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9 June 2026

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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Vince StaplesCry Baby

"An urgent manifesto against American injustice and complacency" (9.1/10 - Consequence of Sound). "The Long Beach lyricist delivers his most passionately political release to date" (8/20 - NME)

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Death Cab For CutieI Built You A Tower

"Their hardest-rocking and emotionally urgent set in a while" (9/10 - All Music). "Death Cab is here to stay, my friends, and here's to hoping that there's many more to come" (9.6/10 - Sputnik Music)

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Modest MouseAn Eraser And A Maze

"A dense, challenging, and highly rewarding listen. It is a record that is at times anxious, claustrophobic, and deliberately rough around the edges" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

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Ed O’BrienBlue Morpho

"The guitarist’s album might be the most Radiohead side project yet to emerge from the mother ship" (8/10 - The Irish Times). "Works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself" (8/10 - Clash)

Kevin MorbyLittle Wide Open

"A masterpiece of simple and, at times, epic proportions that will linger deep within one’s soul" (9/10 - PopMatters). "The eight-minute-long title track is arguably Morby’s greatest song to date" (8/10 - Mojo)

Aldous HardingTrain On The Island

"A spellbinding listen, the high water mark of Harding's singular career" (9/10 - Exclaim. "It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far" (9/10 - Pitchfork)

KneecapFENIAN

"After their Glastonbury fracas and legal troubles, political friction provides the backbone to this dense, musically adventurous third album" (9/10 - musicOMH).

FrikoSomething Worth Waiting For

"A record that leaves the kind of impression more associated with acts with far lengthier histories" (9/10 - DIY). "A euphoric, breakneck adventure towards a promised land" (8/10 - The Skinny)

Lime GardenMaybe Not Tonight

"A breakup album that wears its messiness on its sleeve, Lime Garden’s second is figuring life out, track by track" (9/10 - NME). "A new indie disco essential" (9/10 - DIY)

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7.2

Friendly Fires

Pala

Second album of dance punk from the St Albans trio whose debut was shortlisted for the 2009 Mercury Prize

Added: 11/05/2011
7.2

Flume

Flume

Sydney producer Harley Streten with a debut album meshing together electro, glitch, R&B, dubstep and soul

Added: 12/02/2013
7.2

Chilly Gonzales

The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales

Eighth album of eclectic orchestral hip-hop from the versatile Canadian

Added: 17/06/2011
7.2

Charlotte Hatherley

New Worlds

Third solo album of indie rock from former Ash guitarist

Added: 18/10/2009
7.2

Charlotte Gainsbourg

IRM

The actress and singer's second album, in collaboration with Beck, blending psych pop and offbeat electro pop

Added: 13/01/2010
7.2

Car Seat Headrest

Making a Door Less Open

Fourth label-backed album of low-fi indie pop from the Will Toledo-led band

Added: 29/04/2020
7.2

Ben Howard

I Forget Where We Were

Second album from the Devon-based folk / pop singer-songwriter

Added: 16/10/2014
7.2

Avi Buffalo

At Best Cuckold

Second album of guitar-based indie pop from the Californian band led by songwriter/guitarist Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg

Added: 08/09/2014
7.2

Arctic Monkeys

Suck It & See

Fourth album from the Sheffield indie rock quartet recorded in LA produced by James Ford

Added: 25/05/2011
7.2

Antibalas

Antibalas

The Brooklyn-based Afrobeat ensemble with their 5th album

Added: 04/08/2012
7.2

Wavves

King of the Beach

Nathan Williams' San Diego surf rock/punk one-man act with his 3rd album, boasting a more produced, less lo-fi sound

Added: 05/07/2010
7.2

Warpaint

Warpaint

Sophomore album from LA-based indie rock quartet. Mixed by the legendary Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich

Added: 16/01/2014
7.2

U.S. Girls

Bless This Mess

Eighth solo album of dark baroque pop from Toronto-born Meghan Remy

Added: 24/02/2023
7.2

Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The Oscar-winning duo return with a score for the US version of the Stieg Larsson novel

Added: 30/12/2011
7.2

Treefight For Sunlight

Treefight For Sunlight

Debut album from Danish indie pop quartet

Added: 11/02/2011
7.2

Torche

Admission

Fifth album from the Miami sludge-rock band and the first with new new bassist Eric Hernandez of Wrong

Added: 12/07/2019
7.2

Tony Molina

Kill The Lights

Third album from the San Francisco Bay Area power pop singer-songwriter

Added: 30/07/2018
7.2

Tiny Ruins

Brightly Painted One

Second album from indie folk trio from Auckland, New Zealand fronted by singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook

Added: 05/05/2014
7.2

This Is The Kit

Bashed Out

Third album from the British folk-rock band fronted by Kate Stables produced by The National's Aaron Dessner

Added: 07/04/2015
7.2

The Tallest Man On Earth

Henry St.

Seventh album and first with a full band from the Swedish singer-wongwriter Kristian Matsson produced by Sylvan Esso's Nick Sanborn

Added: 17/04/2023
7.2

The Lathums

How Beautiful Life Can Be

Debut album from the Wigan indie rock quartet produced by The Coral's James Skelly

Added: 24/09/2021
7.2

The King Khan & BBQ Show

Bad News Boys

Canadian garage rock duo with their fourth album of punk doo-wop

Added: 24/02/2015
7.2

Son Lux

Lanterns

New York based producer Ryan Lott with his third album of post-rock and alternative hip-hop, his first with Joyful Noise Recordings

Added: 29/10/2013
7.2

Shelby Lynne

I Can't Imagine

Album number thirteen from the Grammy Award-winning country / pop singer-songwriter

Added: 15/05/2015
7.2

Sebadoh

Act Surprised

First album in six years from lo-fi indie rock Massachusetts trio led by Lou Barlow

Added: 28/05/2019
7.2

Sam Amidon

Salt River

Eighth full-length release from the Vermont-born singer-songwriter featuring contributions from saxophonist and producer Sam Gendel

Added: 27/01/2025
7.2

S.C.U.M.

Again Into Eyes

Debut album from London post punk / art rock band

Added: 05/09/2011
7.2

Raphael Saadiq

The Way I See It

Fourth album from the American soul / R&B singer-songwriter

Added: 02/03/2009
7.2

Rainer Maria

S/T

New album and first since 2006 from the reformed Madison, Wisconsin emo band

Added: 20/08/2017
7.2

Quicksand

Interiors

Third studio album from the post-hardcore four-piece, and first album since 1995

Added: 09/11/2017

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"The quintet add shoegaze, country and 50s rock’n’roll to their core indie-punk sound, resulting in songs that offset lyrical bleakness with gleeful, uplifting music" (10/10 - The Guardian)

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The Coral388
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Broken Social SceneRemember The Humans
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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.