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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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Ethel CainWilloughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

"Hayden Anhedönia closes the ‘Ethel Cain’ chapter of her artistic journey with a bleak yet beautiful record" (10/10 - NME)

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BabymetalMetal Forth

"There are moments of genius here. In forging new bonds and attempting to break new ground," (8/10 - Kerrang!). "Proves once again that BABYMETAL are in a league of their own" (8/10 - Dork)

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The Black KeysNo Rain, No Flowers

"After a career hiccup, the reliable rock duo ground themselves with a smooth, solid LP" (7/10 - Rolling Stone). "A pleasant, straightforward collection of reliably rocking jams" (7/10 - All Music)

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Wet Legmoisturizer

"Spikier, sleazier and sexier, the Isle of Wight duo defy second album syndrome" (9/10 - musicOMH). "The band’s propensity for catchy, danceable garage-punk remains intact" (8/10 - Slant)

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)

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6.5

Porcupine Tree

The Incident

Steven Wilson's longstanding prog rock outfit, back with their 10th studio album

Added: 09/10/2009
6.5

Natacha Atlas

Mounqaliba

The Belgian singer and former Transglobal Underground member with a 9th album fusing Arabic and Western pop, jazz and classical

Added: 29/10/2010
6.5

Moon Duo

Occult Architecture Vol. 2

Second album of 2017 from guitarist/vocalist Ripley Johnson and keyboardist/vocalist Sanae Yamada

Added: 02/05/2017
6.5

Monotonix

Where Were You When It Happened

Israeli garage rock merchants with their first full length release

Added: 19/10/2009
6.5

Mike Patton

The Solitude Of Prime Numbers

The soundtrack to the Italian film of the same name, from former singer with alternative rock group, Faith No More

Added: 15/11/2011
6.5

Maxïmo Park

Risk To Exist

Sixth album of post-punk indie rock from the Newcastle-based quartet

Added: 21/04/2017
6.5

Liam Gallagher

As You Were

Debut solo album from the former Oasis member, produced by Greg Kurstin (Adele, Kelly Clarkson) and Dan Grech-Marguerat (Tom Odell, Hurts)

Added: 04/10/2017
6.5

Ladyhawke

Wild Things

Third album of new wave from New Zealand multi-instrumentalist Phillipa Brown

Added: 03/06/2016
6.5

Kontakte

We Move Through Negative Spaces

The London quartet with their second album of sparse post-rock

Added: 20/04/2011
6.5

Kid Harpoon

Once

Trevor Horn-produced debut from the London indie folk/pop singer-songwriter

Added: 01/10/2009
6.5

Jaill

Traps

Jangly indie rock / power pop on the 3rd album from the Milwaukee quartet, their 2nd for Sub Pop

Added: 12/06/2012
6.5

Islet

Celebrate This Place

Self-recorded debut mini-album from the Cardiff No Wave-leaning outfit renowned for their raucous live shows

Added: 25/06/2010
6.5

Ha Ha Tonka

Death Of A Decade

Fourth studio album from the Springield, Missouri indie rock quartet

Added: 21/04/2011
6.5

Glass Ghost

Idol Omen

Debut album of melancholic offbeat pop from Brooklyn-based duo Eliot Krimsky and Mike Johnson

Added: 01/12/2009
6.5

Generationals

Heza

Third full-length album of indie pop from New Orleans duo Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer

Added: 09/04/2013
6.5

Fujiya & Miyagi

Ventriloquizzing

Fourth album from Brighton-based Krautrock four-piece

Added: 07/01/2011
6.5

Filthy Friends

Emerald Valley

Second album from the alt.rock supergroup including REM's Peter Buck and Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney

Added: 02/05/2019
6.5

Dex Romweber Duo

Is That You In The Blue?

Second studio album of rootsy blues rock from the former Flat Duo Jets member

Added: 03/08/2011
6.5

Depeche Mode

Delta Machine

The big-selling synth rock veterans mark their 33rd year with album No.13

Added: 22/03/2013
6.5

Cowboy Junkies

Sing In My Meadow: The Nomad Series Volume 3

The third in a series of four albums from the alternative blues and country group

Added: 14/12/2011
6.5

Basement Jaxx

Junto

Seventh studio album from the London electronic dance production duo Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton

Added: 21/08/2014
6.5

Axxonn

Let's Get It Straight

Debut album from Brisbane-based electronic musician Tom Hall

Added: 26/03/2011
6.5

Alice Cooper

Detroit Stories

The latest solo album from the veteran shock rocker features songs from his 2019 EP Breadcrumbs plus new covers and songs

Added: 26/02/2021
6.5

6 Day Riot

6 Day Riot Have A Plan

Second album from London eclectic folk/pop five piece

Added: 01/08/2009
6.5

2:54

The Other I

Sophomore album from the London alt rock band comprising sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow

Added: 11/11/2014
6.5

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alpocalypse

13th studio album of pop culture parody from the enduring Californian

Added: 10/08/2011
6.5

Your Friend

Gumption

Debut avant-pop album from Lawrence, Kansas singer-songwriter Taryn Miller

Added: 29/01/2016
6.5

We Are The Physics

Your Friend, The Atom

This bonkers Glasgow band release their second album of frantic new wave punk

Added: 22/10/2012
6.5

Wavves

Wavves

San Diego surf rock/punk band with a lo-fi debut

Added: 03/06/2009
6.5

Ulver

Flowers Of Evil

Album number twelve from the Norwegian experimental black metal collective

Added: 29/08/2020

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