16 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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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
Tune-Yards Better Dreaming
These 11 songs brim with images of armed men, noxious air and entitled egotists, intermingled with notions of self-liberation and community solidarity. But the sonics too often seem stuck in Garbus's past. Print edition only Mojo
They're following their "first thought" instincts while allowing space for the full expression of Garbus's mighty soul voice. Print edition only Uncut
Billy Nomates Metalhorse
Altogether, with added depth and melody, it’s Maries’ best yet. Print edition only Mojo
The dilapidated English fairground has served as a metaphor for the vicissitudes of the music business for everyone from Ray Davies to Kevin Ayers, but it's rarely been so vividly, furiously and poignantly realised. Print edition only Uncut
Rico Nasty Lethal
Very much out there in her own lane, Rico Nasty attacks each song with purpose Clash
The rapper's latest LP, Lethal, matches her characteristic raw energy with a rock-influenced sound and introspective tone Rolling Stone
The ideas are present, but the urgency and edge that once defined her work feel dialled back The Arts Desk
An alluring feat that feels just as trendy as it is against the grain DIY
Perhaps mastering a sense of duality is what Rico Nasty is gunning for – harsh and soft, or trap and rock Kerrang!
billy woods GOLLIWOG
The American rapper dwells on scary things – both fictional and real – for his latest album musicOMH
Tor Maries’ third album is testimony to the fact that whatever doesn’t kill you does indeed make you stronger musicOMH
Kali Uchis Sincerely
The singer-songwriter’s new album is a phantasmagoria of pleasure—the perfect complement to her talent for keeping her cool Pitchfork
William Tyler Time Indefinite
William Tyler’s Time Indefinite is an experimental ambient record from a guy who isn’t known for making experimental ambient albums A.V. Club
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As always, they make wallowing together in the dirt and filth seem like great fun Under The Radar
Kali Uchis’ Sincerely, is another near-perfect release from the singer—and an affirmation that true love and young motherhood make for a plethora of inspiration Spectrum Culture
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Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange