10 May 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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Third album from Australian electronic musician Harley Edward Streten includes collaborations with Oklou, May-a, Kucka, Laurel, Virgen María, Emma Louise, Caroline Polachek and Damon Albarn
6.2
This techno-charged offering upscales the drops, fidgety distortion and replay value that has proved a constant in his playbook Read Review
On this third album, the musician couples his floor-shaking, hit-making style with quieter moments of introspection, reaching new heights in the process Read Review
Intended to be enjoyed by both faithful Flume stans and new listeners drawn to the beauty of a cacophonous, glitched-out style popularised by super-producers like SOPHIE, Danny Harle, and more Read Review
Although not without its inspired moments, Harley Streten’s third LP confirms that he’s most creatively free outside the album format Read Review
Flume’s Palaces is as surprising as it is forgettable Read Review
The Australian producer’s latest gets stuck between innovation and the urge to party like it’s 2014 Read Review
Palaces is so obsessed with the serenity of open air that it forgets how much more exciting Flume is when he picks apart a single concept Read Review
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Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke Tall Tales
In an ever more synthetically intertwined world, Tall Tales sees Pritchard and Yorke plug into the fragility of social structures built on sand The Line Of Best Fit
billy woods GOLLIWOG
Golliwog may be filled with allusions to the cannon of Black horror but its setting is the real world, a horror story created by our own loud silences. That’s about as scary as it gets The Line Of Best Fit
Mclusky The World Is Still Here and So Are We
They were a band, then weren’t, then are again. Thank whatever chaotic deity made that possible, because the world might still be here, but it sounds a hell of a lot better with mclusky back in it, you just crave so much more The Line Of Best Fit
The highly acclaimed British creatives unite for a cohesive, atmospheric record that is by turns moody, enveloping, and surreal musicOMH
Despite its piecemeal half-decade gestation, Tall Tales is a coherent, if often cryptic joint effort All Music
Arcade Fire Pink Elephant
Pink Elephant feels like an album Arcade Fire "had to" make, one that addresses a very public period of the band's history without getting too deep (or deep enough at all) into the matter, like they just want everyone to forget about it and move on to the inevitable next album cycle All Music
The New York rapper confronts trauma and state-sanctioned terror with his latest release, pulling out innumerable images of inhumanity The Guardian
It reprises their indie-modified take on panoramic, heartland rock and synth-pop, though with little emotional impact and no clear intent. Print edition only Uncut
It's largely stripped of their loftier excesses. Instead, the tone - meditative, inward-looking - coalesces around Circle Of Trust's tender electro, Ride Or Die's minimal escapist lullaby or the tech-U2 of She Cries Diamond Rain. Print edition only Mojo
Embattled rockers recenter their musical vision and emotional world on Pink Elephant Rolling Stone
PinkPantheress Fancy That
It's a tentative 4/4 plod that fluffs sweetly by The Arts Desk
20-minute mixtape Fancy That highlights the rising U.K. pop star's fondness for collaborations and early-2000s bangers Rolling Stone
The mixtape marks a decided shift from the primarily U.K. garage of the singer’s debut album Slant Magazine
Denigrated by some as the epitome of attention-deficit youth, the English pop musician became huge nonetheless – and her latest has an inspiringly free-associative feel The Guardian
No features, no distractions. Just her, telling stories and building a new soundscape out of the one that raised her Clash
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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