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5 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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Kesha. [Period]

". isn't just a good album, it's a decisively great one, full stop" (9/10 - All Music). "A buffet of pop styles and only rare hints of her highly-publicised trauma" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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Kae TempestSelf Titled

"Instinctive and raw, yet tender to the touch, his most powerful statement yet demands to be heard" (9/10 - musicOMH). "A beefy, self-assured celebration of newfound identity" (8/10 - NME)

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Rival ConsolesLandscape From Memory

"A reset of sorts brings forth an album full of positive energy, showcasing electronic music at its most instinctive" (8/10 - musicOMH). "The record's best tracks are exceptional" (7/10 - All Music)

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Loyle Carnerhopefully!

"Full of love, fatherhood and feeling, the Croydon lyricist’s fourth is less a reinvention than a maturation" (7/10 - musicOMH). "As moving as it is musically satisfying" (8/10 - DIY)

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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7.6

Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks

Mirror Traffic

Fifth album from the Portland, Oregon indie rock quartet fronted by the former Pavement singer

Added: 04/08/2011
7.6

Sonny & The Sunsets

Hit After Hit

Second album from the San Francisco-based 60s influenced indie pop band fronted by Sonny Smith

Added: 16/05/2011
7.6

Smoke Fairies

Wild Winter

Seasonal themed fifth album from the London-based dream-pop duo Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies

Added: 25/11/2015
7.6

Sky Larkin

Motto

The Leeds trio's third album of grunge pop / indie rock since forming eight years ago

Added: 16/09/2013
7.6

Six Organs of Admittance

Burning The Threshold

Latest release from the Comets of Fire guitarist Ben Chasny is his first acoustic-led since 2011’s Asleep on the Floodplain

Added: 23/02/2017
7.6

Shovels & Rope

Little Seeds

Fourth album from the South Carolina husband and wife alt-country duo Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst

Added: 12/10/2016
7.6

San Fermin

San Fermin

Debut of post-rock / chamber-pop from the Brooklyn composer and songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone

Added: 18/11/2013
7.6

Sam Lee

Old Wow

Third album from the London-born folk singer featuring Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser, produced by Bernard Butler

Added: 01/02/2020
7.6

Rolo Tomassi

Astraea

Third album of math rock from Sheffield five-piece produced by Jason Sanderson

Added: 05/11/2012
7.6

Rick Redbeard

No Selfish Heart

Dark traditional folk-inspired songs from Phantom Band frontman Rick Anthony on his solo debut

Added: 30/01/2013
7.6

Richard Dawson

The Ruby Cord

Seventh album of narrative folk rock from the Newcastle singer-songwriter

Added: 20/11/2022
7.6

Rhiannon Giddens

You're the One

Fourth album from the folk / Americana musician and Carolina Chocolate Drops front woman featuring a guest appearance by Jason Isbell

Added: 18/08/2023
7.6

Queens Of The Stone Age

Villains

Seventh album from the Californian hard rock five-piece produced by Mark Ronson (Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Adele)

Added: 22/08/2017
7.6

Quantic and Alice Russell

Look Around The Corner

This pair of labelmates join forces to make an album of soul, latin jazz and more

Added: 12/04/2012
7.6

Prurient

Frozen Niagara Falls

Latest release from the prolific experimental musician Ian Dominick Fernow

Added: 19/05/2015
7.6

Protomartyr

Consolation E.P.

The Detroit post-punk group's latest EP features Kelley Deal of the Breeders

Added: 18/06/2018
7.6

Patti Smith

Banga

11th album from the revered 65-year-old singer-songwriter and poet

Added: 02/06/2012
7.6

Patrick Wolf

Crying The Neck

Seventh studio album, and first since 2012, from the London pop / folktronica singer-songwriter

Added: 16/06/2025
7.6

Part Chimp

IV

First album since 2009 from the London-based alt.rock / noise-rock four piece

Added: 14/04/2017
7.6

Parquet Courts

Sunbathing Animal

Third album from the Brooklyn garage rock / post-punk band led by Austin Brown and Andrew Savage (from Fergus and Geronimo)

Added: 28/05/2014
7.6

Our Girl

Stranger Today

Debut full-length album from the London/Brighton trio led by The Big Moon’s Soph Nathan and produced by Bill Ryder-Jones

Added: 17/08/2018
7.6

Orlando Weeks

Hop Up

Second solo album from the former Maccabees frontman produced by Nathan Jenkin

Added: 14/01/2022
7.6

Oneohtrix Point Never

Returnal

Fifth album of drone music from Daniel Lopatin played primarily on vintage synthesizers

Added: 24/06/2010
7.6

Oliver Coates

Shelley’s on Zenn-La

Third full-length solo album from the London-based cellist/producer with guest appearances from Chrysanthemum Bear, Malibu and Kathryn Williams

Added: 10/09/2018
7.6

Ohmme

Fantasize Your Ghost

Second full-length album from the Chicago experimental pop duo of Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart

Added: 08/06/2020
7.6

New Look

New Look

Debut album of synthpop and electro from Canadian wife-husband duo Sarah Ruba (who's also a supermodel) and Adam Pavao

Added: 03/10/2011
7.6

Naima Bock

Giant Palm

Debut solo album from the former Goat Girl produced by Joel Burton

Added: 08/07/2022
7.6

Miss Red

K.O.

Debut full-length studio release from the Israeli dancehall MC was produced by Kevin “The Bug” Martin

Added: 15/07/2018
7.6

Mirel Wagner

When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day

Second album from the Ethiopian-born Finnish singer-songwriter produced by techno producer Vladislav Delay

Added: 11/08/2014
7.6

Miranda Lambert

Palomino

Eighth studio album from the Texan Grammy Award-winning country artist includes a guest appearance from The B-52's

Added: 03/05/2022

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