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9 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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PulpMore

"Let us celebrate More for what it is: a surprisingly thoughtful and often breathtaking coda to the Sheffield legends’ wonderful career" (9/10 - The Line Of best Fit)

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LifeguardRipped And Torn

"Chicago trio put their own fresh twist on classic art-punk" (8/10 - Rolling Stone). "A blast of circular-saw guitars, baffling lyrics and effervescent melody" (8/10 - The Guardian)

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TurnstileNever Enough

"On their exceptional new album, the US band double down on the vibrant eccentricity of 2021’s ‘Glow On’" (10/10 - NME). "It’s nothing short of a masterpiece" (10/10 - Dork

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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)

Julien Baker & TorresSend A Prayer My Way

"On their first album as a duo, the singers reclaim the honky-tonk music they grew up on" (9/10 - Slant). "A heart-bursting record that underlines the power of unity in a fractured world. A must-listen" (8/10 - Dork)

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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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7.4

Bat For Lashes

Two Suns

Hi-tech synthpop from the Mercury nominated Anglo-Pakistani Natasha Khan

Added: 30/03/2009
7.4

Arabrot

Solar Anus

Album No.5 from the Norwegian noise rock outfit, produced by Steve Albini

Added: 23/09/2011
7.4

Animal Collective

Time Skiffs

Eleventh studio album from the experimental pop collective and first for six years

Added: 01/02/2022
7.4

Alex Cameron

Miami Memory

Third album from the Sydney singer-songwriter who worked with The Killers on their 2017 Wonderful Wonderful

Added: 12/09/2019
7.4

Active Child

You Are All I See

Debut album of experimental indie pop from LA-based musician Pat Grossi

Added: 23/08/2011
7.4

Young Thug

Slime Season

The latest mixtape from the Atlanta rapper, released in the run up to his delayed first album, HY!£UN35

Added: 19/10/2015
7.4

Yola

Walk Through Fire

Debut full-length solo release from the British artist produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach who came across her in a Nashville bar

Added: 25/02/2019
7.4

Wilco

Schmilco

Tenth studio album from the Chicago-based alt-rockers, with artwork by surrealist illustrator Joan Cornellà

Added: 06/09/2016
7.4

Weekend

Sports

Debut album of shoegazing indie rock from San Francisco trio

Added: 07/11/2010
7.4

We Have Band

Movements

Third album of dance rock and electro-pop from Manchester/London trio

Added: 30/04/2014
7.4

Villagers

That Golden Time

Sixth album from the Irish indie folk band led by singer-songwriter Conor O’Brien

Added: 05/06/2024
7.4

Valet

Nature

Third solo album of psych pop from Miracles Club Honey Owens

Added: 12/06/2015
7.4

Ty Segall

Hello, Hi

Album number thirteen from the Laguna Beach, California multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter

Added: 28/07/2022
7.4

The Waeve

City Lights

Second full-length release from Blur’s Graham Coxon and singer-songwriter Rose Elinor Dougall

Added: 20/09/2024
7.4

The The

ENSOULMENT

First studio album on nearly 25 years from Matt Johnson's post-punk band co-produced with Warne Livesey

Added: 12/09/2024
7.4

The Smiths

The Sound Of The Smiths

Singles, live tracks and rarities on this compilation

Added: 10/11/2008
7.4

The Horrors

Lout

Three-track self-produced EP from the British rock band

Added: 18/03/2021
7.4

The Drones

Havilah

Fifth album from the Aussie art rock / blues rock outfit

Added: 17/02/2009
7.4

The Comet Is Coming

Channel The Spirits

Mercury Prize nominated debut album from the London-based trio who incorporate elements of jazz, electronica, funk and psychedelic rock

Added: 12/05/2016
7.4

Sweet Lights

Sweet Lights

Debut album of indie pop from former Capitol Years and War on Drugs guitarist Shai Halperin

Added: 28/05/2012
7.4

Swamp Dogg

Sorry You Couldn't Make It

Latest release from the R&B/soul singer features guest appearances from Channy Leaneagh (Polica), Jenny Lewis, John Prine, and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)

Added: 23/03/2020
7.4

Superchunk

What A Time To Be Alive

Eleventh studio album from the North Carolina indie punk quartet formed in 1989

Added: 14/02/2018
7.4

Strange Ranger

Remembering The Rockets

Third full-length album from the Philadelphia-based indie-rock band formerly known as Sioux Falls

Added: 02/08/2019
7.4

Still Corners

The Last Exit

Fifth album from the London indie pop / dream pop duo Greg Hughes and Tessa Murray

Added: 26/01/2021
7.4

Speedy Ortiz

Real Hair

EP follow-up to their well-received debut Major Arcana from the Massachusetts indie rock quartet

Added: 12/02/2014
7.4

Spectres

Dying

Debut full-length from Bristol-based noise rock quartet

Added: 23/02/2015
7.4

SOHN

Tremors

Electro-soul debut from Christopher Taylor, an Englishman based in Vienna

Added: 03/04/2014
7.4

Sleaford Mods

Key Markets

Album number three from the Nottingham electro-punk duo

Added: 06/07/2015
7.4

Show Me The Body

Trouble The Water

Third studio album from the New York City-based hardcore punk trio

Added: 31/10/2022
7.4

Shigeto

No Better Time Than Now

Third album from Michigan-born electronic musician and producer Zachary Shigeto Saginaw

Added: 20/08/2013

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Pulp More

More is very much what most will have expected: Pulp sitting back and crafting an expertly compelling album on ageing, adapting their signature topics and quirks to the perspective of autumnal age Beats Per Minute

Turnstile Never Enough

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Addison Rae Addison

The Louisiana singer and former TikTok star crafts a gorgeous soundtrack to modern womanhood on her highly anticipated debut album NME

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All-time top 10

Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past twelve years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.