11 July 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 six from the Canadian dreamy, bluesy folk trio recorded in France
7.4
This new sound of theirs was not just a good move but a great one Read Review
Few albums will encapsulate 2017 with such elan. Print edition only
Balancing the political disquiet is a vein of romantic yearning, with Kirk’s plea in “Moment” for “desire deserving of something more” offers a fitting summary of the album as a whole Read Review
This 2017 take on Eighties cinematic synth-pop is an unexpected joy in which to relish the impending political slime approaching us Read Review
The old school electronica and synth work makes Sincerely, Future Pollution a grand, beautiful, but occasionally uncomfortable listen Read Review
The dark absurdity of American politics provides a suitably grim backdrop for the group's fourth album Read Review
As its title suggests, Timber Timbre’s latest record is defined by the spectre of romantic decay and geopolitical destruction that looms over it Read Review
Threat levels peak on Sewer Blues' ominous, John Carpenter reverberation. Print edition only
Sees Taylor Kirk ceding more creative control to guitarist Simon Trottier and keyboardist Mathieu Charbonneau than on any previous albums, with the result being a shift into electronic and also funk territory Read Review
Sincerely, Future Pollution is Timber Timbre's most confident record Read Review
These nine songs are at once a throwback to the experimental ’80s and an exciting indication of how Timber Timbre continue to grow Read Review
Sincerely, Future Pollution materializes a distinctly '80s coldness, with electric guitar pep-talks aside fuzzy, building synthetics Read Review
Kirk's fondness for gloomier realms prevails, especially in his noteworthy wordplay and on the ominously noisy title track. Print edition only
Sincerely, Future Pollution continues to raise the band’s crooked bar. Read Review
A sense of surging depravation pervades the entirety of Sincerely, Future Pollution Read Review
A great work about a toxic world Read Review
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Timber Timbre: Sincerely, Future Pollution
Wet Leg moisturizer
After the whirlwind of their debut album, the Isle Of Wight band could have capitulated to the pressure. Instead, they return smarter, sexier and altogether stronger NME
There’s also a fluidity to the entirety of Moisturizer that ventures beyond the limitations of the debut and everything Wet Leg signalled in their early stages Far Out
Barry Can’t Swim Loner
Loner is an easy improvement over Barry Can't Swim's debut album, and he retains his ability to craft reflective, sentimental material while strengthening his skills at making airtight tracks designed to ignite the dancefloor All Music
Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers double down on the weird energy of their debut The Independent
Rhian Teasdale and co’s second album brilliantly refines all that was great about their brash, bouncy debut The Irish Times
After winning multiple Grammys and Brits, the Isle of Wight band explore love and sexuality on their second LP – but there’s still room for some barbed put-downs The Guardian
Wet Leg’s balance of danger and relaxation pays off in this turbulently fun listen. Excitingly crafted and dangerously sharp, moisturizer is the sound of someone rolling their eyes at how lovesick they’ve become, then shrugging before seeing how far it’ll take them Northern Transmissions
Gwenno Utopia
Utopia is different from her previous work not just because of the language shift, but because of how it was made. Instead of starting electronically, Gwenno composed most of these songs on piano, recording live with her band in her living room. That choice gives Utopia organic warmth. The human touch is evident in how the instruments breathe together Northern Transmissions
Another that sounds like it will be blasted from windows of all kinds whenever the sun shines The Arts Desk
On his latest record, Barry Can’t Swim cements himself as a boundary-pushing voice in electronic music, one fluent in mood, movement, and meaningful reflection The Skinny
U.K. indie-rockers party hard and travel fast on their great second album Rolling Stone
Gwenno’s songwriting matures compellingly on Utopia The Line Of Best Fit
Kesha . [Period]
Kesha’s . is a mess of a statement The Line Of Best Fit
Pulp More
Far more than the themes of aging, sex, and loss, Pulp’s More straight-facedly spreads the word of love and it is the start of something new — a rebirth PopMatters
The Scottish producer trades sun-soaked bliss for emotional introspection – without losing the big drops musicOMH
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
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