28 June 2017
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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Fourth studio album from the Georgia-based rapper, with Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Farrell amongst numerous guest appearances
Third album of electronic art pop from Ann Arbor born artist now living in Berlin
Debut album from the singer-songwriter fromSterling, Illinois
Third studio album from the Las Vegas pop rock four-piece
The London jazz saxophonist reworks eight compositions from the latter part of John Coltrane's career
The fifth album from the Athens, Georgia quartet is a 28-track double
Second LP from the British-Jamaican soul/R&B singer
Debut album of sixties and seventies inspired folk from Azniv Korkejian
Second album from the Boston-based alt-rock trio led by Ellen Kempner
Debut studio album from Atlanta rapper Jeffery Lamar Williams features guest appearances from Millie Go Lightly, Future, Snoop Dogg, Lil Durk, Jacquees, Travis Scott
First in a series of solo acoustic albums from the Wilco frontan featuring songs from his back catalogue
Album number ten from the prolific psych-rock Melbourne six-piece and the second of five they plan to release in 2017
Second album from the Atlanta, Georgia experimental post-rock trio
Second full-length album from the Long Beach, California rapper with guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar, Damon Albarn, A$AP Rocky, Rick Ross and Justin Vernon
Sixteenth studio album from the alt.country singer songwriter is a homage to Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
First full-length release from the Kansas-born, New York-based techno DJ Emma Olson
Second solo album from the Maryland indie folk artist who was a member of Cotton Jones and Page France
Fifth album from husband and wife psych-pop duo Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis
Eighth LP from the Alaskan group, produced by John Hill and the Beastie Boys' Mike D
Third record from the Irish mod revival group
2 Chainz Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
If Pretty Girls Like Trap Music doesn't make the rapper an immediate king of the South, it undoubtedly puts him in line for the title Exclaim
Perfectly positioned to be a 2017 favourite catering to both fans of this generation’s trap music and those that were knee deep in trap during its late ‘90s/early ‘00s inception Clash
His talent has undeniably caught up to his hard work, and all we can hope now is that the latter doesn’t suffer because of the former PopMatters
The most fulfilling 2 Chainz album to date Pitchfork
There’s no galactic change to his style here, just a further refinement of it A.V. Club
Portugal. The Man. Woodstock
At just half the songs of Gorillaz’s recent album, Woodstock does political pop songs much better and doesn’t waste a bunch of collaborators in the process Earbuddy
Com Truise Iteration
We wait patiently for it to drive us somewhere, but it abandons us at the last moment and explains that it didn’t just feel up to it tonight Spectrum Culture
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe
You can’t put out 13 albums in 5 years without the occasional misstep and despite the distractions and interruptions there is still a killer garage rock album lurking somewhere in here God Is In The TV
Ride Weather Diaries
Something of a triumph and infinitely better than many a fan could have hoped for The Skinny
Beach Fossils Somersault
Laid-back summer record Under The Radar
Lorde Melodrama
Lorde is a perfect emotional teacher Tiny Mix Tapes
Jeff Tweedy Together At Last
As anyone who has seen him perform solo live knows, these arrangements feel like wonderful flipsides to the Wilco coin The Quietus
Algiers The Underside Of Power
Musically adventurous and spiritually redemptive: this is what the music of our time should sound like PopMatters
A celebration of peace, love, and musicality that shouldn’t be missed. PopMatters
Laurel Halo Dust
Laurel Halo continues to resist classification and deflect interpretation by treating the human voice like a synthetic material to be molded and shattered Pitchfork
"Possibly the greatest indie-folk act of the decade" - Sputnik give a perfect 10 to the Seattle band's first record in 5 years. Uncut find it "distinctive, involving, challenging, accessible, progressive"
Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past eight years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange
Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked at Me