11 November 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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Debut solo album of orchestral dream pop from sometime Efterklang keyboardist Anna Bronsted
7.1
A distinctively Scandinavian take on matters emotional. Print edition only
Finds an atmospheric connection between shoegazing and piano-led classical music. Print edition only
A brave delight that unfurls more of its charms with every listen. Print edition only
A record so unassumingly resonant in emotive pull that from the rolling piano of the aptly titled ‘The Departure’ you can’t help but feel a giddying constriction in your chest Read Review
The most deliciously constructed orchestral-tinged dream-pop since Sigur Rós. Print edition only
Not quite Debussy's La Mer, but fans of artists such as Feist and fellow Scandinavians Little Dragon should enjoy this Read Review
Despite Golden Sea being an obvious aural pleasure, it sometimes feels like death by chocolate. The sound is sumptuously rich, but very similar throughout Read Review
As a whole the record is beautiful and it is an ascension from the sound of its predecessor, but in places it’s crying out for a hook or a catchy tune: something to grab on to Read Review
Right on the poppiest edge of goth Read Review
By no measure a terrible album, but it is almost certainly not as good as it could or should be Read Review
This is a record flecked with loveliness Read Review
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Our Broken Garden: Golden Sea
Django Django Doveland
Django Django would appear to have refreshed their approach and challenged themselves to try out previously unconsidered melodic avenues The Arts Desk
Print edition only Uncut
Gilla Band Pugnello
Somewhere amidst the anarchy of Pugnello, there are gems waiting to be found. Unearthing them is well worth your time Still Listening
Greg Freeman All Set The Bone
Existentialism has a sound (and it’s hard to ignore) with Greg Freeman’s introspective All Set The Bone Still Listening
U2 Carnaval de Luz
Carnaval De Luz finds U2 50 years after their formation with the same four members and the same desire to shake things up. The album provides a convincing answer to the question of why they keep doing what they do XS Noize
Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber
Fontaines D.C. push deeper into synthetic territory on Dopamine Chamber, balancing stadium-sized melodies with restless experimentation and darker texture Record Collector
They sound ambitious and engaged in their 50th year, swinging for the fences and hitting more targets than not. There’s still some gas in the tank Record Collector
La Roux Old Flames
Print edition only Record Collector
Back with her first new music in six years, La Roux's new sound explores facets of R'n'B and Europop to varying degrees of success The Skinny
La Roux turns to 90s R&B on a fourth album shaped by the end of a 17-year relationship, finding room for new beginnings beneath its layered production Still Listening
Print edition only Rolling Stone UK
Devastating moments are dressed up with warm production and kinetic 00s R&B in the now quiff-less singer’s grownup fourth album The Guardian
Elly Jackson returns with heartfelt pop songs about breaking up, resentment, vulnerability and all that entails musicOMH
Ditching erratic experimentation for an ambient concept, the indie shapeshifters' sixth album is their most coherent in years musicOMH
Doveland sounds less like a reduction of Django Django’s musical vocabulary than a more relaxed demonstration of how much they possess PopMatters
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