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10 November 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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SorryCOSPLAY

"Hooks arrive, then shift; masks slip, then hold; references flash, then vanish. The common thread is control: even at its most unruly, the placement of parts feels deliberate" (10/10 - Dork)

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Mavis StaplesSad And Beautiful World

Sad and Beautiful World is much more than a mere collection of Staples’ incredible gospel and soul-soaked mastery; it is a reminder of what has been before and what the future could be (8/10 - Far Out)

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Anna Von HausswolffICONOCLASTS

"All of the different influences on Iconoclasts just blend so well and it never sounds messy" (9.4/10 - Sputnik). "A marriage of opposites: automaton-like discipline and total abandon" (8/10 - Slant)

Highest Recent Ratings

Albums to watch

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)

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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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7.5

Low

The Invisible Way

Album number ten from Duleth, Minnesota indie rock trio produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy

Added: 14/03/2013
7.5

Laura Veirs

Found Light

Album number twelve from the Oregon folk singer-songwriter

Added: 11/07/2022
7.5

King Princess

Cheap Queen

Debut album from the Brooklyn singer-songwriter Mikaela Mullaney Straus includes contributions from Father John Misty and The Dap-Kings

Added: 25/10/2019
7.5

King Krule

Space Heavy

Fifth album under the King Krule moniker from Archy Marshall, the indie trip-hop singer-songwriter

Added: 07/06/2023
7.5

Kelis

Food

Sixth album from New York R&B singer-songwriter Kelis Rogers produced by Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio

Added: 17/04/2014
7.5

Katie Von Schleicher

Consummation

Second full-length album from the Brooklyn-based indie rock artist

Added: 22/05/2020
7.5

Junior Boys

It's All True

Fourth album from this Canadian electro indie duo

Added: 13/06/2011
7.5

Juana Molina

Wed 21

Latest release of electronic folk-pop and first in five years from the Argentinian singer-songwriter and actress

Added: 31/10/2013
7.5

Johnny Marr

Call the Comet

The self-produced third solo album from the former Smiths guitarist

Added: 15/06/2018
7.5

Jess Williamson

Sorceress

Fourth album from the Texas-born, LA-based singer-songwriter

Added: 18/05/2020
7.5

Jenny Lewis

The Voyager

Third solo album from the LA-born singer-songwriter and former Rilo Kiley frontwoman co-produced by Ryan Adams with Beck and Lewis' partner Jonathan Rice

Added: 23/07/2014
7.5

James Vincent McMorrow

Post Tropical

The Irish singer-songwriter moves beyond indie folk on his genre-swapping second album

Added: 10/01/2014
7.5

Interpol

El Pintor

Self-produced fifth album from the New York indie rock band and engineered by Alan Moulder (Foo Fighters, My Bloody Valentine, The Smashing Pumpkins)

Added: 03/09/2014
7.5

Hudson Mohawke

Butter

Hotly tipped Glasgow producer and DJ, one of the LuckyMe collective, with his debut album of glitch hop (yes indeed), wonky and assorted electronica

Added: 25/10/2009
7.5

Honeyblood

Babes Never Die

Second album of punky indie rock from the Scottish duo Stina Tweeddale and Cat Myers

Added: 01/11/2016
7.5

Grant Hart

The Argument

Fourth solo studio album from the former Hüsker Dü drummer and co-songwriter, a folk-rock concept album based on John Milton's Paradise Lost

Added: 17/07/2013
7.5

Gonjasufi

A Sufi And A Killer

Debut album from LA-based post-hip hop rapper, singer and yoga teacher Sumach Ecks, working with producer Gaslamp Killer

Added: 05/03/2010
7.5

Gojira

Fortitude

Seventh album from the French tech/prog metal band produced by guitarist Joe Duplantier

Added: 28/04/2021
7.5

Girls

Album

Debut release of bluesy psych-rock and 60s pop from the Californian duo

Added: 23/09/2009
7.5

Gary Clark Jr.

This Land

Third studio album of soulful blues rock from the Austin guitarist and songwriter

Added: 22/02/2019
7.5

Fucked Up

Glass Boys

Fourth LP from the acclaimed Toronto hardcore punk sextet

Added: 02/06/2014
7.5

Flying Saucer Attack

Instrumentals 2015

First album in 15 years from the Bristol experimental shoegaze artist David Pearce

Added: 14/07/2015
7.5

Chastity Belt

Live Laugh Love

Fifth album from the Walla Walla, Washington indie rock four piece led by Julia Shapiro

Added: 29/03/2024
7.5

Broken Twin

May

Debut album from Danish singer-songwriter Majke Voss Romme

Added: 28/04/2014
7.5

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Best Troubador

Latest offering from lo-fi alt.folk singer-songwriter Will Oldham is a tribute album to country legend Merle Haggard

Added: 05/05/2017
7.5

Billy Childish

Archive From 1959: The Billy Childish Story

Poet, photographer, artist and film maker, he's made over 100 albums

Added: 20/07/2009
7.5

Autre Ne Veut

Age Of Transparency

Third album of R&B and electronica from Brooklyn-based singer and producer Arthur Ashin

Added: 02/10/2015
7.5

Austra

Olympia

Second album from the Canadian synthpop band fronted by singer Katie Stelmanis

Added: 13/06/2013
7.5

Ariana Grande

eternal sunshine

Seventh album from the American pop star features guest appearances from Davidior, Oscar Görres, Nick Lee, Max Martin, Ilya Salmanzadeh and Shintaro Yasuda

Added: 08/03/2024
7.5

Aimee Mann

Queens Of The Summer Hotel

Tenth album from the Richmond, Virgina rock singer-songwriter features songs inspired by Girl, Interrupted

Added: 06/11/2021

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