12 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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Sixth album from the Wakefield indie three piece, their first not to be released on Wichita
7.1
A potent reminder of just how crucial The Cribs really are Read Review
The Cribs have managed to interpret the notion of 'pop music' into an often-spectacular record Read Review
An album to renew your faith in guitar music Read Review
A classic, if often over-familiar Cribs album Read Review
Only when they deviate from the tried and true do things go a little awry Read Review
For All My Sisters demonstrates why The Cribs continue to be one of Britain's best guitar bands Read Review
It really is an indie-pop romp to die for. Print edition only
Never quite scales the heights of previous efforts despite having plenty of great songs for long time Jarman brothers admirers to get their collective teeth into Read Review
Possess some of the most urgent pop hooks and catchy anthemic choruses The Cribs have ever delivered Read Review
For All My Sisters is a scruffy, buzzy and very hooky guitar album that doesn’t quite scan as "punk" or "indie" Read Review
Incisive songcraft, rousing hooks and skinny-tied guitar lines to the fore. Print edition only
It’s honest and immediate, but predictable. Print edition only
With so little let up, there’s little to distinguish one song from another. Oh well, they’re young enough to mature more as time goes on. for now, it’s enough to simply get into their groove Read Review
The band still sound like they listen to an awful lot of US college radio which means few stylistic variations across these 12 tracks Read Review
A pretty great effort overall that improves with a few listens Read Review
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The Cribs: For All My Sisters
Twisted Teens The Holy Cross Tigers
They revamp the work of their progenitors while at the same time transcending it. Never wandering too far from the music that inspires them, Twisted Teens occupy a space that is distinctly theirs Beats Per Minute
Shygirl Swallow!
The UK electronica figurehead takes a sentimental turn on her tender but assured sophomore release Paste Magazine
U2 Carnaval de Luz
The Irish stadium legends’ latest is pedantic and ambiguous, rife with centrist pandering that ends up saying nothing at all Paste Magazine
On their sixteenth studio album, the Irish legends sound more playful than preachy for the first time in a long time NME
Ambitious but accessible, catchy but substantial, they've returned with a record that feels energized and alive, as though they have once again arrived at the start of something inventive and exciting Exclaim
Shygirl’s sophomore album is an idiosyncratic, heartfelt and interesting entry in the pop canon Spectrum Culture
As a burgeoning pop star, Shygirl is absolutely the real deal Slant Magazine
Lyrically, SWALLOW! is brutally romantic. Having turned 30 while writing the record, Shygirl revisits her past to write love songs with far more depth than her younger self could reach The Line Of Best Fit
In palpitating trip-hop and wind-tunnel big beat, the producer’s lovestruck second album seeks a softer, more romantic home on the dancefloor Pitchfork
Where her debut felt like the high, ‘SWALLOW!’ feels like the afters: the pulse hasn’t quite settled, and the feelings that were once easier to muffle are now impossible to ignore Clash
On album two, the London artist again shows she is able to combine genre-hopping experimentation with big pop songwriting NME
DIIV ZIRP!
ZIRP! is neither a radical reinvention nor a straightforward continuation, but an uneasy negotiation between the band's established identity and its desire for something new Spectrum Culture
What could have been a crash landing has instead pushed Twisted Teens to new heights Spectrum Culture
It’s not that 'Carnaval De Luz' is bad. It isn’t. It’s just humdrum The Arts Desk
PISS You Made Me / Skin on Linen
At once grueling, wounding, healing, intelligent, and poetic, you made me / skin on linen should also—it goes without saying—be played very, very fucking loudly Under The Radar
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Spiritbox Tsunami Sea
Self Esteem Prioritise Pleasure
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