22 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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Soft rock on the first album in 20 years from the one-time Eagles guitarist
5.1
As comebacks go, he could do a lot worse than this Read Review
Seldom has retro sounded so pleasingly stubborn. Print edition only
Jeff Lynne's nous lends a pleasing immediacy to straight-ahead rockers. Print edition only
There are no alarms and no surprises here, but it’s a record produced by Jeff Lynne so it sounds as bright, clear and appealing as anything this year Read Review
An amicable return to the solo spotlight for Walsh, showing off his dusty skills in a slick, very different sonic arena Read Review
Puts a Tom Petty-ready spin on laid-back California rock and has Walsh sounding less isolated from modern times than he thinks he is Read Review
Sounds like you imagine: slightly artificial, pop-inflected chunk-rock, with dustbin-lid drums, loads of guitars and even a hint of voice box/Auto-Tune Read Review
Print edition only
You'd think rock 'n' roll survivors would have better stories to tell. Boring as hell Read Review
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Joe Walsh: Analog Man
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
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