24 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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Album number thirteen from the Nottingham-based indie rock / chamber pop outfit
7.5
Confessional moments have been a regular feature in their music over the years but here they sound as intimate and softly-delivered as ever. It confirms how they’ve always been a band that have explored human emotion in deep, meaningful ways but Distractions feels like something more, like the beginning of a fresh chapter in their story Read Review
Gone is the lush orchestrally infused backing of brass, strings and such Read Review
This is high-class, pensive art-rock from a restless and experimental unit that hovers both sumptuously and menacingly between the cracks of most of the group’s previous releases Read Review
It's a powerful, evocative work that speaks to the time that created it as well as the continued creative growth of a unique and gifted group of artists Read Review
In years to come, we may look back on this record as transitional, or a product of its times. But to hear a band of this vintage still listening – and responding – to their instincts is a joy in itself. Print edition only
Tindersticks sound warm, close and very human indeed Read Review
Recorded remotely, Distractions is febrile and modern but cries out for a through-line. Print edition only
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Vince Staples Cry Baby
Sonically, Cry Baby has the energy, groove and beats of a classic Danger Mouse production No Ripcord
Kurt Vile Philadelphia's been good to me
The record amounts to a deeply heartfelt and breezily disarming declaration of loved-up constancy, capped beautifully by the twinkling drift of closer Avalanches Of Snow Record Collector
Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Olivia Rodrigo’s latest finds the young singer expanding her music to incorporate more cohesive storytelling, and in doing so, is marking herself as someone taking the artistic side of her job seriously Spectrum Culture
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
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
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