and Pat Sansone

Added: 10/11/2010
6.1

Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders

Red Light Fever

Second album of alt.rock from Foo Fighters drummer featuring Dave Grohl and Queen

Added: 26/05/2010
6.1

Soul Asylum

Delayed Reaction

Tenth studio album from the veteran alt.rock Minneapolis band and first since the death of founding member Karl Mueller

Added: 01/08/2012
6.1

Sonny Smith

100 Records vol. 3

The final installment of the San Franciscan artist and musician's project for which he recorded 100 A and B sides to correspond to 100 pieces of album art created for fictional bands by various artists

Added: 08/02/2013
6.1

So Many Wizards

Warm Nothing

The LA-based band led by Iran-born Nima Kazerouni with a debut album of indie pop / lo-fi surf pop

Added: 14/08/2012
6.1

Silversun Pickups

Tenterhooks

Seventh album from the Los Angeles-based indie rock quartet produced by Garbage's Butch Vig

Added: 12/02/2026
6.1

Rats On Rafts

Tape Hiss

Second album of new-wave/post-punk from the Rotterdam based quartet

Added: 26/10/2015
6.1

Nils Lofgren

Mountains

Latest full-length solo album from E Street Band guitarist featuring guest appearances from David Crosby, Ringo Starr, Neil Young and Ron Carter

Added: 24/07/2023
6.1

Lady Gaga

The Fame

Hit single packed dance pop debut

Added: 14/01/2009
6.1

Krept & Konan

The Long Way Home

Debut LP from the South London rap duo Casyo "Krept" Johnson and Karl "Konan" Wilson

Added: 12/07/2015
6.1

Ke$ha

Cannibal

Follow up EP of rap and pop to last year's 2 million selling debut album

Added: 30/11/2010
6.1

Julia Stone

Memory Machine

Solo album of indie folk from half of the Australian brother-sister duo Angus & Julia Stone

Added: 07/12/2010
6.1

Jim Noir

Zooper Trooper

Six-track mini-album of offbeat psych-pop from the Mancunian solo producer and singer-songwriter

Added: 12/01/2011
6.1

James Taylor

Before This World

Seventeenth studio album by the Grammy-winning American singer songwriter

Added: 29/06/2015
6.1

Infesticons

Bedford Park

Underground hip-hop MC and producer Mike Ladd returns with his Infesticons project for a third time

Added: 31/05/2010
6.1

Ghost Wave

Ages

Debut album from the New Zealand band, dealing in distorted, psychedelic-leaning indie rock

Added: 26/09/2013
6.1

Gengahr

Sanctuary

Third album from the London alt-rock quartet recorded in Cornwall with Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jack Steadman

Added: 05/02/2020
6.1

Gatekeeper

Exo

Debut album of EBM, IDM and big beat techno from New York-based duo Aaron Ross and Matthew Arkel

Added: 27/07/2012
6.1

Exlovers

Moth

Debut album from London indie-pop / shoegaze five-piece

Added: 19/06/2012
6.1

Eraas

Eraas

Debut album combining electronic goth, krautrock and drone from the Brooklyn band led by Robert Toher and Austen Stawiarz formerly of post-rock outfit Apse

Added: 09/10/2012

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