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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)

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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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6.7

Van Morrison

The Prophet Speaks

40th full-length album from the legendary Irish singer features six new original songs and eight covers

Added: 07/12/2018
6.7

Trash Talk

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These Sacramento hardcore punks are the first non-Odd Future members to have an album released on that group's imprint

Added: 10/10/2012
6.7

Trash Kit

Trash Kit

Debut album of lo-fi garage rock and post-punk from the all-female London trio

Added: 24/05/2010
6.7

Tim Presley’s White Fence

I Have to Feed Larry's Hawk

Seventh album under the White Fence moniker from the California singer songwriter

Added: 25/01/2019
6.7

This Will Destroy You

Another Language

Third studio album from the Texas instrumental post-rock quartet

Added: 15/09/2014
6.7

Thee Oh Sees

An Odd Entrances

Eighteenth album of psyched-out garage rock from the San Francisco band recorded during the same sessions as A Weird Exits

Added: 22/11/2016
6.7

The Vaselines

Sex With An X

Second studio album from reformed Glasgow-based indie pop duo much loved by the late Kurt Cobain

Added: 07/09/2010
6.7

The Rentals

Lost In Alphaville

Third album and first in fourteen years for the power pop / new wave band fronted by former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp

Added: 27/08/2014
6.7

The Magnetic Fields

Love At The Bottom Of The Sea

Boston's indie-pop maverick Stephen Merritt reverts to synths for his 10th album

Added: 29/02/2012
6.7

The Libertines

Anthems For Doomed Youth

Carl Barât, Pete Doherty and co reunite in Thailand for an unexpected 3rd album from the UK garage rock band

Added: 03/09/2015
6.7

The Felice Brothers

Life in the Dark

The latest album from the NY folk rock band was recorded in a garage-turned-studio on Letterbox Farm in New York’s Hudson Valley

Added: 24/06/2016
6.7

The Drums

Brutalism

Fifth album from the Brooklyn indie pop outfit led by Jonny Pierce

Added: 03/04/2019
6.7

The Donkeys

Born With Stripes

Surf pop, folk-rock and Americana on the latest album from the San Diego indie rock outfit

Added: 28/04/2011
6.7

The Black Keys

“Let’s Rock”

Ninth studio album from the Akron Ohio garage rock duo Dan Auerback and Patrick Carney

Added: 26/06/2019
6.7

The Black Angels

Indigo Meadow

Fourth album of psychedelic rock from Austin, Texas quartet

Added: 02/04/2013
6.7

Sparrow and the Workshop

Spitting Daggers

Second album of alt.folk, Americana and post-rock from the Glasgow-based Scottish/Welsh/American trio

Added: 24/05/2011
6.7

PS I Love You

For Those Who Stay

Third album from the Kingston, Ontario indie rock duo Paul Saulnier and Benjamin Nelson

Added: 21/07/2014
6.7

Portugal. The Man.

Evil Friends

Danger Mouse produces the 8th album from the Alaskan psychedelic pop group

Added: 05/06/2013
6.7

Plants And Animals

Waltzed In From The Rumbling

Fourth album of indie rock from the Canadian three-piece

Added: 05/05/2016
6.7

Phantastic Ferniture

Phantastic Ferniture

Debut album of indie rock from the Australian trio led by Julia Jacklin

Added: 27/07/2018
6.7

Pete And The Pirates

One Thousand Pictures

Second album from the Reading-based indie rock quintet

Added: 12/05/2011
6.7

of Montreal

Aureate Gloom

Thirteenth album from the Athens, Georgia experimental indie group led by Kevin Barnes

Added: 27/02/2015
6.7

NehruvianDOOM

NehruvianDOOM

Debut collaboration between English hip hop artist MF Doom and NY rapper Bishop Nehru

Added: 07/10/2014
6.7

Moonface

Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped

Yet another guise from ubiquitous Canadian Spencer Krug, this time experimental pop played on an organ plus electronic backing

Added: 01/08/2011
6.7

Moaning

Moaning

Debut full-length album from the Los Angeles post-punk trio

Added: 02/03/2018
6.7

Melvins

Everybody Loves Sausages

A cobvers album from the LA sludge rock / grunge veterans, with guest spots from the likes of Jello Biafra and J.G. Thirlwell

Added: 29/04/2013
6.7

Maxïmo Park

The National Health

A political slant to the fourth album from the Newcastle-based indie rock band

Added: 09/06/2012
6.7

Lust for Youth

Perfect View

Third album of ambient and instrumental electronica from Swedish producer Hannes Norrvide

Added: 03/07/2013
6.7

Justice

Hyperdrama

Fourth album from the French electro-pop duo Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay featuring guest appearances from Miguel, Connan Mockasin, Rimon, Tame Impala, The Flints and Thundercat

Added: 26/04/2024
6.7

Julian Casablancas

Phrazes For The Young

Debut solo album from The Strokes front man

Added: 25/10/2009

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