30 October 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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Second full-length album from the Houston, Texas rapper with guest appearances from Key Glock, Latto, Pooh Shiesty, Rico Nasty, Jhené Aiko, Lucky Daye, Sauce Walka, Lil' Keke and Big Pokey
7.5
On her new album, the rap superstar comes up with just the right balance of slick bops and searing confessionals Read Review
The Texan rapper comes out swinging on her latest release – slinging a seemingly limitless supply of fantastic insults at the industry and countless nameless foes Read Review
‘Traumazine’ abounds in empowering affirmations but, beneath it all, this is a release that starts to unpack Megan the human Read Review
While standing atop the rap world, the pop culture juggernaut reveals a cocky yet reflective version of herself with the follow-up to 2020's 'Good News' Read Review
Solidifying her position amongst rap’s big stars of the 2020s, this second studio album shows an encouraging diversity alongside her good ear for beats Read Review
Her songs are riotously graphic but the Texas rapper radiates charm and southern hospitality in a joyous, sweltering show Read Review
On her second album, Meg dishes out disses, gets political, and grapples with her personal life. It’s an ambitious and uneven attempt to step into her most challenging role yet: herself Read Review
On her sophomore effort, the rapper goes completely mask-off, directing her anger at other rappers and former friends Read Review
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PISS You Made Me / Skin on Linen
This Vancouver quartet have untied that Gordian knot and created something startling, combining monodrama scripts, non-linear broken glass bottle musical atmospherics and historical sample that dance into the sons like some sort of living theatre. Print edition only Mojo
A brutal album that feels extremely vulnerable as PISS presents their record through a series of progressive sonic tableaux that is equally powerful and heartbreaking Spill Magazine
Queens Of The Stone Age Perfecth
This album, approached with an open mind and given time, will offer something more on every listen Clash
DIIV ZIRP!
A gorgeous and at times haunting shoegaze evolution Clash
Shabazz Palaces It’s A Style Sport
These jams meander into stoned whimsey at times but the journey is never boring. Print edition only Uncut
Ishmael Butler delivers a mixture of swampy arrangements, surreal vocal production and vintage braggadocio feels distinctive, coherent, and fun musicOMH
Ishmael Butler explores the cosmos within on a shadowy and uncharacteristically introspective new album Pitchfork
Ishmael Butler’s Shabazz Palaces project moves through time, space and genre on It’s a Style Sport, extending his relevance for another generation of listeners Spectrum Culture
Ishmael Butler’s latest transforms a lifetime of flyness into a moral code, then puts it on trial Slant Magazine
Ishmael Butler is a cosmically liberated and confident virtuoso on one of this year’s rap achievements Paste Magazine
This cathartic scream of unflinching feminist rage might be the most thrilling, challenging and important album to be released this year musicOMH
The shoegaze band teams with producer A. G. Cook for its most pop-leaning record yet. Despite some welcome shifts in tone, the best moments sound like no one but DIIV Pitchfork
Johnny Marr The Age of Everything
The melodies here are sharper than on any of his previous solo outings The Quietus
Josh Homme turns personal struggles into a cinematic, psychedelic, and unexpectedly hopeful return to form Consequence Of Sound
Taking a more introspective tone, the band's latest LP offers a toned down, introspective version of their modern hard-rock Rolling Stone
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
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