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4 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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Matt BerningerGet Sunk

"Retains the signature charm of The National while highlighting Berninger’s strengths as a writer" (8/10 - Dork). "A subtly textured delight that feels both playful and emotional" (8/10 - musicOMH)

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GarbageLet All That We Imagine Be The Light

"Shirley Manson’s gang channel a more optimistic outlook, and display some of their most profound songwriting to date" (10/10 - NME)

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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)

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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)

Bon IverSABLE, fABLE

"Soulful, almost spiritual in its delivery" (10/10 - DIY). "Marks a return to his fragile folk roots" (9/10 - musicOMH). "Revels in its sense of joy and collaboration" (8/10 - The Skinny)

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8.1

Four Tet

There Is Love In You

Intelligent dance producer and prolific DJ Kieran Hebden with his first full length album in five years

Added: 07/01/2010
8.1

Depeche Mode

Memento Mori

Fifteenth studio album from the synth-pop stalwarts and first without Andy Fletcher who died in May 2022

Added: 23/03/2023
8.1

Deerhunter

Halcyon Digest

Fourth album from the Atlanta, Georgia indie rock quartet fronted by Bradford Cox

Added: 20/09/2010
8.1

David Bowie

The Next Day

The most revered name in pop music puts out his first album of new material in a decade

Added: 26/02/2013
8.1

Bill Callahan

Gold Record

Seventh album of mellow indie rock and Americana under his own name from the singer-songwriter was originally recorded for 1999’s Knock Knock, Let’s Move To The Country

Added: 02/09/2020
8.1

Alvvays

Blue Rev

Third album of jangly indie-pop from the Toronto band produced by Shawn Everett (The War on Drugs, The Killers, Julian Casablancas)

Added: 06/10/2022
8.1

A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Atomos

Second LP from ambient duo Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie is the score for Atomos, a dance piece by contemporary choreographer Wayne McGregor

Added: 03/10/2014
8.1

Young Fathers

White Men Are Black Men Too

Second full-length album from the Edinburgh-based Mercury Prize-winning alternative hip hop trio

Added: 01/04/2015
8.1

Tim Hecker

Virgins

The Montreal-based electronic musician and occasional artist's seventh solo record

Added: 10/10/2013
8.1

Solange

When I Get Home

Fourth studio album of hip-hop tinged r&b from the Houston-born singer, produced by herself alongside some high-profile collaborators such as Pharrell, Earl Sweatshirt and Panda Bear

Added: 04/03/2019
8.1

Slowdive

Slowdive

Fourth album and first since 1995 from the dream pop / shoegaze band who reformed in 2014

Added: 03/05/2017
8.1

Sleaford Mods

Spare Ribs

Eleventh studio album from the Nottingham-based post-punk duo Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn

Added: 12/01/2021
8.1

Sam Fender

People Watching

Third full-length album from the North Shields indie singer-songwriter co-produced with Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs

Added: 20/02/2025
8.1

Mikal Cronin

MCII

Second album, and first on Merge, from the Californian garage punk / power pop singer-songwriter and Ty Segall collaborator

Added: 07/05/2013
8.1

Michael Kiwanuka

Love & Hate

Second album of modern soul from the London-based singer-songwriter, follow up to 2012's Home Again

Added: 12/07/2016
8.1

Michael Kiwanuka

Small Changes

Fourth album of modern soul from the London-based singer-songwriter produced by Danger Mouse

Added: 15/11/2024
8.1

Low

Double Negative

Twelfth studio album from the indie rock trio from Duluth, Minnesota

Added: 11/09/2018
8.1

Leonard Cohen

Thanks For The Dance

Posthumous album from the singer-songwriter's final session produced by his son Adam Cohen and features contributions from Beck, Jennifer Warnes, Damien Rice, Bryce Dessner and Leslie Feist

Added: 19/11/2019
8.1

John Talabot

fIN

Debut album from Barcelona-based house producer and DJ

Added: 09/02/2012
8.1

Japanese Breakfast

For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)

Fourth solo album of lo-fi pop from Philadelphia musician Michelle Zauner produced by Blake Mills (Fiona Apple, Perfume Genius, Laura Marling) and featuring a guest appearance by Jeff Bridges

Added: 19/03/2025
8.1

Ezra Furman

Transangelic Exodus

Fourth album from the Chicago indie rock musician and singer-songwriter

Added: 06/02/2018
8.1

Destroyer

Kaputt

Ninth album from Dan Bejar under his Destroyer alias, covering everything from electronica to acid-jazz

Added: 19/01/2011
8.1

Danny Brown

Atrocity Exhibition

Fourth full-length release from the Detroit experimental hip hop artist featuring guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Earl Sweatshirt

Added: 01/10/2016
8.1

Caribou

Suddenly

Fifth full-length release and first in five years for Dan Snaith as Caribou

Added: 24/02/2020
8.1

Car Seat Headrest

Twin Fantasy

Third label-backed album of low-fi indie pop from the Will Toledo-led band, a reworked, rerecorded version of their pre-label released album Twin Fantasy

Added: 15/02/2018
8.1

Boards of Canada

Tomorrow's Harvest

Influential electronica duo, Scots brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, return with their much-anticipated first album in six years

Added: 05/06/2013
8.1

Black Country, New Road

Forever Howlong

Third album from the London post-rock band and first since the departure of lead vocalist Isaac Wood

Added: 02/04/2025
8.1

James Blake

James Blake

Hotly-anticipated debut album from the London post-dubstep producer and singer-songwriter

Added: 21/01/2011
8.1

Fleet Foxes

Helplessness Blues

Sophomore album of harmony-heavy folk pop from these Seattle critical darlings

Added: 21/04/2011
8.1

Gang Gang Dance

Eye Contact

Fifth album of experimental electronica from New York five-piece

Added: 21/04/2011

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"This might be the most Sports Team they’ve ever sounded, and somehow, it’s also the best" (8/10 - Dork). "Sharp, funny, and sometimes sobering soundtrack to young adulthood in freefall" (8/10 - XS Noize)

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"The Radiohead frontman and the esteemed electronic producer release a collaboration album. What it lacks in razzle-dazzle it makes up for with risky maneuvers" (7.6/10 - Pitchfork)

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"Scratchy guitar riffs and thunderous bass, all driven by pounding drums, suggest that the last 20 Mclusky-free years have just disappeared in a puff of smoke" (9/10 - musicOMH)

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