17 July 2019
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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The debut full-length release from the Montreal singer-songwriter Alexandra Levy
Latest release from the Cleveland, Ohio experimental rock band formed in 1975 and fronted by founding member David Thomas is inspired by Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel
Debut album from the Brighton-based indie pop band led by brother-and-sister Jack and Lily Wolter
Fourth studio album from the English pop singer-songwriter featuring guest appearances from 50 Cent, Justin Bieber, Cardi B, Chance the Rapper, Dave, Eminem, Stormzy, Young Thug and many more
Third album of garage rock from Los Angeles-based band led by twins Jessica and Jennifer Calvin
Fifth album from the Miami sludge-rock band and the first with new new bassist Eric Hernandez of Wrong
Covers album celebrating the band's 2008 LP, recorded before Scott Hutchson's death in May 2018, includes Biffy Clyro, Craig Finn, Chvrches and The Twilight Sad
Mixtape from Dev Hynes the multi-faceted singer-songwriter and producer behind Lightspeed Champion and Test Icicles
Fifth studio album from the San Francisco producer Scott Hansen working with singer Hannah Cottrell (Saint Sinner)
Fourth album from the collective that includes Damon Albarn, Gruff Rhys and Moonchild Sanelly was recorded over a week in Johannesburg
Fourth release from the Toronto post-hardcore trio includes demos and unused tracks from their first three albums
Ten years after the end of Silver Jews, David Berman returns with a new project featuring Jeremy Earl of Woods
Third album from Californian alt R&B artist Jillian Rose Banks working with producers BJ Burton, Hudson Mohawke, Kito and Francis and the Lights
Third album from the experimental Brooklyn-based duo of Che Chen and Rick Brown
Fifth full-length album from singer-songwriter Erin Birgy featuring contributions from members of Big Thief, Hand Habits and Iji
Fifth full-length album from the California-based jazz-folk singer-songwriter produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Eels, Sparklehorse)
Third album of lo-fi garage rock and post-punk from the London trio Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Gill Partington
Debut full-length album from Steve Clarke featuring his wife Rachel Goswell (Slowdive) and produced by his brother Michael Clarke
Sixth full-length album from the Massachusetts alt.pop singer-songwriter and Miracle Legion frontman inspired by George Saunders' short stories
Third album and first for Epitaph for the Philadelphia punk band
Ada Lea What We Say In Private
It feels like Lea had a ton of things she wanted to express and she seemingly tried to express them all. What the outcome is may be a little messy, a bit raw and extremely intimate but because of this, it’s all intensely real and very human Northern Transmission
Metz Automat
Sequenced here in chronological order, those seven-inches, along with the odds and ends that follow, document the progression of a band getting less imaginative over time Paste Magazine
Plaid Polymer
There are melodies and some grand gestures, but the lack of tension and dynamics makes Polymer feel empty Resident Advisor
A decent body of work which would actually work well as an introduction to the band for those yet to encounter METZ’s noise to date The Independent
Ed Sheeran No.6 Collaborations Project
Gathering guests from every corner of the Top 40, the singer-songwriter contemplates aloneness, fame and marital salvation Rolling Stone
Mega Bog Dolphine
Dolphine’s songs are mystical, yes – but by no means are they not also tough, topical and profound The Quietus
The Soft Cavalry The Soft Cavalry
Another post-reunion project for Slowdive's Rachel Goswell. In collaborator Steve Clarke she has discovered a talented songwriter and married him, no less PopMatters
Blood Orange Angel's Pulse
Dev Hynes’ new mixtape feels light and loose, a pre-production sketchbook presented as a charmingly finished product with the help of several key guests Pitchfork
Banks III
While the brooding pop singer can’t always shake the anodyne songwriting that plagued her past work, III is still Banks’ best album to date Pitchfork
The Montreal singer-songwriter’s debut album uses heartbreak as the springboard for an innovative brand of indie rock that’s both fiery and introspective Pitchfork
Ada Lea's workmanship is striking on what we say in private, as she delicately showcases both the chaos and beauty of change Exclaim
Tycho Weather
Tycho continues expanding and refining his sound, dipping into even more sublime headspaces in the process The 405
Rachel Goswell and Steve Clarke’s voices often meld together beautifully. But sometimes they try to do too much with too little Spectrum Culture
Unexpected and quietly ambitious. Print edition only Uncut
There's an artful intricacy to her lo-fi pop. Print edition only Mojo
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"A vibrant, heartfelt and inventive celebration of The Midnight Organ Fight" - The Skinny's take on this covers album celebrating the band's 2008 release. Clash say "this record is about living, even as it is shaped by loss"
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