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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

Horsegirl

Phonetics On And On

Second full-length studio release from Chicago trio produced by Cate Le Bon

Added: 12/02/2025
7.7

Hayden Thorpe

Diviner

First solo album from the former Wild Beasts frontman and multi-instrumentalist

Added: 24/05/2019
7.7

Harry Styles

Harry's House

Third solo album from the LA-based former One Direction singer produced by Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson

Added: 17/05/2022
7.7

Halsey

If I Cant Have Love, I Want Power

Fourth studio album from the New Jersey pop artist Ashley Nicolette Frangipane produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Added: 27/08/2021
7.7

Haim

I quit

Fourth studio album from the LA pop rock trio Este, Danielle and Alana Haim produced by Danielle Haim, Rostam Batmanglij and Buddy Ross

Added: 18/06/2025
7.7

Goatsnake

Black Age Blues

Third album and first in fifteen years from the Los Angeles doom metal band who formed in 1996

Added: 03/06/2015
7.7

Ghost Culture

Ghost Culture

Debut album of DIY electonica from the London-based producer

Added: 07/01/2015
7.7

Gazelle Twin

Unflesh

Second album of avant-garde electronica from Brighton-based Elizabeth Walling

Added: 15/10/2014
7.7

Foxing

Draw Down The Moon

Fourth studio album of indie art rock from the St Louis-based trio produced by Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull

Added: 06/08/2021
7.7

Fleet Foxes

Crack-Up

Third album from the Seattle indie folk group, their first after a five year hiatus

Added: 08/06/2017
7.7

Edwyn Collins

Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation

Tenth solo album and first in six years from the indie legend and former Orange Juice frontman

Added: 14/03/2025
7.7

Earth

Primitive And Deadly

Eighth studio album from the Seattle-based experimental doom drone band and features Mark Lanegan

Added: 08/09/2014
7.7

Doves

Constellations For The Lonely

Sixth album and first in eleven years from the Manchester rock trio produced with Dan Austin

Added: 27/02/2025
7.7

Destroyer

Poison Season

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

Added: 24/08/2015
7.7

Deerhunter

Fading Frontier

The indie rock/ambient rock quartet from Atlanta release their seventh studio album, and first since the near-death of frontman Bradford Cox

Added: 12/10/2015
7.7

Courtney Barnett

Tell Me How You Really Feel

Second album from the Melbourne indie rock singer-songwriter working again with producer Burke Reid

Added: 15/05/2018
7.7

Coriky

Coriky

Debut album from the punk rock band featuring Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens), Amy Farina (The Warmers, The Evens) and Joe Lally (Fugazi, The Messthetics)

Added: 29/06/2020
7.7

Charli XCX

Pop 2

Fourth mixtape from the English electro popstar, her second mixtape release of 2017

Added: 20/12/2017
7.7

C Duncan

Architect

Debut album from the classically trained Glasgow-born indie pop composer and musician

Added: 24/07/2015
7.7

Boston Manor

Glue

Third full-length album from the Blackpool, Lancashire pop punk five-piece

Added: 01/05/2020
7.7

Bill Ryder-Jones

Yawn

Fourth solo studio album by British indie singer-songwriter self-produced and featuring guest vocals from The Orielles and Our Girl

Added: 30/10/2018
7.7

Biig Piig

Bubblegum

Debut mixtape from the London-based Irish dance-pop artist Jessica Smyth featuring a guest appearance from Deb Never

Added: 20/01/2023
7.7

Bicep

Bicep

First full-length release from the Belfast-born duo and internationally acclaimed DJs and producers Andy Ferguson and Matt McBriar

Added: 01/09/2017
7.7

Behemoth

I Loved You At Your Darkest

Self-produced album number eleven by Polish death metal veterans featuring a seventeen-piece orchestra arranged by Jan Stoklosa

Added: 09/10/2018
7.7

Bdrmm

Bdrmm

Debut album from the Hull, UK-based dream pop / shoegaze five-piece led by Ryan Smith

Added: 06/07/2020
7.7

Bartees Strange

Live Forever

Debut album from the Brooklyn-based musician mixing arena-rock, folk and rap

Added: 06/10/2020
7.7

Anjimile

Giver Taker

Debut full-length album from the Boston-based singer-songwriter

Added: 18/09/2020
7.7

Angelo De Augustine

Toil and Trouble

Fourth album from the Los Angeles-based indie folk singer-songwriter

Added: 03/07/2023
7.7

Anaïs Mitchell

Anaïs Mitchell

Eighth album from the Vermont singer-songwriter includes contributions from Aaron Dessner, Josh Kaufman, Michael Lewis and Nico Muhly

Added: 28/01/2022
7.7

Aldous Harding

Party

Second album from the New Zealand-born gothic folk singer-songwriter

Added: 21/05/2017

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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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"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)

Matt BerningerGet Sunk
"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.