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15 September 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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JadeThat's Showbiz Baby!

"She’s now finally concocted a recipe for success on her own terms - and it’s anything but vanilla" (10/10 - DIY). "Chaotic, intense, with a bit of everything thrown in" (8/10 - NME)

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Baxter DuryAllbarone

"It’s not often you’ll hear of an artist making the best work of their career by their eighth album" (10/10 - The Skinny). "This is a record that wants you to dance" (8/10 - Far Out)

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MarujaPain To Power

"The thrill of this band is the extremes. From moshpits one minute and silence the next, they are in command with their music, unifying the crowd" (10/10 - God is in the TV)

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CMATEURO-COUNTRY

"Who else could combine soul, yodelling, Jamie Oliver and Calpol into such charming songs about the messy modern psyche? Only Europe’s best new breakout star" (10/10 - The Guardian)

Wolf AliceThe Clearing

"Their boldest, most striking record yet" (10/10 - DIY). "Frankly, soft-rock has not sounded this grand in a long time, and only Wolf Alice could have crafted it" (8.7/10 - Northern Transmissions)

The New EvesThe New Eve Is Rising

"Velvets-style drone rock, trad folk, anarcho-punk and hippy whimsy are all discernible in the Brighton quartet’s debut album – all played with white-knuckle intensity" (8/10 - The Guardian)

Wet Legmoisturizer

"Spikier, sleazier and sexier, the Isle of Wight duo defy second album syndrome" (9/10 - musicOMH). "The band’s propensity for catchy, danceable garage-punk remains intact" (8/10 - Slant)

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)

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)

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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

Gretchen Peters

Blackbirds

The country singer's latest album features appearances from Jerry Douglas, Jason Isbell, Jimmy LaFave, Will Kimbrough, Kim Richey and Suzy Bogguss

Added: 17/02/2015
7.6

Great Grandpa

Patience, Moonbeam

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

Added: 01/04/2025
7.6

Four Tet

New Energy

Ninth album from London producer Kieran Hebden

Added: 06/10/2017
7.6

Feist

Pleasure

Fifth studio album from the Canadian indie-pop singer-songwriter

Added: 24/04/2017
7.6

Fair Ohs

Jungle Cats

Second album from the London three-piece mixes indie-pop and Afro-pop

Added: 24/05/2013
7.6

Eric Bachmann

No Recover

Fourth solo album from the Athens, Georgia-based indie veteran and former lead singer of Crooked Fingers and Archers of Loaf

Added: 10/09/2018
7.6

Enter Shikari

A Kiss For The Whole World Red Colour Tape

Seventh album from the St. Albans, Herrfordshire post hardcore band

Added: 21/04/2023
7.6

Ela Minus

Acts of Rebellion

Debut album from the Colombia-born, Brooklyn-based artist recorded at home on analogue equipment

Added: 23/10/2020
7.6

Duster

Duster

First new album in almost 20 years from the California indie rock, slowcore band

Added: 16/12/2019
7.6

Downtown Boys

Cost Of Living

Third album from the Providence, Rhode Island punk rock band produced by Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto

Added: 11/08/2017
7.6

DJ Koze

Amygdala

First solo release for nine years from Hamburg techno producer Stefan Kozalla

Added: 03/04/2013
7.6

Denzel Curry

ZUU

Fourth album from the South Florida rapper working with a number of producers including Charlie Heat FNZ Ronny J Rugah Rahj and Tay Keith

Added: 04/06/2019
7.6

Deerhoof

Miracle-Level

Album number nineteen from the experimental San Francisco indie rock quartet and first in Japanese

Added: 03/04/2023
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

Courting

Guitar Music

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

Added: 23/09/2022
7.6

Confidence Man

Confident Music For Confident People

Debut full-length release from the Melbourne-based dance-pop quartet

Added: 13/04/2018
7.6

Cloud Nothings

Attack on Memory

Dylan Baldi's bedroom lo-fi project reinvented as a full indie rock band for a 2nd album produced by Steve Albini

Added: 20/01/2012
7.6

Charli XCX

Charli

Third studio album from the English electro popstar produced by A.G. Cook

Added: 11/09/2019
7.6

Cate Le Bon

CYRK

The Welsh singer-songwriter with a second album encompassing experimental psychedelia, alt-pop, folk and more

Added: 18/01/2012
7.6

Carly Rae Jepsen

Dedicated Side B

Fifth album from the Canadian dance pop artist and former Canadian Idol contestant features outtakes from Dedicated (2019)

