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22 June 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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Graham CoxonCastle Park

"It’s a rare delight to hear him back in the driving seat" (8/10 - DIY). "Blur guitarist's 'lost' ninth solo album mixes a strong '60s aesthetic with some interesting stylistic tangents" (8/10 - musicOMH)

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Vince StaplesCry Baby

"An urgent manifesto against American injustice and complacency" (9.1/10 - Consequence of Sound). "The Long Beach lyricist delivers his most passionately political release to date" (8/20 - NME)

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Death Cab For CutieI Built You A Tower

"Their hardest-rocking and emotionally urgent set in a while" (9/10 - All Music). "Death Cab is here to stay, my friends, and here's to hoping that there's many more to come" (9.6/10 - Sputnik Music)

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Ed O’BrienBlue Morpho

"The guitarist’s album might be the most Radiohead side project yet to emerge from the mother ship" (8/10 - The Irish Times). "Works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself" (8/10 - Clash)

Kevin MorbyLittle Wide Open

"A masterpiece of simple and, at times, epic proportions that will linger deep within one’s soul" (9/10 - PopMatters). "The eight-minute-long title track is arguably Morby’s greatest song to date" (8/10 - Mojo)

Aldous HardingTrain On The Island

"A spellbinding listen, the high water mark of Harding's singular career" (9/10 - Exclaim. "It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far" (9/10 - Pitchfork)

KneecapFENIAN

"After their Glastonbury fracas and legal troubles, political friction provides the backbone to this dense, musically adventurous third album" (9/10 - musicOMH).

FrikoSomething Worth Waiting For

"A record that leaves the kind of impression more associated with acts with far lengthier histories" (9/10 - DIY). "A euphoric, breakneck adventure towards a promised land" (8/10 - The Skinny)

Lime GardenMaybe Not Tonight

"A breakup album that wears its messiness on its sleeve, Lime Garden’s second is figuring life out, track by track" (9/10 - NME). "A new indie disco essential" (9/10 - DIY)

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7.2

Ringo Starr

Long Long Road

Twenty-second album from the former Beatles drummer and his second country record produced by T Bone Burnett and featuring guest appearances from Billy Strings, Sheryl Crow, St. Vincent, Molly Tuttle and Sarah Jarosz

Added: 24/04/2026
7.2

MUNA

Dancing On The Wall

Fourth album from the Los Angeles-based electronic pop trio produded by band member Naomi McPherson

Added: 08/05/2026
7.2

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

We Are Together Again

Latest release from the lo-fi alt.folk singer-songwriter Will Oldham produced with Jim Marlowe

Added: 10/03/2026
7.1

Robbie Williams

Britpop

Album number thirteen from the Stoke-born pop icon featuring guest appearances from Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and Jesse & Joy

Added: 16/01/2026
7.1

Reneé Rapp

Bite Me

Second studio album from the North Carolina-born pop artist and actress

Added: 01/08/2025
7.1

Bar Italia

Some Like It Hot

Fifth full-length album from the London-based trio Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton

Added: 17/10/2025
7.1

Harry Styles

Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.

Fourth solo album from the LA-based former One Direction singer executive produced by Kid Harpoon

Added: 06/03/2026
7.1

Tyler, The Creator

Don't Tap the Glass

Ninth album from the Los Angeles-based Odd Future rapper featuring guest appearances from Pharrell Williams (under both his name and his alias Sk8brd), Madison McFerrin and Yebba

Added: 24/07/2025
7.1

Tortoise

TOUCH

Eighth full-length release and first for nine years from Chicago post rock group

Added: 24/10/2025
7.1

The Charlatans

We Are Love

Fourteenth studio album and first for eight years from the English indie rock band working with producers Dev Hynes Fred Macpherson and Stephen Street

Added: 31/10/2025
7.1

Royel Otis

hickey

Second album from the Sydney indie pop duo Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic

Added: 28/08/2025
7.1

Paul Weller

Find El Dorado

Eighteenth full-length solo release from the veteran English rock artist is a covers album with contributions from Amelia Coburn, Noel Gallagher, Seckou Keita, Declan O'Rourke and Robert Plant

Added: 24/07/2025
7.1

of Montreal

Aethermead

Album number twenty from the Athens, Georgia experimental indie rock artist Kevin Barnes

Added: 06/06/2026
7.1

Nova Twins

Parasites & Butterflies

Third album from the London rock duo Amy Love and Georgia South

Added: 27/08/2025
7.1

Marissa Nadler

New Radiations

Album number ten from the Nashville-based indie folk singer-songwriter

Added: 15/08/2025
7.1

Lykke Li

The Afterparty

Sixth and final album of synth pop from Swedish singer, songwriter, model and actress

Added: 08/05/2026
7.1

Kula Shaker

Wormslayer

Eighth studio album from the English psych rock band led by Crispian Mills and first formed in 1995

Added: 30/01/2026
7.1

Frankie Cosmos

Different Talking

Sixth studio album of low-key indie pop from the New York City-born singer-songwriter Greta Kline

Added: 27/06/2025
7.1

Congratulations

Join Hands

Debut full-length album from the Brighton quartet produced by Luke Phillips

Added: 25/02/2026
7.0

Adrian Sherwood

The Collapse Of Everything

First full-length release in 13 years features from the London-born dub producer featuring contributions from Brian Eno, Keith Le Blanc, Cyrus Richards, Alex White and Doug Wimbish

Added: 26/08/2025
7.0

Lola Young

I'm Only F**king Myself

Third studio album from the London-born indie pop artist

Added: 18/09/2025
7.0

Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize

Nine Inch Noize

Collaboration between Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize features reimagined Nine Inch Nails tracks first performed at Coachella in 2026

Added: 19/04/2026
6.9

Babymetal

Metal Forth

Fifth album from the Japanese kawaii metal band featuring guest appearancesfrom Bloodywood, Electric Callboy, Tom Morello, Polyphia, Poppy, Slaughter To Prevail and Spiritbox

Added: 08/08/2025
6.9

Whitney

Small Talk

Fifth album from the Chicago indie rock band featuring contributions from Malcolm Brown, Colin Croom, Whitney Johnson, J.J. Kirkpatrick, Vivian McConnell, Will Miller, Brian Seyler and Macie Stewart

Added: 13/11/2025
6.9

Metric

Romanticize The Dive

Tenth studio album from the indie rock quartet from Toronto recorded at New York's Electric Lady Studios.

Added: 24/04/2026
6.9

Melody’s Echo Chamber

Unclouded

Fourth studio album from French indie dream pop singer-songwriter Melody Prochet

Added: 05/12/2025
6.9

Hannah Jadagu

Describe

Second album from the Texas-born, NYC-based bedroom pop musician

Added: 24/10/2025
6.9

Nine Inch Nails

Tron: Ares Soundtrack

Soundtrack for third film in the TRON franchise from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s cult industrial rock band

Added: 20/09/2025
6.9

La Sécurité

Bingo!

Second full-length release from the danc-punk Montreal band co-produced with Emmanuel Éthier

Added: 12/06/2026
6.9

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Gush

Latest full-length release from the Orcas Island-born, Los Angeles-based electronic producer

Added: 02/09/2025

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