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31 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

Robert Pollard

Honey Locust Honky Tonk

Nineteenth solo album from the hyper-productive singer-songwriter and former Guided By Voices frontman

Added: 15/07/2013
7.2

Rico Nasty

Nightmare Vacation

Debut solo album from the Maryland-born rapper with guest appearances from rappers Trippie Redd, Aminé, Gucci Mane and Don Toliver

Added: 04/12/2020
7.2

Porcelain Raft

Strange Weekend

Debut album of dream pop / synthpop from one-man band and producer, Brooklyn-based Mauro Remiddi

Added: 12/01/2012
7.2

Pond

9

Ninth album from the Australian psych-rock band produced by the band themselves

Added: 05/10/2021
7.2

Pond

Stung!

Tenth album from the Australian psych-rock band who also work closely with Kevin Parker’s Tame Impala

Added: 21/06/2024
7.2

Poly Styrene

Generation Indigo

Former X-Ray Spex singer returns with a solo album produced by Youth (Killing Joke) mixing electro-pop, rock and reggae

Added: 25/03/2011
7.2

Opeth

Heritage

10th album from the Stockholm metal quintet, taking a turn towards prog rock

Added: 28/09/2011
7.2

Old Crow Medicine Show

Volunteer

Sixth studio album from the Grammy winning American string band, coinciding with their 20th anniversary

Added: 20/04/2018
7.2

Nada Surf

Never Got Together

Album number nine from the NYC alternative rock group formed in 1992

Added: 13/02/2020
7.2

My Morning Jacket

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Tenth album from the psychedelic indie rock Kentucky veterans led by Jim James

Added: 24/03/2025
7.2

My Brightest Diamond

All Things Will Unwind

Third studio album of chamber pop from the New York-based singer-songwriter Shara Worden

Added: 16/10/2011
7.2

Mountain Man

Magic Ship

Second album and first in eight years from North Carolina-based trio

Added: 20/09/2018
7.2

MGMT

Little Dark Age

Fourth album from Brooklyn-based psyechedlic pop duo Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden, produced by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev) and Chairlift member Patrick Wimberly

Added: 08/02/2018
7.2

Medicine

To The Happy Few

Eighteen years after breaking up, the alt.rock band reform to release their fifth album of shoegaze noise-rock

Added: 30/07/2013
7.2

Mattiel

Satis Factory

Second album from the Atlanta-based singer-songwriter co-produced by Randy Michael and Jonah Swilley

Added: 14/06/2019
7.2

Matthew Bourne

Montauk Variations

Album of solo piano pieces from the English avante-garde jazz musician

Added: 08/02/2012
7.2

Martha Wainwright

Goodnight City

Latest album from the Canadian singer-songwriter, with guest contributions from novelist Merrill Garbus, Glen Hansard and Beth Orton

Added: 11/11/2016
7.2

Marconi Union

A Lost Connection

Third album from Manchester electronic duo Richard Talbot and Jamie Crossley

Added: 13/07/2010
7.2

Maisie Peters

The Good Witch

Second full-length release from the English pop singer-songwriter working with producers including Joe Rubel, Elvira Anderfjärd, Oscar Görres, Matias Téllez and Ben Ash

Added: 23/06/2023
7.2

Luke Haines

British Nuclear Bunkers

A concept album created entirely using analogue synths from the English singer-songwriter

Added: 25/10/2015
7.2

Loyle Carner

Not Waving, But Drowning

Second album from the South London, Mercury Prize-nominated grime artist

Added: 18/04/2019
7.2

Los Lobos

Native Sons

Seventeenth studio album of roots rock from the Los Angeles five-piece features covers of songs about Los Angeles

Added: 02/08/2021
7.2

Lord Huron

The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1

Fifth album of indie folk from the LA-based band led by Ben Schneider and includes contributions from Kristen Stewart and Blonde Redhead's Kazu Makino

Added: 18/07/2025
7.2

Little Dragon

New Me, Same Us

Sixth album of dreamy trip hop/pop from the Gothenburg outfit

Added: 25/03/2020
7.2

Lily Konigsberg

Lily We Need to Talk Now

Debut solo album from the musician who is also a member of the indie-rock trio Palberta

Added: 02/11/2021
7.2

Lifeguard

Ripped And Torn

Second studio from the Chicago indo rock trio produced by No Age”s Randy Randall

Added: 06/06/2025
7.2

Led Bib

The People In Your Neighbourhood

Fifth album from the modern jazz five-piece, follow-up to the Mercury Nominated Sensible Shoes

Added: 24/04/2014
7.2

Kwes

ILP

Debut album from London-born producer Kwesi Sey who has produced for The xx and Dels and played live with Bobby Womack

Added: 15/10/2013
7.2

Katie Dey

Flood Network

Second album of lo-fi indie pop from the Australian singer-songwriter

Added: 11/08/2016
7.2

Juice WRLD

Legends Never Die

Posthumous release for the third album from rapper Jarad Higgins includes guest appearances from Halsey, Marshmello, Polo G, The Kid Laro

Added: 16/07/2020

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