25 April 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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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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Ringo Starr Long Long Road
Embracing simple yet infectious lyricism, impressive guitars and folksy harmonies, Starkey has created another unadulterated Americana album in ‘Long Long Road’, carving his name deeper into the hall of fame Clash
Foo Fighters Your Favorite Toy
A band with a renewed sense of purpose, ready to use the pain of the last few years as an inspiration musicOMH
Friko Something Worth Waiting For
Something Worth Waiting For is an album of good songs with some sequencing and balance issues. Its problems have nothing to do with quality in the traditional sense, but Friko will need to temper some of their maximalist tendencies if they want to seize the indie rock throne No Ripcord
Chicago’s Friko has traded much of the symphonics of their incendiary debut for insistently straining, freewheeling indie rock riffs The Line Of Best Fit
Enjoyable and familiar, but Grohl's emotional crisis sets it apart Consequence Of Sound
It’s hard to replicate the joy of discovery that was had with Friko’s debut, but rounding out the band and taking things up a notch make perfect sense. Not leaving their heart behind in the process, makes Something Worth Waiting For exactly that Under The Radar
A euphoric, breakneck adventure towards a promised land The Skinny
You'd have to go back to the 1970s to find a Ringo Starr solo album that was as well-crafted with his particular skills in mind as Look Up, and Long Long Road shows Burnett and Starr continue to work together beautifully All Music
It’s rooted squarely in country music, with a nod to Americana Hot Press
It has indeed been a “long, long road,” and the thing worth celebrating is that an 85-year-old man with all the money in the world still enjoys that old-timey Americana music enough to make more of it. This album is a nice window into that joy Far Out
It is also, for all the Americana, an incredibly Merseyside record The Arts Desk
Throughout, Starr’s drumming is reliably great, and while he may indeed have travelled a long long road, here he sounds 85 years young Mojo
The title track ends proceedings on a high, with Sheryl Crow on backing vocals, a smattering of mandolin and a semi-surreal spoken interlude in which Starr sounds ever so zen. It ends, as it surely should, with a single snare shot, delivered like the most emphatic of full stops. Print edition only Uncut
The carefree attitude is a welcoming change, but there is a sense something has been left on the table The Arts Desk
Jessie Ware Superbloom
Superbloom — the next installment in Jessie Ware’s exploration of disco — is certainly a good time, though perhaps not as transformative as its predecessors Spectrum Culture
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
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Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways