4 November 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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Fourth solo album from the Houston rapper featuring guest appearances from Bon Iver, Sampha, Drake, Playboi Carti, Beyoncé, 21 Savage, the Weeknd, Yung Lean, Young Thug, James Blake, Kid Cudi, Bad Bunny, Future and SZA
6.2
UTOPIA sees Scott stay true to his style, his preferences, and his principles, going against the grain of the tendencies in the viral-hungry world that is 2023 ra Read Review
Lead single ‘K-POP’ remains a titanic moment, but its immediacy is perhaps a misnomer on a record dominated by misdirection, about-turns, and sudden revelations Read Review
The album operates less as a cohesive body of work and more as a series of show-stopping set pieces Read Review
The Houston rapper's first album since 2018 teases a brave new sonic world, but has little to say about what might happen if we get there Read Review
In an attempt to give the world a true blockbuster rap album, the Houston rapper delivers a shiny, empty spectacle loaded with pop superstars who rarely make an impact Read Review
The reality is that while Scott is a masterful curator, he’s just an OK rapper. Those two realities are discordant for too many moments on Utopia Read Review
Returning with a long-awaited fourth album in the wake of the Astroworld disaster, Scott’s rhyming isn’t strong enough to distinguish him from his A-list guests Read Review
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Daniel Avery Tremor
With Tremor, Avery establishes a singular form of distortion-doused electronic rock which dwells in a nocturnal landscape, letting deep-seated emotions rise to the surface All Music
The Charlatans We Are Love
Overall, a good-not-great effort, particularly when viewed in the lens of its compatriots Spill Magazine
Anna Von Hausswolff ICONOCLASTS
Balancing divine chaos with human vulnerability, Anna von Hausswolff delivers a monumental work that feels both otherworldly and deeply alive Northern Transmissions
In the end, Tremor leaves a taste in your mouth that makes you want more, a record that brings together things that might not make sense but do Northern Transmissions
Florence + The Machine Everybody Scream
Everybody Scream isn’t just a return to form — it’s her most vital work yet. A deeply human, spellbinding triumph XS Noize
This 14th offering is less reunion comeback, more business as usual Record Collector
Florence Welch and her band enlist Mitski, Aaron Dessner, Danny L. Harle, and IDLES’ Mark Bowen to make a guttural, flinty rock record. Though sometimes overwrought, the album often intoxicates with its folk-horror atmosphere and Welch’s magisterial-as-always vocals Paste Magazine
Florence Welch enlists horror and magic to harness hope NME
While the sound isn't new territory for the band, Everybody Scream proves its value in the timeliness and visceral honesty of Welch's lyricism and delivery, meaningfully adding to the cultural conversation about gender roles and feminine rage Exclaim
Although a great sense of grief is charging the tones here, it is often empowering and soaring The Arts Desk
A vision of the future pressing in, unresolved and menacing. Tremors works in the same way: moments of calm overtaken by instability, the walls seeming to vibrate with what’s outside, (or maybe it’s just sub-bass) God Is In The TV
Soulwax All Systems Are Lying
Benefits from being recorded live at their DEEWEE studio in Gent. It gives all the beats a tense surging urgency and taps into the underlying hostility of our age of fake news, manufactured consent, and media manipulation Under The Radar
Turns a painful experience into an artistic triumph Rolling Stone
Florence + the Machine give in to the spellbinding power of performance on Everybody Scream The Line Of Best Fit
On his first album since 2022, the UK producer trades his habitual techno and ambient for a more melodic, rock-driven sound that puts guest singers like yeule and yunè pinku front and center Pitchfork
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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