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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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7.1

The Coral

Curse of Love

Seventh album from Merseyside indie rock five-piece recorded on an 8-track between their previous two releases

Added: 26/10/2014
7.1

The Charlatans

We Are Love

Fourteenth studio album and first for eight years from the English indie rock band working with producers Dev Hynes Fred Macpherson and Stephen Street

Added: 31/10/2025
7.1

The Builders And The Butchers

Dead Reckoning

Fourth album of gothic folk-rock from the Oregon band

Added: 24/03/2011
7.1

The Body & Big Brave

Leaving None But Small Birds

First collaboration between the Providence experimental metal duo and the Montreal metal trio produced by Seth Manchester

Added: 01/10/2021
7.1

Teyana Taylor

K.T.S.E.

Second studio album from the Harlem-based r&b artist, stands for Keep That Same Energy and is produced by Kanye West

Added: 27/06/2018
7.1

Tennis

Pollen

Sixth album of surf pop from husband and wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley

Added: 14/02/2023
7.1

Ten Kens

For Posterity

The Toronto quartet with their second album of genre-hopping alt.rock, encompassing math rock, hardcore, psych-rock

Added: 21/09/2010
7.1

Teen Daze

Themes for Dying Earth

Sixth full-length album of ambient pop from the British Columbian Jamison Isaak

Added: 09/02/2017
7.1

Tash Sultana

Terra Firma

Second album from the Melbourne singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist collaborating with Matt Corby and Dann Hume

Added: 19/02/2021
7.1

Tara Jane O'Neil

A Ways Away

The American singer-songwriter, painter and multi-instrumentalist with a fifth album of experimental folk-rock

Added: 01/08/2009
7.1

Tamikrest

Toumastin

Second album of desert rock / blues from the Malian band produced by Dirtmusic guitarist Chris Eckman

Added: 22/04/2011
7.1

Susanna

Triangle

Eleventh solo album from the Norwegian singer-songwriter

Added: 26/04/2016
7.1

Sun Araw & M Geddes Gengras Meet the Congos

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The ninth album in the FRKWYS series teams up psych-rock LA-based musician Cameron Stallone, prducer/mixer Gengras and Jamacan dub artists The Congos

Added: 16/04/2012
7.1

Steven Wilson

The Raven That Refused To Sing

The founder of British prog rockers Porcupine Tree with his third solo album of experimental rock

Added: 26/02/2013
7.1

Starkey

Ear Drums and Black Holes

Second album of electro, 'street bass' and dubstep from dj and producer Paul Geissinger

Added: 19/04/2010
7.1

Squeeze

Cradle To The Grave

Fifteenth studio album from the new wave veterans and first since 1998

Added: 06/10/2015
7.1

Sports Team

Gulp!

Second album from the London-based six-piece led by Alex Rice

Added: 28/09/2022
7.1

Splashh

Waiting A Lifetime

Second album of alternative indie rock from the Australian/Italian/New Zealand outfit formed in London

Added: 20/04/2017
7.1

Spectres

Condition

Second album from the noise rock four-piece from Bristol

Added: 10/03/2017
7.1

Soft Walls

No Time

Second solo album of psych folk from Brighton-based Dan Reeves who is also a member of Cold Pumas and owner of label Faux Discx

Added: 29/07/2014
7.1

Soft Cell

*Happiness Not

First full-length studio album in twenty years from the synth-pop duo Marc Almond David Ball includes a song collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys

Added: 06/05/2022
7.1

Soccer Mommy

Collection

Debut studio album of indie pop from Sophie Allison after a series of self-released singles and Eps

Added: 05/08/2017
7.1

Sloan

12

Album number twelve from the Toronto power pop quartet

Added: 12/04/2018
7.1

Slaraffenland

We're On Your Side

Third album from the Copenhagen experimental pop outfit who occasionally stray into freeform jazz / folk

Added: 02/04/2010
7.1

Sinkane

Mars

Second album from Sudanese-born, New York-based Ahmad Gallub merges Afro-funk, soul and krautrock

Added: 11/12/2012
7.1

Sinead O’Brien

Time Bend And Break The Bower

Debut album of post-punk and poetry from the Irish artist

Added: 09/06/2022
7.1

Sigrid

How To Let Go

Second album from the Norwegian pop artist produced Sly, Askjell, Martin Sjølie, John Hill, Evil Twin and Zakk Cervini

Added: 06/05/2022
7.1

Shonen Knife

Pop Tune

Album number eighteen from Japanese pop / punk trio formed in 1981 and fronted by original member Naoko Yamano

Added: 03/07/2012
7.1

Shannon And The Clams

Gone By The Dawn

Fourth album from the Californian 1960s inspired garage punk trio

Added: 17/09/2015
7.1

Shamir

Homo Anxietatem

Ninth album from the Las Vegas-born, Philadelphia-based electronic pop singer-songwriter

Added: 18/08/2023

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"It’s a lucky number thirteen for fans – The Coral remain a band to cherish" (8/10 - Clash). "Every choppy guitar line and snaking Hammond or Farfisa lick form hooks in their own right" (8/10 - The Arts Desk)

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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.