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13 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

Highest Recent Ratings

Albums to watch

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

Ross From Friends

Family Portrait

Debut full-length album from the British electronic producer Felix Clary Weatherall

Added: 25/07/2018
7.3

Robyn

Body Talk Pt. 2

Second of the three Body Talk albums to be released in 2010 from the Swedish electro-pop singer-songwriter

Added: 02/09/2010
7.3

Robert Glasper

Black Radio III

Latest album from the Houston-born pianist, record producer, songwriter

Added: 02/03/2022
7.3

Punch Brothers

All Ashore

Fifth album from the Brooklyn-based progressive bluegrass five-piece

Added: 20/07/2018
7.3

Portico Quartet

Portico Quartet

Third album from the London group, melding electronica, experimental jazz, dance and rock

Added: 25/01/2012
7.3

Pond

Man It Feels Like Space Again

Sixth album from the Australian psych-rock band produced Tame Impala's Kevin Parker

Added: 26/01/2015
7.3

Peaches

Rub

Sixth studio album from the Toronto-born electroclash, dance-punk artist, featuring guest vocals by Kim Gordon and Feist

Added: 23/09/2015
7.3

Old 97's

Most Messed Up

Rhett Miller's alt. country stalwarts' latest release celebrates their 20 year anniversary

Added: 01/05/2014
7.3

Obongjayar

Some Nights I Dream of Doors

Debut album from the London-based Nigerian spoken word artist Steven Umoh

Added: 13/05/2022
7.3

Niki And The Dove

Instinct

Debut album from the much-tipped Swedish electro-pop duo, who featured in the BBC Sound of 2012 list

Added: 10/05/2012
7.3

Mount Kimbie

Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Second album of post-dubstep from London-based duo Dominic Maker and Kai Campos

Added: 20/05/2013
7.3

Mega Bog

Life, and another

Sixth full-length album from singer-songwriter Erin Birgy features contributions from Krivchenia, Duffy and Andrew Dorset of Lake

Added: 02/08/2021
7.3

Marlon Williams

Marlon Williams

Debut from the New Zealand-born alt.country singer-songwriter

Added: 17/02/2016
7.3

Magnolia Electric Co.

Josephine

Ohio singer-songwriter Jason Molina's 5th offering of lo-fi alt rock as Magnolia Electric Co

Added: 18/07/2009
7.3

Lydia Ainsworth

Darling Of The Afterglow

Second album of experimental indie from the Toronto-based singer-songwriter / composer

Added: 04/04/2017
7.3

Little Simz

A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons

Debut album from the London-born singing/rapping/acting 21 year old

Added: 30/09/2015
7.3

Lamb Of God

Lamb Of God

Album number nine from the Richmond, Virginia groove metal outfit

Added: 19/06/2020
7.3

Kvelertak

Nattesferd

Third album of hard rock/heavy metal from the six-piece based in Rogaland, Norway

Added: 16/05/2016
7.3

Juanita Stein

The Weightless Hour

Fourth solo album from the Melbourne-born Howling Bells frontwoman produced by Ben Hillier (Nadine Shah, Depeche Mode, Graham Coxon)

Added: 01/12/2024
7.3

Jonathan Wilson

Rare Birds

Third album from LA-based singer-songwriter who has also produced albums for Father John Misty and Conor Oberst

Added: 02/03/2018
7.3

JD McPherson

Undivided Heart & Soul

Third record from the Oklahoma R&B influenced singer-songwriter

Added: 06/10/2017
7.3

Humanist

Humanist

Debut album from Exit Calm guitarist Rob Marshall includes appearances from Dave Gahan, Mark Lanegan and Ron Sexsmith

Added: 21/02/2020
7.3

Hayden Thorpe

Moondust For My Diamond

Second solo album from the former Wild Beasts frontman and multi-instrumentalist produced by Richard Formby and Nathan Jenkins

Added: 15/10/2021
7.3

Hana Vu

Public Storage

Debut full-length album from the Los Angeles DIY singer-songwriter

Added: 09/11/2021
7.3

Gabe Gurnsey

Physical

Debut full-length solo album from one of the founders of Factory Floor

Added: 03/08/2018
7.3

Earl Sweatshirt

Feet Of Clay

Second EP from LA-based rapper working with producers Thebe Kgositsile, Alchemist and ovrkast

Added: 05/11/2019
7.3

Durand Jones & The Indications

Private Space

Third full-length album from the Indiana retro-soul and R&B group

Added: 30/07/2021
7.3

Dream Wife

So When You Gonna...

Second album of angular indie-pop from the London-based trio

Added: 01/07/2020
7.3

Dirty Projectors

Lamp Lit Prose

Eighth studio album of experimental indie rock from David Longstreth's Brooklyn-based outfit

Added: 09/07/2018
7.3

Deftones

Diamond Eyes

Full-on metal from the Sacramento five-piece with a stand-in bassist on an album to replace on-hold Eros

Added: 06/05/2010

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Latest Reviews

Lifeguard Ripped And Torn

The young Chicago band crams its debut album with streamlined hooks and a reverence for pop, punk, and post-punk history Pitchfork

Alan Sparhawk With Trampled by Turtles

The outcome of this pairing is an uneven affair, with deep troughs and high peaks The Quietus

Addison Rae Addison

Addison simultaneously feels like a coronation and a make or break moment, and Rae has brilliantly cemented herself among pop’s newest faces Paste Magazine

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GarbageLet All That We Imagine Be The Light
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Matt BerningerGet Sunk
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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.