29 July 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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Fourth solo album from the Houston rapper featuring guest appearances from Bon Iver, Sampha, Drake, Playboi Carti, Beyoncé, 21 Savage, the Weeknd, Yung Lean, Young Thug, James Blake, Kid Cudi, Bad Bunny, Future and SZA
6.2
UTOPIA sees Scott stay true to his style, his preferences, and his principles, going against the grain of the tendencies in the viral-hungry world that is 2023 ra Read Review
Lead single ‘K-POP’ remains a titanic moment, but its immediacy is perhaps a misnomer on a record dominated by misdirection, about-turns, and sudden revelations Read Review
The album operates less as a cohesive body of work and more as a series of show-stopping set pieces Read Review
The Houston rapper's first album since 2018 teases a brave new sonic world, but has little to say about what might happen if we get there Read Review
In an attempt to give the world a true blockbuster rap album, the Houston rapper delivers a shiny, empty spectacle loaded with pop superstars who rarely make an impact Read Review
The reality is that while Scott is a masterful curator, he’s just an OK rapper. Those two realities are discordant for too many moments on Utopia Read Review
Returning with a long-awaited fourth album in the wake of the Astroworld disaster, Scott’s rhyming isn’t strong enough to distinguish him from his A-list guests Read Review
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Tyler, The Creator Don't Tap the Glass
The Kentucky singer-songwriter unleashes his inner oddball on his much-anticipated seventh album, talking a lot of shit, and singing about hunting, addiction, the Bhagavad Gita, and koalas with syphilis Paste Magazine
Alice Cooper The Revenge Of Alice Cooper
An album that would be making waves even without its back story The Arts Desk
The Alice Cooper band has different virtues from Alice the solo artist, along with a smorgasbord of vices. Both are on display on this sprawling, not always focused but often vital reunion album Spectrum Culture
If the point is to document a bunch of old friends getting together, doing the thing that gave their lives meaning and having a blast, then it’s mission accomplished musicOMH
Buxton's posthumous appearance on the raw, Eddie Cochran-esque What Happened To You also shines, but elsewhere things sometimes get formulaic, the horror cod and the guillotine a little blunt. Print edition only Mojo
The result is a fun mix of over-the-top hard rock, self-reflection and self-aggrandisation. Print edition only Uncut
50 years later, these demented rock & roll outsiders pick right back up as if no time had passed at all, and they have a blast doing it All Music
Throughout, this is the sound of the Alice Cooper band playing with revitalised vigour and tangibly loving soul, riven with the unexpected “left turns” Alice credits to Dunaway and Smith Record Collector
Indigo De Souza Precipice
There's a prolactin-warm ode to cunnilingus, and a synth slowie about death waiting in the wings of love The Arts Desk
While standing upon a precipice, faced with unending uncertainties and wreckage all around her, De Souza chooses to do the only thing she can: she communes, she commiserates, she dances Under The Radar
The album unfolds like a Pinterest mood board of regional dance subcultures Slant Magazine
With a shift toward cleaned-up synth-pop, the singer-songwriter’s fourth studio album leaves her standout vocal performances feeling less distinct Pitchfork
Paul Weller Find El Dorado
With Find El Dorado, Weller celebrates the passion for finding a good tune and the feeling of having discovered a lost treasure when you do All Music
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band New Threats From the Soul
The rich and dazzling album from the singer-songwriter is filled with rambling, gambling characters looking for hope. It’s the late arrival of an essential new voice in American indie rock Pitchfork
Choruses swell gorgeously but unpredictably out of the continual wordplay and there's occasional moments of musical reverie. Print edition only Mojo
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