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23 June 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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Graham CoxonCastle Park

"It’s a rare delight to hear him back in the driving seat" (8/10 - DIY). "Blur guitarist's 'lost' ninth solo album mixes a strong '60s aesthetic with some interesting stylistic tangents" (8/10 - musicOMH)

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Vince StaplesCry Baby

"An urgent manifesto against American injustice and complacency" (9.1/10 - Consequence of Sound). "The Long Beach lyricist delivers his most passionately political release to date" (8/20 - NME)

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Death Cab For CutieI Built You A Tower

"Their hardest-rocking and emotionally urgent set in a while" (9/10 - All Music). "Death Cab is here to stay, my friends, and here's to hoping that there's many more to come" (9.6/10 - Sputnik Music)

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Ed O’BrienBlue Morpho

"The guitarist’s album might be the most Radiohead side project yet to emerge from the mother ship" (8/10 - The Irish Times). "Works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself" (8/10 - Clash)

Kevin MorbyLittle Wide Open

"A masterpiece of simple and, at times, epic proportions that will linger deep within one’s soul" (9/10 - PopMatters). "The eight-minute-long title track is arguably Morby’s greatest song to date" (8/10 - Mojo)

Aldous HardingTrain On The Island

"A spellbinding listen, the high water mark of Harding's singular career" (9/10 - Exclaim. "It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far" (9/10 - Pitchfork)

KneecapFENIAN

"After their Glastonbury fracas and legal troubles, political friction provides the backbone to this dense, musically adventurous third album" (9/10 - musicOMH).

FrikoSomething Worth Waiting For

"A record that leaves the kind of impression more associated with acts with far lengthier histories" (9/10 - DIY). "A euphoric, breakneck adventure towards a promised land" (8/10 - The Skinny)

Lime GardenMaybe Not Tonight

"A breakup album that wears its messiness on its sleeve, Lime Garden’s second is figuring life out, track by track" (9/10 - NME). "A new indie disco essential" (9/10 - DIY)

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YHWH Nailgun

Magazine

Second album from the New York electronic post-punk quartet

Added: 16/06/2026
8.0

Olivia Rodrigo

You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love

Third album from the American singer and actress produced by Dan Nigro (Carly Rae Jepsen, Sky Ferreira, Empress Of) and featuring a guest appearance from The Cure’s Robert Smith

Added: 14/06/2026
8.0

La Sécurité

Bingo!

Second full-length release from the danc-punk Montreal band co-produced with Emmanuel Éthier

Added: 12/06/2026
8.0

Widowspeak

Roses Rouge Ecomix

Seventh full-length album from the Brooklyn indie rock duo Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas

Added: 10/06/2026
8.0

Death Cab For Cutie

I Built You A Tower

Eleventh album from Ben Gibbard's indie rock group produced by John Congleton

Added: 05/06/2026
8.0

Violet Grohl

Be Sweet To Me

Debut full-length release from Violet Grohl (daughter Dave Grohl) working with producers Joe Kennedy, Brad Lauchert, Anthony Paul Lopez and Justin Raisen

Added: 01/06/2026
7.0

Kelsey Lu

So Help me God

Second album from the North Carolina-born cellist and singer-songwriter featuring contributions from Jack Antonoff, Kim Gordon, Oli Jacobs, Yves Rothman, Sampha and Kamasi Washington

Added: 14/06/2026
7.0

Vince Staples

Cry Baby

Seventh full-length album from the Long Beach, California rapper mixes rock textures with hip-hop beats

Added: 05/06/2026
7.0

Jalen Ngonda

Doctrine Of Love

Second full-length album of retro soul from Maryland-born, English-based musician co-produced by Michael Buckley and V Chiarito

Added: 05/06/2026
7.0

Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti

Almost Waking

Collaboration between experimental cellist Fratti and guitarist and composer Orcutt

Added: 01/06/2026
6.0

Modest Mouse

An Eraser And A Maze

Eighth album from Isaac Brock's alt rockers and first since the death of founding drummer Jeremiah Green in 2022

Added: 05/06/2026
6.0

Paul McCartney

The Boys of Dungeon Lane

Twentieth solo album from the music legend co-produced with Andrew Watt

Added: 29/05/2026
5.0

Bleachers

Everyone For Ten Minutes

Fifth album from producer Jack Antonoff's New York-based indie pop project

Added: 22/05/2026

Latest Reviews

Vince Staples Cry Baby

Sonically, Cry Baby has the energy, groove and beats of a classic Danger Mouse production No Ripcord

Kurt Vile Philadelphia's been good to me

The record amounts to a deeply heartfelt and breezily disarming declaration of loved-up constancy, capped beautifully by the twinkling drift of closer Avalanches Of Snow Record Collector

Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love

Olivia Rodrigo’s latest finds the young singer expanding her music to incorporate more cohesive storytelling, and in doing so, is marking herself as someone taking the artistic side of her job seriously Spectrum Culture

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Fresh stuff

Inferno by Boards of Canada

"The elusive Scottish electronic duo return after over a decade away with an immersive, multi-dimensional album that is both evocative and ambitious" (10/10 - musicOMH)

Modest MouseAn Eraser And A Maze
"A dense, challenging, and highly rewarding listen. It is a record that is at times anxious, claustrophobic, and deliberately rough around the edges" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

IceageFor Love of Grace & the Hereafter
"The quintet add shoegaze, country and 50s rock’n’roll to their core indie-punk sound, resulting in songs that offset lyrical bleakness with gleeful, uplifting music" (10/10 - The Guardian)

Paul McCartneyThe Boys of Dungeon Lane
"A richly nostalgic trip that proves this legend is still as creative as ever" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "A welcome return from the master" (8.5/10 - Hot Press).

RostamAmerican Stories
"Meticulous, inventive record" (8/10 - Mojo). "A record of reflection and connection that ranks among the more beautiful-sounding you might hear this year" (8/10 - DIY)

The Coral388
"It’s a lucky number thirteen for fans – The Coral remain a band to cherish" (8/10 - Clash). "Every choppy guitar line and snaking Hammond or Farfisa lick form hooks in their own right" (8/10 - The Arts Desk)

Genesis OwusuRedstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge
"Seething with righteous anger and moshpit-ready tracks, the Australian artist’s genre-hopping but cohesive LP makes a case for the durability of the form" (10/10 - The Guardian)

All-time top 10

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.

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