6 November 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.
Browse specific styles
FASTER LOUDER
SLANT
RAVE MAGAZINE
PREFIX
POP MATTERS
THE FLY
MUSIC OMH
THE QUIETUS
ROLLING STONE
UNCUT
STATE
CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
DAILY TELEGRAPH
TINY MIX TAPES
THE GUARDIAN
PITCHFORK
NO RIPCORD
LINE OF BEST FIT
Q MAGAZINE
MOJO
THE SKINNY
DROWNED IN SOUND
NME
BOWLEGS 1 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before Today 2 Fol Chen Part II: The New December 3 Wild Nothing Gemini 4 Avi Buffalo Avi Buffalo 5 Beach House Teen Dream 6 Secret Cities Pink Graffiti 7 The National High Violet 8 Warpaint The Fool 9 Kelly Stoltz To Dreamers 10 Deerhunter Halcyon Digest 11 Baths Cerulean 12 Marnie Stern Marnie Stern 13 How To Dress Well Love Remains 14 Tame Impala Innerspeaker 15 Caribou Swim 16 These New Puritans Hidden 17 The Walkmen Lisbon 18 Liars Sisterworld 19 Toro Y Moi Causers Of This 20 No Age Everything In Between CLASH
AV CLUB
SPIN
Mavis Staples Sad And Beautiful World
It's a bravura performance from all concerned; for all the album's unquestionable strengths, you may wish for a drop more of the same raw sawdust-kicking passion and bite during some of the more restrained proceedings that follow The Line Of Best Fit
Her voice may sound a little deeper and more gravelly and her delivery might be punctuated with a few more breaths at times, but there's no denying her command and power. Print edition only Record Collector
Cook puts Staples right at the front of the mix, accentuating her voice to the point where it's like she's whispering in the listener's ear. Print edition only Uncut
Her reading of Anthem makes Leonard Cohen’s hymn to resilience and resistance feel like a bespoke gift from another writer who knew about life in the shadows. It’s as that distant flickering light, illuminating the path to better times, that Staples excels. Print edition only Mojo
Brandi Carlile Returning To Myself
It’s a vulnerable reminder that longevity in art doesn’t have to be about chasing youth, but, instead, aging gracefully Spectrum Culture
Anna Von Hausswolff ICONOCLASTS
The Swedish composer and organist makes imposing, monolithic music, but the themes she addresses in her singing—love, heartache, renewal—are resolutely human in scale The Arts Desk
Midlake A Bridge To Far
After more than two decades in existence, it is astonishing that Midlake are firing on all cylinders The Arts Desk
Rich, warm and suffused with a lambent light of hope, A Bridge To Far sustains Midlake’s core values with a spirit of care and community that seems built to endure Record Collector
A Bridge To Far finds Midlake refining what they do best. Print edition only Uncut
A bold and beautiful record borne of quiet surety, this is their best since The Trials Of Van Occupanther. Print edition only Mojo
Rosalía Lux
The singer’s fourth album, featuring songs sung in 13 languages and recorded with London Symphony Orchestra, is a shocking and sublime left turn Rolling Stone UK
The record is in constant danger of toppling under its own weight. Thankfully, Rosalía largely manages to keep her head above the swell of her own ambition. Built on enormous waves of strings, brass, choir, thunderous kettledrums, bells and flamenco rhythms, it's a miracle just how nimble LUX sounds Exclaim
Measured against other marquee releases in the pop sphere, ‘Lux’ is a singular, inspired brushstroke; a breath of fresh air, an antidote to viral soundbites and music’s instant-grat monomania Clash
Pop’s most provocative chaos agent delivers a transcendent album that sounds like nothing else in music right now Rolling Stone
The Catalan star’s monumental fourth LP features lyrics in 13 languages, references to female saints, the London Symphony Orchestra – and Björk on ‘divine intervention’ The Guardian
As we're sure you are aware this is a really tough time for websites like ours. So we are asking you to help support us in any way you can via Patreon. Whether it's a small amount each month or a one-off payment, everything we receive will be put back into making ADM as good as it can possibly be.
"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)
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
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
