15 October 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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Fifth album of rap and pop from the Trinidad-born MC from Queens, New York with guest appearances from J. Cole, Lil Wayne, Tate Kobang, Drake, Lourdiz, Lil Uzi Vert, Skillibeng, Skeng and Future
6.6
While similarities to her 2010 original may run only name-deep, this sample-heavy – and sometimes emotional – material certainly holds its own Read Review
Refusing to be hemmed in, it’s a record of real ambition, an example mirroring fan-pleasing tendencies with actual artistic growth Read Review
Stepping away from Barbie-Girl pop towards her strengths as a rapper, this is the sound of a more mature artist in fierce command of her talent Read Review
The sound of Nicki Minaj cracking her knuckles and getting her hands dirty again. It’s the purest distillation of her uniquely feminine bravado Read Review
Pink Friday 2 is a long album, and it’s going to get longer Read Review
Thirteen years after her landmark album Pink Friday, the pop-rap superstar aims to conjure and build on that moment with an ambitious 22-song statement that is a very mixed bag Read Review
The pop-rap phenomenon is back with her first album in five years Read Review
While some moments of interpolation are more inspired, the musician’s increasing reliance on recognisable samples can start to feel like cruise control Read Review
Unlike its predecessor, the album doesn’t leave much of an impression. Read Review
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Richard Thompson Hippies, Thugs And Heroes
Continues a powerful run of modern classics from an artist who shows no sign of slowing down Louder Than War
A latter-day classic. Print edition only Uncut
A dozen tracks confirm Thompson favours quality over quantity. Print edition only Record Collector
A bit of a downer, but those who have found their way to Thompson's songs - via Fairport, or fellow travellers like Robyn Hitchcock, Tom Verlaine, Bob Mould, Pere Ubu, R.E.M. and now The Tubs - will know how intoxicating his kind of gloom can be. Print edition only Mojo
The Avalanches No Bad Memories
The dance duo’s fourth album is their most eclectic and chaotic to date, for better and for worse NME
Leon Bridges Happiness Anytime
On Happiness Anytime, Leon Bridges delivers an openhearted celebration of human connection Spectrum Culture
It still forms a cohesive whole, never wavering from the basic concept - no matter how disorientating and claustrophobic it may become The Arts Desk
Troye Sivan She's The Best
The pop star’s fourth album explores the cracks between the hits, the climaxes, and the comedowns. When he steps off the dancefloor, he finds a looser and more liberated sound Pitchfork
Wishy Natures Pill
A deep longing aches at the core of the Indianapolis indie-pop group’s music, making good on the bittersweet promise of twee at its most heartfelt Pitchfork
Teenage Fanclub Do Not Dare To Dream
There are many artists of Teenage Fanclub’s vintage making vital, thrilling music. Do Not Dare to Dream is neither. Yes, it is comfortable, easy, and pleasant — but to be brutally frank, it is criminally dull No Ripcord
Greg Freeman All Set The Bone
Three albums into his career, he’s simply starting to sound like Greg Freeman No Ripcord
Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber
‘Dopamine Chamber’ is Fontaines D.C. rambling about the worst bits of the modern world – environmental collapse, extreme wealth, political violence – over some of the prettiest instrumentals the band have written Clash
‘Do Not Dare To Dream’ is the audible culmination of a tried and tested Fanclub recipe: richly layered arrangements that interact with a warm embrace, alongside lyricism that manages both timelessness and contemporariness Clash
Jamie T Ghosts (100 Days of Morning)
A curious sidestep in place, ‘Ghosts (100 Days Of Morning)’ refuses to sit in one place, making it absorbing, infuriating and impishly entertaining Clash
Jess Williamson A Mile South Of Heaven
these deftly weighted narratives posit Williamson as a nomadic soul caught between er adopted LA and Texan suburbs of home, with Nashville as a loose spiritual fix. Print edition only Uncut
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
Rosalía Lux
Kendrick Lamar Damn.
D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
Hayley Williams Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways