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6 April 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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Arlo ParksAmbiguous Desire

"Her most vividly realised and affecting body of work to date" (9/10 - DOY). "Arlo Parks approaches euphoria and vulnerability with a soothing ambivalence" (8/10 - The Skinny)

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Sunn O)))Sunn O)))

"An immersive, strangely euphoric listening experience recorded in the wilds of Washington" (8/10 - The Guardian). "The album is a magnificently heavy double of downtuned, epic riffing" (9/10 - Uncut)

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ThundercatDistracted

"Thundercat invites listeners into a space where confusion, beauty, and pain coexist, reminding us that even in a fractured world, there is still room to feel, create, and live fully" (8.5/10 - Northern Transmissions)

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UnderscoresU

"A tour-de-force of production chops that cements April Harper Grey as a key auteur in the future of the genre" (10/10 - NME). "Hits all the beats of a classic pop record" (8.3/10 - Paste)

James BlakeTrying Times

"A record that couldn’t be more consistently him" (9/10 - DIY). "Amid the stylistic shifts of Blake’s seventh record come samples of Dusty Springfield and Dizzee Rascal" (8/10 - The Guardian)

Trembling Bells and Bonnie Prince BillyThe Marble Downs

"Strengthened by communal tendencies, meeting bombs in Iran and executions in Minneapolis not with clenched fists of protest, but with hugs" (8/10 - PopMaters).

GorillazThe Mountain

"The album’s posthumous contributors remind us that music can keep ghosts alive" (10/10 - The Independent). "Powerful reflections on mortality from Damon Albarn and Co" (8/10 - Hot Press)

MobyFuture Quiet

"Moby has created a 14-track state of therapy for his own mind but kindly offered it to the world. It is the offering of one of the genius producers of our time" (8/10 - CLash)

Charli XCXWuthering Heights

"This brilliantly moody soundtrack confirms Charli XCX as a star who makes better art when she’s not trying to deliver a hit" (10/10 - The Irish Times). "At times gorgeous" (8/10 - Clash)

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6.3

Twin Atlantic

Great Divide

Third album from the Glaswegian alt.rock quartet produced by Jacknife Lee (Snow Patrol, One Direction) and Gil Norton (Pixies, Maximo Park)

Added: 14/08/2014
6.3

The Naked and Famous

In Rolling Waves

Second album of electropop and shoegaze from the New Zealand five-piece recorded in LA

Added: 17/09/2013
6.3

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

You Break Our Hearts, We’ll Tear Yours Out

Debut album of Gothic Americana from the Manchester trio

Added: 13/01/2010
6.3

The Chemical Brothers

Hanna

First soundtrack album from electronic duo Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons

Added: 06/05/2011
6.3

Seasick Steve

Man from Another Time

Latest batch of acoustic songs from gnarled US bluesman Steve Wold

Added: 18/10/2009
6.3

Scanners

Submarine

Second album of indie and post-punk from the London quartet

Added: 21/03/2011
6.3

Santana

Santana IV

The legendary latin/blues guitarist reunites with his original bandmates to release their fourth record together, spiritual successor to 1971's III

Added: 18/04/2016
6.3

Robert Pollard

Space City Kicks

Former Guided By Voices front man with his latest solo album of indie rock

Added: 21/01/2011
6.3

Psychic Ills

One Track Mind

Album No.4 from the NY psychedelic rock band, with Neil Hagerty (Royal Trux) producing

Added: 19/02/2013
6.3

Porches

Ricky Music

Fourth album from the New York-based synth-pop singer-songwriter Aaron Maine

Added: 13/03/2020
6.3

Pink

Hurts 2B Human

Eighth studio album from the American pop singer Alecia Moore

Added: 26/04/2019
6.3

Pink

Trustfall

Ninth studio album from the American pop singer Alecia Moore featuring guest appearances from First Aid Kit, Chris Stapleton and The Lumineers

Added: 17/02/2023
6.3

Philip Selway

Familial

A collection of acoustic folk songs, written and sung by the Radiohead drummer on his first solo effort

Added: 23/08/2010
6.3

Moddi

Floriography

First release outside his native Norway for the singer-songwriter Pål Moddi Knutsen, specialising in ambient indie pop featuring accordian, piano and guitar

Added: 19/04/2011
6.3

Kings Of Leon

When You See Yourself

Album number eight from the Nashville pop rock outfit produced by Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Florence + the Machine)

Added: 04/03/2021
6.3

Hercules & Love Affair

In Amber

Album number five from Andy Bulter's disco/house project working in collaboration with Anohni (formerly lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons)

Added: 16/06/2022
6.3

George Ezra

Gold Rush Kid

Third album from the Bristol-based folk / blues singer-songwriter produced by Joel Pott and Stuart Price

Added: 09/06/2022
6.3

Foster The People

Torches

Debut album of indie pop from the LA group

Added: 22/06/2011
6.3

Elizabeth Cook

Welder

Fifth album from the Florida-born country singer

Added: 23/06/2010
6.3

Disappears

Pre Language

The latest collection of krautrock and shoegaze from the Chicagoan group, now including Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth

Added: 14/03/2012
6.3

Dignan Porch

Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen

Second album of lo-fi psych-pop from London five-piece fronted by Joe Walsh

Added: 10/08/2012
6.3

Cullen Omori

The Diet

Second solo album from one of the Smith Westerns brothers, recorded in LA with Taylor Locke

Added: 17/08/2018
6.3

Cryptacize

Mythomania

The California band's second release of experimental rock

Added: 12/06/2009
6.3

Clues

Clues

Montreal indie pop band with their debut album

Added: 02/07/2009
6.3

Christopher Owens

A New Testament

The Children of God-raised ex Girls frontman releases his second solo album of gospel and country tinged indie rock

Added: 26/09/2014
6.3

Bleeding Rainbow

Interrupt

Fourth album and second since changing their name from Reading Rainbow from the Philadelphia-based noise pop quartet

Added: 25/02/2014
6.3

Big Troubles

Romantic Comedy

Noise pop and fuzzy indie rock on the 2nd album from the New Jersey quartet

Added: 28/09/2011
6.3

Ava Luna

Electric Balloon

Carlos Hernandez' New York soul band with a punk aesthetic wrote this, their second album, as a whole band collaborative effort

Added: 04/03/2014
6.3

Asa

Beautiful Imperfection

Second album of soul /jazz from Paris-born Nigerian singer-songwriter

Added: 04/09/2011
6.3

Arbouretum

Coming Out of the Fog

Fifth album of dark folk rock from Dave Heumann's band

Added: 22/01/2013

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Arlo Parks Ambiguous Desire

One of those albums that evokes a tangible mood; in this case, somewhere adjacent to the sun coming up after a rollercoaster of a night out. As such, it's frequently wonderful. Print edition only Uncut

Arlo Parks Ambiguous Desire

"We're blossoming," she sings of a new romance, but she could easily be talking about herself and her artistic trajectory, having pulled off a daring makeover with such style. Print edition only Record Collector

Arlo Parks Ambiguous Desire

Any fear, dissociation or sorrow Parks describes is repeatedly shaken off in the communion of the dancefloor The Independent

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All-time top 10

Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.