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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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7.8

Shame

Drunk Tank Pink

Second album of guitar-based indie rock from the Brixton-based quintet produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Depeche Mode)

Added: 12/01/2021
7.8

Samba Toure

Gandadiko

The Malian blues guitarist's fourth album takes inspiration from Bo Diddley and French art-pop

Added: 12/02/2015
7.8

Saint Etienne

I’ve Been Trying To Tell You

Tenth studio album from the London alternative dance trio formed in 1990

Added: 10/09/2021
7.8

Russian Circles

Guidance

Sixth album of instrumental post-rock and metal from the Chicago trio produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou

Added: 04/08/2016
7.8

Riz Ahmed

The Long Goodbye

The first album under his own name from the London-born rapper and actor (The Four Lions, Star Wars, The Night Of)

Added: 08/03/2020
7.8

Richard Thompson

Still

Solo album No.16 from the venerable folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, produced by Jeff Tweedy

Added: 24/06/2015
7.8

Patterson Hood

Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams

Latest solo album from the Drive-By Truckers frontman featureing guest appearances from Lydia Loveless and Waxahatchee, produced by The Decemberists' Chris Funk

Added: 24/02/2025
7.8

No Joy

Motherhood

Fourth album from the Montreal shoegaze artist Jasamine White-Gluz produced by Jorge Elbrecht

Added: 24/08/2020
7.8

Nine Inch Nails

Ghosts VI: Locusts

Surprise release from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s cult industrial rock band with Ghosts V: Together also released at the same time

Added: 01/04/2020
7.8

Mount Kimbie

Crooks And Lovers

Much anticipated post-dubstep debut album from British duo Dominic Maker and Kai Campos

Added: 14/07/2010
7.8

Metz

Up On Gravity Hill

Fifth release from the Toronto post-hardcore trio featuring contributions by Owen Pallett and Black Mountain's Amber Webber

Added: 15/04/2024
7.8

Lime Garden

One More Thing

Debut full-length album from the Brighton indie rock band produced by Ali Chant

Added: 15/02/2024
7.8

Lawrence English

Wilderness of Mirrors

Latest release by the prolific English-born Brisbane-based ambient electronic musician and sound artist

Added: 28/07/2014
7.8

Laurie Anderson

Amelia

Eighth studio album from the experimental performance artist is a fictionalized retelling of Amelia Earhart’s final voyage

Added: 04/09/2024
7.8

Lambrini Girls

Who Let The Dogs Out

Debut album from the Brighton punk duo Phoebe Lunny (vocals/guitar) and Lilly Macieira (bass)

Added: 08/01/2025
7.8

Keeley Forsyth

The Hollow

Third album from the Manchester singer-songwriter and actress features contributions from producer Ross Downes, Matthew Bourne and Colin Stetson

Added: 17/05/2024
7.8

Katy Kirby

Cool Dry Place

Debut full-length album from the Texas-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter produced by Alberto Sewald and Logan Chung

Added: 19/02/2021
7.8

Kae Tempest

The Book Of Traps And Lessons

Third album of spoken word hip-hop/poetry from the London-born artist produced by Rick Rubin

Added: 13/06/2019
7.8

Kacy & Clayton

Plastic Bouquet

Collaboration between Canadian duo Kacy & Clayton and New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams recorded in 2019 in Saskatoon, Canada

Added: 14/12/2020
7.8

Jessie Reyez

Before Love Came To Kill Us

Debut album from the Toronto-born R&B singer-songwriter

Added: 01/04/2020
7.8

Jay-Z

4:44

Album number thirteen from the New York hip hop giant produced by No I.D. and featuring guest appearances from Frank Ocean, Damian Marley and Beyoncé

Added: 02/07/2017
7.8

Jason Isbell

Foxes in the Snow

The first full-length solo release in ten years fromthe Alabama-born ex Drive-By Truckers member featuring only his acoustic guitar and vocals

Added: 05/03/2025
7.8

Hop Along

Bark Your Head Off, Dog

Third album from Philadelphia indie-rock quartet which began life as Frances Quinlan’s solo project Hop Along, Queen Ansleis

Added: 06/04/2018
7.8

Hayden Pedigo

I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away

Latest album from the Texas-born avant-garde musician produced and mixed by former Hiss Golden Messenger member Scott Hirsch

Added: 11/06/2025
7.8

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Woodland

Seventh studio album from the Bluegrass singer-songwriter and her partner Dave Rawlings

Added: 23/08/2024
7.8

Gaz Coombes

Matador

Second self-produced solo album from the former Supergrass frontman

Added: 22/01/2015
7.8

Field Music

Open Here

Sixth studio album from the indie art rock outfit from Sunderland, led by brothers David and Peter Brewis

Added: 30/01/2018
7.8

Ezra Collective

You Can't Steal My Joy

Debut full-length release from the five-piece British jazz collective featuring guest appearances from Loyle Carner, KOKOROKO and Jorja Smith

Added: 26/04/2019
7.8

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou

May Our Chambers Be Full

Collaboration between the Louisville, Kentucky-based post rock singer-songwriter and sludge metal band

Added: 02/11/2020
7.8

Dwight Yoakam

Second Hand Heart

Latest release from the Kentucky-born country rock legend

Added: 14/04/2015

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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!
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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.

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