Added: 28/05/2020
7.6

Buscabulla

Regresa

Debut full-length album from the Puerto Rican experimental pop duo Raquel Berríos and Luis Alfredo Del Valle

Added: 13/05/2020
7.6

Brigid Mae Power

Head Above The Water

Third album from the Irish folk singer-songwriter recorded with her husband Peter Broderick and Alasdair Roberts

Added: 05/06/2020
7.6

Billie Marten

Drop Cherries

Fourth album from the North Yorkshire singer-songwriter co-produced by Dom Monks

Added: 07/04/2023
7.6

Beirut

The Rip Tide

Third album of Eastern European gypsy-flavoured folk/pop hybrid from New Mexican experimentalists fronted by Zach Condon

Added: 04/08/2011
7.6

Beabadoobee

Fake It Flowers

Debut album from the Filipino-born Londoner following the release of four extended plays

Added: 14/10/2020
7.6

BC Camplight

Deportation Blues

The Manchester-based US singer-songwriter's fourth album was written in the wake of his deportation and subsequent return to the UK

Added: 28/08/2018
7.6

Anna B Savage

in|FLUX

Second full-length album from the London-based singer-songwriter

Added: 17/02/2023
7.6

Andrew Bird

Are You Serious

Album number eight from the Chicago-born multi-instrumentalist featuring collaborations with Fiona Apple and Blake Mills

Added: 28/03/2016
7.6

Alvvays

Alvvays

First full length of jangly indie-pop from the Toronto band

Added: 17/07/2014
7.6

Alcest

Shelter

Fourth album from the band led by Frenchman Stéphane Paut (aka Neige), moving towards shoegaze and away from black metal

Added: 21/01/2014

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David Byrne Who Is The Sky

The artist’s new album of bright, bustling pop is positioned as a celebration of reasons to be cheerful. Often its fountain of optimism feels like a firehose of forced positivity Pitchfork

Ed Sheeran Play

On the enjoyably moreish Play, the ‘culturally Irish’ star sounds as if he’s back on form. Although we’ve only had time for a quick listen The Irish Times

Baxter Dury Allbarone

This record plays like his shot for glory, and with tracks as hooky and well-constructed as "Mockingjay" or the title track, there's no reason he shouldn't hit the big time All Music

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Double Infinity by Big Thief

"Classic melodies, spring water acoustics and pared-back poeticism about living in the moment fill Adrianne Lenker and co’s latest with life" (10/10 - The Guardian). "A gloriously satisfying record" (9/10 - DIY)

SuedeAntidepressants
"Eleven songs of resilience and rebellion that refuse to accept the status quo" (10/10 - musicOMH). "Confrontational, unfiltered and arguably one of their most electrifying releases to date" (8/10 - Clash)

David ByrneWho Is The Sky
"Much like the vast majority of his work these songs are so fun, so triumphant, so full of life that it's easy to feel reassured by them" (8/10 - All Music). "Weirdness and wonder abound at every turn" (8/10 - Mojo)

The HivesThe Hives Forever Forever The Hives
"It’d take a cold, cold heart not to be energised by this" (8/10 - DIY). "Humour, imagination, and an impeccable musicianship that few can rival" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Blood OrangeEssex Honey
"It takes in all the avant-garde and otherwise out-there influences Hynes has encountered along his meandering way" (10/10 - The Arts Desk). "A remarkable album" (9/10 - All Music)

Water From Your EyesIt’s A Beautiful Place
"One of indie’s most unique duos embrace sci-fi sounds, frightening existentialism and a newfound heaviness on their new album" (8/10 - NME).

LaufeyA Matter Of Time
"Laufey conjures a fairytale world woven from jazz, pop and a ticking clock" (10/10 - Laufey). "It makes for the boldest chapter in her artistic story yet" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit)

Cass McCombsInterior Live Oak
"US indie’s steadfast storyteller makes a wonderfully unhurried double album his best yet" (10/10 - The Guardian). "At its best when it leans into the reverie with a riff that calls upon a relaxed stroll" (8/10 - Far Out)

Alison GoldfrappFlux
"Think of Flux as an elegant evolution. She’s still dancing, but this time with her heart closer to the surface" (8/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "Floats in an elegant yet directionless orbit" (6/10 - The Skinny)

Marissa NadlerNew Radiations
"It confirms her strength as a vulnerable storyteller in an era of frequent isolation" (8.5/10 - Northern Transmissions). "Nadler still shines as a spell-weaver and mistress of moods" (6/10 - Mojo)

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.