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26 May 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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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)

Angine de PoitrineVol.II

"There's a ferocity and alienness to the complexity" (10/10 - Exclaim). "It breathes on its own and speaks without words. Angine de Poitrine let the music do the talking" (8.4/10 - Northern Transmissions)

The Twilight SadIt's The Long Goodbye

"An astonishing body of work that firmly emphasizes what an important band The Twilight Sad are" (9/10 - Under The Radar). "A powerful and truly wonderful return from The Twilight Sad" (9/10 - Clash)

The Xcerts

In The Cold Wind We Smile

Debut album from the Aberdeen-based alt.rock trio

Label: Xtra Mile
UK Release date: 30/03/2009

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8.0 | The List

The most heart-wrenchingly catchy pop-rock melodies around.
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8.0 | Clash

Lay down a royal racket that ticks every box of instantaneousness while simultaneously threatening to steal the rock thunder of Biffy Clyro and their harder-edged peers
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7.0 15468
7.0 | The Digital Fix

Their debut album creeps up on you gently, with opening track In the cold wind we smile gently floating into the room
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6.0 | The List

Sitting somewhere between the two extremes of talent in their local contemporaries - the clichéd faux-American whine of The Dykeenies, and the stunning Celtic outbursts of We Were Promised Jetpacks
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