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1 September 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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CMATEURO-COUNTRY

"Who else could combine soul, yodelling, Jamie Oliver and Calpol into such charming songs about the messy modern psyche? Only Europe’s best new breakout star" (10/10 - The Guardian)

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The HivesThe Hives Forever Forever The Hives

"It’d take a cold, cold heart not to be energised by this" (8/10 - DIY). "Humour, imagination, and an impeccable musicianship that few can rival" (8/10 - musicOMH)

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Blood OrangeEssex Honey

"It takes in all the avant-garde and otherwise out-there influences Hynes has encountered along his meandering way" (10/10 - The Arts Desk). "A remarkable album" (9/10 - All Music)

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Wolf AliceThe Clearing

"Their boldest, most striking record yet" (10/10 - DIY). "Frankly, soft-rock has not sounded this grand in a long time, and only Wolf Alice could have crafted it" (8.7/10 - Northern Transmissions)

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)

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)

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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7.6

Great Grandpa

Patience, Moonbeam

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

Added: 01/04/2025
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

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

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
7.6

Anna B Savage

You And I Are Earth

Third full-length album from the Dublin-based, London-born singer-songwriter

Added: 24/01/2025
7.6

Car Seat Headrest

The Scholars

Fifth album and first in five years from the Will Toledo-led low-fi indie pop band

Added: 02/05/2025
7.6

U.S. Girls

Scratch It

Ninth solo album of dark baroque pop from Toronto-born Meghan Remy

Added: 26/06/2025
7.6

The Hives

The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

Seventh studio album from the Swedish garage rockers featuring contributions from Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and production by Mike D and Pelle Gunnerfeldt (Beastie Boys)

Added: 27/08/2025
7.5

Tindersticks

Soft Tissue

Album number fourteen from the Nottingham-based indie rock / chamber pop outfit

Added: 13/09/2024
7.5

Mclusky

The World Is Still Here and So Are We

Fourth studio album and first since 2004 from the Welsh post-hardcore trio

Added: 09/05/2025
7.5

Gwenno

Utopia

Fourth album from the Cardiff-born indie pop musician and former member of The Pipettes

Added: 09/07/2025
7.5

Goat

Goat

Fifth studio album from the Swedish experimental psychedelic rock outfit

Added: 10/10/2024
7.5

Florist

Jellywish

Fifth album from the Brooklyn indie-folk band led by Emily Sprague

Added: 10/04/2025
7.5

Courting

Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story

Third full-length release from the post-punk Liverpool quartet

Added: 14/03/2025
7.5

Tunng

Love You All Over Again

Eighth full-length album from the London folktronica pioneers produced and mixed by co-founder Mike Lindsay

Added: 30/01/2025
7.5

Mustafa

Dunya

Debut full-length album from the Canadian poet featuring contributions from Clairo, Aaron Dessner, Simon Hessmann, Nicolas Jaar, Rosalía and Ramy Yousef

Added: 02/10/2024
7.5

Jehnny Beth

You Heartbreaker, You

Second solo album from the Savages front woman produced with Johnny Hostile

Added: 29/08/2025
7.5

Debby Friday

The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life

Second full-legth album from the Nigeria-born, Toronto-based experimental musician

Added: 01/08/2025
7.5

Dean Wareham

THAT'S THE PRICE OF LOVING ME

Latest solo album from the Galaxie 500 and Luna dream-pop singer and guitarist featuring Britta Phillips, The War On Drugs' Anthony LaMarca and Spectrum's Roger Brogan

Added: 01/04/2025
7.5

C Duncan

It's Only A Love Song

Fifth album from the classically trained Glasgow-born indie pop composer and musician

Added: 27/01/2025
7.5

Blossoms

Gary

Fifth album of indie pop from the Stockport, England quintet produced by Coral frontman James Skelly

Added: 20/09/2024
7.5

Matt Berninger

Get Sunk

Second solo album from The National's frontman

Added: 30/05/2025
7.5

Garbage

Let All That We Imagine Be The Light

Eighth studio album from the American-Scottish alt rockers influenced in part by singer Shirley Manson's hip replacement surgery

Added: 29/05/2025
7.5

Elton John & Brandi Carlile

Who Believes In Angels?

Collaboration between the legendary English artist and American singer-songwriter featuring contributions from Josh Klinghoffer, Pino Palladino and Bernie Taupin

Added: 04/04/2025
7.5

The Murder Capital

Blindness

Third full-length album from the Dublin post-punk five-piece

Added: 21/02/2025
7.5

Manic Street Preachers

Critical Thinking

Album number fifteen from the Welsh indie rock band produced by Dave Eringa and Loz Williams

Added: 31/01/2025
7.5

Lady Gaga

Mayhem

The latest album from the New York pop singer features guest appearances by Gesaffelstein and Bruno Mars and was recorded in Rick Rubin's studio

Added: 07/03/2025
7.5

The Dare

What's Wrong With New York?

First full-length release from the LA electroclash musician Harrison Patrick Smith under The Dare moniker (formerly known as Turtlenecked)

Added: 05/09/2024
7.5

Du Blonde

Sniff More Gritty

Fourth album of alt-pop under the Du Blonde moniker from Newcastle upon Tyne animator and video director Beth Jeans Houghton

Added: 18/11/2024
7.5

Clipse

Let God Sort Em Out

Fourth album from the Virginia hip-hop duo consisting of brothers Pusha T and Malice

Added: 11/07/2025
7.5

Halsey

The Great Impersonator

Fifth studio album from the New Jersey pop artist Ashley Nicolette Frangipane working with producers Alex G, Greg Kurstin and Michael Uzowuru

Added: 25/10/2024

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Fresh stuff

The Clearing by Wolf Alice

"Their boldest, most striking record yet" (10/10 - DIY). "Frankly, soft-rock has not sounded this grand in a long time, and only Wolf Alice could have crafted it" (8.7/10 - Northern Transmissions)

Water From Your EyesIt’s A Beautiful Place
"One of indie’s most unique duos embrace sci-fi sounds, frightening existentialism and a newfound heaviness on their new album" (8/10 - NME).

LaufeyA Matter Of Time
"Laufey conjures a fairytale world woven from jazz, pop and a ticking clock" (10/10 - Laufey). "It makes for the boldest chapter in her artistic story yet" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit)

Cass McCombsInterior Live Oak
"US indie’s steadfast storyteller makes a wonderfully unhurried double album his best yet" (10/10 - The Guardian). "At its best when it leans into the reverie with a riff that calls upon a relaxed stroll" (8/10 - Far Out)

Alison GoldfrappFlux
"Think of Flux as an elegant evolution. She’s still dancing, but this time with her heart closer to the surface" (8/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "Floats in an elegant yet directionless orbit" (6/10 - The Skinny)

Marissa NadlerNew Radiations
"It confirms her strength as a vulnerable storyteller in an era of frequent isolation" (8.5/10 - Northern Transmissions). "Nadler still shines as a spell-weaver and mistress of moods" (6/10 - Mojo)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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.

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