15 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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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
U2 Carnaval de Luz
This is not a radical reinvention of Rattle And Hum-to-Achtung Baby magnitude, or even a wilful evolution akin to that from How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb to No Line On Th Horizon. The ghosts of U2's past are summoned in numbers, though they are frequently mischievously partnered to interestingly incongruous effect. Print edition only Uncut
The Irish legends' best work in 25 years homages their eras, brings Brian Eno to bear on keys and even wheels out the late Dolly Parton musicOMH
Royal Blood Dead Company
It’s a record that sounds exactly like you would hope a new Royal Blood album would sound like, it’s little wonder that they are as big as they are, a consistently fine listen God Is In The TV
Kings Of Leon O My Beloved
With Carnaval De Luz they are not reinventing themselves or trying to be the current flavour of the month. What they do with this album is revisit their older glories and create new music and sound Spill Magazine
U2 return with a defiant and celebratory record that captures them still at the height of their powers Hot Press
This is Lorelei The Singer In My Band
Nate Amos fills his latest album with other people’s stories: some linger, others get lost in the scenery Still Listening
Out for blood! Brighton bruisers Royal Blood blast back-to-basics on fifth album Kerrang!
Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher floor the accelerator and embark on another collision course of energised and uncompromising riff-rock for album number five NME
Dead Company is arguably the best album they’ve released since their debut, but doesn’t exactly come close to topping it Sputnik Music (staff)
Royal Blood's latest album is competently made and frequently enjoyable, but almost entirely foreseeable The Skinny
There are no frills on this fifth set, once again self-produced by Kerr and Thatcher; instead, it provides a brisk hard rock assault that should please the faithful and entice newcomers to dig into their back catalog All Music
Bono and co. return to full strength with a celebration of hope over despair Mojo
Twisted Teens The Holy Cross Tigers
They revamp the work of their progenitors while at the same time transcending it. Never wandering too far from the music that inspires them, Twisted Teens occupy a space that is distinctly theirs Beats Per Minute
Shygirl Swallow!
The UK electronica figurehead takes a sentimental turn on her tender but assured sophomore release Paste Magazine
The Irish stadium legends’ latest is pedantic and ambiguous, rife with centrist pandering that ends up saying nothing at all Paste Magazine
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