20 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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Third self-released mixtape of 2011 from Canadian R&B singer-songwriter Abel Tesfay
7.7
Let the complete composition wash through your neurons and take it for what it is: a completely brilliant beginning to what hopes to be a long and bright career Read Review
The final mixtape in his trilogy is a perfect ending Read Review
House of Balloons, Thursday, and, now, Echoes of Silence, thus far, capture one of the most singular musical acts of the decade Read Review
A more straightforward take on contemporary R&B than its predecessors Read Review
Echoes of Silence exudes a brazen, animalistic confidence. The production is impeccable but never showy. The songwriting is tighter and more streamlined Read Review
Echoes of Silence and its two predecessors represent a pretty staggering achievement from a brilliantly provocative and daring new artist Read Review
This is his most straightforward take on radio R&B yet Read Review
Tesfaye has explored some of the dankest, darkest corners of our world, and thus has crafted some of the most compelling and captivating music for its genre Read Review
Maintains some of the sounds fans know and love while evolving and establishing Tesfaye as a powerful vocalist who can tackle a mic like the best Read Review
A record that goes well beyond the plush glumness of his pal Drake to make sex seem downright sepulchural Read Review
Disappointing as Echoes of Silence may be as a collection of songs, it nonetheless serves its purpose in giving the Weeknd's triptych a suitably grim finale, and pushing the most extreme aspects of Tesfaye's sound about as far as it can go Read Review
Echoes of Silence shows that Abel Tesfaye continues to evolve, and it offers a glimpse of potentially exciting future Read Review
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The Weeknd: Echoes Of Silence
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
Blur guitarist's 'lost' ninth solo album mixes a strong '60s aesthetic with some interesting stylistic tangents musicOMH
Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Aside from a few unmemorable ballads —the sparse, piano-led “Less” is an exception late on the album — Rodrigo deftly navigates the difficult task of regaining her sense of wholeness when not everything in her life has to make the most sense No Ripcord
The Rolling Stones Foreign Tongues
More guitar-centric and holistically Stones-y than their last outing, the latest from the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band is built to satisfy Rolling Stone
Lizzo Bitch
This is just one for the completists (which in an age of streaming may not be many) God Is In The TV
For all its standout moments, the album’s greatest achievement is not any single song, but what emerges when the album is experienced as a whole God Is In The TV
Lizzo's fifth record is definitely her weakest to date and won't please fans who have waited four years to hear the next stage of the singer's journey Spectrum Culture
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
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Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways