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 studio album from the Leeds-based duo Liza Violet and Ryan Needham
6.5
An impressive leap forwards Read Review
Menace Beach aren’t a supergroup, they’re just a really, really super group Read Review
For all the acuteness of the references — chunky layers of feedback, quiet-loud dynamics, nonsense lyrics about haircuts — Lemon Memory goes beyond 1990s alt-rock pastiche Read Review
A subtle, yet solid step forward Read Review
There's nothing sour about Menace Beach's sophomore album Read Review
A markedly different creature to the Leeds band's debut and all the stronger and more tantalising for it Read Review
The band appear to be evolving before our eyes, so seize your moment to enjoy them whilst their youthful energy still rules their output Read Review
An anxious and affecting display of raw indie rock Read Review
There’s enough promise shining through to make Menace Beach well worth keeping an eye on Read Review
Admirers of Anglo-American turn-of-the-'90s, inhale deeply. Print edition only
When they strike gold, they hit it hard Read Review
It doesn’t quite have the vitality or originality to make it a must-listen, but Menace Beach seem content to lean back and let things unfold Read Review
The fuzz-drenched mode of 2015 debut Ratworld supplanted by more thoughtful, diverse creations in which floating organ and mellotron lend a wavering melancholy Read Review
First, the songs aren’t distinctive enough but secondly – and much more damagingly – they rarely resolve into anything particularly exciting Read Review
It’s crushingly disappointing from a band that can sound so much better Read Review
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Menace Beach: Lemon Memory
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
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