3 October 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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Second album from the Watford-born YouTuber and rapper featuring guest appearances from Future, 21 Savage, Yungblud, Polo G, Anne-Marie, Craig David, and Bugzy Malone
5.9
KSI knows how to write serious bangers (just in time for the clubs reopening), particularly Really Love with garage royalty, Craig David Read Review
A broad, slick return, one that boasts a broad array of guests... Read Review
The YouTuber’s genre-hopping second album is let down by corny lyrics Read Review
KSI finesses his reputation as a rapper on a genre-skipping second album, while Willow Smith makes a captivating return as an emo-pop star Read Review
The YouTuber-turned-rapper attracts more impressive guests – including Future and 21 Savage – on a hit-and-miss collection that shows promise Read Review
Like its predecessor, it's a bit of fun and it's...fine Read Review
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Agriculture The Spiritual Sound
This album might not flow as perfectly as others or have one consistent style, but what it does have is riffs, balls and atmosphere aplenty Sputnik Music (staff)
Confrontational yet embracing, The Spiritual Sound wraps you in screams and distortion, pummelling while blanketing, devastating amidst the uplift Exclaim
The LA group’s second album pairs all the power and euphoria of heavy music with imaginative detailing and poignant lyrics – it will have you levitating with joy The Guardian
Taylor Swift The Life of a Showgirl
‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ has its moments, but lacks the consistency of Taylor’s recent work Clash
Olivia Dean The Art of Loving
The rising British neo-soul star’s unfussy charisma and warmly assured voice carry her second album, a collection of classic-sounding, retro-minded pop Pitchfork
Mariah Carey Here For It All
Mariah Carey’s new LP is an affectionate and charming look at Black pop music of the ’70s and ’80s, evoking a charmingly retro feel without feeling stale or derivative PopMatters
Baxter Dury Allbarone
Baxter Dury has created a rare album that continually reveals hidden depths, both lyrically and musically. Allbarone is a richly observed record PopMatters
Jeff Tweedy Twilight Override
Jeff Tweedy’s courageous triple LP, played with a consistent set of musicians, serves as a meditation on his current mood and the state of the world PopMatters
Geese Getting Killed
Where commercial radio and even some more alternative stations playlists are starting to resemble a tub of Cornish clotted cream, Geese are laying eggs of avant garde, melodic, bonkers pop songs. Quackers God Is In The TV
Doja Cat Vie
If Scarlet was the firestorm, Vie is the afterglow: still flickering, still restless, but finally willing to show the cracks that make the light come through Beats Per Minute
Penis metaphors and poor little rich girl tales start to chafe. Is this really the same artist that gave us Folklore and Evermore? Evening Standard
Far from the Max Martin-assisted pop juggernaut fans expected, this soft-rock paean to domestic bliss is slight on tunes and still seethes with grievance. And the less said about her fiance’s ‘magic wand’, the better The Guardian
Contains some of her more outrageous songs, suggesting she feels confident enough at this point in her career to go as rogue as she fancies The Independent
Swift hits all her marks — from new, exciting sonic turns to incisive storytelling Rolling Stone
Travis Kelce is at the heart of The Life of a Showgirl – but the ‘Boring Barbie’ singer’s disdain for fellow star in Actually Romantic is pretty central too The Irish Times
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
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
Frank Ocean Channel Orange