1 April 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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Perfume Genius Glory
With Glory, Hadreas discovers a rare balance between approachable songwriting and musical ambition that reinvigorates his music All Music
Deafheaven Lonely People With Power
Proves Deafheaven are a group that stays the course and keep delivering that signature sound they’re known for Beats Per Minute
Benefits Constant Noise
When Constant Noise triumphs, it absolutely soars Beats Per Minute
Destroyer Dan's Boogie
Dan Bejar’s 14th Destroyer album is both an intoxicating reflection on a remarkable, 30-year career and a thrilling, synth-opera step towards the project’s next chapter Paste Magazine
Lucy Dacus Forever Is A Feeling
An exploration of love through a tentative, poignantly relatable lens DIY
Lonely People With Power is a masterpiece that turns Deafheaven’s story on its head, leaving greyed out charcoal marks where Sunbather was once penciled in Sputnik Music (staff)
Bdrmm Microtonic
Microtonic is an excellent leap forward and caters to the niche’s niche of drem fans who don’t like being understimulated. Sweet Sputnik Music (staff)
With Dan’s Boogie, Bejar’s attention turns to the form and shape of his songs as he dabbles with a more improvised method of performing while also retaining the urgency and wit that has always defined his work Spectrum Culture
The vanishing point between the personal and pop, Glory is lush, restless and unforgettable Spectrum Culture
The fourth solo album from the boygenius member has moments of magic, but struggles to match the emotional intensity of Lucy Dacus' prior work The Skinny
This will thrill longtime fans while simultaneously ushering new listeners into the fold Under The Radar
Dan Bejar’s 14th Destroyer record is contemplative, morning-after music par excellence: He’s putting the whole story back together, knowing it’s all going to fall apart Pitchfork
Reckless, euphoric and relentless, this may be the most surprising record of Dan Bejar’s wonderful career so far musicOMH
Consummate chronicler of 21st-century sensuality Mike Hadreas returns to his indie roots on a convivial seventh album stalked by death and desire The Observer
Forever Is a Feeling closes, significantly, with "Lost Time," a song whose sparse-bulky-sparse structure emphasizes her regret at not saying those three little words sooner. In the end, she manages to subtly dramatize her music without betraying the quiet honesty she's already known and beloved for All Music
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"Deliciously nuanced songwriting shines" (10/10 - NME). "The album’s production is imbued with a rich sense of depth and warmth" (9/10 - Slant)
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.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange