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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Album number seven from the London-born IDM producer and DJ Kieran Hebden
7.4
Harks back to early-90s rave culture, but without forfeiting his up-to-date sensibilities or typically broad range of references Read Review
The rough tones don’t register as forcefully as the hooks on previous works. That said, it’s a rewarding listen, one that eventually embeds itself once given full attention Read Review
The sound of an artist looking to cut loose, and its playful spirit proves catching Read Review
While the album does seem rather patched together with a lack of focus - it plays out like a pair of distinct EPs and a couple transitional orphans on shuffle - there's an irrefutable charm to the restlessness. Read Review
Strikes a refreshingly non-nostalgic note, due largely to his treatment of his source material Read Review
A standout in both the Four Tet oeuvre and a growing collection of dance albums that pay homage to the past Read Review
The album is visceral and unrefined, two qualities not often associated with Hebden Read Review
An album both in tune with and in thrall to the dancefloor as Heben navigates his way up and down the dial Read Review
A wholly uncompromising record that remains compulsive from start to finish. Print edition only
An effortless listen, but when it wanders it feels like a bauble, one from an artist from whom we are accustomed to receiving richer gifts Read Review
Much of his early work was heavily influenced by UK garage, and in this sense, Beautiful Rewind feels like Four Tet coming full circle Read Review
Regresses into an intensive study of hypnotic incantations and obtuse rhythms Read Review
Mixes club-ready rhythms with touches of brain-melt psychedelia Read Review
It's still recognizably Four Tet, still a cut above most EDM. It just feels a little frustrating Read Review
Beautiful Rewind is always keeping us at arm’s length, coldly allowing us to admire the craft without letting us in on the secret. It can make for a lonely listen Read Review
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Four Tet: Beautiful Rewind
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