26 September 2026
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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The San Francisco psych-rock three-piece are back with their sixth studio album
5.6
Beat The Devil's Tattoo can hold its head high as their most compulsive body of work to date Read Review
An album that places B.R.M.C. in a similar position they were in at the start of the last decade: hungry, fearsome and covered head to toe in dead animals Read Review
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BRMC still seemingly pick their songwriting styles by throwing darts at a rock'n'roll genre chart Read Review
The songs do everything you would expect, the classic blues-tinged psychedelic garage band rock that B.R.M.C. are known for. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this new offering really doesn’t give us anything we haven’t already heard before Read Review
BRMC’s sixth album cements their place as the nearly-men of rock Read Review
Devil's Tattoo is unremittingly grim, and undeniably fun. Few bands wear their frowns so well Read Review
Mostly enjoyable and mostly problem free. It’s their most consistent outing since their debut, but it’s never much better than average Read Review
San Francisco’s most famous stoners return with a sixth album that growls and fuzzes like the intermediation since 2005’s ‘Howl’ never happened Read Review
There's a fine line, however, between "big dumb fun" and "insulting your intelligence." Read Review
Nearly 10 years after their debut album, they STILL think they are the most badass bunch of outlaws in town Read Review
An often muddled and inconsistent work and its defining characteristic is how irritating it is that they get so close and yet fall so short Read Review
For all their bluster and feedback, though, it seems that BRMC are still making albums as predictable as they come Read Review
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat The Devil's Tattoo
Blondshell Violins
This is an artist widening her frame without losing her bite. It’s confident, a little wistful, and often loud in all the right places Northern Transmissions
On her third album, Sabrina Teitelbaum fights to strike a balance between savage beauty and jagged home truths NME
Everything great about Blondshell is present on ‘Violins’, but it feels sharper, more adventurous and more assured then ever before Clash
LA alt-rock singer Blondshell trades plain-speaking lyricism for something more abstract, while Irish rock band Gurriers cut through the noise with their ambitious second album The Independent
While trying to find and assert herself, the song has her imagining walking down the aisle to Beethoven's Für Elise, even though no one, including her, would pick it as a wedding song All Music
An often-delicate inward vision that pairs frustration with beauty DIY
It's in her ability to take the everyday experience and turn it into an epic noise that Violins finds its sweet spot The Line Of Best Fit
It would be unfair to call Violins Blondshell’s finest work to date, given the strength of her previous albums. What’s clear, though, is that it’s every bit as good as what came before Under The Radar
Protomartyr Hotel Usona
The album is more eerie in tone than its predecessors, like a distant alarm sounding, trying to amplify the sounds we cannot hear Northern Transmissions
It’s a bleak listen, sure, but Protomartyr haven’t ever been the comforting types. In fact, they’ve chosen the perfect time to double down on their righteous anger and despair, and if everything were to come to a catastrophic end right now, you’ve got the perfect soundtrack for it Far Out
For newcomers, it's a perfectly moody entry point. Hotel Usona is the sound of a band settling into their own skin, creating a space that's uniquely theirs and generously sharing the key Exclaim
From singer Joe Casey’s handmade album artwork to drummer Alex Leonard’s impish, kinetic inversions of classic post-punk rhythm, the Detroit band crafts an austere, unflinching record as bleak as it is cathartic Paste Magazine
This is not a hotel you'd want to stay at any time soon, but it's a remarkable record to spend time with. Print edition only Uncut
Under dim hotel lights, Casey’s lyricism appears foreboding and alien in a way it never has before The Line Of Best Fit
Ezra Collective Here Because of Hope
Arguably the biggest jazz band in the country return with an album that shows off both their exuberant and more reflective sides musicOMH
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
Rosalía Lux
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
