4 September 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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David Byrne Who Is The Sky
Byrne is one of pop’s great collaborators, and in his quest to make a record that goes around the world in 37 minutes, he arms himself with the sizeable Ghost Train Orchestra The Line Of Best Fit
Deftones Private Music
It sits firmly in the upper echelon of the band’s catalogue as one of their best Beats Per Minute
Sabrina Carpenter Man’s Best Friend
Pop's pithiest lyricist hones the fun and flirty persona that's made her a superstar NME
Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
To return with a record so deeply personal and well-written that it feels like a complete reintroduction without any reinvention is an incredible feat, and in this instance, has made for one of the finest LPs to be released this year Exclaim
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Gush
Although GUSH’s start-stop-start cadence makes it hard for listeners to fully sink into a groove here, the album’s few standout tracks will fit nicely on any dance playlist Under The Radar
With GUSH, her artistic profundity continues to beam with ambition and warrants rhapsodic praise. The next philosophical journey she’ll take us on may be one even closer towards what feels like her The Line Of Best Fit
On her most social, libidinal collection of songs to date, the Los Angeles musician combines cerebral synthesis with beats inflected by two-step, dancehall, and ballroom Pitchfork
Gush is inventive and unpredictable. On the other hand, it’s more direct and less phantasmagorical than the predecessor The Quietus
The electronic composer’s latest album leans hard toward pop, but still favors ornamentation over direct jolts Spectrum Culture
It is not cohesive or intelligent enough to be so explicit, and is far too overt to be a fun pop album The Arts Desk
An adventurous new album that leans into her now-trademark sense of humour and innuendo, with mixed results The Skinny
Her great seventh album delivers a thoroughly modern tour of dating set to a Seventies pastiche sound Rolling Stone
Big Thief Double Infinity
The band sheds their usual ragged, rustic style in favor of a more polished approach Slant Magazine
Shame Cutthroat
More eclectic than before and outgrowing easy categorisation, this is the sound of a band performing at the peak of their powers musicOMH
Saint Etienne International
To the end, Saint Etienne have never faltered on their mission statement. Magic is here. Believe Record Collector
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"Their boldest, most striking record yet" (10/10 - DIY). "Frankly, soft-rock has not sounded this grand in a long time, and only Wolf Alice could have crafted it" (8.7/10 - Northern Transmissions)
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