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12 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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PulpMore

"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)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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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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7.3

The Felice Brothers

Celebration Florida

Seventh album from the New York folk rock band

Added: 10/05/2011
7.3

The Big Moon

Walking Like We Do

Second album from the London indie rock quartet led by Juliette Jackson and produced by Ben H. Allen III (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Kaiser Chiefs)

Added: 10/01/2020
7.3

Steve Reich

Pulse/Quartet

Latest release from the contemporary composer consists of two contrasting works

Added: 02/02/2018
7.3

Speedy Ortiz

Major Arcana

Debut full-length of indie rock from Western Massachusetts’ four-piece, recorded at Justin Pizzoferrato’s (Dinosaur Jr., Chelsea Light Moving) studio

Added: 09/07/2013
7.3

Snapped Ankles

Stunning Luxury

Second full-length album for the London post-punk, electronica band was mixed by Danalogue

Added: 01/03/2019
7.3

Sløtface

Try Not To Freak Out

Debut album from the pop-punk quartet based in Stavanger, Norway

Added: 13/09/2017
7.3

Shabazz Palaces

Quazarz Vs The Jealous Machines

One of two simultaneous release from the Seattle experimental hip-hop collective led by Ishmael Butler aka 'Palaceer Lazaro' and multi-instrumentalist Tendai 'Baba' Maraire

Added: 10/07/2017
7.3

Schoolboy Q

Oxymoron

Third album but first on a major label from the West Coast rapper includes collaborations from Kendrick Lamar, ASAP Rocky and Tyler, The Creator

Added: 25/02/2014
7.3

Ryan Adams

Prisoner

Album number sixteen from the rock / alt.country singer-songwriter and first of original material since 2014

Added: 14/02/2017
7.3

RP Boo

I'll Tell You What

Third studio album and first featuring nothing but original material from Kavain Space, the Chicago-based electronic DJ and producer

Added: 09/07/2018
7.3

Polar Bear

In Each And Every One

Fifth album of experimental acoustic jazz from Mercury nominated London five-piece led by drummer Seb Rochford

Added: 20/03/2014
7.3

PinkPantheress

Fancy That

Second mixtape from the London singer, songwriter and record producer inspired by Basement Jaxx's 1999 album Remedy

Added: 09/05/2025
7.3

Nick Hakim

Green Twins

Debut full-length album from the Brooklyn-based R&B singer-songwriter and Berklee College graduate

Added: 21/05/2017
7.3

Moderat

III

Third studio album of minimal techno/electronica from the collaboration between Apparat (Sascha Ring) and Modeselektor (Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary)

Added: 01/04/2016
7.3

Metallica

72 Seasons

Eleventh studio album from the metal stalwarts produced by Greg Fidelman (Slipknot, Slayer)

Added: 13/04/2023
7.3

Maya Hawke

Chaos Angel

Third full-length album from Stranger Things actres and singer-songwriter is the daughter of actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman

Added: 03/06/2024
7.3

Mark Eitzel

Hey Mr Ferryman

Tenth solo album and his first in three years from the American Music Club frontman

Added: 25/01/2017
7.3

Los Bitchos

Let The Festivities Begin!

Debut full-length album for the London-based instrumental quartet Los Bitchos produced by Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos

Added: 04/02/2022
7.3

Les Savy Fav

OUI, LSF

Sixth album and first since 2010 from the New York indie rock / art punk outfit

Added: 10/05/2024
7.3

Laura Gibson

La Grande

The latest album of gothic americana from the one-time Decemberist

Added: 04/01/2012
7.3

Jimmy Eat World

Surviving

Tenth studio album from the Arizona rockers, produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Paramore, M83, Nine Inch Nails)

Added: 17/10/2019
7.3

Janelle Monáe

The Age of Pleasure

Fourth album of funk, R&B and pop soul from the Atlanta artist and actress includes contributions from Amaarae, Ckay, Doechii, Grace Jones, Nia Long, and Sister Nancy

Added: 08/06/2023
7.3

Jamie T

The Theory Of Whatever

Fifth album from the London-born singer-songwriter and first for six years

Added: 21/07/2022
7.3

James Blake

Friends That Break Your Heart

Fifth album from the London-born singer-songwriter and electronic producer includes guest appearances from SwaVay, JID and Monica Martin

Added: 08/10/2021
7.3

Jack White

Entering Heaven Alive

Fifth solo album and second of two in 2022 from the former The White Stripes leader and Raconteur member

Added: 19/07/2022
7.3

Illuminati Hotties

Power

Third album from the Los Angeles indie pop band led by Sarah Tudzin was co-produced by John Congleton

Added: 23/08/2024
7.3

I Break Horses

Warnings

Third album from Swedish shoegaze / synth pop duo Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck

Added: 07/05/2020
7.3

Hiss Golden Messenger

Heart Like a Levee

Sixth album from MC Taylor's North Carolina-based indie folk ensemble

Added: 07/10/2016
7.3

EL VY

Return to the Moon

First album of funky indie from the duo made up of The National's Matt Berninger and Menomena/Romona Falls' Brent Knopf

Added: 21/10/2015
7.3

Death From Above 1979

The Physical World

Ten years after their debut, the reformed legendary Toronto dance punk duo release their second album

Added: 04/09/2014

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