31 July 2026
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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The Durutti Column Renascent
It is an album that the late Tony Wilson no doubt would have adored Far Out
The Strokes Reality Awaits
If The New Abnormal was a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice, Reality Awaits is a tart pint of pulpy grapefruit juice Exclaim
Charli XCX Music, Fashion, Film
It feels presumptuous inserting my experience into criticism of work as deeply personal as Music, Fashion, Film, but if anyone would understand the necessity of self-reference, it would be Charli. Sometimes all we can know is how it makes us feel Exclaim
The Strokes’ Reality Awaits may prove to be too obscure and, improbably, thorny for the sort of immediate pleasure that the band used to create so effortlessly Spectrum Culture
Tyla A*Pop
The big win, as on her eponymous debut, is that this is soundsystem music The Arts Desk
Shearwater The New World
Shearwater’s The New World presents a brilliant synthesis of the elements that inspire him, infusing nature into moving, multi-instrumental works of art PopMatters
Long in the works, Vini Reilly’s first album in 16 years distills minimalism, romanticism, and ambient into a sort of universal music Pitchfork
The album ebbs and flows like a drifting sea, music that could at times be a film score, at others something edging, delicately, towards a rock album Record Collector
The Durutti Column are undergoing something of a renaissance. Renascent proves that it is wholly justified. Print edition only Mojo
The Mancunian, despite his enviable technique, revels in spontaneity which flourishes with sympathetic collaborators. Print edition only Uncut
A bleakly entrancing set. Print edition only Record Collector
It's a record of impressive scope and ambition, but there's still a chip if ice at its heart. Print edition only Mojo
Recorded across four years and three continents, the album draws together an extraordinary cast of collaborators into a single, immersive whole Uncut
Fans and newcomers alike will be entranced by the beauty of Jonathan Meiburg and co's stately creation – assisted by an astonishing supporting cast musicOMH
As a unified project, its broader artistic thesis feels blurred: it carries the anxiety of a singles-driven artist striving to construct a traditional LP, arriving at its most arresting moments when her South African roots take centre stage The Quietus
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