9 June 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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Debut full-length album from the South African-born London-based alt-pop artist
6.9
The record sits firmly within her existing catalogue, but that growing self-assurance brings a new charm to the Baby Kingdom Read Review
It finds substance in its shedding of the contrived Read Review
Baby Queen proves she's at the peak of her powers on her debut album, Quarter Life Crisis Read Review
This remarkably confident, assured record suggests Arabella Latham will still be around for her mid-life crisis as well Read Review
The album triumphs on the more toned-down tracks showing a new dimension to the alt-pop starlet’s songwriting style. A twelve-track delight that merely misses the mark on it’s anarchic singles Read Review
Like Olivia Rodrigo if she were raised on P!nk, 26-year-old singer Arabella Latham writes shiny, uncynical pop songs full of sarcasm, screw-ups, and young-adult heartache Read Review
Beyond thoughtful moments of introspection about growth and friendship, the wit of Latham's previous work feels largely absent on her debut Read Review
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Pulp More
More is very much what most will have expected: Pulp sitting back and crafting an expertly compelling album on ageing, adapting their signature topics and quirks to the perspective of autumnal age Beats Per Minute
Turnstile Never Enough
A vital, exhilarating offering, sure to catapult them further out of the hardcore scene and ever closer to mainstream musical lore DIY
Addison Rae Addison
The Louisiana singer and former TikTok star crafts a gorgeous soundtrack to modern womanhood on her highly anticipated debut album NME
yeule Evangelic Girl Is A Gun
Evangelic Girl is a Gun is a pop album perfect for a world where truth is uncertain, and where we’re all as online as we are in the flesh Spectrum Culture
Like so much good pop music, the album makes hard work seem like second nature Slant Magazine
The girlypop album of summer warrants comparison to Lana, Madonna, and most of all, Britney. Are we ready for Addison? Pitchfork
We may have witnessed one of this decade’s most satisfying rebrands yet The Line Of Best Fit
The TikTok star turned pop hitmaker lays a promising foundation on her debut album Rolling Stone
The one-time TikTok dancer’s remarkably cohesive debut spans Jersey club to R&B, and defies an obsession with ‘lore’ to suggest that the best pop isn’t that deep The Guardian
On her carefree debut, the US musician has gone mononymous and enlisted Swedish producers to help craft a Nineties and Y2K scrapbook that balances pop, past and present but never feels too try-hard The Independent
‘Addison’ is a masterful pop album that comes from the heart, and there’s not many of those around right now Clash
The Sheffield band return with their first record in 24 years, but the 11 songs lack chemistry The FT
Little Simz Lotus
The Londoner raps about getting through tough times on her gripping new record The FT
More is classic Pulp, aged to near perfection All Music
On Lotus, the exceptionally gifted rapper is more vulnerable than ever, yet this only pushes her to be at her most self-empowering 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