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1 August 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

Popstrangers

Antipodes

Debut album from New Zealand garage rock trio

Added: 25/02/2013
7.2

Patrick Wolf

Lupercalia

Album No.5 from the London-based pop / folktronica singer-songwriter

Added: 01/06/2011
7.2

Pat Metheny

Unity Band

Metheny's latest release in an already huge discography of jazz and fusion releases is the first to include a tenor saxophone

Added: 13/06/2012
7.2

Paolo Nutini

Caustic Love

After a five-year break, the Paisley-born singer releases his third album

Added: 09/04/2014
7.2

Novelist

Novelist Guy

Debut album from 21 year old English grime MC Kojo Kankam, released on his own label

Added: 15/04/2018
7.2

Nérija

Blume

Debut full-length album from the London jazz collective produced by Kwes (Loyle Carner, Solange, DELS)

Added: 06/08/2019
7.2

Nada Surf

Moon Mirror

Album number ten from the NYC alternative rock group formed in 1992 was recorded in Wales

Added: 16/09/2024
7.2

Mr Twin Sister

Mr Twin Sister

Second LP from the chilled Long Island indie pop quintet, now with "Mr" added to their name

Added: 24/09/2014
7.2

Molly Burch

First Flower

Second album from the LA-born, Austin-based singer songwriter

Added: 10/10/2018
7.2

Moiré

Shelter

London-based producer releases his debut LP of intimate electronica

Added: 19/08/2014
7.2

Meet Me @ The Altar

Past // Present // Future

Debut full-length release from the American pop-punk trio consisting of front-woman Edith Johnson, Téa Campbell on guitar and Ada Juarez on drums

Added: 09/03/2023
7.2

Martina Topley Bird

Some Place Simple

Third album from singer who has previously worked with Tricky and Massive Attack

Added: 16/07/2010
7.2

Madeline Kenney

Sucker's Lunch

Third album from the Pacific Northwestern indie singer-songwriter produced by Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack

Added: 01/08/2020
7.2

Lykke Li

I Never Learn

Third album of indie pop from Swedish singer working with Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John and Greg Kurstin

Added: 30/04/2014
7.2

London Grammar

Californian Soil

Third album from the Nottingham dream pop trio working with producers Charlie Andrew George FitzGerald Steve Mac

Added: 16/04/2021
7.2

Lee Gamble

Koch

Third LP of abstract techno from the London producer

Added: 27/09/2014
7.2

Lana Del Rey

Ultraviolence

Third LP from the sultry New York singer songwriter, produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach

Added: 13/06/2014
7.2

Kylesa

Exhausting Fire

Seventh album from the Savannah, Georgia based psychedelic sludge metal trio

Added: 09/10/2015
7.2

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges

Texas Moon

Second EP from collaboration between the Houston, Texas psychedelic rock trio and the Atlanta, Georgia neo soul singer

Added: 18/02/2022
7.2

John Legend & The Roots

Wake Up!

The US neo-soul singer teams up with The Roots to work through a collection of soul classics

Added: 28/09/2010
7.2

Joe Goddard

Harmonics

Third solo album of electronic indie pop from the Hot Chip member featuring guest appearances from Hayden Thorpe, Tom McFarland of Jungle and bandmates Alexis Taylor and Al Doyle

Added: 12/07/2024
7.2

Jockstrap & Taylor Skye

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Remix of Jockstrap's 2022 debut album, I Love You Jennifer B featuring guest appearances form Babymorocco, Kirin J Callinan, Ersatz, Coby Sey and Ian Starr

Added: 08/11/2023
7.2

Jamie T

Trick

Fourth album from the London-born singer-songwriter recorded in London and Detroit

Added: 31/08/2016
7.2

Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell

Fifth album of self-produced and performed modern soul / funk from Nashville-based Englishman

Added: 14/02/2013
7.2

J. Cole

The Off-Season

Sixth studio album from the American rapper executive produced by Cole, Ibrahim Hamad, and T-Minus

Added: 18/05/2021
7.2

Insecure Men

Insecure Men

Debut album from Fat White Family's Saul Adamczewski and Childhood's Ben Romans-Hopcraft produced by Sean Lennon

Added: 26/02/2018
7.2

Holy Esque

At Hope's Ravine

Debut album from the East Kilbride band fronted by Pat Hynes

Added: 29/02/2016
7.2

HEALTH

Disco4: Part II

Latest release from the LA-based experimental noise pop trio

Added: 08/04/2022
7.2

Gracie Abrams

The Secret Of Us

Second album from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter produced by The National's Aaron Dessner and includes a guest appearance from Taylor Swift

Added: 22/06/2024
7.2

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

No?Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead

Eighth studio album from the Canadian post-rock stalwarts

Added: 04/10/2024

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