20 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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Fifth official solo album from the stalwart of indie hip hop
6.6
If you consider yourself a lover of nineties rap, throw this one in ASAP Read Review
Kweli is still, lyrically and technically, one of the most agile MCs around Read Review
Doesn't demonstrate a drastic change in Kweli's style at all Read Review
Gutter Rainbows could only be smoother if it came with a signed photo of the artist propping up a Las Vegas cocktail bar in a white tuxedo Read Review
Dogged street intellectualism Read Review
While so much of modern hip-hop is characterised by crude themes and repetitive formats, Talib Kweli continues to fly the flag for the hardcore of true innovators Read Review
An enjoyable, if not wonderful, record Read Review
In terms of accessibility, he’s done better work, and this release will probably just go down as a good, but not a great Talib Kweli album Read Review
Despite limp production, Kweli is often a great presence here, and fans certainly won’t be disappointed Read Review
Hovers between a mainstream and an indie vibe, embracing neither and potentially isolating both audiences Read Review
Unabashed conscious-rap classicism, with a luscious, string-swamped soul sound and rhymes that tout the MC's left-of-center cred Read Review
Kweli still has an ear for beats, and despite some particular low points here, his lyrics were always overshadowed by his flow, which is as sharp as eve Read Review
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Talib Kweli: Gutter Rainbows
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
Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
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
Lizzo Bitch
This is just one for the completists (which in an age of streaming may not be many) God Is In The TV
For all its standout moments, the album’s greatest achievement is not any single song, but what emerges when the album is experienced as a whole God Is In The TV
Lizzo's fifth record is definitely her weakest to date and won't please fans who have waited four years to hear the next stage of the singer's journey Spectrum Culture
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