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18 December 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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Dove EllisBlizzard

"With shades of Jeff and Tim Buckley, the Galway-born artist writes tunes so strong they seem as familiar as old friends" (10/10 - The Guardian). "The sound is entirely his" (8/10 - DIY)

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Melody’s Echo ChamberUnclouded

"The music is immaculate and interesting throughout" (8/10 - Northern Transmissions). "A record that is just as impressively crafted as anything she has done" (9/10 - All Music)

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Oneohtrix Point NeverTranquilizer

"An impossibly dense and transportive electronic album that takes impermanence as its inspiration" (8.6/10 - Pitchfork). "A demonstration of Daniel Lopatin’s mastery of structural tension" (9/10 - Slant)

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SnocapsSnocaps

"They are back playing pop that is pretty darn unmatched" (8.6/10 - Northern Transmissions). "A hailstorm of warm, exceptionally-written country-rock bangers backed by MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook" (8.5/10 - Paste)

Florence + The MachineEverybody Scream

"Florence Welch enlists horror and magic to harness hope" (10/10 - NME). "An urgent and vital testimony to survival and rebirth, Florence Welch’s sixth album is a defiant middle finger to doubters" (9/10 - musicOMH)

Lily AllenWest End Girl

"Her best album in 16 years, an incisive diary of a marriage in freefall" (10/10 - The Independent). "A hard-hitting pop exposition, while also providing an endless supply of hooks" (8/10 - Clash)

The Last Dinner PartyFrom The Pyre

"Insanely rich with ideas, hooks, smart artifice and real emotion, From The Pyre is a feast of giddy raptures" (10/10 - Record Collector). "Both thematically and sonically richer" (10/10 - DIY)

BrògealTuesday Paper Club

"2026 is there for Brogeal’s taking, they’re gonna be a lot of people’s new favourite band" (8/10 - God Is In The TV). "This is what it sounds like when a band get it right the first time" (10/10 - Dork)

Jay SomBelong

"With ‘Belong’ serving notice of Jay Som’s continued abilities" (8/10 - Clash). "Will undoubtedly solidify her reputation as your favourite pop singer's favourite pop singer" (8/10 - Exclaim"

IdlewildIdlewild

"The fact they are producing some of their best work seems almost absurd, and yet here we are" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "Idlewild is no nostalgic LP—it’s the sound of a band rejuvenated" (10/10 - XS Noize)

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7.6

The Hives

The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

Seventh studio album from the Swedish garage rockers featuring contributions from Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and production by Mike D and Pelle Gunnerfeldt (Beastie Boys)

Added: 27/08/2025
7.6

The Chats

High Risk Behaviour

Debut full-length album from the Australian punk trio Eamon Sandwith, Josh Price and Matt Boggis

Added: 27/03/2020
7.6

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Revelation

Album number thirteen from the San Francisco alt.rock band led by Anton Newcombe who featured in the documentary Dig along with The Dandy Warhols

Added: 19/05/2014
7.6

Sylvan Esso

Sylvan Esso

Debut album of electronic dream pop from Amelia Meath (Mountain Man) and Nick Sanborn (Megafaun)

Added: 14/05/2014
7.6

Suede

The Blue Hour

Eighth album from the English alt. rock group produced by Alan Moulder (Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver)

Added: 20/09/2018
7.6

Sigur Rós

Kveikur

The Icelandic band, now a trio following the departure of keyboard player Kjartan Sveinsson, swap ambient post-rock for a more industrial sound on their 7th album

Added: 11/06/2013
7.6

Saigon

The Greatest Story Never Told

The hip hop artist's eventual follow-up to street album Warning Shots 2, originally scheduled for release in 2006

Added: 21/03/2011
7.6

Placebo

Never Let Me Go

Eighth album of industrial alt.rock from the London-based band led by vocalist Brian Molko

Added: 24/03/2022
7.6

Peter Perrett

How The West Was Won

Debut solo album from the English singer-songwriter and former The Only Ones frontman

Added: 28/06/2017
7.6

Other Lives

Tamer Animals

Album No2 from the Oklahoma indie rock / alt.folk five-piece

Added: 12/08/2011
7.6

Neil Young

Le Noise

Latest studio album from the legendary Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter produced by Daniel Lanois

Added: 26/09/2010
7.6

Metz

Atlas Vending

Fourth release from the Toronto post-hardcore trio co-produced by Uniform's Ben Greenberg

Added: 07/10/2020
7.6

Metronomy

The English Riviera

Third studio album from the English electropop group

Added: 01/04/2011
7.6

Marianne Faithfull

She Walks in Beauty

The latest release from the English singer-songwriter is a spoken word album with musical arrangements by Warren Ellis, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and Vincent Segal

Added: 28/04/2021
7.6

Mariachi El Bronx

El Bronx

LA punk outfit The Bronx, having now gone all mariachi

Added: 09/09/2009
7.6

Lorde

Pure Heroine

Debut full-length release of indie electronic pop from 16-year-old New Zealand singer-songwriter Ella Yelich-O'Connor, with producer and co-writer Joel Little

Added: 30/09/2013
7.6

Liars

Sisterworld

Fifth album from the US experimental art rock / noise-rock exponents

Added: 04/03/2010
7.6

Laura Mvula

The Dreaming Room

Second album from the British soul singer, featuring contributions from Nile Rodgers and members of the London Symphony Orchestra

Added: 15/06/2016
7.6

Killer Mike

Michael

Sixth studio album from the Atlantan rapper and first in eleven years

Added: 16/06/2023
7.6

Katy Kirby

Blue Raspberry

Second full-length album from the Texas-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter

Added: 23/01/2024
7.6

Julian Lynch

Mare

Second album of experimental collage-pop / ambient folk from the New Jersey artist and ethnomusicology student

Added: 13/08/2010
7.6

James Dean Bradfield

Even In Exile

Second solo album from the Manic Street Preachers frontman inspired by the life and death of Chilean activist/poet Victor Jara

Added: 12/08/2020
7.6

How to Dress Well

Total Loss

Tom Krell's alter ego makes another outing into the world of ethereal R&B

Added: 13/09/2012
7.6

Ghostpoet

Some Say I So I Say Light

Second release from London singer and producer Obaro Ejimiwe, dealing in downtempo R&B, experimental hip hop and glitchy electronica and co-produed with Richard Formby

Added: 02/05/2013
7.6

Future Of The Left

The Peace And Truce Of Future Of The Left

Fifth studio album from Andy Falkous's Welsh hardcore alt.rock band funded via PledgeMusic

Added: 06/04/2016
7.6

Frank Turner

Be More Kind

Seventh album of alt.folk/pop from the English singer-songwriter produced by Austin Jenkins and Joshua Block (White Denim) and Charlie Hugall (Florence And The Machine)

Added: 04/05/2018
7.6

Forest Swords

Dagger Paths

Debut album of experimental dub / ambient / drone / dream pop from Liverpool-based producer Matt Barnes

Added: 02/12/2010
7.6

East India Youth

Culture Of Volume

Second full-length release from London-based experimental electronica producer, songwriter and singer William Doyle

Added: 03/04/2015
7.6

Doldrums

Lesser Evil

Debut of experimental indie pop from Montreal-based musician and video artist Arick Woodhead

Added: 21/02/2013
7.6

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Lose

Third album from the New York indie rock quartet is a tribute to a late friend of frontman Joseph D’Agostino

Added: 25/08/2014

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