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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Fifth album of rap and pop from the Trinidad-born MC from Queens, New York with guest appearances from J. Cole, Lil Wayne, Tate Kobang, Drake, Lourdiz, Lil Uzi Vert, Skillibeng, Skeng and Future
6.6
While similarities to her 2010 original may run only name-deep, this sample-heavy – and sometimes emotional – material certainly holds its own Read Review
Refusing to be hemmed in, it’s a record of real ambition, an example mirroring fan-pleasing tendencies with actual artistic growth Read Review
Stepping away from Barbie-Girl pop towards her strengths as a rapper, this is the sound of a more mature artist in fierce command of her talent Read Review
The sound of Nicki Minaj cracking her knuckles and getting her hands dirty again. It’s the purest distillation of her uniquely feminine bravado Read Review
Pink Friday 2 is a long album, and it’s going to get longer Read Review
Thirteen years after her landmark album Pink Friday, the pop-rap superstar aims to conjure and build on that moment with an ambitious 22-song statement that is a very mixed bag Read Review
The pop-rap phenomenon is back with her first album in five years Read Review
While some moments of interpolation are more inspired, the musician’s increasing reliance on recognisable samples can start to feel like cruise control Read Review
Unlike its predecessor, the album doesn’t leave much of an impression. 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
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
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