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23 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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Yard ActYou're Gonna Need A Little Music

"A deliberate retreat from their role as commentators; here, their medium has become the music" (10/10 - NME)

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LoatheA Stranger To You

"A record that’s challenging yet not impenetrable, one fans will want to devote time to, that’s also vast in its ambition, and executed to stunning effect" (10/10 - Kerrang)

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Nia ArchivesEmotional Junglist

"Another powerful work from an artist who continually pushes jungle into new territory" (8/10 - All Music). "An album that breaks through the ceiling of her potential" (9/10 - DIY)

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Vince StaplesCry Baby

"An urgent manifesto against American injustice and complacency" (9.1/10 - Consequence of Sound). "The Long Beach lyricist delivers his most passionately political release to date" (8/20 - NME)

Boards of CanadaInferno

"The elusive Scottish electronic duo return after over a decade away with an immersive, multi-dimensional album that is both evocative and ambitious" (10/10 - musicOMH)

Ed O’BrienBlue Morpho

"The guitarist’s album might be the most Radiohead side project yet to emerge from the mother ship" (8/10 - The Irish Times). "Works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself" (8/10 - Clash)

Kevin MorbyLittle Wide Open

"A masterpiece of simple and, at times, epic proportions that will linger deep within one’s soul" (9/10 - PopMatters). "The eight-minute-long title track is arguably Morby’s greatest song to date" (8/10 - Mojo)

Aldous HardingTrain On The Island

"A spellbinding listen, the high water mark of Harding's singular career" (9/10 - Exclaim. "It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far" (9/10 - Pitchfork)

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Tricky Different When It’s Silent

Even where the album falls short, it’s still enough to get someone to tune in for Tricky at his inevitable new form Northern Transmissions

Yard Act You're Gonna Need A Little Music

It’s not a tidy record, and it doesn’t try to be, but it’s Yard Act’s most confident and cohesive work yet. Chaotic by design, generous with its hooks, and unwilling to repeat itself just because the old formula worked Northern Transmissions

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom ? of When

A ? of WHEN may not be as instantly lovable as Reset, but spend enough time with it, and with each new return visit, it gradually reveals itself as the richer, more ambitious record Northern Transmissions

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Role Model Hermit by mary in the junkyard

"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)

The Rolling StonesForeign Tongues
The new Rolling Stones album is freewheeling, frisky and fabulous. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood make growing old sound like the best fun ever" (8/10 - The Irish Times)

MadonnaConfessions II
"After years spent chasing trends like trap and Latin pop, Madonna settles back? nicely into? old-school dance music to tell vivid vignettes of life in 80s New York" (8/10 - The Guardian)

MuseThe Wow! Signal
"Sometimes preposterous times call for preposterous music" (10/10 - The Arts Desk). "Not only sees them break that purgatorial cycle, but suggests that more greatness is on the way" (8/10 - Clash)

Chanel BeadsYour Day Will Come
"Your Day Will Come is not the future of pop or rock, but nothing yet sounds this much like the present" (8/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "All about refinement rather than repetition" (8/10 - NME)

Graham CoxonCastle Park
"It’s a rare delight to hear him back in the driving seat" (8/10 - DIY). "Blur guitarist's 'lost' ninth solo album mixes a strong '60s aesthetic with some interesting stylistic tangents" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Death Cab For CutieI Built You A Tower
"Their hardest-rocking and emotionally urgent set in a while" (9/10 - All Music). "Death Cab is here to stay, my friends, and here's to hoping that there's many more to come" (9.6/10 - Sputnik Music)

Modest MouseAn Eraser And A Maze
"A dense, challenging, and highly rewarding listen. It is a record that is at times anxious, claustrophobic, and deliberately rough around the edges" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

All-time top 10

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.