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8 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)

Highest Recent Ratings

Albums to watch

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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6.7

Four Tet

Pink

Follow-up to his acclaimed 2010 album There Is Love In You from the London-born IDM producer and DJ Kieran Hebden

Added: 30/08/2012
6.7

Field Music

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Sunderland's Mercury-nominated pop ensemble, led by the Brewis brothers, release a compilation of covers

Added: 12/10/2012
6.7

Felix

Oh Holy Molar

Second album from the Nottingham-based chamber pop act, now a trio with drummer Neil Turpin joining Lucinda Chu and Chris Summerlin

Added: 29/04/2012
6.7

Fat White Family

Forgiveness Is Yours

Fourth album of lo-fi rock from the South London band led by Lias and Nathan Saoudi and first without guitarist Saul Adamczewski

Added: 25/04/2024
6.7

Family Band

Grace and Lies

Melancholic ambient alt.rock on the 2nd album from the Brooklyn husband and wife duo, visual artist-turned-singer Kim Krans and onetime heavy metal guitarist Jonny Ollsin

Added: 01/08/2012
6.7

Ex Cops

True Hallucinations

Debut album from the Brooklyn indie pop / dream pop band led by Brian Harding and Amalie Bruun

Added: 24/01/2013
6.7

Ethan Johns And The Black Eyed Dogs

Silver Lining

Third Americana album from the English producer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Laura Marling and Ryan Adams

Added: 02/12/2015
6.7

Escort

Escort

Debut album from this Brooklyn duo who turned to straight disco - and grew into a 17-strong band - after years of making house singles

Added: 12/01/2012
6.7

Enya

Dark Sky Island

Eighth studio album from the Irish singer, inspired by the island of Sark and the poetry of Roma Ryan

Added: 20/11/2015
6.7

Envy

Atheist's Cornea

Album number six from the Tokyo post-hardcore five-piece

Added: 16/07/2015
6.7

Ellie Goulding

Brightest Blue

Fourth studio album from the British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist featuring guest vocals from Blackbear, Diplo, Juice Wrld, Lauv, serpentwithfeet and Swae Lee

Added: 16/07/2020
6.7

El-P

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Third in a series of mixtapes from the Brooklyn hip hop producer Jaime Meline

Added: 03/08/2010
6.7

Efterklang

Altid Sammen

Fifth album, and first in seven years, from the Danish neo-classical, post-rock band

Added: 20/09/2019
6.7

Eels

Earth To Dora

Album number thirteen from the California indie rock band led by Mark Oliver Everett

Added: 30/10/2020
6.7

Eels

The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett

Album number eleven of personal lo-fi indie rock from Mark Oliver Everett's California outfit

Added: 16/04/2014
6.7

Editors

EBM

Album number seven from the Birmingham indie rock five-piece and first with producer Benjamin John Power as an official band member

Added: 23/09/2022
6.7

Dustin Wong

Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads

Former Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine guitarist Wong releases his latest album of experimental guitar work and psychedelia

Added: 14/03/2012
6.7

Dusted

Total Dust

Collaboration between Holy Fuck's Brian Borcherdt and producer Leon Tahney (Final Fantasy, Rituals)

Added: 13/07/2012
6.7

Duck Sauce

Quack

First full length album of club oriented disco house from Armand Van Helden and A-Trak, featuring award-winning single Barbra Streisand

Added: 30/05/2014
6.7

DJ Shadow

Our Pathetic Age

Sixth studio album from the hip hop producer, featuring guest appearances from De La Soul, Run the Jewels, Ghostface Killah, Nas, and Raekwon

Added: 14/11/2019
6.7

Diarrhea Planet

I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams

Second album from the Nashville pop punk outfit

Added: 20/08/2013
6.7

Dent May

Across the Multiverse

Fourth album from the LA-based psych-pop singer songwriter

Added: 18/08/2017
6.7

Dengue Fever

Cannibal Courtship

Fifth album of Cambodian-influenced rock from the LA six-piece

Added: 19/05/2011
6.7

Denai Moore

Elsewhere

Debut album from Jamaican born, East London singer-songwriter with elements of folk, indie and R&B produced by Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, Savages, How To Dress Well) and Plan B

Added: 07/04/2015
6.7

Deap Vally

Femejism

Second album from LA rock duo Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards, produced by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner

Added: 13/09/2016
6.7

Danny And The Champions Of The World

Streets Of Our Time

An album of Americana from the former Grand Drive singer and guitarist Danny George Wilson in his new guise

Added: 15/01/2010
6.7

Danielson

Best of Gloucester County

Eight album of Christian indie pop fronted by Daniel Smith and including Sufjan Stevens

Added: 22/02/2011
6.7

Dag For Dag

Boo

Debut album of minimal alt.rock and gothic folk from Swedish brother and sister duo Sarah and Jacob Snavely

Added: 26/02/2010
6.7

Cults

Host

Fifth studio album from New York indie pop duo Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin

Added: 18/09/2020
6.7

Crocodiles

Endless Flowers

Third album from the San Diego noise pop duo

Added: 04/06/2012

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