25 July 2026
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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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
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The Strokes Reality Awaits
Though Is This It and The New Abnormal were frequently worlds apart musically, they both had a spirit that, sadly, isn't always present here. At once overdone and undercooked, Reality Awaits often embodies its feelings of frustration and dissatisfaction all too well All Music
Genesis Owusu Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge
Over three distinctive releases, Owusu has proven he can play in almost any arena, and Redstar Wu is his finest hour yet All Music
Allying the crackpot strangeness of Julian Casablancas’ side projects with his band’s gift for pop minimalism, the New Yorkers are on playful, joyous form The Guardian
Charli XCX Music, Fashion, Film
What must it be like to be Charli XCX in a post-Brat universe? The singer tells you all about it on this engaging, spirited LP The Irish Times
Shania Twain Little Miss Twain
With guests including Tanya Tucker, T Bone Burnett, and Josh Homme, the country star’s seventh album trades the pop sheen of recent releases for rootsy, candidly autobiographical songwriting Pitchfork
New York outfit's seventh album sums up the band themselves - sometimes brilliant, often frustrating, but always worth listening to musicOMH
‘Music, Fashion, Film’ isn’t about to inspire a No One Lasts Forever Autumn: its unsettling brilliance is there to be savoured in quiet privacy, not under the bright lights of a club. All the same, it really is brilliant, and it deserves a very different kind of attention from its artist’s previous output Clash
If anything, Charli should’ve probably taken more time to develop this release – especially considering she just released Wuthering Heights earlier in the year. With a bit more time and development, Music, Fashion, Film could’ve been Sputnik Music (staff)
I’m a huge advocate for Auto-Tune when it's used with purpose, but here it feels like it's fighting against everything that made The Strokes great The Arts Desk
The veteran band’s latest album is an at times thrilling, often inscrutable, sometimes straight-up bizarre addition to their story Rolling Stone
It’s The New Abnormal with fewer guardrails, with a dash more Voidz, with whatever nutso energy comes from recording with Rick Rubin in Costa Rica Consequence Of Sound
Yard Act You're Gonna Need A Little Music
The UK band smooths out its characteristically jagged post-punk for a vaguely uplifting album that brings to mind lots of older British rock groups Pitchfork
Latest experimental offering from Charlotte Aitchison may sail close to self-indulgence but also cements her status as one of our most compelling pop stars musicOMH
As old songs become cultural artefacts and time folds in on itself, The Strokes rotate the lens outwards and inwards. What comes next? The future feels more ominous and isolating than hopeful, and that lack of resolve is the reality we have to prepare for Clash
If Brat was the nightclub, then this feels like three hours into the after party that you never wanted to be at, full of posers chatting shite about “real incestuous vibes” Far Out
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"A magnificent feat in angry, sad and fantastical folk-rock" (10/10 - The Skinny). The complex instrumental layerings and weaving storylines will entrance you (8/10 - Clash)
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
Rosalía Lux
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
