24 June 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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Eighth studio album from the New Orleans-born rapper released while in jail in Rikers Island
6.8
He is so prolific he sometimes spreads himself a lil' thinly. Not here Read Review
Lil Wayne is pop's most reliable deliverer of unadulterated fun. He's also the greatest rapper alive Read Review
His languid, nasal style nods to his southern roots and the massive productions of the highlights Right Above It and What's Wrong With Them make the man who calls himself Weezy sound like the hip-hop grandee he's fast becoming Read Review
Weezy dominates every track and the end result is a lot stronger than Tha Carter III Read Review
Print edition only
The Lil Wayne who could make masterpieces out of autobiography...seems to be on temporary retirement Read Review
An interim album while he prepares to work on 'Tha Carter IV'. Print edition only
Wayne has already done better versions of almost every song on I Am Not a Human Being Read Review
Serves as a potent reminder that Wayne is still capable of both greatness and awfulness Read Review
Acts as a reminder to people that despite being behind bars he’s still here, not necessarily at the top of his game, but definitely present Read Review
Human Being is a primer for his planned post-prison album Read Review
The best tracks are those which pair Wayne with his protegé Drake, especially the single Right Above It Read Review
Though this is a flawed and scattershot project, Wayne remains an artist who makes music like a pâtissier--his songs are frivolous, delicious, and meant to be relished for just a moment Read Review
An average record that delivers and fails to do so simultaneously, while serving as a reminder that Lil Wayne is dedicated to his continued improvement as a premier MC Read Review
This is a fun record, but Lil Wayne at his peak was a world-beater. It would feel great to welcome that version of Wayne home again Read Review
This isn’t a terrible album, it’s simply a weak one; especially considering the heights Lil Wayne is capable of reaching Read Review
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Lil Wayne: I Am Not a Human Being
Vince Staples Cry Baby
Sonically, Cry Baby has the energy, groove and beats of a classic Danger Mouse production No Ripcord
Kurt Vile Philadelphia's been good to me
The record amounts to a deeply heartfelt and breezily disarming declaration of loved-up constancy, capped beautifully by the twinkling drift of closer Avalanches Of Snow Record Collector
Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Olivia Rodrigo’s latest finds the young singer expanding her music to incorporate more cohesive storytelling, and in doing so, is marking herself as someone taking the artistic side of her job seriously Spectrum Culture
Pond Terrestrials
The Australian psych-rock band’s latest features dense, detailed songwriting about corporate greed and the environment, but the music lacks its nuance and ambition Pitchfork
Australia’s psych-rock jesters fend off ecological doom with cosmic fury Slant Magazine
They boil everything down to its very essence DIY
It's teeming with complexity, feeding references to places, events and literary signposts into songs that wrestle with the violent contradictions of being human. Print edition only Uncut
Graham Coxon Castle Park
There’s nothing here to suggest they went unreleased for quality-control reasons. Print edition only Uncut
Strikes a perfect note of callow romance, all Merseybeat lunchbreak gossip on the spiky Alright and Billy Says, tipping into Zombies intrigue on When You Find Out. Yet there’s a depth of melancholy to the vibraphone haunting of Isn’t It Funny or Dripping Soul’s flamboyant Love flamenco that sees Coxon straying from the main paths and into the dark corners. Print edition only Mojo
Swim Deep Hum
A delightful and timely reset pressed DIY
While other artists they came up with have called it quits, the British indie band have kept moving forward. Their fifth album rewards that resilience with some of their most beautiful work yet NME
'Hum' sees a refreshed band settling into themselves and discovering that's where the good stuff was hiding all along Dork
Blur guitarist's 'lost' ninth solo album mixes a strong '60s aesthetic with some interesting stylistic tangents musicOMH
Aside from a few unmemorable ballads —the sparse, piano-led “Less” is an exception late on the album — Rodrigo deftly navigates the difficult task of regaining her sense of wholeness when not everything in her life has to make the most sense No Ripcord
The Rolling Stones Foreign Tongues
More guitar-centric and holistically Stones-y than their last outing, the latest from the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band is built to satisfy Rolling Stone
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