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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A second solo album from The Charlatans frontman is an Americana influenced collaboration with Kurt Wagner supplying the lyrics
7.2
It’s a classicist folk-rock maelstrom from a man who clearly knows his record collection inside and out Read Review
A triumph. An underplayed, subtle triumph, but a victory nonetheless Read Review
Much of this delightful album resonates with the sound of a man's ambition fulfilled Read Review
You feel Burgess’ enthusiasm for the project shine through Read Review
Burgess always wanted to be a country soul man, on this album he has done it. Print edition only
A highly accomplished and warmly uplifting country-soul album. Print edition only
One of this year’s most welcome collaborations Read Review
While we await a new Charlatans album, this is a sweet postcard from a man who still gives a shit about trying something new Read Review
Burgess has once again challenged himself by trying something new: bringing a bit of Madchester with him to Nashville, and proudly taking a musical piece of Nashville away with him for good measure Read Review
A gloriously permutated prelude to ‘Oh No I Love You’ that eclipses the original work Read Review
It’s nice to see him being a little more restrained on Oh No I Love You, recognising that it’s fine to be influenced by Americana without having to don a Stetson and a rhinestone-studded shirt Read Review
Hushed, bucolic and carefully crafted. Print edition only
It has been nine years since Tim Burgess released a solo album, but the opening track on Oh No I Love You makes it feel like nine minutes Read Review
A brave — and occasionally brilliant — album from one of Britpop’s more intriguing figures Read Review
Far more stripped back than the Charlatans frontman’s previous offerings, ‘Oh No…’ flits between affecting moments and repetitive down-beaters that seem to go nowhere Read Review
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Tim Burgess: Oh No I Love You
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