9 May 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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Debut album from the London musician is homage to dance music and club culture
7.2
The London musician’s assured debut runs the gamut from aggressive jungle to uplifting house, toggling between hedonism and introspection Read Review
A sonic journey for head, body and soul to soundtrack all your partying needs for 2025 Read Review
The London artist’s debut album adds an enigmatic cutting edge to her upbeat dance-pop sound Read Review
The up-and-coming British artist shines on her vibrant, hedonistic debut album Read Review
A must-listen for those looking for new hits to dance the night away or blast at full volume at a party Read Review
While it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, ‘Louder, Please’ is a wholly enjoyable record that captures the spirit of the dance floor with unflinching authenticity Read Review
Assisted by a crew of dance-pop hitmakers, the UK singer trades past singles’ glittery diva house for a darker, seedier strain of club pop steeped in well-worn hedonistic tropes Read Review
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Suzanne Vega Flying With Angels
On Flying with Angels, Suzanne Vega presents her strongest set of songs in some time, musically grounded in the folk-pop of her earlier work but lyrically reflecting our own troubled times Spectrum Culture
Unlike Dylan from whom we’ve not heard a peep about society’s manifold ills these past few decades, Vega engages The Arts Desk
With its silvery guitar and tentative vision of collective power, the title track also offers a means of escape. It frames an album that, in its own determined way, boldly meets the moment. Print edition only Mojo
Her 10th album steps back from the literary conceits and high concepts of her last couple of albums and finds humility and grace amid the "permanent emergency" of the present. Print edition only Uncut
At times, Vega’s use of clunky rhymes undoes the elegance of her more literary lines, but it’s still lovely to have her back in action The Independent
Flying with Angels is impressive and satisfying in its craft and distinctive outlook All Music
One this musical generation’s key storytellers picks the world apart and evokes both horror at our present and optimism for our future musicOMH
PUP Who Will Look After The Dogs?
Pup does a great job of dressing up radio friendly alternative rock as chaotic on Who Will Look After The Dogs? Spill Magazine
Emma-Jean Thackray Weirdo
It is pretty clear that this album represents a sink/swim moment of monumental scale for Emma-Jean Thackray Albumism
Model/Actriz Pirouette
Model/Actriz have the apocalypse on their side, as these songs of embodiment and frightening tenderness are thrown into ever cooler societies Beats Per Minute
This is an album that really hurts – but it’s also a defiant declaration that pain doesn’t last forever, even if it sometimes feels like it might Kerrang!
Lucius Lucius
A darn good album of wonderfully constructed and deeply confessional songs Northern Transmissions
Anchored by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, the music on the band’s latest effort recaptures the tightly focused, intensely collaborative energy of four people who are locked into each other’s creative capabilities Paste Magazine
William Tyler Time Indefinite
The newest album from the Nashville guitarist forgoes the restless psychedelia of his previous effort, collaging the purposeless play of Cage and finger-picking of Fahey into a flavor unbound to just one page of the American folk songbook Paste Magazine
Blondshell If You Asked for a Picture
The album is full of sonically gentle but emotionally cutting indie rock à la Phoebe Bridgers, Samia and Indigo De Souza, while also referencing the classic alternative rock of the '90s and early 2000s Exclaim
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