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4 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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7.8

Camera Obscura

Look to the East, Look to the West

Album number six, and first in eleven years, from the Glasgow indie pop band

Added: 03/05/2024
7.8

yeule

Softscars

Third album of ambient / glitch pop from London-based, Singapore-born producer Nat Cmiel

Added: 22/09/2023
7.8

Women

Public Strain

Experimental noise pop / psych rock on the second album from the Calgary act

Added: 23/08/2010
7.8

Wire

Red Barked Tree

Twelfth studio album from the London post-punk band formed in 1976

Added: 05/01/2011
7.8

Wilco

Star Wars

Studio album number nine from the Chicago-based alt.rock six-piece self-released as a free download

Added: 21/07/2015
7.8

Vagabon

Vagabon

Second album of indie rock from the Cameroon-born, New York-raised, multi-instrumentalist Laetitia Tamko

Added: 17/10/2019
7.8

Torres

Thirstier

Fifth album of indie rock from Orlando-born Mackenzie Scott

Added: 28/07/2021
7.8

Torres

Torres

Debut self-released album from Nashville singer-songwriter Mackenzie Scott, recorded mostly in single live-band takes

Added: 01/03/2013
7.8

The Moonlandingz

Interplanetary Class Classics

Debut record from the band made up of members of Sheffield electro-duo Eccentronic Research Council and Fat White Family

Added: 14/03/2017
7.8

Purity Ring

Shrines

80s-inspired indie electro on the much-anticipated debut album from the Montreal duo

Added: 19/07/2012
7.8

Phoebe Bridgers

Stranger In The Alps

Debut LP from the LA singer-songwriter, featuring a guest appearance from Conor Oberst

Added: 21/09/2017
7.8

Natalie Prass

The Future And The Past

Second album from the Richmond, Virginia singer-songwriter produced by Matthew E. White

Added: 29/05/2018
7.8

Modern Baseball

Holy Ghost

Third album of pop punk from the Philadelphia-based four-piece produced by Hop Along's Joe Reinhart

Added: 13/05/2016
7.8

Mission of Burma

Unsound

The fifth album from this American post-punk group, and their fourth since their reunion on 2002

Added: 03/07/2012
7.8

Local Natives

Gorilla Manor

Debut release from the LA quintet who've drawn (favourable) comparisons with Fleet Foxes

Added: 06/11/2009
7.8

Lily Allen

West End Girl

Fifth studio album of the London-born singer-songwriter recorded in Los Angeles

Added: 24/10/2025
7.8

Liars

The Apple Drop

Album number nine from the Brooklyn-based experimental art rock / noise-rock trio

Added: 02/08/2021
7.8

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Nonagon Infinity

Album number eight from the prolific psych-rock Melbourne six-piece which plays as one continuous loop

Added: 28/04/2016
7.8

King Creosote

From Scotland With Love

Kenny Anderson's soundtrack for the archive footage BBC documentary of the same name

Added: 14/07/2014
7.8

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

Weathervanes

Ninth album from the former Drive-By Trucker man and sixth with the 400 Unit

Added: 07/06/2023
7.8

Jane Weaver

Modern Kosmology

Sixth full-length album of dream pop from the Liverpool-born singer-songwriter and former member of Kill Laura and Misty Dixon

Added: 19/05/2017
7.8

Gengahr

A Dream Outside

Debut album from the London alt-rock 4 piece

Added: 12/06/2015
7.8

Floating Points

Cascade

Fourth album from the London-based producer and composer Sam Shepherd

Added: 12/09/2024
7.8

Django Django

Glowing in the Dark

Fourth studio album from the London-based art rock quartet

Added: 08/02/2021
7.8

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Pretty Years

Fourth album from the Staten Island, NY indie rock band founded by Joseph D'Agostino and Matthew Miller

Added: 16/09/2016
7.8

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

I Made A Place

Latest release from the lo-fi alt.folk singer-songwriter Will Oldham

Added: 13/11/2019
7.8

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

The Purple Bird

Latest release from the lo-fi alt.folk singer-songwriter Will Oldham produced by David "Ferg" Ferguson and includes guest appearances from John Anderson and Tim O'Brien

Added: 30/01/2025
7.8

Bartees Strange

Horror

Third album from the Washington DC-based musician Bartees Leon Cox Jr co-produced with Jack Antonoff

Added: 13/02/2025
7.8

Arab Strap

I'm totally fine with it don't give a fuck anymore

Second album since they reformed from the Scottish indie rock duo Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton

Added: 10/05/2024
7.8

William Tyler

Time Indefinite

Fifth album of instrumental guitar compositions from the Nashville-based former member of Lambchop and Silver Jews

Added: 01/05/2025

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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.