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24 April 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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Julien Baker & TorresSend A Prayer My Way

"On their first album as a duo, the singers reclaim the honky-tonk music they grew up on" (9/10 - Slant). "A heart-bursting record that underlines the power of unity in a fractured world. A must-listen" (8/10 - Dork)

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Tunde AdebimpeThee Black Boltz

"Meditating in the chaos of creativity and untethered by genre — still evolving; still electric" (8.1/10 - Paste Magazine). "As much a rebirth as it is a document of survival" (8/10 - DIY)

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BeirutA Study Of Losses

"The most effortless and surprising Beirut album in ages" (7.4/10 - Pitchfork). "What might be his most beautiful record to date, particularly the instrumental numbers" (8/10 - Mojo)

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Craig FinnAlways Been

"The Hold Steady bandleader has never sounded so alive" (8.5/10 - Paste Magazine). "Another rousing success from Finn" (8.4/10 - Northern Transmissions). "Probably his finest solo album to date" (8/10 - musicOMH)

DeafheavenLonely People With Power

"Deafheaven’s best album yet, and one that serves as a snapshot of a band at the peak of their powers" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "As singular and engrossing as heavy albums get" (8/10 - DIY)

Japanese BreakfastFor Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)

"Deliciously nuanced songwriting shines" (10/10 - NME). "The album’s production is imbued with a rich sense of depth and warmth" (9/10 - Slant)

Edwyn CollinsNation Shall Speak Unto Nation

"A fine album overflowing with excellent musical moments" (8/10 - Clash). "All of this music is a blast, an affecting display of the emotional textures which Collins has always dealt in so confidently, regardless of his health issues" (8/10 - Record Collector)

DivorceDrive To Goldenhammer

"Early contender for album of the year, Divorce are jumping to the front of the next-big-thing-queue" (10/10 - The Skinny). "Rare to find a debut album that exudes as much honesty" (9/10 - Clash)

Sam FenderPeople Watching

"Every song on People Watching is carefully crafted to remain with the listener" (10/10 - The Skinny). "Sam Fender is no longer just a vital voice in UK rock; he’s perhaps the most essential one" (10/10 - Dork)

Youth LagoonRarely Do I Dream

"This is a record you won’t forget in a hurry" (8/10 - Far Out). "The album represents a more mature development of Powers’ vision" (8.3/10 - Beats Per Minute). "Vital and exciting" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

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Mamalarky

Hex Key

Third full-length release from the Atlanta-based indie rock band

Added: 11/04/2025
9.0

Black Country, New Road

Forever Howlong

Third album from the London post-rock band and first since the departure of lead vocalist Isaac Wood

Added: 04/04/2025
9.0

Great Grandpa

Patience, Moonbeam

Third full-length album from the Seattle-based indie rock quintet

Added: 01/04/2025
9.0

Perfume Genius

Glory

Seventh studio album from Seattle-based indie pop solo artist Mike Hadreas produced by Blake Mills (Fiona Apple, Feist, Laura Marling)

Added: 26/03/2025
9.0

Deafheaven

Lonely People With Power

Sixth album from the San Francisco post-black metal outfit

Added: 26/03/2025
9.0

Benefits

Constant Noise

Second album from the Teeside band led by Kingsley Hall formerly of The Chapman Family and features guest appearances from Pete Doherty, Shakk and Zera Tønin

Added: 20/03/2025
8.0

Tunde Adebimpe

Thee Black Boltz

Debut full-length solo album from the singer, songwriter, actor and vocalist with TV On The Radio

Added: 18/04/2025
8.0

Julien Baker & Torres

Send A Prayer My Way

Debut collaboration of alt.country from the duo produced with Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties

Added: 15/04/2025
8.0

Florist

Jellywish

Fifth album from the Brooklyn indie-folk band led by Emily Sprague

Added: 07/04/2025
8.0

Djo

The Crux

Third full-length album from the American actor and musician Joe Kerr (Stranger Things, Free Guy)

Added: 04/04/2025
8.0

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Death Hilarious

Fifth full-length album from the Newcastle sludge-rock band featuring a guest appearance from Run The Jewels' El-P

Added: 03/04/2025
8.0

Momma

Welcome To My Blue Sky

Fourth album from the Brooklyn indie rock quartet produced by bassist Aron Kobayashi Ritch

Added: 03/04/2025
8.0

The Horrors

Night Life

Sixth studio album from the goth rock band and first with a change of line-up that includes Millie Kidd of Glaswegian band The Ninth Wave

Added: 19/03/2025
8.0

Japanese Breakfast

For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)

Fourth solo album of lo-fi pop from Philadelphia musician Michelle Zauner produced by Blake Mills (Fiona Apple, Perfume Genius, Laura Marling) and featuring a guest appearance by Jeff Bridges

Added: 19/03/2025
7.0

Bon Iver

SABLE, fABLE

Fifth album and first in six years from the American indie/folk band fronted by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon featuring contributions from Dijon, Flock of Dimes and Danielle Haim

Added: 10/04/2025

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Ghost Skeletá

There’s little to no mystique to the album’s stories of spiritual crisis Slant Magazine

Ghost Skeletá

As sweeping final ballad Excelsis picks up where previous closing tracks Life Eternal (Prequelle) and Respite On The Spitalfields (Impera) left off, compelling listeners to live life to the fullest with one eye on the inevitability of death, there’s surely no-one else living quite so deliciously on the level of The Devil Kerrang!

Ghost Skeletá

Sweden’s kings of Satanist-forward metal-cum-arena rock capture the sound of an entire musical genre rooted in a hyper-specific era of its development on their sixth record Paste Magazine

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Fresh stuff

SABLE / fABLE by Bon Iver

"Soulful, almost spiritual in its delivery" (10/10 - DIY). "Marks a return to his fragile folk roots" (9/10 - musicOMH). "Revels in its sense of joy and collaboration" (8/10 - The Skinny)

Black Country, New RoadForever Howlong
"They’ve navigated seismic changes and delivered music that feels both radically new and deeply authentic" (10/10 - Dork)

MamalarkyHex Key
"Mainstream success isn’t beyond Mamalarky’s grasp, but they would have to ditch their eccentricities to achieve it. Heaven forbid they ever do" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit)

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs PigsDeath Hilarious
"The Newcastle outfit’s fifth album swaggers right up to the edge of oblivion and does a stupid little dance" (8/10 - musicOMH)

DjoThe Crux
"An ambitious, joyous, heartfelt collection" (9/10 - DIY). "Djo triumphs in an accomplished attempt at a third album which spares no songs in getting to the crux of the matter" (8/10 - Clash)

DestroyerDan's Boogie
"The mercurial Canadian’s perspective and lavish instrumentation are a reminder of beauty’s potential" (10/10 - The Guardian). "Dan’s Boogie is Bejar’s most graceful album yet" (9/10 - Northern Transmissions)

BenefitsConstant Noise
"More enveloping, mesmeric and, at times, beautiful in its mannered rage" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "Benefits shift between EDM, techno, rave and bleak, apocalyptic sonic wastelands" (8/10 - The Skinny)

The HorrorsNight Life
"Words struggle to capture the magnitude of this mountainous piece of music" (9/10 - Far Out). "Revelling in their history and carving a path for a new future, The Horrors feel as vital as ever" (8/10 - Dork)

Circuit des YeuxHalo On The Inside
"Haley Fohr’s latest is rawer, more physical, an almost visceral exercise in self-discovery and emotional struggle" (10/10 - musicOMH). "There’s an undeniable confidence here" (10/10 - God Is In The TV)

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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