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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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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

New Order

Music Complete

Album number ten from the veteran electronic rock band is the first without Peter Hook and sees the return of Gillian Gilbert

Added: 21/09/2015
7.6

Miguel

Wildheart

Third album from the California R&B singer-songwriter and producer

Added: 29/06/2015
7.6

Miguel

War & Leisure

Fourth album from the California R&B singer-songwriter and producer

Added: 01/12/2017
7.6

Menomena

Mines

Fourth album from the Portland, Oregon indie rock trio

Added: 27/07/2010
7.6

Max Richter

Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works

The latest release from the classically trained German-born British composer is a score for the narrative dance piece Woolf Works

Added: 03/02/2017
7.6

Marconi Union

Different Colours

Album No.6 from the Manchester-based ambient electronica specialists

Added: 27/07/2012
7.6

Laufey

Everything I Know About Love

Debut album from the Los Angeles-based Icelandic-Chinese jazz-pop artist Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir

Added: 26/08/2022
7.6

KEN Mode

Entrench

Fifth album from the Canadian noise rock / post-hardcore trio

Added: 22/03/2013
7.6

Jordan Rakei

What We Call Life

Fourth full-length album from the London-based, New Zealand-born artist

Added: 24/09/2021
7.6

Jessy Lanza

All The Time

Third album of alternative synth pop from the Canadian electronic singer-songwriter produced with Jeremy Greenspan from Junior Boys

Added: 24/07/2020
7.6

Jeffrey Lewis

The EVEN MORE Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis

Latest album from this New York singer-songwriter and comic book artist

Added: 20/03/2025
7.6

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

I Shouldnt Be Telling You This

Second album from the actor/jazz pianist with his band features contributions from Sharon Van Etten and Fiona Apple

Added: 18/12/2019
7.6

Iris DeMent

Workin' On A World

Secenth release and first in eight years from the Arkansas country folk singer-songwriter

Added: 28/02/2023
7.6

Idles

Tangk

Fifth album of indie post-punk from the Bristol quintet produced with Kenny Beats (Vince Staples, slowthai, Trash Talk) and Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Arcade Fire, U2)

Added: 12/02/2024
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

H.E.R.

Back of My Mind

Debut full-length release from the Californian R&B singer-songwriter Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson

Added: 23/06/2021
7.6

Guided By Voices

Crystal Nuns Cathedral

Album number thirty five from indie rock musician Robert Pollard and his band

Added: 07/03/2022
7.6

Gorillaz

Song Machine, Season One: Strange

Seventh studio album from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's virtual band is part of the Song Machine project

Added: 20/10/2020
7.6

Girls

Father, Son, Holy Ghost

2nd album of lo-fi indie pop from the San Francisco duo

Added: 05/09/2011
7.6

Foxes

The Kick

Third album of electronic pop from the Southampton-born singer-songwriter Louisa Rose Allen

Added: 16/02/2022
7.6

Fear of Men

Loom

Debut full album from the Brighton-based atmospheric indie-pop trio

Added: 21/04/2014
7.6

Dogleg

Melee

Debut album from the Detroit rock quartet formed by guitarist Alex Stoitsiadis in 2016

Added: 20/03/2020
7.6

Dave

The Boy Who Played the Harp

Third studio album from the London-born rapper includes guest appearances from James Blake, Jim Legxacy, Kano and Tems

Added: 05/11/2025
7.6

Clinic

Fantasy Island

Album number nine from the Liverpudlian post-punk revivalists

Added: 26/10/2021
7.6

Charles Bradley

Changes

Third album from the James Brown impersonator-turned R&B/soul singer in his own right, featuring a cover of the titular Black Sabbath tune

Added: 31/03/2016
7.6

Blossoms

Ribbon Around The Bomb

Fourth album of indie pop from the Stockport, England quintet produced by Coral frontman James Skelly and Rich Turvey

Added: 29/04/2022
7.6

Ashley McBride

Never Will

Second album from the tje Arkasas-born country artist produced by Jay Joyce (FIDLAR, Eric Church, Patty Griffin)

Added: 07/04/2020
7.6

Animal Collective

Fall Be Kind

EP and quick follow-up to the acclaimed Merriweather Post Pavillion from the New York-based experimental indie band

Added: 02/12/2009
7.6

A$AP Rocky

LiveLoveA$AP

Much-anticipated debut full-length hip hop mixtape from 23-year-old Harlem rapper Rakim Mayers

Added: 29/11/2011
7.6

Zara Larsson

Midnight Sun

Fourth album from the Swedish popstar featuring contributions from Helena Gao, Margo XS, MNEK and Zhone

Added: 26/09/2025

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