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26 June 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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HaimI quit

"This sublime collection of breakup bangers could well be the soundtrack to your summer" (10/10 - Rolling Stone UK). "Rarely works up a sweat yet maintains a jiggling, low-level funk" (8/10 - The Arts Desk)

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Loyle Carnerhopefully!

"Full of love, fatherhood and feeling, the Croydon lyricist’s fourth is less a reinvention than a maturation" (7/10 - musicOMH). "As moving as it is musically satisfying" (8/10 - DIY)

New

Hotline TNTRaspberry Moon

"Guitar hero epics and riffs galore are abundant across the tracklist" (8/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "A newly collaborative approach is a good look on the NYC outfit" (8/10 - The Skinny)

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Albums to watch

carolineCaroline 2

"Each song is gloriously cinematic, intoxicatingly unexpected and truly powerful, even in its quietest moments" (9/10 - Far Out). "UK post-rock’s preeminent sentimentalists" (8/4/10 - Pitchfork)

StereolabInstant Holograms On Metal Film

"Lætitia Sadier et al pick up where they left off yet sound more timely than ever" (8/10 - The Guardian). "This is highbrow music for lowbrow times" (9/10 - Far Out)

Tune-YardsBetter Dreaming

"May just be their most uplifting and inspiring work" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "May emerge as one of the Oakland duo’s all-time great records after a few years’ passage" (7.8/10 - Paste)

Ezra FurmanGoodbye Small Head

"A record of unflinching honesty and unparalleled vulnerability" (9/10 - DIY). "There’s an urgency coursing through this startling album’s veins that confirms its creator to be one of the most exciting songwriters around" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Jenny HvalIris Silver Mist

"A personal journey through the past and self, focused on the power of scent in evoking forgotten moments" (10/10 - The Guardian. "An immersive album of beguiling charms about memories, isolation and dislocation" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Self EsteemA Complicated Woman

"Her most concentrated and burning record" (10/10 - DIY). "takes the best parts of Prioritise Pleasure and her debut Compliments Please, and turns it all up to 10" (10/10 - musicOMH)

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The ADM rating is a weighted average from our survey of more than 50 sources , taking into account the number of reviews

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9.0
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Little Simz

Lotus

Sixth album of soulful hip-hop from London-rapper Simbiatu Ajikawo featuring guest appearances from Michael Kiwanuka, Miraa May, Yukimi Nagano, Obongjayar, Sampha, Moonchild Sanelly, Moses Sumney and Wretch 32

Added: 07/06/2025
9.0

Pulp

More

Album number eight and first in 23 years from the indie pop band formed in Sheffield in 1978

Added: 04/06/2025
9.0

yeule

Evangelic Girl Is A Gun

Fourth album of ambient / glitch pop from London-based, Singapore-born producer Nat Cmiel

Added: 30/05/2025
9.0

Tune-Yards

Better Dreaming

Sixth album of indie art-pop from Merrill Garbus working with long-time band-member Nate Brenner

Added: 15/05/2025
8.0

Loyle Carner

hopefully!

Fourth album from the South London, Mercury Prize-nominated hip-hop artist

Added: 20/06/2025
8.0

Hotline TNT

Raspberry Moon

Third full-length album from Will Anderson's shoegaze project produced by Amos Pitsch

Added: 20/06/2025
8.0

Turnstile

Never Enough

Fourth full-length album from the Baltimore hardcore band and first to not feature founding guitarist Brady Ebert following his 2022 departure

Added: 07/06/2025
8.0

Kathryn Joseph

WE WERE MADE PREY.

Fourth album from the Inverness-born singer-songwriter co-produced with Lomond Campbell

Added: 29/05/2025
8.0

Alan Sparhawk

With Trampled by Turtles

Second full-length solo album from Low's founder is a collaboration with Trampled By Turtles and produced by Nat Harvie

Added: 29/05/2025
8.0

Garbage

Let All That We Imagine Be The Light

Eighth studio album from the American-Scottish alt rockers influenced in part by singer Shirley Manson's hip replacement surgery

Added: 28/05/2025
8.0

caroline

Caroline 2

Second full-length album from the London-based eight-member post-rock group

Added: 28/05/2025
8.0

Smerz

Big City Life

Second studio album from the Norwegian electronic duo Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt

Added: 28/05/2025
8.0

Sparks

MAD!

Album number twentysix from the Los Angeles synth pop / art rock duo Ron and Russell Mael

Added: 22/05/2025
8.0

Stereolab

Instant Holograms On Metal Film

Eleventh album and first in fifteen years from the indie rock veterans

Added: 22/05/2025
8.0

These New Puritans

Crooked Wing

Fifth studio album from the arty post-rock outfit led by twins Jack & George Barnett

Added: 22/05/2025
7.0

Haim

I quit

Fourth studio album from the LA pop rock trio Este, Danielle and Alana Haim produced by Danielle Haim, Rostam Batmanglij and Buddy Ross

Added: 20/06/2025
7.0

Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts

Talkin To The Trees

The 48th full-length studio album from Neil Young is the first with his new backing band

Added: 12/06/2025
7.0

Patrick Wolf

Crying The Neck

Seventh studio album, and first since 2012, from the London pop / folktronica singer-songwriter

Added: 11/06/2025
7.0

Ezra Furman

Goodbye Small Head

Seventh solo album from the Chicago indie rock musician and singer-songwriter

Added: 13/05/2025
6.0

Addison Rae

Addison

Debut album from the actress and singer produced by Elvira Anderfjärd Luka Kloser

Added: 09/06/2025

Latest Reviews

Haim I quit

It’s nice to have them back and even nicer to feel that they have our backs when we go through another break up Northern Transmissions

Hotline TNT Raspberry Moon

Will Anderson’s latest album is proof that things often end up better with some help from your friends. The resulting songs are startlingly optimistic, accessible, gritty, and warm Paste Magazine

Little Simz Lotus

Like the blooming lotus on the album’s cover, Little Simz appears to be emerging from dark waters Spectrum Culture

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"Let us celebrate More for what it is: a surprisingly thoughtful and often breathtaking coda to the Sheffield legends’ wonderful career" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit)

LifeguardRipped And Torn
"Chicago trio put their own fresh twist on classic art-punk" (8/10 - Rolling Stone). "A blast of circular-saw guitars, baffling lyrics and effervescent melody" (8/10 - The Guardian)

TurnstileNever Enough
"On their exceptional new album, the US band double down on the vibrant eccentricity of 2021’s ‘Glow On’" (10/10 - NME). "It’s nothing short of a masterpiece" (10/10 - Dork

GarbageLet All That We Imagine Be The Light
"Shirley Manson’s gang channel a more optimistic outlook, and display some of their most profound songwriting to date" (10/10 - NME)

Matt BerningerGet Sunk
"Retains the signature charm of The National while highlighting Berninger’s strengths as a writer" (8/10 - Dork). "A subtly textured delight that feels both playful and emotional" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Sports TeamBoys These Days
"This might be the most Sports Team they’ve ever sounded, and somehow, it’s also the best" (8/10 - Dork). "Sharp, funny, and sometimes sobering soundtrack to young adulthood in freefall" (8/10 - XS Noize)

SparksMAD!
"By the time the closing track Lord Have Mercy comes around, you’ll be mentally reordering your list of top 10 all-time Mael brothers albums" (8/10 - musicOMH). "Pop classicists with a heart of gold" (8/10 - Clash)

Peter DohertyFelt Better Alive
"The sound of one of rock’s most enduring survivors exhaling and having fun" (7/10 -DIY). "Thoughtful, lyrically sharp songs stand as testament to a life transformed" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Billy NomatesMetalhorse
"Confessional yet cathartic, ‘Metalhorse’ is an emotionally resonant piece of work that is vital, vivid and showcases why Billy NoMates is an undisputed ‘Tor’ de force (9/10 - CLash)

Model/ActrizPirouette
"It dares you to experience desire, disgust, shame, and joy—all twirling together in a dizzying blur of lace and lights" (9.5/10 - Northern Transmission)

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.