3 March 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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Bill Callahan My Days of 58
Idle fans will likely lean on ‘Too Many Birds’ for their fix of Callahan’s ramshackle folk rather than this patchwork of passing thoughts Far Out
Mitski Nothing's About to Happen to Me
In a cultural moment obsessed with constant transformation, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me quietly insists that perfection, once reached, is worth inhabiting, even if it means circling the same aesthetics again and again Beats Per Minute
Bruno Mars The Romantic
The soul-pop horndog crooner doubles down on his retro-fetishistic shtick with a treacly and uninspired solo return Paste Magazine
Those willing to wander alongside Callahan will find the artist as poignant and enigmatic as ever while considering a life with more sunsets behind him than ahead Paste Magazine
Gorillaz The Mountain
It's an album that finds comfort in knowing that all things — all beings — end, but they return, in one way or another. Gorillaz did Exclaim
Robbie Williams Britpop
The erstwhile Take That star chases the urgency of his 1997 debut, and while he doesn’t entirely match it, he certainly gives it an admirable shot Spectrum Culture
Congratulations Join Hands
Congratulations’ Join Hands might not be groundbreaking, but it is a hell of a lot of fun Spectrum Culture
After a string of albums that ranged from slapdash to merely good, Albarn returns refreshed and hungry to do something big. Spectrum Culture
Mitski weaves together anxious, wiry guitar and melancholic strings into sublime orchestral pop bruised by loneliness The Skinny
The Mountain might be a bit of a hard listen at first, but if you give it time, you’ll appreciate it as one of the finest things Albarn has ever made Under The Radar
On his first solo album in a decade, the superstar nods to Seventies R&B and his Latin roots, while making the case that his precision-tuned throwback-pop vision is endearing in any moment Rolling Stone
Singer-songwriter’s eighth album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, is about a lonely woman looking for freedom Rolling Stone
Bruno's latest effort is packed with gorgeous instrumentation but has very, very little to say Consequence Of Sound
Harking back to Oye Como Va, Move On Up and other 20th-century classics, Mars’s homages are beautifully performed but bereft of new ideas The Guardian
That album is a song cycle about love that practically writes itself Slant Magazine
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