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16 September 2025

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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CMATEURO-COUNTRY

"Who else could combine soul, yodelling, Jamie Oliver and Calpol into such charming songs about the messy modern psyche? Only Europe’s best new breakout star" (10/10 - The Guardian)

Wolf AliceThe Clearing

"Their boldest, most striking record yet" (10/10 - DIY). "Frankly, soft-rock has not sounded this grand in a long time, and only Wolf Alice could have crafted it" (8.7/10 - Northern Transmissions)

The New EvesThe New Eve Is Rising

"Velvets-style drone rock, trad folk, anarcho-punk and hippy whimsy are all discernible in the Brighton quartet’s debut album – all played with white-knuckle intensity" (8/10 - The Guardian)

Wet Legmoisturizer

"Spikier, sleazier and sexier, the Isle of Wight duo defy second album syndrome" (9/10 - musicOMH). "The band’s propensity for catchy, danceable garage-punk remains intact" (8/10 - Slant)

LordeVirgin

"The pop star turns inward and redefines who she wants to be on her most introspective record yet" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "Returns to pop’s fray to revel in the mess of late-20s angst" (8/10 - The Guardian)

Loyle Carnerhopefully!

"Full of love, fatherhood and feeling, the Croydon lyricist’s fourth is less a reinvention than a maturation" (7/10 - musicOMH). "As moving as it is musically satisfying" (8/10 - DIY)

Young Widows

In And Out Of Youth And Lightness

Third album from Louisville, Kentucky post-hardcore trio

ADM rating[?]: 7.1
Label: Temporary Residence Limited
UK Release date: 18/04/2011
US Release date: 12/04/2011

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9.0 25542
9.0 | Prefix

The best album of their career thus far
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8.0 25543
8.0 | All Music

Always feels detached. Maybe that’s what makes it so unnerving, and so good
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8.0 25541
8.0 | Rave Magazine

The sound of a band going next-level
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7.0 | NME

A bit like Grinderman, without the spectre of ironic smirking
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7.0 | Drowned In Sound

A journey of epic proportions
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5.7 | Pitchfork

Finds the band switching up their style, stretching out into longer songs and going more for atmosphere than for brooding rock fury
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