30 May 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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Ezra Furman Goodbye Small Head
These are songs of healing, but the kind of healing that makes you question your own reality Spectrum Culture
Garbage Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
Manson and the band have created something profound — a record about pain, survival, and the beauty that can emerge from broken places. It doesn’t just prove the old saying about suffering and art — it makes it sound like a revelation Clash
Matt Berninger Get Sunk
Following his intimate, ruminative solo debut by five years, the bittersweet Get Sunk finds the voice of the National, Matt Berninger, in a slightly brighter, more appreciative - or at least curious - state of mind All Music
caroline Caroline 2
Paradoxically exciting and narcotic at the same time, it runs the gamut from spare experimental folk to crushing noise All Music
Sports Team Boys These Days
Sports Team might be singing about life’s limited options, but their sonic ones vastly overcompensate The Independent
Each song is gloriously cinematic, intoxicatingly unexpected and truly powerful, even in its quietest moments Far Out
It's a warmer, less brittle listen that still pushes at production conventions. Print edition only Uncut
There's a newfound earnestness and openness to caroline's songcraft. Print edition only Mojo
With its improvised vocals, incidental sounds, and emotive power, Caroline 2 is an experimental record that never lacks purpose or passion The Line Of Best Fit
A sound that is assured and ebullient, lively as a coiled spring releasing its kinetic energy until it's exhausted. Exclaim
An album of collisions: between time and space, past and present, precision and spontaneity Slant Magazine
There’s so much packed into Let All That We Imagine that it would be easy to feel overwhelmed Far Out
Garbage grasps the fact that existence in such a complex world can actually be reduced to a simple choice between loving and hating. Here is your soundtrack to that world, perhaps unsurprisingly it rocks righteously The Line Of Best Fit
These 10 tracks will undoubtedly please longterm fans, even if there's little here that doesn't revisit already well-trodden ground. Print edition only Record Collector
We get bouquets as well as barbed-wire. Print edition only Mojo
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"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)
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