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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Album number three from this Minneapolis eight-piece, who deal in chamber pop
7.3
Who Needs Who continues to offer stories of longing, passion and portent in a more tempered and subtle style of experimentation Read Review
Sonically it’s not massively different, but Nona Marie Invie’s vocals hit harder, closer and deeper than before Read Review
Built on breezy piano melodies, choral-folk arrangements. Print edition only
Dinner party music for those getting used to microwave meals for one. Print edition only
Bleeds heartache from every lyric, but keeps faith in music as the surest form of consolation. Print edition only
Lies somewhere between Regina Spektor and a less dreamy Beach House, with a touch of the theatrical Read Review
A sprawling display of elegance, refinement, and beauty Read Review
A break-up album full of affection and understanding Read Review
The tone of Invie's voice and knottiness of her piano playing bring to mind early Fiona Apple, though what's lacking in that regard is Apple's lyrical bite Read Review
Every second on Who Needs Who is tasteful, refined, elegant—all those adjectives you’d throw at any good hotel lounge cocktail-jazz band Read Review
Marks Dark Dark Dark as a band to watch, even if they are still a few songs short of hitting their stride Read Review
A couple of tracks at once would probably be the best prescription to suggest, rather than ingesting as a whole Read Review
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Dark Dark Dark: Who Needs Who
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