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3 April 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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Perfume GeniusGlory

"A glorious album that beguiles and enchants, all while insecurity and vulnerability lurk underneath" (10/10 - music OMH). "Perhaps his most musically expansive record to date" (9/10 - DIY)

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DeafheavenLonely People With Power

"Deafheaven’s best album yet, and one that serves as a snapshot of a band at the peak of their powers" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "As singular and engrossing as heavy albums get" (8/10 - DIY)

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DestroyerDan's Boogie

"The mercurial Canadian’s perspective and lavish instrumentation are a reminder of beauty’s potential" (10/10 - The Guardian). "Dan’s Boogie is Bejar’s most graceful album yet" (9/10 - Northern Transmissions)

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Edwyn CollinsNation Shall Speak Unto Nation

"A fine album overflowing with excellent musical moments" (8/10 - Clash). "All of this music is a blast, an affecting display of the emotional textures which Collins has always dealt in so confidently, regardless of his health issues" (8/10 - Record Collector)

DivorceDrive To Goldenhammer

"Early contender for album of the year, Divorce are jumping to the front of the next-big-thing-queue" (10/10 - The Skinny). "Rare to find a debut album that exudes as much honesty" (9/10 - Clash)

Sam FenderPeople Watching

"Every song on People Watching is carefully crafted to remain with the listener" (10/10 - The Skinny). "Sam Fender is no longer just a vital voice in UK rock; he’s perhaps the most essential one" (10/10 - Dork)

Youth LagoonRarely Do I Dream

"This is a record you won’t forget in a hurry" (8/10 - Far Out). "The album represents a more mature development of Powers’ vision" (8.3/10 - Beats Per Minute). "Vital and exciting" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

John GlacierLike A Ribbon

"A captivating honest offering from a generational artist" (9/10 - Dork). "On one of the most accomplished debuts of recent times" (9/10 - musicOMH). "You’ll be repeating it again and again" (10/10 - The Guardian)

Sharon Van EttenSharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

"Songs which are anthemic in feel and universal in their lyricism" (10/10 - DIY). "It’s a bold step that suggests even bigger, better things to come" (8/10 - Dork)

last 12 months

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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7.6

Honeyglaze

Real Deal

Second full-length album from the London indie rock band produced by Claudius Mittendorfer (Ash, White Lies)

Added: 30/09/2024
7.6

Wand

Vertigo

Sixth album of psychedelic garage rock from the LA-based quintet

Added: 29/07/2024
7.6

Vince Staples

Dark Times

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

Added: 27/05/2024
7.6

Leon Bridges

Leon

Fourth studio album of gospel/soulful R&B from the American singer-songwriter

Added: 06/10/2024
7.6

Great Grandpa

Patience, Moonbeam

Third full-length album from the Seattle-based indie rock quintet

Added: 01/04/2025
7.6

Crack Cloud

Red Mile

Third album from the Vancouver-based art-rock, post-punk multimedia collective recorded at Joshua Tree, California and Calgary, Alberta

Added: 26/07/2024
7.6

The Lemon Twigs

A Dream Is All We Know

Fifth full-length release of psychedelic pop from the Long Island, New York brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario

Added: 01/05/2024
7.6

Mount Kimbie

The Sunset Violent

Fourth album from London-based electronic quartet featuring two tracks by King Krule is their first indie rock release

Added: 05/04/2024
7.6

Anna B Savage

You And I Are Earth

Third full-length album from the Dublin-based, London-born singer-songwriter

Added: 24/01/2025
7.6

DIIV

Frog In Boiling Water

Fourth album of guitar-driven dream pop and shoegaze from the Brooklyn quartet produced by Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear, Beach House)

Added: 24/05/2024
7.6

Beabadoobee

This Is How Tomorrow Moves

Third full-length release from the Filipino-born Londoner Beatrice Laus was produced by Rick Rubin

Added: 08/08/2024
7.6

Dirty Three

Love Changes Everything

Ninth album and first in twelve years from Australian instrumental post-rock trio that includes Bad Seed Warren Ellis

Added: 28/06/2024
7.5

Tindersticks

Soft Tissue

Album number fourteen from the Nottingham-based indie rock / chamber pop outfit

Added: 13/09/2024
7.5

Goat

Goat

Fifth studio album from the Swedish experimental psychedelic rock outfit

Added: 10/10/2024
7.5

Courting

Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story

Third full-length release from the post-punk Liverpool quartet

Added: 14/03/2025
7.5

Tunng

Love You All Over Again

Eighth full-length album from the London folktronica pioneers produced and mixed by co-founder Mike Lindsay

Added: 30/01/2025
7.5

Mustafa

Dunya

Debut full-length album from the Canadian poet featuring contributions from Clairo, Aaron Dessner, Simon Hessmann, Nicolas Jaar, Rosalía and Ramy Yousef

Added: 02/10/2024
7.5

Dean Wareham

THAT'S THE PRICE OF LOVING ME

Latest solo album from the Galaxie 500 and Luna dream-pop singer and guitarist featuring Britta Phillips, The War On Drugs' Anthony LaMarca and Spectrum's Roger Brogan

Added: 01/04/2025
7.5

Crumb

Amama

Third full-length album from the Brooklyn-based psych-rock quartet

Added: 20/05/2024
7.5

C Duncan

It's Only A Love Song

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

Added: 27/01/2025
7.5

Blossoms

Gary

Fifth album of indie pop from the Stockport, England quintet produced by Coral frontman James Skelly

Added: 20/09/2024
7.5

Alison Krauss and Union Station

Arcadia

Eighth studio album from the Grammy Award-winning bluegrass country singer-songwriter and first in fourteen years with Union Station

Added: 02/04/2025
7.5

The Murder Capital

Blindness

Third full-length album from the Dublin post-punk five-piece

Added: 21/02/2025
7.5

Manic Street Preachers

Critical Thinking

Album number fifteen from the Welsh indie rock band produced by Dave Eringa and Loz Williams

Added: 31/01/2025
7.5

Lady Gaga

Mayhem

The latest album from the New York pop singer features guest appearances by Gesaffelstein and Bruno Mars and was recorded in Rick Rubin's studio

Added: 07/03/2025
7.5

Been Stellar

Scream From New York, NY

Debut full-length album from the New York City post-punk band produced by Dan Carey (Black Midi, Fontaines D.C., Kae Tempest)

Added: 21/06/2024
7.5

The Dare

What's Wrong With New York?

First full-length release from the LA electroclash musician Harrison Patrick Smith under The Dare moniker (formerly known as Turtlenecked)

Added: 05/09/2024
7.5

Du Blonde

Sniff More Gritty

Fourth album of alt-pop under the Du Blonde moniker from Newcastle upon Tyne animator and video director Beth Jeans Houghton

Added: 18/11/2024
7.5

Halsey

The Great Impersonator

Fifth studio album from the New Jersey pop artist Ashley Nicolette Frangipane working with producers Alex G, Greg Kurstin and Michael Uzowuru

Added: 25/10/2024
7.5

The Horrors

Night Life

Sixth studio album from the goth rock band and first with a change of line-up that includes Millie Kidd of Glaswegian band The Ninth Wave

Added: 20/03/2025

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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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