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17 May 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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Jenny HvalIris Silver Mist

"A personal journey through the past and self, focused on the power of scent in evoking forgotten moments" (10/10 - The Guardian. "An immersive album of beguiling charms about memories, isolation and dislocation" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Self EsteemA Complicated Woman

"Her most concentrated and burning record" (10/10 - DIY). "takes the best parts of Prioritise Pleasure and her debut Compliments Please, and turns it all up to 10" (10/10 - musicOMH)

Julien Baker & TorresSend A Prayer My Way

"On their first album as a duo, the singers reclaim the honky-tonk music they grew up on" (9/10 - Slant). "A heart-bursting record that underlines the power of unity in a fractured world. A must-listen" (8/10 - Dork)

Bon IverSABLE, fABLE

"Soulful, almost spiritual in its delivery" (10/10 - DIY). "Marks a return to his fragile folk roots" (9/10 - musicOMH). "Revels in its sense of joy and collaboration" (8/10 - The Skinny)

Craig FinnAlways Been

"The Hold Steady bandleader has never sounded so alive" (8.5/10 - Paste Magazine). "Another rousing success from Finn" (8.4/10 - Northern Transmissions). "Probably his finest solo album to date" (8/10 - musicOMH)

DeafheavenLonely People With Power

"Deafheaven’s best album yet, and one that serves as a snapshot of a band at the peak of their powers" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "As singular and engrossing as heavy albums get" (8/10 - DIY)

Evening Hymns

Spectral Dusk

Second release from the indie folk collective led by Canadian Jonas Bonetta, themed on the death of his father

ADM rating[?]: 7.4
Label: Tin Angel
UK Release date: 08/04/2013
US Release date: 21/08/2012

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9.0 53598
9.0 | The Line Of Best Fit

A simply beautiful record. Hear it
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8.0 53599
8.0 | God Is In The TV

The songs on this album are loose and full of space, understated, but most of all incredibly beautiful
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8.0 53597
8.0 | musicOMH

An elegiac record and a paean to the Canadian landscape that Bonetta shared with his father
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8.0 54017
8.0 | Uncut

Beautiful and redemptive. Print edition only
6.0 54011
6.0 | Q

Introspective, hushed and frequently beautiful. Print edition only
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