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14 December 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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Dove EllisBlizzard

"With shades of Jeff and Tim Buckley, the Galway-born artist writes tunes so strong they seem as familiar as old friends" (10/10 - The Guardian). "The sound is entirely his" (8/10 - DIY)

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Melody’s Echo ChamberUnclouded

"The music is immaculate and interesting throughout" (8/10 - Northern Transmissions). "A record that is just as impressively crafted as anything she has done" (9/10 - All Music)

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Oneohtrix Point NeverTranquilizer

"An impossibly dense and transportive electronic album that takes impermanence as its inspiration" (8.6/10 - Pitchfork). "A demonstration of Daniel Lopatin’s mastery of structural tension" (9/10 - Slant)

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SnocapsSnocaps

"They are back playing pop that is pretty darn unmatched" (8.6/10 - Northern Transmissions). "A hailstorm of warm, exceptionally-written country-rock bangers backed by MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook" (8.5/10 - Paste)

Florence + The MachineEverybody Scream

"Florence Welch enlists horror and magic to harness hope" (10/10 - NME). "An urgent and vital testimony to survival and rebirth, Florence Welch’s sixth album is a defiant middle finger to doubters" (9/10 - musicOMH)

Lily AllenWest End Girl

"Her best album in 16 years, an incisive diary of a marriage in freefall" (10/10 - The Independent). "A hard-hitting pop exposition, while also providing an endless supply of hooks" (8/10 - Clash)

The Last Dinner PartyFrom The Pyre

"Insanely rich with ideas, hooks, smart artifice and real emotion, From The Pyre is a feast of giddy raptures" (10/10 - Record Collector). "Both thematically and sonically richer" (10/10 - DIY)

BrògealTuesday Paper Club

"2026 is there for Brogeal’s taking, they’re gonna be a lot of people’s new favourite band" (8/10 - God Is In The TV). "This is what it sounds like when a band get it right the first time" (10/10 - Dork)

Jay SomBelong

"With ‘Belong’ serving notice of Jay Som’s continued abilities" (8/10 - Clash). "Will undoubtedly solidify her reputation as your favourite pop singer's favourite pop singer" (8/10 - Exclaim"

IdlewildIdlewild

"The fact they are producing some of their best work seems almost absurd, and yet here we are" (9/10 - The Line Of Best Fit). "Idlewild is no nostalgic LP—it’s the sound of a band rejuvenated" (10/10 - XS Noize)

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

The New Eves

The New Eve Is Rising

Debut full-length album from the Brighton-based quartet co-produced with Joe Jones and Jack Ogborne

Added: 01/08/2025
7.7

The Divine Comedy

Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Thirteenth studio album from the Northern Irish orchestral pop band fronted by Neil Hannon recorded at Abbey Road Studios

Added: 17/09/2025
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

David Byrne

Who Is The Sky

First studio album from the former Talking Heads forntman in seven years working with the New York ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra

Added: 04/09/2025
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
7.6

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

Dave

The Boy Who Played the Harp

Third studio album from the London-born rapper includes guest appearances from James Blake, Jim Legxacy, Kano and Tems

Added: 05/11/2025
7.6

Zara Larsson

Midnight Sun

Fourth album from the Swedish popstar featuring contributions from Helena Gao, Margo XS, MNEK and Zhone

Added: 26/09/2025
7.6

Ty Segall

Possession

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

Added: 30/05/2025
7.6

They Are Gutting A Body of Water

LOTTO

Fourth full-length release from the Philadelphia shoegaze band that began as a solo project for frontman Douglas Dulgarian

Added: 17/10/2025
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

Keaton Henson

Parader

Latest release from the London folk-rock singer-songwriter, visual artist and poet featuring guest appearances from Danielle Fricke and Julia Steiner

Added: 21/11/2025
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

Hatchie

Liquorice

Third full-length release from the Brisbane, Australia dream pop artist Harriette Pilbeam produced by Melina Duterte (aka Jay Som)

Added: 07/11/2025
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
7.5

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

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

Armand Hammer & The Alchemist

Mercy

Latest full-length collaboration between Elucid and Billy Woods featuring guest appearances from Kapwani, Pink Siifu, Quelle Chris, Cleo Reed, Silka and Earl Sweatshirt

Added: 11/11/2025
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

Madison Cunningham

Ace

Third studio album from California folk.rock singer-songwriter featuring a guest appearance from Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold

Added: 15/10/2025
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

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