26 October 2025
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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Second album from the Watford-born YouTuber and rapper featuring guest appearances from Future, 21 Savage, Yungblud, Polo G, Anne-Marie, Craig David, and Bugzy Malone
5.9
KSI knows how to write serious bangers (just in time for the clubs reopening), particularly Really Love with garage royalty, Craig David Read Review
A broad, slick return, one that boasts a broad array of guests... Read Review
The YouTuber’s genre-hopping second album is let down by corny lyrics Read Review
KSI finesses his reputation as a rapper on a genre-skipping second album, while Willow Smith makes a captivating return as an emo-pop star Read Review
The YouTuber-turned-rapper attracts more impressive guests – including Future and 21 Savage – on a hit-and-miss collection that shows promise Read Review
Like its predecessor, it's a bit of fun and it's...fine Read Review
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Dave The Boy Who Played the Harp
Returning with his first album in four years, the arena-filling UK rapper is still such a smart, sharp lyricist as he explores a series of existential crises The Guardian
This is a staggeringly powerful record. Continually evading easy descriptors, Dave pushes his art to higher levels Clash
Demi Lovato It’s Not That Deep
Whether she’s sticking her neck out into newer territory or playing faithful to her roots, one thing’s clear: Lovato’s at her best when it comes easy Clash
Tortoise TOUCH
Touch reflects the curiosity that has driven Tortoise since the beginning -- and still drives them all these years later All Music
Lily Allen West End Girl
A hard-hitting pop exposition, it frequently feels daring, while also providing an endless supply of hooks. ‘West End Girl’ finds Lily Allen at the centre of a romantic implosion, making imposing shapes out of the rubble Clash
The Antlers Blight
The group’s seventh album simmers with dread about environmental catastrophe, which is addressed both sincerely and tediously Pitchfork
West End Girl is not only an example of pop brilliance, but also incredibly vulnerable, raw and honest, true to Allen’s form. Simply, the pop pioneer has created the break-up album for the modern generation The Line Of Best Fit
This is very much post-Brat pop The Arts Desk
Clocking in at just over half an hour, the album doesn’t leave a lot of room for error Slant Magazine
If the hooks and vocal commitment feel so steel-cored, it’s perhaps because the pop star is hanging onto them for dear life The Independent
It delivers successfully on its objective to keep things light and easy while dancing the night away. It’s not that deep, but it might just be Lovato’s best effort yet The Line Of Best Fit
Feels like a homecoming to her electronic-pop roots Rolling Stone
Zara Larsson Midnight Sun
Midnight Sun is merely an attempt at a sultry summer pop album, released about two months too late, that misses every shot it takes Spectrum Culture
A vicious, vulnerable and victorious comeback NME
Bar Italia Some Like It Hot
The UK band’s fifth record lays bare a blundering sound that dulls what made some of their previous material compelling Paste Magazine
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.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange