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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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7.4

Madi Diaz

Fatal Optimist

Seventh studio album fromm the Connecticut-born singer-songwriter produced with Gabe Wax

Added: 13/10/2025
7.4

Claire Rousay

A Little Death

Latest release from the Canadian-American experimental musician and composer based featuring a guest appearance from M. Sage

Added: 31/10/2025
7.4

Throwing Muses

Moonlight Concessions

Album number eleven and first in seven years from the Newport, Rhode Island alt.rock trio produced by band co-founder Kristin Hersh

Added: 17/03/2025
7.4

This is Lorelei

Holo Boy

The second full-length release from the Vermont songer-songwriter and producer Nate Amos features re-recording of songs written between 2014 and 2021

Added: 12/12/2025
7.4

Saya Gray

Saya

Debut full-length release from the Canadian alt.pop singer-songwriter

Added: 25/02/2025
7.4

Luke Haines & Peter Buck

Going Down To The River… To Blow My Mind

Second collaboration between R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Luke Haines (The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof, Black Box Recorder)

Added: 30/07/2025
7.4

Danny Brown

Stardust

Sixth full-length album from the Detroit experimental hip hop artist including collaborations with Bruiser Wolf, Kassa Overall and Mike

Added: 07/11/2025
7.4

The Antlers

Blight

Seventh album from the Brooklyn-based ambient indie rock band led by Peter Silberman

Added: 08/10/2025
7.3

Witch Fever

Fevereaten

Second full-length release from the Manchester punk quartet was produced by Chris W. Ryan

Added: 31/10/2025
7.3

The Armed

The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed

Sixth full-length album from the Detroit hardcore punk collective

Added: 05/08/2025
7.3

Nao

Jupiter

Third studio album from the British R&B artist Neo Joshua

Added: 23/02/2025
7.3

Amaarae

Black Star

Third full-length release from the New York, based Ghanaian R&B / Afro-fusion singer Ama Serwah Genfi

Added: 08/08/2025
7.3

PinkPantheress

Fancy That

Second mixtape from the London singer, songwriter and record producer inspired by Basement Jaxx's 1999 album Remedy

Added: 09/05/2025
7.3

Brian D’Addario

Till The Morning

Debut full-length release from The Lemon Twigs' member produced with his brother Michael D'Addario and Daryl Johns

Added: 21/03/2025
7.3

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Phantom Island

The 27th studio album from the Melbourne psych-rock six-piece features a collaboration with composer Chad Kelly

Added: 13/06/2025
7.3

DITZ

Never Exhale

Second full-length studio album from Brighton post-punk band

Added: 24/01/2025
7.3

Panda Bear

Sinister Grift

Seventh solo album from Animal Collective founding member Noah Lennox

Added: 26/02/2025
7.3

Addison Rae

Addison

Debut album from the actress and singer produced by Elvira Anderfjärd Luka Kloser

Added: 09/06/2025
7.3

Doja Cat

Vie

Fifth full-length album from the Los Angeles rapper featuring a guest appearance from SZA

Added: 01/10/2025
7.2

Tune-Yards

Better Dreaming

Sixth album of indie art-pop from Merrill Garbus working with long-time band-member Nate Brenner

Added: 16/05/2025
7.2

Sports Team

Boys These Days

Third album from the London-based six-piece led by Alex Rice

Added: 22/05/2025
7.2

Rizzle Kicks

Competition is for Losers

Third release of urban pop and hip hop from the Brighton duo, graduates of the Brit School

Added: 19/02/2025
7.2

Creeper

SANGUIVORE II: MISTRESS OF DEATH

Fourth album from the Southampton goth rock six-piece is a sequel to the 2023 album Sanguivore produced by Tom Dalgety (Pixies, Ghost,Royal Blood)

Added: 31/10/2025
7.2

Wisp

If Not Winnter

Debut album from the San Francisco shoegaze artist Natalie R. Lu working with multiple producers including Stint, Aldn, Julian Emken, Photographic Memory, Kraus, Grayskies and Elliott Kozel

Added: 01/08/2025
7.2

Mamalarky

Hex Key

Third full-length release from the Atlanta-based indie rock band

Added: 11/04/2025
7.2

Femi Kuti

Journey Through Life

Latest full-length release from the London-born, Lagos-raised saxophonist who is the oldest son of the late Afrobeat artist Fele Kuti

Added: 28/04/2025
7.2

Dutch Interior

Moneyball

Debut full-length release from the slowcore, country-rock California collective who rotate singer/songwriters

Added: 21/03/2025
7.2

Deerhoof

Noble And Godlike In Ruin

Album number nineteen from the experimental San Francisco indie rock quartet featuring a guest appearance from Saul Williams

Added: 25/04/2025
7.2

Death In Vegas

Death Mask

Sixth album and first for nine years from the English psych-rock / electronica band led by original member Richard Fearless

Added: 06/06/2025
7.2

The Lemonheads

Love Chant

First album of original songs since 2006 from Evan Dando featuring contributions from Bryce Goggin, The Moldy Peaches' Adam Green, Juliana Hatfield and J Mascis

Added: 23/10/2025

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This is Lorelei Holo Boy

Amos has been an expert popsmith for years; the world is finally catching up, and not a moment too soon All Music

This is Lorelei Holo Boy

One half of Water From Your Eyes re-records songs from the back catalogue of his other band, resulting in acoustic fare touched with regret and darkness The Guardian

This is Lorelei Holo Boy

Nate Amos’s latest solo album consists entirely of songs written in the years prior to 2024’s Box for Buddy, Box for Star. The music presents us with yet another robust block of material that allows his idiosyncratic songwriting to truly shine Paste Magazine

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