23 March 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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Second album of psychedlic krautrock from Nottingham quartet
7.0
Celeste's groovy fug proves more enveloping with each listen. Print edition only
The arrangements are subtle and deceptively intricate. Print edition only
Print edition only
Whatever secret ingredient that made its predecessor (last year's debut, Harmonium) so captivating ultimately makes it a record layered with swirling intrigue Read Review
An album at once free-floating and tethered tight Read Review
While they may veer closer to contemporary easy listening than the shock of the truly avant-garde, this is a worthwhile addition to a still largely under-exposed and, despite everything, under-explored canon Read Review
The vast layers of the Nottingham band’s psychedelia-tinged sound ensure a fascinating musical landscape that rewards repeated listens Read Review
Most of the songs have a similar motif, usually beginning with some atmospheric lead-in, before working up an infectious stirring groove or hazy drifting sweep Read Review
It's far from a perfect album and it will probably lose it's lustre as the trees lose their leaves come autumn, but for one hour at least Celeste will send you off with the fairies Read Review
It’s a smart, well dressed record; there’s nothing wrong with the attire here. Yet it feels a little too smooth, a touch too clinical, a little too safe Read Review
With Celeste The Soundcarriers have woven together a sumptuous collection of songs, so turn out the lights, light one up and dream away Read Review
They claim not to be retro-modernist, in which case one can only admire them for their postmodernist attitude towards retrospection Read Review
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The Soundcarriers: Celeste
Alexis Taylor Paris In The Spring
Easily Taylor's best solo album, Paris in the Spring is a moving, playful, and accomplished statement that'll strike a chord with anyone weathering a crisis All Music
Ora Cogan Hard Hearted Woman
Varied yet elegantly stitched together, Hard Hearted Woman shows the many sides of Cogan, whose story is as resilient as the subjects she depicts No Ripcord
Ladytron Paradises
A lean masterpiece lurks in Paradises, a record that holds rewards for the patient listener. But it cries out for a judicious pair of editing scissors musicOMH
In an age when production is deliberately designed not to disturb listeners, Paradises may prove popular The Arts Desk
The cover artwork to Ladytron’s latest record Paradises adopts mind trickery by showing two hands touching through a triangle shape that looks both like a reflective mirror and a translucent window. Befitting artwork to hint at the content inside the triad’s album, which often takes the listener to places that are up to one’s own imagination and interpretation God Is In The TV
Ladytron head for the disco and relive the fun of 90s clubland The Skinny
Maybe Paradises could have been trimmed down a little, but their contagious creative zeal is apparent throughout its entirety. Ladytron have secured their iconic status once again, ensuring they become a cult band for an entirely new generation, or maybe more Under The Radar
The track I See Red radiates synth euphoria but the Pet Shop Boys-ish Death In London and single Kingdom Undersea are more about introspection than rapture. Print edition only Mojo
Momentum sags somewhat over its lengthy duration - but it also unquestionably features some of their finest, and funkiest, work to date. Print edition only Uncut
BTS ARIRANG
The group's journey to global domination has been nothing short of extraordinary, so it’s fitting that they have delivered an album that is of similarly epic proportions Rolling Stone UK
The barrier-breaking K-Pop icons return with a blockbuster album Clash
Ending a hiatus that began in 2022, the septet recapture a distinctiveness that had been threatening to ebb away The Guardian
Seven members attack the music with a ferocity that feels earned and personal. The album feels more often like seven individuals with real chemistry than one polished unit. The solo years gave each member a sharper creative identity, and RM’s instincts hold the whole thing together Consequence Of Sound
On its blockbuster return, the world's biggest band stresses group identity and South Korean roots, while pushing the songs into adventurous new territory Rolling Stone
Brigitte Calls Me Baby Irreversible
Irreversible sounds like a dead end: a lethargic monument to hollow style over substance, entirely on brand for a band that saddled their debut with one of the more ridiculous, faux-philosophical titles of recent years. It is a meaningless shell of a record with few, if any, redeeming features No Ripcord
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