15 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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Third album of grungey alternative rock by this duo from Brighton
7.3
Reeks of ambition and achievement. Taking a scythe to their rule book proves they rate artistry some way above cash Read Review
Each album they release has been a forward step – this perhaps being the greatest they’ve taken so far Read Review
Like a flash of the eponymous footwear in a dark city alleyway, Blood Red Shoes are a shock to the system Read Review
They have in many ways remained true to their punk and grunge roots, yet have also proved themselves to be quite innovative Read Review
This is big, anthemic indie rock packed with soaring harmonies, frantic drums and driving chord progressions Read Review
Despite – or perhaps because of – their rigid limitations, Blood Red Shoes have stuck at it to pull of the well-heeled whiskey, better-with-age trick. Good for them Read Review
An extremely impressive and clever modern rock record Read Review
An album so texturally complex that there is simply no space to consider what it might, or might not, be missing Read Review
Whilst ‘In Time To Voices’ doesn’t completely bin-off their brattish punk beginnings, it finds Carter and band-mate Steven Ansell making more psychedelic stride Read Review
Turns down the acerbic tone of the first record and adds - for the most part - a more expansive dimension to their sound Read Review
The Brighton-based pair’s pop-rock sound has been refined to an admirably high shine Read Review
Stacked with songs of trailblazing angst, sinister desperation and nut-cracking jams Read Review
The production is a significant step forward, and the instrumental palette has been successfully broadened while still remaining apparently bass-free Read Review
Fizzing with ideas, their future looks bright. Print edition only
Themes of angst and alienation, by now a staple for this duo, are again front and center on In Time to Voices Read Review
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Blood Red Shoes: In Time To Voices
U2 Carnaval de Luz
This is not a radical reinvention of Rattle And Hum-to-Achtung Baby magnitude, or even a wilful evolution akin to that from How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb to No Line On Th Horizon. The ghosts of U2's past are summoned in numbers, though they are frequently mischievously partnered to interestingly incongruous effect. Print edition only Uncut
The Irish legends' best work in 25 years homages their eras, brings Brian Eno to bear on keys and even wheels out the late Dolly Parton musicOMH
Royal Blood Dead Company
It’s a record that sounds exactly like you would hope a new Royal Blood album would sound like, it’s little wonder that they are as big as they are, a consistently fine listen God Is In The TV
Kings Of Leon O My Beloved
With Carnaval De Luz they are not reinventing themselves or trying to be the current flavour of the month. What they do with this album is revisit their older glories and create new music and sound Spill Magazine
U2 return with a defiant and celebratory record that captures them still at the height of their powers Hot Press
This is Lorelei The Singer In My Band
Nate Amos fills his latest album with other people’s stories: some linger, others get lost in the scenery Still Listening
Out for blood! Brighton bruisers Royal Blood blast back-to-basics on fifth album Kerrang!
Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher floor the accelerator and embark on another collision course of energised and uncompromising riff-rock for album number five NME
Dead Company is arguably the best album they’ve released since their debut, but doesn’t exactly come close to topping it Sputnik Music (staff)
Royal Blood's latest album is competently made and frequently enjoyable, but almost entirely foreseeable The Skinny
There are no frills on this fifth set, once again self-produced by Kerr and Thatcher; instead, it provides a brisk hard rock assault that should please the faithful and entice newcomers to dig into their back catalog All Music
Bono and co. return to full strength with a celebration of hope over despair Mojo
Twisted Teens The Holy Cross Tigers
They revamp the work of their progenitors while at the same time transcending it. Never wandering too far from the music that inspires them, Twisted Teens occupy a space that is distinctly theirs Beats Per Minute
Shygirl Swallow!
The UK electronica figurehead takes a sentimental turn on her tender but assured sophomore release Paste Magazine
The Irish stadium legends’ latest is pedantic and ambiguous, rife with centrist pandering that ends up saying nothing at all Paste Magazine
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