9 June 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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Second full-length album from the Little Rock, Arkansas doom metal band produced by Billy Anderson (Swans, Impaled, and Sleep)
8.2
It’s quite simply moving, the sounds of dislocated souls finding a voice at last Read Review
The textural depth on the record is something to behold Read Review
They have triumphed massively again Read Review
Foundations finds a band firing on all cylinders, and surpassing what seemed like a watermark for the genre Read Review
Rather than carry a casket loaded down with the fast-tiring tropes of the doom genre, with Foundations Of Burden Pallbearer choose to breathe thrilling new life into them Read Review
Even though the album is crushing, the band’s penchant for melody is what elevates Foundations of Burden above otherwise comparable records from this year Read Review
Requisite darkness is all over Foundations of Burden, but it isn't the only shade of emotion here. There's the hint of a glimmer in each song that other doom bands can't conceive, let alone get to Read Review
Whether you’re a seasoned doom metal vet or a newcomer to metal altogether, you’ll find little burden in the walls and high ceilings Pallbearer have built Read Review
If they continue to write songs of this statue in the future then Pallbearer could well be doom metal’s light at the end of the tunnel Read Review
They mix the crushing, cold-storage riffage of stoner metal with the psychedelic interludes of, well, classic Mastodon Read Review
As a sophomore album, it does everything it needs to do to keep Pallbearer’s status as being elites in their genre Read Review
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Pallbearer: Foundations Of Burden
Pulp More
More is very much what most will have expected: Pulp sitting back and crafting an expertly compelling album on ageing, adapting their signature topics and quirks to the perspective of autumnal age Beats Per Minute
Turnstile Never Enough
A vital, exhilarating offering, sure to catapult them further out of the hardcore scene and ever closer to mainstream musical lore DIY
Addison Rae Addison
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yeule Evangelic Girl Is A Gun
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Like so much good pop music, the album makes hard work seem like second nature Slant Magazine
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We may have witnessed one of this decade’s most satisfying rebrands yet The Line Of Best Fit
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The one-time TikTok dancer’s remarkably cohesive debut spans Jersey club to R&B, and defies an obsession with ‘lore’ to suggest that the best pop isn’t that deep The Guardian
On her carefree debut, the US musician has gone mononymous and enlisted Swedish producers to help craft a Nineties and Y2K scrapbook that balances pop, past and present but never feels too try-hard The Independent
‘Addison’ is a masterful pop album that comes from the heart, and there’s not many of those around right now Clash
The Sheffield band return with their first record in 24 years, but the 11 songs lack chemistry The FT
Little Simz Lotus
The Londoner raps about getting through tough times on her gripping new record The FT
More is classic Pulp, aged to near perfection All Music
On Lotus, the exceptionally gifted rapper is more vulnerable than ever, yet this only pushes her to be at her most self-empowering All Music
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