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19 June 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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Vince StaplesCry Baby

"An urgent manifesto against American injustice and complacency" (9.1/10 - Consequence of Sound). "The Long Beach lyricist delivers his most passionately political release to date" (8/20 - NME)

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Death Cab For CutieI Built You A Tower

"Their hardest-rocking and emotionally urgent set in a while" (9/10 - All Music). "Death Cab is here to stay, my friends, and here's to hoping that there's many more to come" (9.6/10 - Sputnik Music)

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Modest MouseAn Eraser And A Maze

"A dense, challenging, and highly rewarding listen. It is a record that is at times anxious, claustrophobic, and deliberately rough around the edges" (8.5/10 - Under The Radar)

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Ed O’BrienBlue Morpho

"The guitarist’s album might be the most Radiohead side project yet to emerge from the mother ship" (8/10 - The Irish Times). "Works that move and grow like the building blocks of life itself" (8/10 - Clash)

Kevin MorbyLittle Wide Open

"A masterpiece of simple and, at times, epic proportions that will linger deep within one’s soul" (9/10 - PopMatters). "The eight-minute-long title track is arguably Morby’s greatest song to date" (8/10 - Mojo)

Aldous HardingTrain On The Island

"A spellbinding listen, the high water mark of Harding's singular career" (9/10 - Exclaim. "It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far" (9/10 - Pitchfork)

KneecapFENIAN

"After their Glastonbury fracas and legal troubles, political friction provides the backbone to this dense, musically adventurous third album" (9/10 - musicOMH).

FrikoSomething Worth Waiting For

"A record that leaves the kind of impression more associated with acts with far lengthier histories" (9/10 - DIY). "A euphoric, breakneck adventure towards a promised land" (8/10 - The Skinny)

Lime GardenMaybe Not Tonight

"A breakup album that wears its messiness on its sleeve, Lime Garden’s second is figuring life out, track by track" (9/10 - NME). "A new indie disco essential" (9/10 - DIY)

Foreign Tongues

The Rolling Stones

Foreign Tongues

The twenty-fifth studio album from the rock veterans produced by Andrew Watt and featuring guest appearanced from Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Robert Smith and Chad Smith

Label: Polydor
UK Release date: 10/07/2026
US Release date: 10/07/2026

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8.0 | The Irish Times

NEW The new Rolling Stones album is freewheeling, frisky and fabulous. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood make growing old sound like the best fun ever
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