30 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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BC Camplight A Sober Conversation
It’s perhaps the finest release of his career from start to finish, and that’s beating some stiff competition Far Out
An outstanding album — ambitious, honest, and unpredictable XS Noize
The most meticulously melodic, outwardly most immediate BC Camplight album to date The Arts Desk
Haim I quit
By contemplating the past, Haim are reformulating their future God Is In The TV
This is an album that won’t just be musically rewarding but will help many victims of abuse open the repressed memory door and figure out the best way to mentally cope with their suffering God Is In The TV
Bold and Breathtaking. Print edition only Uncut
Ultimately, A Sober Conversation amounts to a brilliant and bold record that is all the more powerful for its deployment of life-affirming groves and melodies. Print edition only Mojo
The US singer’s seventh album takes his meta-theatrical style almost into showtune territory, with songs about repression, depression and anger The Guardian
A Sober Conversation is that rarity, a top-shelf pop album that also has something important to tell us All Music
A cathartic experience for creator Brian Christinzio juxtaposes darkness and light to reveal how music can heal musicOMH
Yaya Bey Do It Afraid
‘do it afraid’ radiates optimism; a timeless, full-bodied work that speaks to embracing the beauty of life amidst dark times Clash
Lorde Virgin
Vocally, Lorde has never sounded more intimate and mutative, whispering overshared details of her daily life, before soaring into the sun with a diva's golden resonance. On Virgin, she is transcendentally witchy, harmonizing with herself both literally and spiritually, a pop star in the throes of creative rebirth All Music
Ella Yelich-O’Connor’s fourth album is a brooding blockbuster as visceral and emotionally gory as Solar Power was darkly becalmed The Irish Times
Frankie Cosmos Different Talking
A warm blanket of bedroom pop vignettes, Frankie Cosmos's sixth album is a comforting listening, but hesitant to experiment The Skinny
Thoughtful sixth album, which sees the songwriter wrestle with the growing challenges of life as she enters her early thirties. Print edition only Uncut
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"Full of love, fatherhood and feeling, the Croydon lyricist’s fourth is less a reinvention than a maturation" (7/10 - musicOMH). "As moving as it is musically satisfying" (8/10 - DIY)
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.
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly
Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange