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29 June 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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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)

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Frankie CosmosDifferent Talking

"A tight 17-track, 38-minute album that should be welcomed by all fans" (8/10 - All Music). "A warm blanket of bedroom pop vignettes, Frankie Cosmos's sixth album is a comforting listening" (6/10 - The Skinny)

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BC CamplightA Sober Conversation

"It’s perhaps the finest release of his career from start to finish, and that’s beating some stiff competition" (9/10 - Far Out). "An outstanding album — ambitious, honest, and unpredictable" (9/10 - XS Noize)

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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)

Jenny HvalIris Silver Mist

"A personal journey through the past and self, focused on the power of scent in evoking forgotten moments" (10/10 - The Guardian. "An immersive album of beguiling charms about memories, isolation and dislocation" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Self EsteemA Complicated Woman

"Her most concentrated and burning record" (10/10 - DIY). "takes the best parts of Prioritise Pleasure and her debut Compliments Please, and turns it all up to 10" (10/10 - musicOMH)

last 12 months

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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7.7

HotWax

Hot Shock

Debut album from the Hastings alt.rock trio

Added: 07/03/2025
7.7

Horsegirl

Phonetics On And On

Second full-length studio release from Chicago trio produced by Cate Le Bon

Added: 12/02/2025
7.7

Edwyn Collins

Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation

Tenth solo album and first in six years from the indie legend and former Orange Juice frontman

Added: 14/03/2025
7.7

Doves

Constellations For The Lonely

Sixth album and first in eleven years from the Manchester rock trio produced with Dan Austin

Added: 27/02/2025
7.7

Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke

Tall Tales

Debut collaboration between the electronic musician Pritchard and the Radiohead frontman

Added: 09/05/2025
7.7

Youth Lagoon

Rarely Do I Dream

Second album as Youth Lagoon in two years from the Boise, Idaho musician Trevor Powers

Added: 21/02/2025
7.7

Moonchild Sanelly

Full Moon

Third full-length release from the South African artist Sanelisiwe Twisha produced by Johan Hugo

Added: 09/01/2025
7.7

Soft Play

Heavy Jelly

First release under this moniket from the English hardcore punk duo formerly known as Slaves

Added: 19/07/2024
7.7

Craig Finn

Always Been

Sixth solo album from The Hold Steady frontman produced by Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs

Added: 07/04/2025
7.7

Coheed and Cambria

The Father of Make Believe

Eleventh studio album from the New York's prog-rock quartet is the third album in the Vaxis saga

Added: 14/03/2025
7.7

Spirit Of The Beehive

You'll Have To Lose Something

Fifth album from the Philadelphia-based psych rock trio

Added: 23/08/2024
7.7

Saint Etienne

The Night

Eleventh studio album from the London alternative dance trio formed in 1990

Added: 13/12/2024
7.7

Blondshell

If You Asked for a Picture

Second full-length release from the Los Angeles-based indie rock musician Sabrina Teitelbaum

Added: 02/05/2025
7.7

Ty Segall

Possession

Latest release from the Laguna Beach, California multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter

Added: 30/05/2025
7.7

Hotline TNT

Raspberry Moon

Third full-length album from Will Anderson's shoegaze project produced by Amos Pitsch

Added: 20/06/2025
7.7

Horse Jumper of Love

Disaster Trick

Fifth album from the Boston indie rock trio featuring contributions from Wednesday's Karly Hartzman, MJ Lenderman and Squirrel Flower's Ella Williams

Added: 16/08/2024
7.7

Hinds

Viva Hinds

Fourth album from the Madrid-based garage rock quartet (formerly know as Deers) produced by former The Vaccines drummer Pete Robertson, and features guest appearances by Beck and Grian Chatten (Fontaines D.C.)

Added: 05/09/2024
7.7

Ethel Cain

Perverts

Second album from the Florida-born dream pop artist Hayden Silas Anhedönia

Added: 06/01/2025
7.7

Bdrmm

Microtonic

Third album from the Hull-based dream pop / shoegaze five-piece led by Ryan Smith

Added: 28/02/2025
7.6

Pale Waves

Smitten

Fourth album from the Manchester indie pop four-piece co-produced by Simon Oscroft

Added: 26/09/2024
7.6

Nick Lowe

Indoor Safari

Latest full-length release from British singer-songwriter features two new original songs

Added: 16/09/2024
7.6

Jeffrey Lewis

The EVEN MORE Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis

Latest album from this New York singer-songwriter and comic book artist

Added: 20/03/2025
7.6

Honeyglaze

Real Deal

Second full-length album from the London indie rock band produced by Claudius Mittendorfer (Ash, White Lies)

Added: 30/09/2024
7.6

Wand

Vertigo

Sixth album of psychedelic garage rock from the LA-based quintet

Added: 29/07/2024
7.6

Patrick Wolf

Crying The Neck

Seventh studio album, and first since 2012, from the London pop / folktronica singer-songwriter

Added: 16/06/2025
7.6

Leon Bridges

Leon

Fourth studio album of gospel/soulful R&B from the American singer-songwriter

Added: 06/10/2024
7.6

Great Grandpa

Patience, Moonbeam

Third full-length album from the Seattle-based indie rock quintet

Added: 01/04/2025
7.6

Crack Cloud

Red Mile

Third album from the Vancouver-based art-rock, post-punk multimedia collective recorded at Joshua Tree, California and Calgary, Alberta

Added: 26/07/2024
7.6

Sparks

MAD!

Album number twentysix from the Los Angeles synth pop / art rock duo Ron and Russell Mael

Added: 23/05/2025
7.6

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Death Hilarious

Fifth full-length album from the Newcastle sludge-rock band featuring a guest appearance from Run The Jewels' El-P

Added: 03/04/2025

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Latest Reviews

BC Camplight A Sober Conversation

It’s perhaps the finest release of his career from start to finish, and that’s beating some stiff competition Far Out

BC Camplight A Sober Conversation

An outstanding album — ambitious, honest, and unpredictable XS Noize

BC Camplight A Sober Conversation

The most meticulously melodic, outwardly most immediate BC Camplight album to date The Arts Desk

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Fresh stuff

Fresh stuff

hopefully by Loyle Carner

"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)

HaimI quit
"This sublime collection of breakup bangers could well be the soundtrack to your summer" (10/10 - Rolling Stone UK). "Rarely works up a sweat yet maintains a jiggling, low-level funk" (8/10 - The Arts Desk)

Hotline TNTRaspberry Moon
"Guitar hero epics and riffs galore are abundant across the tracklist" (8/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "A newly collaborative approach is a good look on the NYC outfit" (8/10 - The Skinny)

LifeguardRipped And Torn
"Chicago trio put their own fresh twist on classic art-punk" (8/10 - Rolling Stone). "A blast of circular-saw guitars, baffling lyrics and effervescent melody" (8/10 - The Guardian)

TurnstileNever Enough
"On their exceptional new album, the US band double down on the vibrant eccentricity of 2021’s ‘Glow On’" (10/10 - NME). "It’s nothing short of a masterpiece" (10/10 - Dork

GarbageLet All That We Imagine Be The Light
"Shirley Manson’s gang channel a more optimistic outlook, and display some of their most profound songwriting to date" (10/10 - NME)

Matt BerningerGet Sunk
"Retains the signature charm of The National while highlighting Berninger’s strengths as a writer" (8/10 - Dork). "A subtly textured delight that feels both playful and emotional" (8/10 - musicOMH)

Sports TeamBoys These Days
"This might be the most Sports Team they’ve ever sounded, and somehow, it’s also the best" (8/10 - Dork). "Sharp, funny, and sometimes sobering soundtrack to young adulthood in freefall" (8/10 - XS Noize)

SparksMAD!
"By the time the closing track Lord Have Mercy comes around, you’ll be mentally reordering your list of top 10 all-time Mael brothers albums" (8/10 - musicOMH). "Pop classicists with a heart of gold" (8/10 - Clash)

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.