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4 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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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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8.2

Wednesday

Rat Saw God

Third album from the North Carolina indie rock band produced by Alex Farrar and recorded in a week

Added: 07/04/2023
8.2

The Twilight Sad

Nobody Wants To Be Here & Nobody Wants To Leave

Fourth studio album from the Scottish indie rock outfit

Added: 22/10/2014
8.2

serpentwithfeet

soil

Debut album of soulful r&b from the Baltimore born Josiah Wise

Added: 08/06/2018
8.2

Mitski

Puberty 2

Fourth record from the New York-based Japanese/American singer songwriter

Added: 14/06/2016
8.2

Leonard Cohen

Popular Problems

The legendary Canadian singer-songwriter releases his thirteenth studio album on the day after his 80th birthday

Added: 20/09/2014
8.2

Kneecap

Fine Art

Second studio album from Belfast hip-hop trio produced by Toddla T and featuring a guest appearance from Fontain D.C.’s Grian Chatten

Added: 13/06/2024
8.2

Foo Fighters

But Here We Are

Eleventh studio album from Dave Grohl's post-grunge rock stalwarts and first without Taylor Hawkins (who died in March 2022) produced by Greg Kurstin

Added: 01/06/2023
8.2

Ezra Collective

Dance, No One's Watching

Third album from the five-piece London jazz collective is the follow up to their Mercury Prize-winning 2022 album Where I'm Meant to Be

Added: 27/09/2024
8.2

CMAT

If My Wife New I'd Be Dead

Debut full-length album from the Irish pop singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson

Added: 04/03/2022
8.2

Chromatics

Kill For Love

Fourth album and first for five years from the Oregon synthpop quartet led by multi-instrumentalist, producer and label boss Johnny Jewel

Added: 03/05/2012
8.2

Billie Eilish

Happier Than Ever

Second album from the Los Angeles-born pop singer-songwriter was produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell

Added: 30/07/2021
8.2

Biffy Clyro

The Myth of The Happily Ever After

Ninth release from the Scots alt.rock trio is a 'sister album' to the 2020 album A Celebration of Endings

Added: 22/10/2021
8.2

Wild Beasts

Smother

Third album and follow up to the acclaimed Two Dancers from the Lake District indie rock quartet

Added: 28/04/2011
8.2

The Anchoress

The Art Of Losing

Second album from the Welsh singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Catherine Anne Davies

Added: 12/03/2021
8.2

Richard Dawson

2020

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

Added: 11/10/2019
8.2

Pallbearer

Foundations Of Burden

Second full-length album from the Little Rock, Arkansas doom metal band produced by Billy Anderson (Swans, Impaled, and Sleep)

Added: 19/08/2014
8.2

Jack White

No Name

Sixth solo album from the former The White Stripes man is a surprise 14-track vinyl-only album was given to people who bought items at Third Man Records stores in Detroit, London and Nashville

Added: 24/07/2024
8.2

Crack Cloud

Pain Olympics

Debut album from the Vancouver-based art-rock, post-punk multimedia collective

Added: 16/07/2020
8.2

Bassekou Kouyate

I Speak Fula

The celebrated Malian ngoni player and singer, with his quartet, on an album of African blues / rock

Added: 27/09/2009
8.2

Algiers

The Underside Of Power

Second album from the Atlanta, Georgia experimental post-rock trio

Added: 21/06/2017
8.2

Aldous Harding

Designer

Third album from the New Zealand-born gothic folk singer-songwriter

Added: 25/04/2019
8.2

The Bug

Fire

Fifth album of dancehall/grime/hip hop from the London-based Kevin Martin

Added: 27/08/2021
8.2

Sunn O)))

Monoliths & Dimensions

Sixth album from the American drone metal merchants

Added: 01/06/2009
8.2

Pusha T

Daytona

Third solo album from the former member of the rap duo The Clipse produced by Kanye West

Added: 25/05/2018
8.2

Poppy

Flux

Fourth full-length album from the Boston-born singer and YouTube personality Moriah Rose Pereira produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Best Coast, M83, Deafheaven)

Added: 24/09/2021
8.2

FKA Twigs

M3LL155X

English experimental pop artist releases her follow-up to LP1: an EP pronounced "Melissa"

Added: 19/08/2015
8.2

Ethel Cain

Preacher’s Daughter

Full-length debut album from the Florida-born dream pop artist Hayden Silas Anhedönia

Added: 12/05/2022
8.2

Circuit des Yeux

Halo On The Inside

Eighth album from the Chicago-based experimental vocalist, composer, and producer Haley Fohr

Added: 14/03/2025
8.2

Angel Olsen

Burn Your Fire For No Witness

Second album of lo-fi garage rock from Missouri-born singer-songwriter produced by John Congleton (Bill Callahan, St Vincent)

Added: 13/02/2014
8.2

Young Fathers

Cocoa Sugar

Third full-length album from the Edinburgh-based Mercury Prize-winning trio

Added: 05/03/2018

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