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30 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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7.2

The Chats

Get Fucked

Second full-length album from the Australian punk trio Eamon Sandwith, Josh Price and Matt Boggis

Added: 20/08/2022
7.2

Taken By Trees

Other Worlds

Dub inflected mellow indie pop / folk on the 3rd release from Victoria Bergsman, this time written and recorded in Hawaii

Added: 01/10/2012
7.2

Steve Reich

Radio Rewrite

The contemporary composer releases this Radiohead inspired piece alongside reimaginings of earlier material by Jonny Greenwood and Vicky Chow

Added: 13/10/2014
7.2

Stars

From Capelton Hill

Ninth album from the Montreal indie rock / dream pop band produced by The Besnard Lakes' Jace Lasek

Added: 27/05/2022
7.2

Slaves

Acts Of Fear And Love

Third album from the English punk duo Laurie Vincent and Isaac Holman

Added: 28/08/2018
7.2

Shannon Lay

August

Third album from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter produced with Ty Segall

Added: 22/08/2019
7.2

Samia

The Baby

Debut album from the New York-based singer-songwriter Samia Finnerty

Added: 01/09/2020
7.2

Ryan Adams

Ashes & Fire

A return to his alt.country roots for album number thirteen from the prolific songwriter, produced by Glyn Johns (Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin)

Added: 06/10/2011
7.2

Romare

Home

Third album of sample-based electronica from Archie Fairhurst recorder after moving to the English countryside and starting a family

Added: 01/08/2020
7.2

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Endless Rooms

Third full-length from the indie rock quintet from Melbourne, Australia

Added: 06/05/2022
7.2

Rodney Crowell

Tarpaper Sky

Album number fourteen from Grammy award winning americana purveyor

Added: 16/04/2014
7.2

Ratboys

Printer’s Devil

Third album from the Chicago indie band led by Julia Steiner and David Sagan

Added: 02/03/2020
7.2

Plan B

The Defamation Of Strickland Banks

Concept album about a soul singer from acoustic rapper Ben Drew

Added: 26/03/2010
7.2

Owl John

Owl John

Debut solo album from Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison along with bandmate Andy Monaghan and touring guitarist Simon Liddell

Added: 29/07/2014
7.2

Ovlov

TRU

Second album from the re-formed Connecticut indie rock band led by Steve Hartlett and Morgan Luzzi

Added: 23/07/2018
7.2

Noveller

Arrow

Tenth album of post-punk / drone from Brooklyn-based filmmaker and guitarist Sarah Lipstate

Added: 12/06/2020
7.2

Nils Frahm

Music for the Motion Picture Victoria

Soundtrack composed by Nils Frahm for a one-take film directed by Sebastian Schipper

Added: 25/06/2015
7.2

Nat Baldwin

People Changes

Fifth album of avant garde music from the double bass wielding member of Dirty Projectors

Added: 26/07/2011
7.2

Mount Moriah

Miracle Temple

Second collection of folk and country songs from the North Carolina band led by Heather McEntire (Bellafea) and Jenks Miller (Horseback)

Added: 27/02/2013
7.2

MIKE

Showbiz!

Eighth full-length release from Brooklyn rapper Michael Jordan Bonema featuring guest appearances from 454, duendita and Venna

Added: 04/02/2025
7.2

Melt Yourself Down

Last Evenings On Earth

Second studio album from the London-based jazz, funk, Afrobeat, world music and tribal pop collective led by former Acoustic Ladyland saxophonist Pete Wareham

Added: 29/04/2016
7.2

Mamalarky

Hex Key

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

Added: 11/04/2025
7.2

Makaya McCraven

Deciphering The Message

Latest album from Chicago-based jazz drummer Makaya McCraven features remixes of Blue Note jazz songs

Added: 24/11/2021
7.2

Majical Cloudz

Impersonator

Debut long-player from Montreal-based experimental electronic pop duo Matthew Otto and Devon Welsh

Added: 22/05/2013
7.2

Madeleine Peyroux

Secular Hymns

An album of covers from the French-American jazz and blues singer-songwriter

Added: 18/09/2016
7.2

Low Cut Connie

Private Lives

Sixth album from the Philadelphia rock band led by Adam Weiner

Added: 21/10/2020
7.2

Lou Reed

Berlin: Live At St Ann's Warehouse

The first time Reed played the full Berlin album live in more than 30 years, recorded over five nights in Brooklyn

Added: 12/11/2008
7.2

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete

Chambers

The Mexican psych rockers fronted by Lorena Quintanilla release album number 3

Added: 03/03/2014
7.2

Lonely The Brave

The Hope List

Third album from the British alt.rock band and its first with new frontman Jack Bennett

Added: 22/01/2021
7.2

Lo Moon

Lo Moon

Debut album from the Los Angeles-based indie rock trio

Added: 26/02/2018

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