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2 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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Reneé RappBite Me

"Hell-raising rocker parties her troubles away on her uproarious second album" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "It’s a record that is cut from her very core, completely on her own terms" (10/10 - Dork)

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The New EvesThe New Eve Is Rising

"Velvets-style drone rock, trad folk, anarcho-punk and hippy whimsy are all discernible in the Brighton quartet’s debut album – all played with white-knuckle intensity" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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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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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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The ADM rating is a weighted average from our survey of more than 50 sources , taking into account the number of reviews

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7.1

Young Widows

In And Out Of Youth And Lightness

Third album from Louisville, Kentucky post-hardcore trio

Added: 20/06/2011
7.1

Young Thug

I'm Up

Latest mixtape from the Atlanta rapper Jeffrey Lamar Williams with Mike Will, Metro Boomin and Wheezy on production duties

Added: 10/02/2016
7.1

Young Legionnaire

Crisis Works

Debut album of post-hardcore from trio featuring The Automatic's Paul Mullen and Gordon Moakes from Bloc Party

Added: 24/05/2011
7.1

Young Guv

Ripe 4 Luv

Full-length debut for singer Ben Cook who also plays guitar for the band Fucked Up

Added: 10/03/2015
7.1

Young Fathers

Tape One

Début EP from the Edinburgh hip hop group first released as a free download in 2011 gets re-released on Californian label Anticon

Added: 09/01/2013
7.1

You Me At Six

Truth Decay

Seventh album form the English rockers featuring guest appearances from Cody Frost and Rou Reynolds

Added: 10/02/2023
7.1

Yim Yames

Tribute To

My Morning Jacket front man Jim James with a pseudonymously released EP of George Harrison covers

Added: 16/09/2009
7.1

YAK

Pursuit Of Momentary Happiness

Second album of psychedelic alt-rock from the English trio from Wolverhampton

Added: 11/02/2019
7.1

Wye Oak

Tween

A physical release for the fifth album from the Baltimore folk rock duo made up of songs written between 2011 and 2104

Added: 05/08/2016
7.1

Wooden Shjips

Dos

Latest offering of garage psychedelia from the San Franciscans

Added: 11/05/2009
7.1

Wolf Eyes

Undertow

Latest release from the Detroit noise rock trio and first on its own label

Added: 01/04/2017
7.1

Windy and Carl

We Will Always Be

Eighth release of ambient dream pop from the Michigan husband and wife duo

Added: 15/02/2012
7.1

Will Butler

Generations

Second solo album from the Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist recorded at his Brooklyn home

Added: 25/09/2020
7.1

Weaves

Wide Open

Canadian quartet's second studio album of indie pop

Added: 10/10/2017
7.1

Warmduscher

At The Hotspot

Fourth full-length release for London-based post-punk band produced by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard and Al Doyle

Added: 01/04/2022
7.1

Wand

Laughing Matter

Fifth album of psychedelic garage rock from the LA-based quintet

Added: 23/04/2019
7.1

Vanessa Carlton

Liberman

Fifth studio album and first for four years from the Pennsylvania-born singer-songwriter

Added: 02/11/2015
7.1

Tyler, The Creator

Don't Tap the Glass

Ninth album from the Los Angeles-based Odd Future rapper featuring guest appearances from Pharrell Williams (under both his name and his alias Sk8brd), Madison McFerrin and Yebba

Added: 24/07/2025
7.1

Ty Dolla $ign

Featuring Ty Dolla $ign

Third full-length album from the LA hip hop / R&B artist includes guest appearances from Kid Cudi, Post Malone, Kanye West, Anderson Paak and Thundercat

Added: 29/10/2020
7.1

Treetop Flyers

The Mountain Moves

Debut release from the London five-piece dealing in folk rock inspired by the 1960s West Coast sound of CSNY

Added: 28/06/2013
7.1

Trash Talk

Eyes & Nines

Third studio album from Sacramento hardcore four-piece

Added: 19/05/2010
7.1

Townes Van Zandt

Sky Blue

A previously unreleased collection of songs recorded in 1973 by the folk country singer-songwriter who died on January 1, 1997

Added: 08/03/2019
7.1

Tove Lo

Blue Lips

Third studio album from the Stockholm-born electropop singer Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson

Added: 29/11/2017
7.1

TOPS

Picture You Staring

Second full-length release from the Montreal indie rock quartet

Added: 04/09/2014
7.1

Tim Hecker

No Highs

Latest release from Montreal based electronic musician and sound artist

Added: 11/04/2023
7.1

Those Darlins

Screws Get Loose

These three southern girls make hillbilly-tinged retro rock and roll, which you can find here on their second album

Added: 15/02/2012
7.1

The Wave Pictures

A Season In Hull

The latest release from the prolific English alt.rock trio recorded live with one microphone

Added: 12/02/2016
7.1

The Waterboys

Where The Action Is

Album number thirteen from Edinburgh-born Mike Scott and his band is an eclectic mix of rock and folk

Added: 28/05/2019
7.1

The Soft Moon

Zeros

Second release from the San Francisco psychedelic post-punk band founded by Luis Vasquez

Added: 01/11/2012
7.1

The Skull Defekts

Dances In Dreams Of The Known And Unknown

Third album of experimental noise rock from the Swedish quintet, featuring Lungfish member Daniel Higgs

Added: 14/04/2014

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Latest Reviews

Reneé Rapp Bite Me

The TV and theater star’s powerhouse vocals and abundant personality don’t entirely make up for the uneven material and sometimes maudlin production of her second album Pitchfork

Reneé Rapp Bite Me

Throughout BITE ME, Rapp serves up plenty of wry pop charisma, which is more than enough to sink your teeth into All Music

Tyler, The Creator Don't Tap the Glass

The Californian rapper’s ninth solo album is even more unexpected than usual The FT

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