28 March 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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Album number nine from Atlanta rapper Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn featuring appearances Kanye West, Gunna, Young Thug, Drake, Tems, EST Gee, and Kodak Black
6.5
The pioneer – along with an all-star cast including Drake and Ye – puts his melodies and robotic croon to good use on his impressive ninth studio album Read Review
In an era where artists rise and fall quicker than ever, and audience attention spans are at an all-time low, Future albums still feel like a moment where the rap world stops to listen. If that doesn't cement his status as one of the greatest artists of his generation, what will? Read Review
His new LP won’t rank among his best, but it has a compositional sweep often absent from his work Read Review
It’s not a bad record – the highs more than justify your entrance – but with a rumoured follow up on the way, perhaps it’s time for Future to break a few of his own rules once more Read Review
Stymied by formulaic collaborations and unmemorable beats, the rapper’s latest has the ingredients of a really good Future album but lacks the depth of one Read Review
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Perfume Genius Glory
With nothing left to prove, he’s redoubled his efforts, and added another Everest to his catalogue Clash
Deafheaven Lonely People With Power
A cacophonous exhibition of everything that makes Deafheaven so special, ‘Lonely People With Power’ stands resolutely alongside ‘Sunbather’, ‘New Bermuda’, and ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love’ as testament to the brilliance of a band that is quickly amassing an unrivalled discography of masterpieces Clash
Lucy Dacus Forever Is A Feeling
On her new solo album, the songwriter and Boygenius alum makes an impassioned, all-in gamble on love. So why does the music feel hamstrung by caution and daintiness? Pitchfork
Following a divisively tuneful 2021 album, the California post-metal band returns to its signature sound on its sixth album. But these heavy, soaring songs also hint at unexplored terrain Pitchfork
Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco I Said I Love You First
Selena Gomez’s fourth album zooms out on her celebrity presence, zooms in on her personal life, and hints at happiness and conflict PopMatters
Playboi Carti Music
The Atlanta rapper's third album is a sprawling mess with a few too many unnecessary and forgettable features, but buried somewhere in its capacious 77-minute runtime there's a fantastic album trying desperately to claw its way out The Quietus
The endlessly inventive metal band mixes painterly lyrics, raw aggression, and earworm melodies on their best album yet Rolling Stone
Forever Is a Feeling is an album about endings, some happy, some bittersweet, some devastating. Nonetheless, everything ends, even art and even music Under The Radar
In any given song you might easily hear Neil Young, Philip Glass and Cyndi Lauper The Arts Desk
With its fresh simplicity, Glory is a blazing return to form for Perfume Genius Exclaim
The boygenius singer tries a more expansive musical approach, and gets more specific in her lyrics on her first solo album in four years Paste Magazine
Mike Hadreas and his band vibrantly impress his shape into the most ineffable vacuum, and his seventh album might be his most spectacular demonstration yet — as it seamlessly updates familiar Perfume Genius concepts with unflinching curiosity, revealing itself as music full of lush, challenging paradoxes Paste Magazine
Destroyer Dan's Boogie
Arguably, Dan’s Boogie is Bejar’s most graceful album yet Northern Transmissions
There is an elegant sense of romance, and artistic discovery that presents and defines itself throughout the thirteen songs that make up Forever Is A Feeling Northern Transmissions
Far from a step back, or attempt to redress something, a return to heaviness is simply the next piece of the picture. That you can hear them fair running towards it with refreshed enthusiasm for such things only makes it sing all the louder Kerrang!
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
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange