13 May 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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Third solo studio album from the Seattle-born rapper featuring guest appearances from Charlieonnafriday, Collett, DJ Premier, Jackson Lee Morgan, Livingston, Morray, NLE Choppa, Sarah Barthel, Tones and I and Vic Daggs II
Macklemore’s earnest yet clunky new album attempts to split the difference between high-budget stadium pop and grimy boom-bap Read Review
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Kali Uchis Sincerely
An ambitious pop artist offers a rich retro-pop exploration of family and tradition Rolling Stone
The singer embraces, albeit wistfully, the pleasures of stability throughout the album Slant Magazine
Another crowning achievement, it’s long past time we honoured Kali Uchis as a transformative R&B talent Clash
The Colombian-American star’s first all-English album builds its own dreamy sanctuary full of deep affection and safe from the chaos of the wider world NME
Uchis’ latest expresses sentiments that, if not strictly ecclesiastical, certainly come off as spiritual. Love isn’t simply something people feel. It’s something that happens to them, that shapes them, gives them definition, and maybe even has the power to redeem them or the world around them Paste Magazine
PinkPantheress Fancy That
The fizzy Gen Z producer has big pop ambitions, but her over-reliance on samples results in a record that struggles to be more than the sum of its parts Paste Magazine
billy woods GOLLIWOG
Full of horror and self-described Afro-pessimism, GOLLIWOG is frequently grim. And yet, it's not a difficult listen, since woods is simply too clever of a writer for him not to tickle my sense of humour Exclaim
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke Tall Tales
A pandemic collaboration between an eclectic producer and an avant-rock singer lacks punch Spectrum Culture
The Brooklyn rapper’s new solo album is a twisty horrorcore masterpiece where history and nightmares are indistinguishable. The spooky backdrop is a perfect showcase for his craft Pitchfork
In an ever more synthetically intertwined world, Tall Tales sees Pritchard and Yorke plug into the fragility of social structures built on sand The Line Of Best Fit
Golliwog may be filled with allusions to the cannon of Black horror but its setting is the real world, a horror story created by our own loud silences. That’s about as scary as it gets The Line Of Best Fit
Mclusky The World Is Still Here and So Are We
They were a band, then weren’t, then are again. Thank whatever chaotic deity made that possible, because the world might still be here, but it sounds a hell of a lot better with mclusky back in it, you just crave so much more The Line Of Best Fit
The highly acclaimed British creatives unite for a cohesive, atmospheric record that is by turns moody, enveloping, and surreal musicOMH
Despite its piecemeal half-decade gestation, Tall Tales is a coherent, if often cryptic joint effort All Music
Arcade Fire Pink Elephant
Pink Elephant feels like an album Arcade Fire "had to" make, one that addresses a very public period of the band's history without getting too deep (or deep enough at all) into the matter, like they just want everyone to forget about it and move on to the inevitable next album cycle All Music
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