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2 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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5.5

The Vines

Wicked Nature

The Australian garage rockers' sixth LP is a double, and their first release on their own label

Added: 01/09/2014
5.5

The Neighbourhood

Wiped Out!

The LA-based band's sophomore effort of alternative/indie rock

Added: 04/11/2015
5.5

The Kooks

Junk Of The Heart

Third album from the Brighton indie rock quartet produced by Tony Hoffer (Beck, Supergrass, The Thrills)

Added: 05/09/2011
5.5

Simple Minds

Graffiti Soul

The veteran Scottish pop/rock band with their first release of new material since 2005

Added: 26/05/2009
5.5

Post Malone

Austin

Fifth studio album from the American rapper working with producers Andrew Watt, Louis Bell, Max Martin and Rami Yacoub

Added: 02/08/2023
5.5

Paloma Faith

Do You Want the Truth Or Something Beautiful?

Debut album of pop / soul from the English singer and actress

Added: 28/09/2009
5.5

of Montreal

Thecontrollersphere

EP of outtakes from last year's False Priest by the Georgia-based indie pop five-piece fronted by Kevin Barnes

Added: 28/04/2011
5.5

Ocean Colour Scene

Painting

Album number ten for the Birmingham britpop veterans

Added: 11/02/2013
5.5

Kodaline

Coming Up for Air

Sophomore record from the Dublin indie rockers

Added: 08/02/2015
5.5

Kelly Clarkson

All I Ever Wanted

Fourth collection of songs from the huge selling pop/rock singer

Added: 09/03/2009
5.5

Jane's Addiction

The Great Escape Artist

First album in more than eight years from the Californian veteran alt.rock outfit

Added: 14/10/2011
5.5

Jamie Cullum

Momentum

Sixth studio album from crossover jazz singer and pianist

Added: 19/05/2013
5.5

Hooded Fang

Tosta Mista

Second album of surf-inflected sunny guitar pop from the Canadian group

Added: 23/03/2012
5.5

Health&Beauty

No Scare

Latest release from the Chicago-based experimental indie rock three-piece, led by Brian J Sulpizio

Added: 06/08/2016
5.5

Gomez

A New Tide

Melodic indie rock on the sixth release from the former Mercury prizewinners

Added: 01/04/2009
5.5

General Fiasco

Buildings

Debut album of upbeat indie rock / pop punk from the Irish trio

Added: 23/03/2010
5.5

Eskmo

Eskmo

First full-length album from San Francisco-based electronic producer

Added: 07/10/2010
5.5

Drake / 21 Savage

Her Loss

Collaboration from the rappers Drake and 21 Savage features a guest appearance from Travis Scott

Added: 09/11/2022
5.5

Danzig

Black Laden Crown

Eleventh studio album from the New Jersey heavy metal band produced by frontman Glen Danzig

Added: 30/05/2017
5.5

CRX

New Skin

Debut album of heavy pop rock from the LA-based quintet led by The Strokes' Nick Valensi and produced by Josh Homme

Added: 07/11/2016
5.5

Chief Keef

Finally Rich

The 17-year-old Chicago rapper who emerged via YouTube with his delayed debut album which features Wiz Khalifa, 50 Cent and others

Added: 19/12/2012
5.5

Bright Light Bright Light

Life is Easy

Second outing for Rod Thomas' Bright Light Bright Light electropop project, featuring contributions from Elton John

Added: 06/07/2014
5.5

Boy & Bear

Moonfire

Debut album from Sydney-based indie folk quintet fronted by singer Dave Hosking

Added: 17/01/2012
5.5

Band of Skulls

By Default

Fourth album of alt.rock blues from Southampton three-piece

Added: 30/05/2016
5.5

Weezer

Pacific Daydream

Eleventh studio album from LA-based alt.rock four piece

Added: 26/10/2017
5.5

Take That

Progressed

Deluxe edition of the 2010 album Progress from the pop five-piece includes eight unreleased songs from that session

Added: 12/06/2011
5.5

Speck Mountain

Some Sweet Relief

Second album of soulful psychedelia from the Chicago space rock act

Added: 19/06/2009
5.5

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

Tape Club

A collection of b-sides and unreleased rarities from Springfield, Missouri's indie pop group

Added: 04/11/2011
5.5

Solomon Burke & De Dijk

Hold on Tight

Collaboration between the blues / R&B singer and the Dutch pop / soul band. Burke died just before its release

Added: 20/03/2011
5.5

Nicole Scherzinger

Killer Love

Second album of pop / R&B from the former lead vocalist of Pussycat Dolls

Added: 25/03/2011

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Latest Reviews

Reneé Rapp Bite Me

The TV and theater star’s powerhouse vocals and abundant personality don’t entirely make up for the uneven material and sometimes maudlin production of her second album Pitchfork

Reneé Rapp Bite Me

Throughout BITE ME, Rapp serves up plenty of wry pop charisma, which is more than enough to sink your teeth into All Music

Tyler, The Creator Don't Tap the Glass

The Californian rapper’s ninth solo album is even more unexpected than usual The FT

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