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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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7.7

The Big Moon

Love In The 4th Dimension

Debut full-length from the London indie rock quartet led by Juliette Jackson

Added: 07/04/2017
7.7

The Beths

Future Me Hates Me

Debut album of guitar-based indie pop from the New Zealand four-piece

Added: 09/08/2018
7.7

Taylor Swift

Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

Re-recording of the pop artist's 2008 album - following the sale of her master recordings to American businessman Scooter Braun - includes six additional songs

Added: 09/04/2021
7.7

Syd

Fin

Debut solo album of R&B from The Internet's Sydney Bennett who was also a member of Odd Future

Added: 08/02/2017
7.7

Swet Shop Boys

Cashmere

Debut LP from Riz Ahmed (Riz MC) and Himanshu Kumar Suri (Heems)

Added: 14/10/2016
7.7

Stormzy

Heavy Is the Head

Second album from the London-born grime MC with guest appearances from Aitch, Burna Boy, Ed Sheeran, Headie One, H.E.R. and Yebba

Added: 13/12/2019
7.7

Stick in the Wheel

Follow Them True

Second album from the East London folk quintet led by singer Nicola Kearey and produced by guitarist Ian Carter

Added: 27/01/2018
7.7

Squirrel Flower

Tomorrow’s Fire

Third album from the Boston-based songwriter Ella O’Connor Williams produced with Alex Farrar

Added: 13/10/2023
7.7

Sparks

The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte

Latest release from the Los Angeles pop / rock duo Ron and Russell Mael now back on Island records for the first time since 1976

Added: 24/05/2023
7.7

Songhoy Blues

Héritage

Fourth album from the Northern Mali band working with producer Paul Chandler

Added: 21/01/2025
7.7

Soccer Mommy

Evergreen

Fourth album of indie pop from Nashville singer-songwriter Sophie Allison produced by Ben H. Allen

Added: 24/10/2024
7.7

Sam Akpro

Evenfall

Debut full-length album from the South London experimental songwriter

Added: 01/04/2025
7.7

Saint Saviour

In the Seams

Second solo album from Rebecca Jones, produced by Billl Ryder-Jones and featuring the Manchester Camerata Orchestra

Added: 17/11/2014
7.7

Rhiannon Giddens

Freedom Highway

Second solo album from the Greensboro, North Carolina folk / Americana musician and Carolina Chocolate Drops front woman

Added: 22/02/2017
7.7

Rachel Chinouriri

What A Devastating Turn Of Events

Debut full-length release of idie pop from the London-born singer-songwriter

Added: 03/05/2024
7.7

Pom Poko

Champion

Third full-length album from the Norwegian electronic pop-punk quartet who all trained at the Trondheim Conservatory

Added: 16/08/2024
7.7

Passion Pit

Manners

Indie electro-pop on the debut from the Massachusetts band

Added: 17/05/2009
7.7

Moor Mother

Black Encyclopedia Of The Air

Fifth full-length release from the Philadelphia poet, musician and activist Camae Ayewa

Added: 16/09/2021
7.7

Mint Field

Pasar De Las Luces

Debut album from Mexican shoegaze duo Estrella Sanchez and Amor Amezcua

Added: 23/02/2018
7.7

Mavis Staples

We Get By

Album number seventeen from the veteran gospel and soul legend produced by Ben Harper

Added: 23/05/2019
7.7

Matt Berry

Heard Noises

Eleventh album from the award-winning comedian/actor and musician Matt Berry featuring guest appearances from Kitty Liv and Natasha Lyonne

Added: 29/01/2025
7.7

Low

C'mon

Album number nine from Duleth, Minnesota indie rock / slowcore trio

Added: 31/03/2011
7.7

Laura Groves

Radio Red

Second album from the West Yorkshire alternative pop singer-songwriter includes a guest appearance from Sampha

Added: 10/08/2023
7.7

Lana Del Rey

Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

Album number nine from the New York singer-songwriter working with producers Mike Hermosa, Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson, Zach Dawes and Benji

Added: 20/03/2023
7.7

La Luz

News of the Universe

Fourth studio album from the California-based indie surf rock quartet from Seattle

Added: 27/05/2024
7.7

Kali Uchis

Red Moon In Venus

Third studio album from Colombian-American singer Kali Uchis includes contributions from Omar Apollo, Don Toliver and Summer Walker

Added: 03/03/2023
7.7

Kali Uchis

Sincerely

Fifth studio album from Colombian-American singer Kali Uchis

Added: 12/05/2025
7.7

Jane Weaver

Love in Constant Spectacle

Latest full-length album of dream pop from the Liverpool-born singer-songwriter produced with John Parish

Added: 05/04/2024
7.7

Iron & Wine

Light Verse

Seventh album and first in five years from Sam Beam's indie folk outfit featuring a guest appearance by Fiona Apple

Added: 25/04/2024
7.7

HotWax

Hot Shock

Debut album from the Hastings alt.rock trio

Added: 07/03/2025

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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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"Guitar hero epics and riffs galore are abundant across the tracklist" (8/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "A newly collaborative approach is a good look on the NYC outfit" (8/10 - The Skinny)

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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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"On their exceptional new album, the US band double down on the vibrant eccentricity of 2021’s ‘Glow On’" (10/10 - NME). "It’s nothing short of a masterpiece" (10/10 - Dork

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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)

Sports TeamBoys These Days
"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.

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