26 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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Tenth album from the English alt rockers working with producers Dan Lancaster and Aleks Von Korff
NEW From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous? yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial life Read Review
NEW It's a seamlessly executed and proudly over-the-top experience, getting Muse back on track with a catalog highlight that's a lot more vital (and fun) than their preceding few offering Read Review
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Muse The Wow! Signal
It's a seamlessly executed and proudly over-the-top experience, getting Muse back on track with a catalog highlight that's a lot more vital (and fun) than their preceding few offering All Music
From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous? yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial life The Guardian
The Rolling Stones Foreign Tongues
Amid some clutter and blare, the spirit of the Stones shines through Mojo
Vince Staples Cry Baby
Sonically, Cry Baby has the energy, groove and beats of a classic Danger Mouse production No Ripcord
Kurt Vile Philadelphia's been good to me
The record amounts to a deeply heartfelt and breezily disarming declaration of loved-up constancy, capped beautifully by the twinkling drift of closer Avalanches Of Snow Record Collector
Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Olivia Rodrigo’s latest finds the young singer expanding her music to incorporate more cohesive storytelling, and in doing so, is marking herself as someone taking the artistic side of her job seriously Spectrum Culture
Pond Terrestrials
The Australian psych-rock band’s latest features dense, detailed songwriting about corporate greed and the environment, but the music lacks its nuance and ambition Pitchfork
Australia’s psych-rock jesters fend off ecological doom with cosmic fury Slant Magazine
They boil everything down to its very essence DIY
It's teeming with complexity, feeding references to places, events and literary signposts into songs that wrestle with the violent contradictions of being human. Print edition only Uncut
Graham Coxon Castle Park
There’s nothing here to suggest they went unreleased for quality-control reasons. Print edition only Uncut
Strikes a perfect note of callow romance, all Merseybeat lunchbreak gossip on the spiky Alright and Billy Says, tipping into Zombies intrigue on When You Find Out. Yet there’s a depth of melancholy to the vibraphone haunting of Isn’t It Funny or Dripping Soul’s flamboyant Love flamenco that sees Coxon straying from the main paths and into the dark corners. Print edition only Mojo
Swim Deep Hum
A delightful and timely reset pressed DIY
While other artists they came up with have called it quits, the British indie band have kept moving forward. Their fifth album rewards that resilience with some of their most beautiful work yet NME
'Hum' sees a refreshed band settling into themselves and discovering that's where the good stuff was hiding all along Dork
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