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7 April 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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Arlo ParksAmbiguous Desire

"Her most vividly realised and affecting body of work to date" (9/10 - DOY). "Arlo Parks approaches euphoria and vulnerability with a soothing ambivalence" (8/10 - The Skinny)

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Sunn O)))Sunn O)))

"An immersive, strangely euphoric listening experience recorded in the wilds of Washington" (8/10 - The Guardian). "The album is a magnificently heavy double of downtuned, epic riffing" (9/10 - Uncut)

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ThundercatDistracted

"Thundercat invites listeners into a space where confusion, beauty, and pain coexist, reminding us that even in a fractured world, there is still room to feel, create, and live fully" (8.5/10 - Northern Transmissions)

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UnderscoresU

"A tour-de-force of production chops that cements April Harper Grey as a key auteur in the future of the genre" (10/10 - NME). "Hits all the beats of a classic pop record" (8.3/10 - Paste)

James BlakeTrying Times

"A record that couldn’t be more consistently him" (9/10 - DIY). "Amid the stylistic shifts of Blake’s seventh record come samples of Dusty Springfield and Dizzee Rascal" (8/10 - The Guardian)

Trembling Bells and Bonnie Prince BillyThe Marble Downs

"Strengthened by communal tendencies, meeting bombs in Iran and executions in Minneapolis not with clenched fists of protest, but with hugs" (8/10 - PopMaters).

GorillazThe Mountain

"The album’s posthumous contributors remind us that music can keep ghosts alive" (10/10 - The Independent). "Powerful reflections on mortality from Damon Albarn and Co" (8/10 - Hot Press)

MobyFuture Quiet

"Moby has created a 14-track state of therapy for his own mind but kindly offered it to the world. It is the offering of one of the genius producers of our time" (8/10 - CLash)

Charli XCXWuthering Heights

"This brilliantly moody soundtrack confirms Charli XCX as a star who makes better art when she’s not trying to deliver a hit" (10/10 - The Irish Times). "At times gorgeous" (8/10 - Clash)

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7.1

White Denim

Side Effects

Ninth studio album from the Austin, Texas group includes demos or outtakes from previous albums

Added: 27/03/2019
7.1

Weekend

Jinx

Second full-length release from the San Francisco trio, dealing in shoegaze with a post-punk edge

Added: 24/07/2013
7.1

Ty Dolla $ign

Free TC

Debut full-length album from the LA hip hop / R&B artist featuring guest appearances from R Kelly, Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa and Kendrick Lamar

Added: 17/11/2015
7.1

Twin Peaks

Down In Heaven

Third album from the Chicago garage rock five-piece produced by R. Andrew Humphrey and mixed by John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr)

Added: 11/05/2016
7.1

Tunng

Turbines

Fifth full-length release from the London folktronica pioneers, now without founder and former frontman Mike Lindsay

Added: 13/06/2013
7.1

Tunng

And Then We Saw Land

Fourth album of folktronica from London band led by Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay

Added: 26/02/2010
7.1

Toro Y Moi

Boo Boo

Fifth release from the South Carolina-born onetime chillwave pioneer Chaz Bundick

Added: 07/07/2017
7.1

Tori Amos

Native Invader

Album number fifteen from the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter

Added: 07/09/2017
7.1

Torche

Restarter

The Miami sludge-rock outfit's fourth album was mixed by Converge’s own Kurt Ballou

Added: 23/02/2015
7.1

Tony Allen

Secret Agent

Nigerian drummer and songwriter (ex Fela Kuti) and Afrobeat pioneer, with his latest solo release

Added: 16/06/2009
7.1

Tom Rogerson and Brian Eno

Finding Shore

Debut album from ex-Three Trapped Tigers pianist Tom Rogerson working with the legendary ambient artist Brian Eno

Added: 08/12/2017
7.1

Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin

Instrumental Tourist

First in a series of collaborations on the Software label from two heavyweights of the experimental ambient electronic scene

Added: 16/11/2012
7.1

Thurston Moore

The Best Day

Fourth solo album from the Sonic Youth frontman features SY drummer Steve Shelly and My Bloody Valentine’s Deb Googe

Added: 17/10/2014
7.1

Thundercat

The Golden Age of Apocalypse

Electro-jazz fusion on the debut solo album from onetime Suicidal Tendencies bassist Stephen Bruner

Added: 24/08/2011
7.1

Thee Oh Sees

Warm Slime

Eleventh studio album from San Francisco garage rock quartet

Added: 26/05/2010
7.1

The Twilight Singers

Dynamite Steps

Sixth album from the New Orleans indie rock band formed by The Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli

Added: 06/02/2011
7.1

The Thermals

Now We Can See

Fourth album from the American purveyors of pop-punk

Added: 06/04/2009
7.1

The Secret Sisters

The Secret Sisters

Debut album of roots / country from Laura and Lydia Rodgers produced by T-Bone Burnett

Added: 21/02/2011
7.1

The Morning Benders

Big Echo

Second album of upbeat, mainly acoustic, indie pop from the Californian quartet, produced by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear

Added: 17/03/2010
7.1

The Libertines

All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade

First full-length album for nine years from the British indie rock band led by Carl Barât and Pete Doherty produced by Dimitri Tikovoï (Placebo, The Horrors, Charli XCX)

Added: 05/04/2024
7.1

The Invisible

Patience

Third album from the Mercury Prize-nominated London art rock band formed by Dave Okumu

Added: 10/06/2016
7.1

The Go! Team

Semicircle

Fifth album of alternative indie dance from the Brighton six-piece led by Ian Parton

Added: 14/01/2018
7.1

The Fall

Sub-Lingual Tablet

31st studio album from Mark E Smith's legendary post-punk outfit

Added: 12/05/2015
7.1

The Dutchess And The Duke

Sunset/Sunrise

Alt country on the second release from singer-guitarists Jesse Lortz and Kimberly Morrison

Added: 27/11/2009
7.1

The Dead Weather

Dodge and Burn

Third album from the bluesy psych rock group featuring Alison Mosshart and Jack White

Added: 25/09/2015
7.1

The Cribs

For All My Sisters

Sixth album from the Wakefield indie three piece, their first not to be released on Wichita

Added: 17/03/2015
7.1

The Corin Tucker Band

Kill My Blues

The former Sleater-Kinney frontwoman and her band with a second album of lo-fi rock

Added: 18/09/2012
7.1

The Avett Brothers

I And Love And You

Brothers Seth and Scott with their North Carolina folk-rock quartet’s major-label debut.

Added: 15/12/2009
7.1

Tasseomancy

Do Easy

Fourth album of indie folk from Toronto-based band led by twins Sari and Romy Lightman who are also members of Austra

Added: 17/11/2016
7.1

Swervedriver

I Wasn't Born To Lose You

Fifth studio album and first since 1998 from the Oxford alt.rock quartet who reformed in 2008 to tour

Added: 03/03/2015

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