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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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The ADM rating is a weighted average from our survey of more than 50 sources , taking into account the number of reviews

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7.8

Destroyer

Have We Met

Album number twelve from the Canadian indie rock band fronted by New Pornographers member Dan Bejar

Added: 28/01/2020
7.8

David Gilmour

Luck And Strange

Fifth solo album from the Pink Floyd Guitarist produced with Charlie Andrew

Added: 06/09/2024
7.8

Charly Bliss

Young Enough

Second full-length album from the Brooklyn power pop four-piece produced by Joe Chiccarelli (Morrissey, The Wonder Years, My Morning Jacket)

Added: 13/05/2019
7.8

Bon Iver

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Fourth album from the American indie/folk band fronted by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon featuring contributions from James Blake, Aaron Dessner, Bruce Hornsby and more

Added: 08/08/2019
7.8

BEAK>

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Third album from the experimental Bristol trio led by Portishead's Geoff Barrow

Added: 20/09/2018
7.8

Vince Staples

Vince Staples

Fourth full-length album from the Long Beach, California rapper

Added: 09/07/2021
7.8

Vashti Bunyan

Heartleap

Third album from the veteran folk singer-songwriter, self-produced and recorded in her home studio

Added: 07/10/2014
7.8

TV on the Radio

Nine Types Of Light

Fourth studio album from the influential art rock Brooklyn five-piece

Added: 07/04/2011
7.8

Tunde Adebimpe

Thee Black Boltz

Debut full-length solo album from the singer, songwriter, actor and vocalist with TV On The Radio

Added: 18/04/2025
7.8

The Staves

Good Woman

Third album from the Watford folk rock trio produced by John Congleton

Added: 04/02/2021
7.8

The Bug

Angels and Devils

London-based Kevin Martin releases his fourth album under The Bug moniker, a dancehall/grime/hip hop project

Added: 18/08/2014
7.8

Superchunk

I Hate Music

Second release since their return after a decade of silence from the North Carolina alt.rock / power pop quartet

Added: 15/08/2013
7.8

Strand Of Oaks

Heal

Third album from Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Timothy Showalter includes a contribution from J Mascis

Added: 24/06/2014
7.8

Nils Frahm

All Melody

Ninth studio album from the ambient electronic composer from Hamburg, Germany

Added: 24/01/2018
7.8

Mountains

Centralia

Fourth album from Brooklyn ambient / experimental post-rock duo Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp

Added: 16/01/2013
7.8

Los Campesinos!

No Blues

Album No.5 from the indie pop band, now a six-piece, helmed by singer and lyricist Gareth Paisey

Added: 24/10/2013
7.8

Jay Som

Anak Ko

Third album of lo-fi dream pop from the Oakland-based Melina Duterte

Added: 21/08/2019
7.8

Hotline TNT

Raspberry Moon

Third full-length album from Will Anderson's shoegaze project produced by Amos Pitsch

Added: 20/06/2025
7.8

Gwenno

Le Kov

Second album from the Cardiff-born electropop musician and former member of The Pipettes

Added: 01/03/2018
7.8

Gruff Rhys

Babelsberg

Fifth solo album from the Super Furry Animals frontman, featuring the 72-piece National Orchestra of Wales

Added: 03/06/2018
7.8

Goat

Commune

Second album from the Gothenburg, Sweden experimental rock collective

Added: 16/09/2014
7.8

Father John Misty

God's Favorite Customer

Fourth album from J Tillman under the Father John Misty pseudonym featuring contributions from Jonathan Wilson, The Haxan Cloak and Weyes Blood

Added: 25/05/2018
7.8

CeeLo Green

The Lady Killer

Third album from the Atlanta, Georgia hip hop / funk singer who is also part of Gnarls Barkley

Added: 31/10/2010
7.8

Caitlin Rose

Own Side Now

Debut album of modern country from Nashville singer-songwriter produced by Lambchop's Mark Nevers

Added: 29/07/2010
7.8

Bob Mould

Sunshine Rock

Thirteenth solo album from the man behind alt.rock bands Hüsker Dü and Sugar recorded in San Francisco and Berlin

Added: 08/02/2019
7.8

Blanck Mass

Animated Violence Mild

Fourth full-length album of drone-heavy electronica from Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin John Power

Added: 14/08/2019
7.8

Amyl & The Sniffers

Amyl & The Sniffers

Debut full-length album from the Australian garage punk band produced by Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, MIA, The Fall)

Added: 23/05/2019
7.8

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band

Between My Head and the Sky

Electro, jazz, rockabilly, funk etc intermixed in the 76-year-old Ono's latest outing

Added: 22/09/2009
7.8

Thomas Dybdahl

Songs

Sixth album from the Norwegian singer-songwriter

Added: 12/07/2011
7.8

The Psychic Paramount

II

Third album from the New York experimental / noise rock instrumental trio

Added: 01/05/2011

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Latest Reviews

Lorde Virgin

Because for all the grand ideas here, it feels like Lorde has more to say about them, and as the aesthetic and songcraft of Virgin illustrates — almost despite all of this — she is more than skilled enough to do so Beats Per Minute

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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"Shirley Manson’s gang channel a more optimistic outlook, and display some of their most profound songwriting to date" (10/10 - NME)

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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.