19 June 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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Debut album from the gospel choir featured in Kanye West's Jesus Is King album
6.5
Kanye's been true to his word and delivered a gospel album from his Sunday Service Choir. It's accessible and uplifting. Praise be! Read Review
Kanye West’s executive-produced gospel album is the most realized music to come from this era of his career. The production and the choir’s dynamic power creates an almost hallucinatory effect Read Review
Kanye West's Sunday Service Choir create a debut, Jesus Is Born, that's powerful and, at times, repetitive Read Review
With a platform as large as Kanye’s, his Sunday Service Choir is something we’re all yet to come to terms with, but ‘Jesus Is Born’ - as a stand-alone album - is pretty neat Read Review
Regardless of your level of faith or denomination, the 19-track album is accessible enough from a craft and sanctified standpoint Read Review
The newly devout Christian takes you into his house of prayer in an album with some languid highs, but, ultimately this is one for believers only Read Review
While the lack of West’s voice on Jesus is Born is refreshing, the lack of his fingerprints is disappointing Read Review
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Pond Terrestrials
The Australian psych-rock band’s latest features dense, detailed songwriting about corporate greed and the environment, but the music lacks its nuance and ambition Pitchfork
Australia’s psych-rock jesters fend off ecological doom with cosmic fury Slant Magazine
They boil everything down to its very essence DIY
It's teeming with complexity, feeding references to places, events and literary signposts into songs that wrestle with the violent contradictions of being human. Print edition only Uncut
Graham Coxon Castle Park
There’s nothing here to suggest they went unreleased for quality-control reasons. Print edition only Uncut
Strikes a perfect note of callow romance, all Merseybeat lunchbreak gossip on the spiky Alright and Billy Says, tipping into Zombies intrigue on When You Find Out. Yet there’s a depth of melancholy to the vibraphone haunting of Isn’t It Funny or Dripping Soul’s flamboyant Love flamenco that sees Coxon straying from the main paths and into the dark corners. Print edition only Mojo
Swim Deep Hum
A delightful and timely reset pressed DIY
While other artists they came up with have called it quits, the British indie band have kept moving forward. Their fifth album rewards that resilience with some of their most beautiful work yet NME
'Hum' sees a refreshed band settling into themselves and discovering that's where the good stuff was hiding all along Dork
Blur guitarist's 'lost' ninth solo album mixes a strong '60s aesthetic with some interesting stylistic tangents musicOMH
Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Aside from a few unmemorable ballads —the sparse, piano-led “Less” is an exception late on the album — Rodrigo deftly navigates the difficult task of regaining her sense of wholeness when not everything in her life has to make the most sense No Ripcord
The Rolling Stones Foreign Tongues
More guitar-centric and holistically Stones-y than their last outing, the latest from the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band is built to satisfy Rolling Stone
Lizzo Bitch
This is just one for the completists (which in an age of streaming may not be many) God Is In The TV
For all its standout moments, the album’s greatest achievement is not any single song, but what emerges when the album is experienced as a whole God Is In The TV
Lizzo's fifth record is definitely her weakest to date and won't please fans who have waited four years to hear the next stage of the singer's journey Spectrum Culture
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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