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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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7.2

Porches

Shirt

Fifth album from the New York-based synth-pop singer-songwriter Aaron Maine

Added: 13/09/2024
7.2

Nada Surf

Moon Mirror

Album number ten from the NYC alternative rock group formed in 1992 was recorded in Wales

Added: 16/09/2024
7.2

Joe Goddard

Harmonics

Third solo album of electronic indie pop from the Hot Chip member featuring guest appearances from Hayden Thorpe, Tom McFarland of Jungle and bandmates Alexis Taylor and Al Doyle

Added: 12/07/2024
7.2

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

No?Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead

Eighth studio album from the Canadian post-rock stalwarts

Added: 04/10/2024
7.2

Darkside

Nothing

Third full-length album from ambient producer Nicolas Jaar and jazz guitarist Dave Harrington

Added: 28/02/2025
7.2

Bright Eyes

Five Dice, All Threes

Latest full-length release from the indie rock band led by Conor Oberst includes contributions from The National's Matt Berninger and Cat Power

Added: 27/09/2024
7.1

PUP

Who Will Look After The Dogs?

Fifth album from the Toronto pop-punk quartet formerly know as Topanga

Added: 03/05/2025
7.1

SASAMI

Blood On the Silver Screen

Third album from LA-based singer-songwriter Sasami Ashworth featuring a guest appearance from Clairo and was co-produced with Jenn Decilveo and Rostam

Added: 07/03/2025
7.1

Sabrina Carpenter

Short n' Sweet

Sixth full-length album from pop the singer-songwriter features working with producers Jack Antonoff, Julian Bunetta, Ian Kirkpatrick and John Ryan

Added: 24/08/2024
7.1

Ringo Starr

Look Up

Twentyfirst album from the former Beatles drummer is a country record produced by T Bone Burnett and featuring guest appearances from Alison Krauss, Larkin Poe, Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle

Added: 11/01/2025
7.1

Peter Doherty

Felt Better Alive

Latest solo album from the Libertines and Babyshambles leader

Added: 15/05/2025
7.1

Orville Peck

Stampede

Third album from the masked outlaw cowboy singer-songwriter is a series of duets with the the likes of Willi Nelson, Elton John and Beck

Added: 04/08/2024
7.1

Mercury Rev

Born Horses

Latest release from the New York dream pop outfit is their first in nine years

Added: 09/09/2024
7.1

Max Richter

In A Landscape

The latest release from the classically trained German-born British composer features field recordings from his travels

Added: 13/09/2024
7.1

Maribou State

Hallucinating Love

Third album from English electro duo Chris Davids and Liam Ivory

Added: 31/01/2025
7.1

Hamilton Leithauser

This Side of the Island

Latest solo album from The Walkman singer recorded at co-producer Aaron Dessner’s Long Pond Studio

Added: 07/03/2025
7.1

Fred again..

ten days

Fourth full-length studio album from London-born electronic producer featuring guest appearances from Anderson .Paak, Four Tet, Emmylou Harris, Jim Legxacy, Joy Anonymous, Jozzy, Obongjayar, Sampha, Skrillex, Soak and The Japanese House

Added: 09/09/2024
7.1

Billy Nomates

Metalhorse

Third full-length album from the Leicester-born singer-songwriter Tor Maries

Added: 15/05/2025
7.1

A Place to Bury Strangers

Synthesizer

Seventh album from the New York–based noise rock band led by Oliver Ackermann

Added: 10/10/2024
7.0

Mandrake Handshake

Earth-Sized Worlds

Debut album from the art-pop Oxford-based band

Added: 21/02/2025
7.0

86TVs

86TVs

Debut album from the The Maccabees' Felix and Hugo White with brother Will and former Noisettes drummer Jamie Morrison produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, Kaiser Chiefs)

Added: 12/08/2024
7.0

Lauren Mayberry

Vicious Creature

Debut solo album from the Chvrches singer

Added: 05/12/2024
7.0

Linkin Park

From Zero

Eighth studio album and first in seven years from the Californian alt.rock group featuring new co-lead singer Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara

Added: 15/11/2024
7.0

Central Cee

Can't Rush Greatness

Debut studio album from the London-born rapper Oakley Neil H T Caesar-Su featuring guest appearances from Young Miko, 21 Savage, Dave, Lil Durk, Skepta and Lil Baby

Added: 24/01/2025
6.9

Fucked Up

Another Day

Eighth studio album by genre-bending Canadian hardcore punk outfit where each band member had only twenty-four hours to record their parts

Added: 09/08/2024
6.9

Beirut

A Study Of Losses

Seventh studio album from the indie folk group led by Zach Condon was created for the Swedish circus Kompani Giraff

Added: 18/04/2025
6.9

Tinashe

Quantum Baby

Seventh album from the Lexington, Kentucky R&B artist is the second installment of a planned album trilogy

Added: 19/08/2024
6.9

The Waterboys

Life, Death, & Dennis Hopper

Album number sixteen from the Edinburgh-born Mike Scott covers the life of the cult actor includes contributions from Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple and Steve Earle

Added: 04/04/2025
6.9

Snapped Ankles

HARD TIMES FURIOUS DANCING

Latest full-length album for the London post-punk, electronica band

Added: 02/04/2025
6.9

Ok Go

And The Adjacent Possible

Fifth studio album, and first in eleven years, from the Chicago indie rock band produced with Dave Fridmann (MGMT, Mogwai, The Flaming Lips)

Added: 14/04/2025

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

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

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"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)

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