10 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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Second album from soulful Montreal singer-songwriter Al Spx, featuring lead single “Absisto”
6.6
An expanded musical palette that pushes Neuroplasticity beyond the ‘doom soul’ territory confidently staked out on 2012 debut I Predict a Graceful Expulsion Read Review
A record that manages to reveal its treasures over multiple listens without ever sacrificing immediate appeal Read Review
A real contender for Canadian Album of the Year Read Review
The grace is still there, but something far more engrossing has now been added to the mix Read Review
One of the year's notable albums Read Review
On "A quiet Chill", Spx growls "I remain unshakeable?. Every note on this compelling album backs her up. Print edition only
Simultaneously lets the listener into her world and bolsters her anonymity Read Review
As much as it's just a transition for Spx into something that takes a variety of musical turns Read Review
Her voice is as mesmeric and worldly as ever, and the instrumentation is rendered in beautiful detail. But it’s tantalising to wonder what would have happened if she would have given herself completely to chaos Read Review
Spx could do with some melodies as memorable as the music-making behind them Read Review
Sonic spaciousness with reverberant drums, eerie, ethereal keyboards and spidery guitars framing up-front delivery Print edition only
In trying to channel one of her biggest influences — the powerful, pummeling noise rock deity that is Michael Gira — she gets eaten alive Read Review
It isn’t easy enough to love on the first spin, but it’s not complex enough to get better with repeated plays either Read Review
Despite a greater focus on musicality, tunes remain hard to come by Read Review
Too cold and distancing to be able to connect to Read Review
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Cold Specks: Neuroplasticity
Django Django Doveland
Django Django would appear to have refreshed their approach and challenged themselves to try out previously unconsidered melodic avenues The Arts Desk
Print edition only Uncut
Gilla Band Pugnello
Somewhere amidst the anarchy of Pugnello, there are gems waiting to be found. Unearthing them is well worth your time Still Listening
Greg Freeman All Set The Bone
Existentialism has a sound (and it’s hard to ignore) with Greg Freeman’s introspective All Set The Bone Still Listening
U2 Carnaval de Luz
Carnaval De Luz finds U2 50 years after their formation with the same four members and the same desire to shake things up. The album provides a convincing answer to the question of why they keep doing what they do XS Noize
Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber
Fontaines D.C. push deeper into synthetic territory on Dopamine Chamber, balancing stadium-sized melodies with restless experimentation and darker texture Record Collector
They sound ambitious and engaged in their 50th year, swinging for the fences and hitting more targets than not. There’s still some gas in the tank Record Collector
La Roux Old Flames
Print edition only Record Collector
Back with her first new music in six years, La Roux's new sound explores facets of R'n'B and Europop to varying degrees of success The Skinny
La Roux turns to 90s R&B on a fourth album shaped by the end of a 17-year relationship, finding room for new beginnings beneath its layered production Still Listening
Print edition only Rolling Stone UK
Devastating moments are dressed up with warm production and kinetic 00s R&B in the now quiff-less singer’s grownup fourth album The Guardian
Elly Jackson returns with heartfelt pop songs about breaking up, resentment, vulnerability and all that entails musicOMH
Ditching erratic experimentation for an ambient concept, the indie shapeshifters' sixth album is their most coherent in years musicOMH
Doveland sounds less like a reduction of Django Django’s musical vocabulary than a more relaxed demonstration of how much they possess PopMatters
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