10 November 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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Full-length debut from the Chicago-based, neo-psych four-piece
6.3
An album of importance for space cadets, explorers and the urban adventurer hipster in all of us Read Review
There’s a lot to inspire here and the band’s rousing soundscapes and Cicero’s sweeping lyrics treat the listener to a sonic journey with real depth Read Review
A set of compelling tunes that sound surprisingly distinct despite the past and present musical inspirations that could’ve just as easily overwhelmed it Read Review
Light Pollution have bitten off just enough shoegaze and chillwave to make their debut pleasantly satisfying Read Review
Light Pollution are experts at crafting modern psych-pop songs. Next time around, they just need to figure out the difference between experimentation and emulation Read Review
An ambitious and satisfying debut Read Review
In the mould of the greats rather than carving a new sound Read Review
That Apparitions never quite peaks the way it aims to makes its slower numbers total momentum killers instead of contextual turning points Read Review
There’s little to call individual here, which gives Apparitions a sense of numbness; the most they do is to drape a kind of wispy dream-pop sheen over proceedings Read Review
While Light Pollution manage to weave their collection of influences into a sonic garment that can be breathtaking, they never seem to occupy it with real flesh and blood Read Review
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Light Pollution: Apparitions
Django Django Doveland
Django Django would appear to have refreshed their approach and challenged themselves to try out previously unconsidered melodic avenues The Arts Desk
Print edition only Uncut
Gilla Band Pugnello
Somewhere amidst the anarchy of Pugnello, there are gems waiting to be found. Unearthing them is well worth your time Still Listening
Greg Freeman All Set The Bone
Existentialism has a sound (and it’s hard to ignore) with Greg Freeman’s introspective All Set The Bone Still Listening
U2 Carnaval de Luz
Carnaval De Luz finds U2 50 years after their formation with the same four members and the same desire to shake things up. The album provides a convincing answer to the question of why they keep doing what they do XS Noize
Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber
Fontaines D.C. push deeper into synthetic territory on Dopamine Chamber, balancing stadium-sized melodies with restless experimentation and darker texture Record Collector
They sound ambitious and engaged in their 50th year, swinging for the fences and hitting more targets than not. There’s still some gas in the tank Record Collector
La Roux Old Flames
Print edition only Record Collector
Back with her first new music in six years, La Roux's new sound explores facets of R'n'B and Europop to varying degrees of success The Skinny
La Roux turns to 90s R&B on a fourth album shaped by the end of a 17-year relationship, finding room for new beginnings beneath its layered production Still Listening
Print edition only Rolling Stone UK
Devastating moments are dressed up with warm production and kinetic 00s R&B in the now quiff-less singer’s grownup fourth album The Guardian
Elly Jackson returns with heartfelt pop songs about breaking up, resentment, vulnerability and all that entails musicOMH
Ditching erratic experimentation for an ambient concept, the indie shapeshifters' sixth album is their most coherent in years musicOMH
Doveland sounds less like a reduction of Django Django’s musical vocabulary than a more relaxed demonstration of how much they possess PopMatters
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
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