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28 July 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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Tyler, The CreatorDon't Tap the Glass

"Half an hour of early 80s rhythms and slick one-liners with the IDGAF attitude of his early years" (8/10 - The Guardian). "A crate-digging party project that favours feel over formula" (8/10 - NME)

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Folk Bitch TrioNow Would Be A Good Time

"Breathtaking vocal harmonies, razor-sharp lyrical edge and delicate darkness set this Melbourne band apart" (10/10 - NME). "In short, it’s gorgeous. All ten tracks. Gorgeous" (9/10 - Far Out)

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Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse BandNew Threats From the Soul

"Jam-packed with arresting turns of phrase, collapsing structures, and revelatory and bizarre unions of form" (9.7/10 - Paste). "An essential new voice in American indie rock" (8.7/10 - Pitchfork)

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LordeVirgin

"The pop star turns inward and redefines who she wants to be on her most introspective record yet" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "Returns to pop’s fray to revel in the mess of late-20s angst" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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)

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)

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7.4

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes

Blossom

First album from the former Gallows and Pure Love vocalist's latest project, produced by Thomas Mitchener at Broadfields Studio in Watford

Added: 19/08/2015
7.4

Foster The People

Paradise State of Mind

Fourth album and first in seven years from the LA indie pop band produced by Mark Foster and Isom Innis

Added: 19/08/2024
7.4

Errors

Lease Of Life

Fourth full-length album from the Glasgow electronic trio

Added: 18/03/2015
7.4

Efterklang

Piramida

Fourth album from the Danish specialists in adventurous orchestral pop and post-rock / folk, partly recorded in an abandoned Russian mining settlement

Added: 20/09/2012
7.4

dvsn

A Muse In Her Feelings

Third full-length album from the Toronto alternative R&B duo Daniel Daley and producer Nineteen85

Added: 22/04/2020
7.4

Du Blonde

Welcome Back To Milk

Second album of psych-pop and first as Du Blonde from the Newcastle-born Beth Jeans Houghton produced by Bad Seed Jim Sclavunos

Added: 13/05/2015
7.4

Deerhunter

Rainwater Cassette Exchange

Five-track EP release from the New York alt.rock band

Added: 23/06/2009
7.4

Dead In The Dirt

The Blind Hole

Debut full-length album from Atlanta-based hardcore trio

Added: 16/08/2013
7.4

David Thomas Broughton

Outbreeding

The Yorkshire-born alt.folk singer-songwriter and guitarist with his 3rd album

Added: 03/06/2011
7.4

Dan Michaelson And The Coastguards

Distance

Fourth album from the English singer-songwriter and former Absentee member

Added: 29/08/2014
7.4

Dan Mangan

Oh Fortune

Third album from the Vancouver-based indie folk singer-songwriter

Added: 28/11/2011
7.4

Dan Friel

Total Folklore

Second solo full-length release of experimental noise, electronic effects and assorted field recordings from the former member of Brooklyn outfit Parts & Labor

Added: 20/02/2013
7.4

Dan Deacon

Gliss Riffer

Fourth album from the Baltimore-based electronica producer

Added: 19/02/2015
7.4

Damaged Bug

Bunker Funk

Fourth release from the Thee Oh Sees frontman and Castle Face label owner

Added: 24/03/2017
7.4

Colter Wall

Songs Of The Plains

Second full-length album from the Canadian singer-songwriter was produced by Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson)

Added: 12/10/2018
7.4

Colleen

A Flame My Love, A Frequency

Seventh studio album from Cécile Schott, the experimental, ambient composer from Montargis, France

Added: 27/10/2017
7.4

Coach Party

Killjoy

Debut album from the Isle of Wight indie rock quartet produced by drummer Guy Page

Added: 11/09/2023
7.4

Clark

Kiri Variations

Latest album from English electronic musician Chris Clark

Added: 29/07/2019
7.4

Chvrches

Every Open Eye

Second self-produced album from the Glasgow-based synthpop trio

Added: 22/09/2015
7.4

Choir of Young Believers

Rhine Gold

Orchestral indie pop on the second album from the Danish band

Added: 21/03/2012
7.4

Chilly Gonzales

Chambers

The pop-classical songwriter and pianist's latest album features string contributions from Hamburg's Kaiser Quartett

Added: 25/03/2015
7.4

Carly Rae Jepsen

Dedicated

Fourth studio album from the Canadian dance pop artist and former Canadian Idol contestant

Added: 16/05/2019
7.4

Bring Me The Horizon

Post Human: NeX Gen

Seventh album from the Sheffield rock band features guest appearances from Aurora, Lil Uzi Vert, Glassjaw's Daryl Palumbo and Underoath

Added: 24/05/2024
7.4

Bnny

One Million Love Songs

Debut full length release from the Chicago indie rock band led by Jessica Viscius

Added: 01/05/2024
7.4

Benjamin Gibbard

Bandwagonesque

A track-for-track cover of Teenage Fanclub's 1991 album of the same name by the Death Cab for Cutie frontman

Added: 19/08/2017
7.4

Bad Religion

Age Of Unreason

Seventeenth album and first in six years from the LA punk veterans produced by Carlos de la Garza

Added: 07/05/2019
7.4

Allo Darlin'

Europe

Second full-length release from the UK indie pop quartet

Added: 26/04/2012
7.4

Alessia Cara

In The Meantime

Third album from the Canadian Grammy-winning R&B/Pop singer working with producers Jon Levine, Salaam Remi and Joel Little

Added: 27/09/2021
7.4

Against Me!

Shape Shift with Me

Seventh album from the Florida punk band fronted by Laura Jane Grace, produced by Marc Jacob Hudson (Taking Back Sunday, DragonForce)

Added: 14/09/2016
7.4

Admiral Fallow

Boots Met My Face

Debut album of indie folk from the Scottish five-piece

Added: 13/04/2011

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