5 November 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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Third studio album from the New York rapper with guest appearances from FKA twigs, French Montana, Juicy J, Kid Cudi, Kodak Black, Moby, Frank Ocean, Skepta
6.4
The Harlem rapper's latest is loud, frenetic, and about as vibrant as hip-hop gets Read Review
Sonically, Testing is an experimental project. A shedding of the 29-year-old artist's old skin and a rebirth of something more profound and slightly more complicated Read Review
On his third studio album, Rocky is more experimental and personal. But for music that relies on the New York rapper’s artful intuitions, it’s unfortunate his intuitions are often very basic Read Review
An intriguing mix of garbled white noise and amp interference interspersed with splashes of instrumentals and a smattering of A-list features Read Review
ASAP Rocky takes to more experimentation in his music to match up with his style of fashion Read Review
Testing is what it says it is, though this far into his career, he should be doing better than merely a passing grade Read Review
The rapper’s aversion to the mainstream takes his third album to some glorious heights, with the help of Skepta and Frank Ocean. But is his swaggering decadence wearing thin? Read Review
Testing’s title might suggest experimentation, but it delivers more on tentativeness, with a smattering of solid songs mixed into aesthetically interesting but unresolved experiments Read Review
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Daniel Avery Tremor
With Tremor, Avery establishes a singular form of distortion-doused electronic rock which dwells in a nocturnal landscape, letting deep-seated emotions rise to the surface All Music
The Charlatans We Are Love
Overall, a good-not-great effort, particularly when viewed in the lens of its compatriots Spill Magazine
Anna Von Hausswolff ICONOCLASTS
Balancing divine chaos with human vulnerability, Anna von Hausswolff delivers a monumental work that feels both otherworldly and deeply alive Northern Transmissions
In the end, Tremor leaves a taste in your mouth that makes you want more, a record that brings together things that might not make sense but do Northern Transmissions
Florence + The Machine Everybody Scream
Everybody Scream isn’t just a return to form — it’s her most vital work yet. A deeply human, spellbinding triumph XS Noize
This 14th offering is less reunion comeback, more business as usual Record Collector
Florence Welch and her band enlist Mitski, Aaron Dessner, Danny L. Harle, and IDLES’ Mark Bowen to make a guttural, flinty rock record. Though sometimes overwrought, the album often intoxicates with its folk-horror atmosphere and Welch’s magisterial-as-always vocals Paste Magazine
Florence Welch enlists horror and magic to harness hope NME
While the sound isn't new territory for the band, Everybody Scream proves its value in the timeliness and visceral honesty of Welch's lyricism and delivery, meaningfully adding to the cultural conversation about gender roles and feminine rage Exclaim
Although a great sense of grief is charging the tones here, it is often empowering and soaring The Arts Desk
A vision of the future pressing in, unresolved and menacing. Tremors works in the same way: moments of calm overtaken by instability, the walls seeming to vibrate with what’s outside, (or maybe it’s just sub-bass) God Is In The TV
Soulwax All Systems Are Lying
Benefits from being recorded live at their DEEWEE studio in Gent. It gives all the beats a tense surging urgency and taps into the underlying hostility of our age of fake news, manufactured consent, and media manipulation Under The Radar
Turns a painful experience into an artistic triumph Rolling Stone
Florence + the Machine give in to the spellbinding power of performance on Everybody Scream The Line Of Best Fit
On his first album since 2022, the UK producer trades his habitual techno and ambient for a more melodic, rock-driven sound that puts guest singers like yeule and yunè pinku front and center Pitchfork
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
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange