25 March 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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Perfume Genius Glory
A fluid, fully felt album of artfully crafted confessionals and catharsis. Print edition only Record Collector
Over its 11 tracks, it draws the listener fully into its dreamworld. Print edition only Mojo
A record as sonically rich as it is lyrically bold. Print edition only Uncut
Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco I Said I Love You First
A pop icon and a superstar producer celebrate their real-life romance on I Said I Love You First Rolling Stone
The collaboration between the singer and her producer fiancé has big romantic appeal but mostly contains serviceable, pastiched pop songs that reveal little about their love story Pitchfork
Dutch Interior Moneyball
After the lo-fi slowcore of its first two albums, the L.A. sextet embraces a welter of instruments, some carefully chosen country influences, and sentimental feelings delivered with a wink Pitchfork
Brian D’Addario Till The Morning
Half of The Lemon Twigs dives deep into his mellow, introspective world and gives a glimpse of what’s going on in his head. The other half is along for the ride musicOMH
While this is a solo record, Brian’s younger brother, Michael, co-produced the album and sings on five out of the 11 songs Paste Magazine
Unashamedly shaggy compared to the sibling' meticulously crafted Lemon Twigs LPs. Print edition only Uncut
Though some Lemon Twigs fans might miss Michael's edgier, thornier songwriting, big bro's serial melodicism and multi-instrumentalist nous across everything from penny whistle to cello slays. Print edition only Mojo
An outstanding effort rivalling his brilliant work with The Lemon Twigs Clash
My Morning Jacket is
I’ve heard plenty of far worse attempts at this kind of easy-listening rock and roll, and Jim James’ vocals sound rejuvenated this time around. is is (yikes) a low-stakes and contented release, quite enjoyable for what it is and wholly inessential Sputnik Music (staff)
This ‘IS’ a stunning album , up there with their best work God Is In The TV
The classic-minded rockers team up with a new producer for a fresh-feeling LP called Is Rolling Stone
After uncertainties about their future, My Morning Jacket sounded close to revivified on 2021’s pointedly eponymous comeback record. Four years on, that sense of renewal is tethered to newly concentrated strategies on their 10th album Record Collector
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