7 February 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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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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Daphni Butterfly
Snaith largely maintains the requisite club-friendly bpm rates while deftly integrating more surprising elements. Print edition only Uncut
A sprawling Daphni DJ set in microcosm, Butterfly is feel-good music of the purest kind. Print edition only Mojo
It might already be the most relentlessly feel-good album of 2026. DIY
Butterfly feels less like a fusion of Daphni and Caribou, and more like an uninhibited manifestation of Snaith's ever-changing tastes and proclivities Exclaim
It may only be February, but this already feels like a defining electronic record of the year Clash
Mandy, Indiana URGH
It’s also chaotic and messy, but also catchy. This is not an album, or band, to sleep on in 2026 Clash
The noise-rock band’s second album is a breakthrough: insidiously catchy, incomprehensibly groovy, and fueled by righteous fury Pitchfork
Ratboys Singin' To An Empty Chair
Bringing their country-tinted indie rock to boundless new landscapes, the Chicago band returns with their most emotionally affecting and compositionally advanced songs to date Pitchfork
A wonderful album that shows Ratboys revving their engine once again, ready to take another long, curious lap around the block PopMatters
Joyce Manor I Used to Go to This Bar
The pop-punk institution Joyce Manor emphasize melody on another hooky collection of melancholy-tinged anthems PopMatters
Geologist Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?
You might expect that pulling one part away from the whole would leave you with something solitary, but Weitz’s departure from his proverbial and literal ‘collective’ does not reduce him to a singularity. Instead, he emerges as a complex sum of parts all of his own The Quietus
A fresh glittering chromatic beast of shimmering synths and rhythms forged through industrial wreckage The Line Of Best Fit
What would you say to someone who isn’t there? The band spends their latest album breaking through these barriers, liberated by the knowledge that they tried Under The Radar
Since the lyrics are in French, only those fluent will pick up specific references, but the sound throughout is scarred and wounded The Arts Desk
On the Mancunian-Parisian band’s second album, the noise rockers escalate the grit that defined their debut Paste Magazine
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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