26 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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Latest solo album from the Libertines and Babyshambles leader
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A mix of sentimental parenting and venal cynicism, the orchestral Pot Of Gold is peak Doherty. Print edition only
The sometime Libertine’s thoughtful, lyrically sharp songs here stand as testament to a life transformed, where peace and personal growth take centre stage Read Review
A laidback family life in France is not what many Libertines fans would’ve imagined for the future of the famously troubled singer – but it’s where he finds himself on this creative new solo album Read Review
The sound of one of rock’s most enduring survivors exhaling and having fun Read Review
The wistful allure of the heady old days is strong as he ponders the sacred but mostly the profane alongside a fiery Lisa O'Neill on "Poca Mahoney's". But he also finds slapdash inspiration on his doorstep in bucolic Normandy. Print edition only
A slippery mixture of innocence and sickly experience Read Review
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Yaya Bey Do It Afraid
Lyrics flow from self-interrogation to political pride to intimacy to outright joy The Arts Desk
Doesn't sound quite as home-made and fingerprint-smudged as Bey's lo-fi previous recordings, there's still no-one who sounds like her, no-one chronicling the agony and ecstasy with her unguarded and resonant vision. Print edition only Mojo
On her latest album, the Brooklyn rapper, singer, and producer chronicles the labor of finding and holding onto joy in relaxed, loosely structured songs that evoke backyards and block parties Pitchfork
Only someone familiar with the maze of despair could sing this achingly of paradise The Line Of Best Fit
By linking up wuth the most expansive list of collaborators she’s tapped to date (BADBADNOTGOOD, Exaktly and Butcher Brown are among the producers), it also finds her weaving through arguably the most layered, fine musical backdrops she’s yet presented Beats Per Minute
On her sixth album, the Queens native moves through tangled emotions and shifting selves, finding power in vulnerability Paste Magazine
Another impelling triumph from a thriving musical dynamo All Music
Patrick Wolf Crying The Neck
It doesn’t just command you to listen, it inhabits your whole being. I don’t think I could ever just listen to one song here and there from Crying The Neck. It’s absolutely one of those you simply have to play from start to finish every time God Is In The TV
SPELLLING Portrait Of My Heart
It is “just” a very good, blistering effort—another exhilarating development in SPELLLING’s metamorphosis Under The Radar
Hotline TNT Raspberry Moon
Hotline TNT have pushed themselves into crafting an album that both champions what they do best and offers up many possibilities for what could come next Under The Radar
Turnstile Never Enough
Turnstile’s Never Enough lies somewhere between the working man’s folk-rock earnestness of the bygone SoCal era and the synth-washed ambience of the cover PopMatters
Haim I quit
The title “I Quit” implies resignation, but throughout the record, Haim eschew a former glossiness and recommit to their signature moody rock sound PopMatters
U.S. Girls Scratch It
It sounds so authentically mid-to-late 1960s that Dear Patti - a song about missing an opportunity to play on the same festival bill as Smith - could almost be a lightly warped vinyl pressing from the era. Print edition only Mojo
With echoes of Rickie Lee Jones and Gram Parsons at times, it all feels deceptively effortless. Print edition only Uncut
As ‘Scratch It’ closes with the squelchy, delirious, biting funk of ‘No Fruit’, the only thing left to ponder is whether there’s ever been a more complete or concise U.S. Girls record Clash
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