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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

PAWS

No Grace

Third album from the Scottish pop punk three piece, produced by Blink 182's Mark Hoppus

Added: 17/06/2016
7.1

Paul Weller

Find El Dorado

Eighteenth full-length solo release from the veteran English rock artist is a covers album with contributions from Amelia Coburn, Noel Gallagher, Seckou Keita, Declan O'Rourke and Robert Plant

Added: 24/07/2025
7.1

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

Manchester Calling

Fourth album from the ex-Beautiful South members recorded in Manchester

Added: 11/03/2020
7.1

Parquet Courts

Tally All The Things That You Broke

The American punk rock band based in Brooklyn, New York follow up their debut album with an EP of post-punk and psych-rock

Added: 08/10/2013
7.1

Palace

Shoals

Third album from the London alt.rock / blues rock quartet

Added: 24/01/2022
7.1

P.O.S

We Don't Even Live Here

Fourth album of indie hip hop from Stefon Alexander, founding member of the Doomtree collective

Added: 02/11/2012
7.1

Ozzy Osbourne

Patient Number 9

Thirteenth solo studio album from the former Black Sabbath singer featuring guest appearances from Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Tony Iommi, Mike McCready, and Zakk Wylde

Added: 09/09/2022
7.1

Over The Wall

Treacherous

Debut album of folk tinged pop rock from the Glasgow duo

Added: 30/11/2010
7.1

Out Cold

Invasion of Love

Cherry Ghost frontman Simon Aldred with a debut solo release of electropop and 80s dance influenced indie pop

Added: 02/09/2013
7.1

Orville Peck

Stampede

Third album from the masked outlaw cowboy singer-songwriter is a series of duets with the the likes of Willi Nelson, Elton John and Beck

Added: 04/08/2024
7.1

Orla Gartland

Woman On The Internet

Debut full-length album from the Irish indie folk singer-songwriter

Added: 19/08/2021
7.1

Orbital

Optical Delusion

Tenth studio album from English electronic duo Phil and Paul Hartnoll, with a number of guest appearances including Anna B Savage and Sleaford Mods

Added: 15/02/2023
7.1

Oneida

A List of the Burning Mountains

40-minute two-track vinyl & download only release from the Brooklyn experimental rock / psychedelic noise band, their 12th studio release in 15 years

Added: 20/11/2012
7.1

Omni

Deluxe

Debut album of early 80s influenced post-punk from the Atlanta-based trio featuring former members of Deerhunter and Carnivores

Added: 11/07/2016
7.1

Old 97's

Graveyard Whistling

Eleventh studio record from the Texas alt country group fronted by Rhett Miller

Added: 24/02/2017
7.1

Old 97's

Twelfth

Twelfth studio record from the Texas alt country group fronted by Rhett Miller

Added: 21/08/2020
7.1

Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm

Collaborative Works

A collection of works from the two neo-classical/ambient composers, including 7 new songs from their film Trance Frendz

Added: 30/10/2015
7.1

of Montreal

UR FUN

Album number sixteen from the Athens, Georgia experimental indie rock artist Kevin Barnes

Added: 16/01/2020
7.1

of Montreal

Aethermead

Album number twenty from the Athens, Georgia experimental indie rock artist Kevin Barnes

Added: 06/06/2026
7.1

Odonis Odonis

Hard Boiled Soft Boiled

Second album of industrial shoegaze from the Toronto-based band fronted by Dean Tzenos

Added: 18/04/2014
7.1

O. Children

Apnea

Second album from the London indie rock quartet whose frontman Tobi O'Kandi was recently threatened with deportation

Added: 07/06/2012
7.1

Nurses

Apple's Acre

Portland-based Aaron Chapman and John Bowers with their psych-rock follow up to their self-produced debut

Added: 08/09/2009
7.1

Nova Twins

Parasites & Butterflies

Third album from the London rock duo Amy Love and Georgia South

Added: 27/08/2025
7.1

Norah Jones

Visions

Ninth album from the jazz/pop singer-songwriter produced by Leon Michels

Added: 14/03/2024
7.1

Norah Jones

Day Breaks

Sixth solo album from the jazz/pop singer-songwriter

Added: 11/10/2016
7.1

Nine Inch Nails

Add Violence

Second in a trilogy of EPs from Trent Reznor's cult industrial rock band

Added: 24/07/2017
7.1

Nils Frahm

All Encores

Three recent EPs from the ambient electronic composer from Hamburg, Germany brought together in this release

Added: 23/10/2019
7.1

Nation Of Language

Strange Disciple

Third album from the Brooklyn indie pop trio produced by Holy Ghost! member Nick Millhiser

Added: 18/09/2023
7.1

Nas

King's Disease

Thirteenth album from the NYC rapper includes guest appearances from The Firm, Anderson Paak, ASAP Ferg, Big Sean and additional vocals by Dr. Dre

Added: 27/08/2020
7.1

Nancy Elizabeth

Dancing

Lancashire singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist with her third album of alt.folk

Added: 22/05/2013

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Inferno by Boards of Canada

"The elusive Scottish electronic duo return after over a decade away with an immersive, multi-dimensional album that is both evocative and ambitious" (10/10 - musicOMH)

IceageFor Love of Grace & the Hereafter
"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)

Paul McCartneyThe Boys of Dungeon Lane
"A richly nostalgic trip that proves this legend is still as creative as ever" (9/10 - Rolling Stone). "A welcome return from the master" (8.5/10 - Hot Press).

RostamAmerican Stories
"Meticulous, inventive record" (8/10 - Mojo). "A record of reflection and connection that ranks among the more beautiful-sounding you might hear this year" (8/10 - DIY)

The Coral388
"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)

Genesis OwusuRedstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge
"Seething with righteous anger and moshpit-ready tracks, the Australian artist’s genre-hopping but cohesive LP makes a case for the durability of the form" (10/10 - The Guardian)

The Lemon TwigsLook for Your Mind!
"This is musical joy captured in a record one of the group’s strongest works to date" (9/10 - Clash). "The exultant power-pop on the D'Addario brothers' sixth album is untouchably brilliant" (7/10 - musicOMH)

Broken Social SceneRemember The Humans
"You can hear them having fun, bouncing the ideas off one another" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar). "Celebrates the joy and spirit of a bunch of old friends simply jamming together" (8/10 - musicOMH)

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