10 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 album of pop rock from the French five piece famed for their energetic live shows
6.4
The Concrete Knives will be a nice addition to the Bella Union family as they fit right in by not fitting in, instead, carving their own path while instructing us to do the same Read Review
It’s exuberant, lively in most parts and features a whole raft of musical styles with the underpinning of an urgent need to keep a rhythm going Read Review
They're wholeheartedly fun with an incessant joy for life and youth Read Review
A smart, well-executed set of staccato dance-rock anthems that flirt with excess, yet never overstay their welcome Read Review
The Caen fivesome largely dispense with language and let the treble dials do the talking. Print edition only
The earnestness and warmth of the thing succeeds in making the record almost as addictive and loveable to hear as it clearly was to perform Read Review
An impressive debut with a crate-load of ideas Read Review
Like a less wimpy Of Monsters and Men, the Caen quintet pursue a line in male/female-fronted indiepop that occasionally flirts with the solemn side of the genre Read Review
There’s colour and youth splashed all over these songs: noodly guitars chime with steel drums Read Review
The tail end of the record does come to a bit of a standstill Read Review
So chipper and catchy it comes over like an indie version of Alphabeat Read Review
French indie collective attempt to shout you into submission. Print edition only
Stakes a claim for quirk-pop supremacy. Print edition only
Melody rich, this album is in fact too much so and will leave you feeling bloated on its sickly candy Read Review
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Concrete Knives: Be Your Own King
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
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
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