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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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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

I Like Trains

He Who Saw the Deep

Second full album of epic post-rock from the Leeds outfit

Added: 03/11/2010
6.7

HEALTH

Death Magic

Third album of experimental noise rock from the Los Angeles quartet

Added: 03/08/2015
6.7

GusGus

Twentyfour/Seven

Iceland's indie dance collective, back with their seventh album

Added: 04/01/2010
6.7

Grimes

Halfaxa

New album of ethereal pop from the young Canadian

Added: 24/03/2011
6.7

Gang Of Four

Content

Eighth studio album from the Leeds post-punk veterans and first with original material since they reformed in 2005

Added: 19/01/2011
6.7

Eleventh Dream Day

Riot Now

Album number 11 from the Chicago alt-rock veterans

Added: 17/03/2011
6.7

Eddi Reader

Love Is The Way

Latest acoustic dominated release in the enduring career of the Scottish singer-songwirter

Added: 20/05/2009
6.7

Dropkick Murphys

Going Out In Style

Studio album No.7 from the Boston-based Irish-American Celtic punk outfit

Added: 20/06/2011
6.7

Dizzee Rascal

Tounge N Cheek

Fourth album from the London grime pioneer, moving into crossover territory

Added: 14/09/2009
6.7

Diane Birch

Bible Belt

Blues, soul, gospel and folk on the debut album from the Michigan-born singer-songwriter and pianist

Added: 26/04/2010
6.7

Daniel Bjarnason

Processions

Debut album of avant-garde modern classical compositions from the Icelandic composer

Added: 11/06/2010
6.7

Dam-Funk

Toeachizown

Modern funk and electro-tinged R&B on the fourth installment of Stones Throw's DJ friendly Rhythm Trax series

Added: 11/01/2010
6.7

Childish Gambino

Camp

First commercial album release from actor / comedian / scriptwriter and rapper Donald Glover, following a series of free EPs and mixtapes

Added: 15/11/2011
6.7

Chicago Underground Duo

Boca Negra

Fifth album of jazz and ambient music from the collective led by cornetist Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor

Added: 04/05/2010
6.7

Ceremony

Zoo

Fourth album of hardcore punk from this Californian quintet

Added: 06/03/2012
6.7

Bootsy Collins

Tha Funk Capital Of The World

Latest solo album from the legendary funk bass player and one-time Parliament/James Brown member

Added: 21/04/2011
6.7

Bibio

The Apple and the Tooth

Fifth offering of experimental electronica and intelligent dance from producer Stephen Wilkinson

Added: 14/01/2010
6.7

Bachelorette

Bachelorette

This self-titled release is the third full-length album from the New Zealand singer, who mixes psychedelia with girl group vintage sounds

Added: 07/06/2011
6.7

Autolux

Transit Transit

Second album of alt.rock from the LA-based trio

Added: 03/08/2010
6.7

Amos Lee

Mission Bell

Fourth album from the Philadelphia singer-songwriter produced by Calexico's Joey Burns

Added: 30/01/2011
6.7

Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under

Second solo album of alternative pop from the former Dresden Dolls singer

Added: 17/02/2011
6.7

Alexis Taylor

Beautiful Thing

Fourth solo album from the Hot Chip front man produced by DFA Records co-founder Tim Goldsworthy

Added: 17/04/2018
6.7

Africa Hitech

93 Million Miles

Added: 07/06/2011
6.7

Young British Artists

Change By Any Other Name

Debut LP of raw, noisey, driving rock, written in a basement in Manchester

Added: 21/07/2014
6.7

Yacht

Shangri-La

Fifth album of alternative electropop from the Porltand, Oregon group, formerly the solo project of Jona Bechtolt

Added: 20/06/2011
6.7

Warm Brains

Big Wow

Second album from this bedroom pop project, with everything written, performed and recorded by Rory Atwell (Test Icicles, KASMs)

Added: 28/11/2015
6.7

Violens

True

Second album from the NYC trio led by Jorge Elbrecht, melding shoegaze, synthpop and jangle

Added: 23/05/2012
6.7

Underworld & Iggy Pop

Teatime Dub Encounters

EP collaboration from the progressive house duo and the proto-punk legend

Added: 27/07/2018
6.7

Twin Peaks

Lookout Low

Fourth album from the Chicago garage rock five-piece produced Ethan Johns (White Denim, Laura Marling, Paul McCartney)

Added: 17/09/2019
6.7

Tinashe

Nightride

Second album from the American singer, the first part of a double album project along with 2017's Joyride

Added: 22/11/2016

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